Kerpen Castle (Saarland)
| Kerpen Castle | ||
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 Castle tower of Kerpen Castle |
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| Creation time : | before 1359 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Received or received substantial parts | |
| Standing position : | Imperial Knighthood | |
| Place: | Illingen (Saar) | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 22 '38 " N , 7 ° 3' 23" E | |
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The Castle Kerpen is located in Illingen (Saar) in the valley of the river Ill . It is only partially preserved.
history
The place Illingen was first mentioned in a document in 893. The creation of the moated castle Kerpen is somewhat in the dark. The castle is documented for the first time in 1359: Dietrich V. von Kerpen declares in a document that the castle at "Ildingen" is an old property of the Counts of Saar Werden , from whom he has it as a fief. However, it must be assumed that the castle was built earlier. His father, Dietrich IV. Von Kerpen, came to Saarland through his marriage to Geneta von Warsberg. The ancestral seat of the von Kerpen family was in the castle of the same name north of Daun in the Eifel . Geneta was married to Arnold von Sierck for the first time . It can therefore be assumed that the castle already existed at that time. In the 16th century the feudal sovereignty of the castle changed to the Counts of Saarbrücken and Illingen became free imperial rule. Around 1620 the castle reached the highest level of its expansion with the construction of a bailey. After the end of the Thirty Years' War , during which the castle was destroyed, Johann Daniel von Kerpen had the complex restored. In 1677 the castle and the village of Illingen were set on fire by French troops, which resulted in a lengthy reconstruction until the 18th century. In 1748, Baron Lothar Franz von Kerpen (due to his functions as an official of the Electorate of Trier and as a knighthood captain of the Lower Rhine canton of the Imperial Knighthood) moved his residence to Koblenz, so that from this point on a bailiff was in charge of the castle administration. Baron Franz Georg von Kerpen lost his sovereign rights as sovereign due to the invasion of French revolutionary troops in 1794, but received the castle back as private property under Napoleon in 1806. He died in 1825 without any male offspring. After his daughters sold the castle to Bergrat Leopold Sello in 1830, the complex quickly fell into disrepair, as it served as a quarry in the area. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Illingen community acquired the complex and initiated the first renovation measures. In 1951 the remaining round tower of the main castle was renovated and has been one of Illingen's landmarks ever since. The restored bailey with the Fünfeckturm was part of a 1999-built hotel restaurants.
The domain of the Barons von Kerpen in the late 18th century included the villages of Illingen, Gennweiler , Merchweiler , Göttelborn and Wemmetsweiler (as a closed territory) as well as Lixingen and Ruhlingen in Lorraine.
Todays use
Today the facility is used as a leisure space. The castle and pond festival takes place in July, concerts and events by numerous Illingen associations are held here.
investment
Only parts of the surrounding walls and two towers of the main castle stand . The complex enclosed a courtyard of around 20 × 25 meters. At the southwest corner is the filling material of a square tower, which probably made up the core of the former castle fortifications. Only at this point did the adjoining site elevate the castle complex. The tower in the southeast of the castle was repaired in 1951, as was the castle chapel and the small ballroom. From the outer ward is get the gate entrance, which was built 1605th The municipality of Illingen owns the freely accessible facility.
- gallery
Gate passage
Gate passage
armor
Exterior view
Castle pond
Round tower and castle wall
Certificate
literature
- Joachim Conrad, Stefan Flesch (ed.): Castles and palaces on the Saar. 2nd Edition. Minerva-Verlag Thinnes & Nolte, Saarbrücken 1988, ISBN 3-477-00078-1 .
- Carsten Geimer: The castle of the Lords of Kerpen in Illingen. In: Hans-Joachim Kühn (Ed.): Contributions to the 1st Saarland Castle Symposium. Edition Octopus, Saarbrücken 2009, pp. 84–93, online (PDF; 4.2 MB) .
Web links
- Entry by Marc Holzheimer on Kerpen in Saarland in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, pp. 541, 563