Hoddom Castle

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Hoddom Castle
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Hoddom Castle is a castle in Scotland . It is located southwest of Hoddom about four kilometers northwest of the village of Brydekirk in the Council Area Dumfries and Galloway in a meander of the River Annan .

The castle was built as an L-shaped tower house on a motte in the 16th century and expanded over the centuries. In 1971 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. In 1990 Hoddom Castle was added to the Scottish Register of Listed Structures at Risk. His condition was last classified as bad in 2014, but at moderate risk.

history

The lands of Hoddom were under the dominion of the Maxwell clan . This built a line of fortifications around their ancestral home, Caerlaverock Castle in the south of Scotland. One of these is Hoddom Castle, which was built in the mid-16th century as a tower house under John Maxwell . Although the complex was considered difficult to conquer, it was captured by troops of the regent Moray in 1568 after a one-day siege . He left the castle to James Douglas, 7th Baron Drumlanrig, as the headquarters for the administration of the western marshes. A year later, Hoddom Castle was retaken by troops from Queen Mary's Queen . As early as 1570, English troops took the fortress and blew up the tower.

Richard Murray received Hoddom Castle from John Maxwell, 6th Lord Herries of Terregles and repaired it. It passed to David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk in 1653 , was taken over by the Sharp family in 1690 and later by the Brooks . In 1826 the building was expanded according to the designs of the Scottish architect William Burn . Further modifications were made towards the end of the century. During World War II , the military used Hoddom Castle. From the 1950s onwards it was empty and deteriorated. As a result, large parts of the work from the 19th century were abandoned, which brought the original fortress back to light.

Trivia

A pair of narrow-tailed paradise hops was held for the first time in Europe in 1909 at Hoddom Castle in the private collection of EJ Brook . These birds belong to the birds of paradise and are limited in their distribution to the mountain forests of New Guinea.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Entry on buildingsatrisk.org.uk
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Hoddom Castle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Information about Hoddom Castle
  5. ↑ Clifford B. Frith, Bruce M. Beehler : The Birds of Paradise - Paradisaeidae. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-854853-2 . P. 376

Web links

Commons : Hoddom Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 55 ° 2 ′ 39.6 "  N , 3 ° 19 ′ 22.2"  W.