Younger Castle (Nettersheim)
| Younger castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Dietrichsburg | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Nettersheim | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 29 '31.3 " N , 6 ° 37' 42.2" E | |
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Younger Castle or Dietrichsburg is the name of a lost moated castle in the municipality of Nettersheim , Euskirchen district , North Rhine-Westphalia .
After a division of the estate in 1561, the castle served as a residence for Dietrich Krümmel von Nettersheim . It was a two-part system that was surrounded by moats . In 1794 the castle came into French ownership and was sold into civil hands in 1813. A water mill was installed in the building. Today it has been converted into a residential house (called Haus Burgmühle), but is still recognizable as a mill building, e.g. B. by a standing at ground level basement, due to the former water level. The mill fixtures were removed in the middle of the 20th century.
The function as a castle can still be seen, alone be recognized that some of the stone walls of limestone over 1 m thick.
literature
- Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1226-1 , page 381.