Kitzburg

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Kitzburg, garden view
Access to the Kitzburg
The Kitzburg
Aerial photo 2014

The Kitzburg is a moated castle on the southern outskirts of Walberberg , a district of Bornheim in the Rhein-Sieg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany ). It is privately owned and cannot be visited. The Kitzburg stands as a monument under monument protection .

description

The Kitzburg is a small manor surrounded by a romantic park and accessible via a straight, 500-meter-long hedge avenue. It is located on an area rising from east to west to the promontory with a view of the palace complexes of Augustusburg and Falkenlust . The mansion was built between 1671 and 1682 and was rebuilt to its present form in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is located on a walled, artificial island that has a square floor plan and four small corner pavilions at the corners . The pavilion on the southeast corner served as the house chapel. It is possible to cross the graves via three bridges . To the northwest of the island is a bailey .

history

In the vicinity of today's Kitzburg, south of the Franz-von-Kempis-Weg, finds from ancient times indicate the construction of a villa rustica , a Roman estate. The current manor house of the Kitzburg stands on medieval foundations from the 13th century, which the walling of the artificially created house island attests to. They contain u. a. Fragments of the Roman Canal, which was used as a quarry for many buildings in the Middle Ages.

In the period from 1350 to 1549, the Kitzburg was a fiefdom of the Archbishop of Cologne , who appointed officials there to exercise jurisdiction. These used Haus Kitzburg as their official residence, including the first verifiable lord of the castle, the bailiff Zwyffel van (Walber) Bergh. One of his successors in 1547 was a Junker Gymnych, Kyßborch.

In 1550/51 the castle at that time was sold to the bailiff in Brühl , a Herr von Wulfskehl. These are Gerhard Anton von Wolfskehl, son of Gerhard von Wolfskehl, bailiff of Brühl, Deutz and Königsdorf, “door keeper” of the Archbishop of Cologne, and the Luffardis von der Portzen. The electoral fiefdom thus became an allodial property .

The Kitzburg around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

After the property (including 97 acres of arable land including a mill) came into the possession of Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg , Bishop of Strasbourg, with a purchase contract of January 25, 1671 , he had the present manor house renovated and the entire complex based on Italian models remodel. The new owner calls the manorial property from now on Fürstenburg . It was not until 1682 (after the death of Fürstenberg), when Canon Thomas von Quentel was the owner of the castle, that the castle was called Kitzburg again.

Canon Johann Thomas von Quentel sold the Kitzburg to Felix Joseph von Becker on November 16, 1757. In the same year the Kitzburg passed to Franz Peter von Becker and Maria Ursula von Herwegh. They followed as owner u. a. Everhard and most recently Clemens von Groote . Clemens von Groote died in a hunting accident in 1905 and so his cousin Franz von Kempis inherited the Kitzburg. His daughter Karola von Kempis took over the successor in 1960. She had the war damage to roofs and walls caused by a bombing raid in 1942 removed from 1962 to 1964 and the castle renovated in the old style. The main house was painted in the same color as can be seen on an old plan from 1763. In 1973 her nephew, Franz-Raban Freiherr von Canstein , took over the Kitzburg and in 2004 handed over the property to his son Magnus Freiherr von Canstein.

The Kitzburg was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Bornheim in March 1982.

Others

From the end of 2000 / beginning of 2001 to the beginning of 2004, the Kitzburg under the name Gut Schönberg served as the backdrop for the TV series Verbotene Liebe . The episodes "Hase und Igel" (2000) and "Auf Eigen Faust" (2008) of the series Alarm for Cobra 11 were also partly created here. The Kitzburg also served as a backdrop in the series Murder with a View , 3rd episode of the first season, "Finger Exercises" (first broadcast on January 21, 2008).

literature

  • Alexander Duncker : The rural residences, castles and residences of the knightly landowners in the Prussian monarchy along with the royal family, house fideicommiss and Schattull estates. Volume 15: 1878-80. Duncker, Berlin 1878 ( PDF ; 225 kB).
  • Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 51 .
  • Hans Otzen: Castles and palaces around Bonn . Photos: by readers of the General-Anzeiger. Bouvier, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-416-02889-9 .
  • Rita Hombach: Landscape gardens in the Rhineland. The recording of the historical inventory and studies of the garden culture of the "long" 19th century (= contributions to the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland. Vol. 37). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010, ISBN 978-3-88462-298-8 , pp. 182–186.

Web links

Commons : Kitzburg  - Collection of images
  • Entry on Kitzburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  • Entry on Kitzburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bornheim , number A 8.
  2. ↑ Elke Janßen-Schnabel: The castles Augustusburg and Falkenlust in Brühl - investigation of the radiation area . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.): Yearbook of Rheinische Denkmalpflege , Volume 40/41, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2009, ISBN 978-3-88462-288-9 , pp. 201-219 (here: p. 205).
  3. ^ Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Kitzburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on February 27, 2018.
  4. ^ Karl Theodor Dumont (ed.): History of the parishes of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 24: German Hubert Christian Maaßen : Deanery Hersel. Bachem, Cologne 1885.
  5. ↑ naturpark-rheinland.de , as of January 26, 2013.
  6. ^ Max Braubach: Kurköln. Figures and events from two centuries of Rhenish history. Aschendorff, Münster 1949.


Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 18.5 "  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 53"  E