Kronenburg (Dahlem)
| Kronenburg | ||
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 Castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1277 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Place: | Dahlem - Kronenburg | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 21 '47.6 " N , 6 ° 28' 37.8" E | |
| Height: | 560 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Kronenburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle above the Kylltal and the Kronenburger See at 560 m above sea level. NN in the Kronenburg district of the Dahlem municipality in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The castle town of Kronenburg owes its origin to its favorable strategic location above the Upper Kylltal.
Kronenburg was first mentioned in 1277 in a document from the Imperial Abbey of Stablo-Malmedy . At that time, Kronenburg was ruled by the noble family of Dollendorf . For a short time from 1327 an independent Kronenburger line developed. When knight Peter von Kronenburg finally died in 1414 without male descendants, the Kronenburg rule came into the possession of the Counts of Manderscheid .
Under Charles V , Kronenburg fell under Spanish rule in 1555 due to its membership of the Duchy of Luxembourg until 1715 . For this reason, the former Spanish island in the Eifel is still called the “Spanish Ländchen” today. At the beginning of the 17th century, Kronenburg was hit by plague epidemics that lasted until 1680.
In 1794 Kronenburg was occupied by the French, under whose rule the place functioned as the canton capital in the department of the Ourthe . Kronenburg remained the mayor's office in the post-French period and at times also the seat of a notary. In the course of the redistribution of Central Europe after the defeat of Napoleon, Kronenburg initially came to the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as an exclave and only through an exchange or an advance payment in 1819 to Prussia .
The steeple of the parish church of St. Johann Baptist, also known as the "Johanniterkirche", also served as an additional defensive tower for the castle complex.
In the years between 1920 and 1925 there were Tell plays on the ruins of Kronenburg , performed by amateur actors from Kronenburg.
In the middle of the 18th century the castle fell into disrepair. The castle house was sold privately during the French era.
See also
literature
- Karl-Heinz Schumacher: Comments on the building history and the status of monument preservation in the Kronenburg castle settlement . In: Eifeljahrbuch 1990. Düren 1989, pp. 79–91.
- Alfred Mundhenk: On the building and cultural history of the Kronenburg . In: Vereingemeinschaft Kronenburg 1977 (ed.): Kronenburg. Festschrift on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the first documentary mention in 1277 from 6th to 14th August 1977. Kronenburg 1977, without ISBN, pp. 25–37.
- Castle ruins (Kronenburg). In: Ernst Wackenroder , Johannes Krudewig, Hans Wink (arrangement): The art monuments of the Schleiden district. (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 11, Part II.) L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932, pp. 223–231. (Unchanged reprint : Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-590-32116-4 )
Web links
- Entry on Kronenburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
- Kronenburg, eifel-blicke.de
- Kronenburger interest group