Limberg (Wiehengebirge)
| Limberg | ||
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 View of the Limberg from the southeast |
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| height | 190 m above sea level NN | |
| location | North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
| Mountains | Wiehengebirge | |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 16 '49 " N , 8 ° 30' 30" E | |
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| rock | Sandstone | |
| particularities | Castle ruins on the Limberg , first mentioned in 1319 | |
The Limberg is a mountain in the Egge , a side ridge of the Wiehengebirge south of Preußisch Oldendorf in North Rhine-Westphalia . The castle ruins Burg Limberg are located on the mountain .
Limberg mountain
The name “Limberg” is probably derived from the term “liet” (gentle hill, mountain), but a reference to the linden trees is also possible. The Limberg is about 190 meters high and is located a little north of the main ridge of the Wiehengebirge and southwest of Bad Holzhausen . Opposite it is the 190 m high Maschberg on the main ridge . Limberg and its foothills to the west as well as in connection with Maschberg and Nonnenstein , also a mountain on the main ridge southwest of Limberg, form the Eggetal .
The vast majority of its areas, together with those of the neighboring Offelter Berg, form the Limberg and Offelter Berg nature reserve , which, when it was designated in 1935, is the oldest in the Minden-Lübbecke district and one of the oldest in Westphalia .
Limberg Castle
The twelve meter high castle keep was restored around 1989 and can be visited. Otherwise some ramparts and remains of walls have been preserved. Also worth seeing is the 600 year old Gogerichtslinde standing by the castle , which was previously used as a court.
Limberg Office
The administration of the Limberg Office was housed in the Limberg castle in Ravensberg . The bailiwicks of Bünde and Oldendorf belonged to the administration of the Limberge . On the Limberg the bailiff ( Drost ) administered the office, the bailiffs in turn were each headed by a bailiff. The Bünde bailiwick consisted of the parishes of Bünde, Rödinghausen and Börninghausen . The Vogtei Oldendorf consisted of the parishes of Oldendorf and Holzhausen . Due to the dilapidation of the castle, the office was relocated from Limberg Castle to the valley ( Börninghausen No. 12 ), the so-called "Vieseley", before 1695 . Jurisdiction was incumbent on the official; the prison remained in the castle. In 1734 King Friedrich Wilhelm I ordered the personal union of the offices of Vlotho and Limberg. The office has been administered from Bünde since 1795. The Limberg office ceased to exist during the French occupation between 1807 and 1813 and was counted as part of the Mairie Holzhausen. Even after the end of the French era, the office was no longer reconstituted, but replaced by "modern" Prussian administrative districts. The Limberg was therefore in the newly created district of Rahden .
In heraldry
The Limberg and the castle on it were shown next to the crossed keys on a red background in the last used coat of arms of the Lübbecke district, which was dissolved in 1973 . The key and the red field stand for the parts of the district that were formerly part of the Principality of Minden . The castle stood for the areas formerly belonging to the County of Ravensberg , which were organized in the Limberg Office.
literature
- Bernhard Brönner: Limberg Castle and its history in brief . Prussian Oldendorf 1950.
- Gustav Engel: The Ravensbergische Landesburgen . U. Helmichs Buchhandlung, Bielefeld 1934, ISBN 3-89534-093-6 .
- Gustav Engel: Landesburg and sovereignty on Osning, Wiehen and Weser . Pfeffersche Buchhandlung, Bielefeld 1979, ISBN 3-88024-028-0 .
- Association for the Preservation of Limberg Castle Ruins V. (Ed.): Limberg Castle - the center of a region. Contributions to the past and present . Self-published, Preußisch Oldendorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022386-0 .
