Moth Beeck
| Moth Beeck | ||
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| Creation time : | high medieval, approx. 12th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | heavily overgrown hill of the main castle, original form of the complex disturbed by excavations in the 1940s | |
| Place: | Wegberg - Beeck | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 7 '56.6 " N , 6 ° 18' 17.4" E | |
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The Motte Beeck is the heavily overgrown remnant of a high medieval , fortified estate near the church tower of St. Vincentius in the center of Beeck , a current district of Wegberg in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
From the two-part wood and earth castle with an artificially elevated main castle (" Motte "), which was built in the backwater of the Beeckbach, the Hofgut "Haus Beeck" with the stone gate construction of the 17th century developed.
Web links
- Entry by Markus Westphal zu Beeck, Motte in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Motte Beeck at maiss-mueller.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on House Beeck in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute