Moth Beienburg

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Moth Beienburg
Motte Beienburg Forsbach.jpg
Creation time : approx. 12th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Castle hill, castle stable
Standing position : Knight
Place: Rösrath - Forsbach
Geographical location 50 ° 55 '25.9 "  N , 7 ° 10' 23.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '25.9 "  N , 7 ° 10' 23.3"  E
Height: 138  m above sea level NN
Motte Beienburg (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Moth Beienburg

The Motte Beienburg is a small defunct tower hill castle (Motte) in the Forsbach district of the city of Rösrath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia .

description

The castle hill, which has been preserved a good four meters high, has a diameter of around 20 meters. He was on a spur between two Quellsiefen of Kurt forest Bach above the Forsbacher mill in Konigsforst piled. An associated outer bailey may have existed in the northeast, in the area of ​​today's Halfenwiese.

The name is based on popular tradition and can lead to confusion with Beyenburg Castle on the Wupper. The moth probably represents the older knight's seat of the Lords of Forsbach, who in the late Middle Ages built a permanent castle house about 200 meters northeast opposite today's Halfenhof . The design as a small, simple hilltop castle with a wooden tower refers to the 12th century when it was built. From this time on, the lower nobility also built their own small castles.

The Mottenhügel is entered together with the upper dams of the Forsbacher Mühle under No. 1 in the list of ground monuments in Rösrath .

The Forsbach knight seat

The Knights of Forsbach appear for the first time in 1373 as followers of the Counts of Berg . With the right of collation at the Volberg Church , they enjoyed ecclesiastical privileges vis-à-vis other aristocrats in the immediate vicinity, which suggest that the knight's seat was very old.

The family died out at the end of the 15th century with the death of the knight Klaus von Forsbach. The late medieval castle house burned down at the end of the 18th century and then served as a quarry. The Halfenhof emerged from the service yard of the former knight's seat, which today only reminds of the previous buildings by name.

See also

literature

Peter Schönfeld: The moth and the knight seat Forsbach. One of the oldest medieval settlements in the Königsforst. , Rheinisch Bergischer Calendar 2015, Bergisch Gladbach 2014, pp. 20–27