Moth Beienburg
Moth Beienburg | ||
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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 | |
Height: | 138 m above sea level NN | |
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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