Moth Beningsfeld
| Moth Beningsfeld | ||
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 The former Motte Beningsfeld is now a riding arena. |
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| Creation time : | Middle Ages to modern times | |
| Castle type : | Erdhügelburg or Motte or Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | weak remains of the former moth hill and the surrounding ditch | |
| Place: | Beningsfeld | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 57 '44.7 " N , 7 ° 5' 52.5" E | |
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The Motte Beningsfeld or Motte Penningsfeld was a small medieval to modern moth or mound castle secured by moats , possibly also a low castle in the village of Beningsfeld in the Refrath district of Bergisch Gladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia .
description
The Beningsfeld moth was originally a one-piece medieval moth. Only remnants of the former moth hill and the surrounding ditch are preserved above ground. The ground monument Motte Beningsfeld is the archaeological legacy of the medieval Motte and the modern successions and conversions. Today there is a riding arena here.
Ground monument
The entire plant of the moth was entered under No. 20 in the list of ground monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .
See also
literature
- Michael Müller-Wille : Medieval castle hills in the northern Rhineland (= Bonner Jahrbücher supplement 16). Böhlau, Cologne / Graz 1966, p. 57 f. No. 62.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ground monument sheet for the entry of the Beningsfeld moth in the list of ground monuments in Bergisch Gladbach