Moth Kurtekotten

Moth Kurtekotten
	Motte Kurtekotten with a moat (2014)
Creation time :	11./12. century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Castle hill
Place:	Cologne-Flittard
Geographical location	51 ° 1 '8.7 " N , 7 ° 0' 27.7" E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '8.7 " N , 7 ° 0' 27.7" E
Height:	46 m above sea level NN

The Motte Kurtekotten is a high medieval hill tower castle (Motte) in the Cologne district of Flittard on the right bank of the Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia . The wide moat with the castle hill has been preserved from the complex .

Location and appearance

The Motte ruins are located around 45 meters west of the current course of the Mutzbach and around 170 meters south of the city limits of Leverkusen . The entire system measures 90 meters in its largest north-south extension and 70 meters in the west-east direction. Including the embankments sloping down to the water, the area is 4085 m², that of the pure castle hill, which is almost in the middle, is approx. 240 m². The almost square mound embankment rises about 3–4 meters above the 45.5 m above sea level. NN lying water level. The moat is around 16 meters wide in the north and west, and around 21 to 24 meters in the south and east. At the end of the 19th century, the moat was directly connected to the Mutzbach by means of an inflow and outflow. An archaeological investigation has not yet been carried out.

The moth is now west of the site of the RTHC Bayer Leverkusen on Knochenbergsweg (tennis halls and courts) and to the east from a quarry pond surrounded.

As a natural monument , the grounds of the Motte are protected under No. 909.01 according to the Landscape Protection Act NW. The hill is particularly made of oaks . The Mutzbach, in its course from the A 3 to Leverkusen city boundary, forms together with the Motte the protected landscape component "Mutzbach and, moth 'at Kurtekottenweg" (LB 9:26).

Kurtekotten farm

No sources have come down to the origin of the moth and its owners. Presumably, the estate to the southwest of the Motte was built after the same was abandoned. The farm existed until the 20th century.

According to Bendel, in 1277 a Johann von Thurn gave the court to Kurtekotten to the Premonstratensian monastery in Dünnwald as a gift. According to another source, in 1277 Count Adolf von Berg transferred the probably unused motte to Johann vom Turm, who was also called by Kalmünten. Since the contract was concluded with the right of repurchase, the nephew of Adolf V, Adolf VI. sell the property again in 1333, this time to the monastery in Dünnwald. The farm remained in the possession of the monastery until it was abolished as part of the secularization in 1803. During the previous troop marches, the farm was looted and burned by French soldiers on October 23, 1795, and in 1817 it fell victim to the flames again. As a French domain, Kurtekotten was added to the county of Morsbroich when it was established and thus became the property of the French finance minister Jean Antoine Michel Agar , and from him to Abraham Schaaffhausen in 1817/18 and to the family's own bank after his death (1824) and in 1848 to the successor company, A. Schaaffhausen'schen Bankverein . From this, Kurtekotten was bought by the von Diergardt family in 1857 , who transferred it to the family fideikommiss Morsbroich and Dünnwald in 1859 . In 1893 a Theodor Wolff died on the farm.

Bayer AG became the owner in the second half of the 20th century and set up sports facilities on the site. Between 1970 and 1974 the Hofgut was laid down, it was now located at the Kurtekotten (also Leverkusen) special landing site, which was built in the 1950s , and hangars and parking areas for small aircraft were built in its vicinity . In 1976, the Bone Mountain Path was relocated and wrapped around the former courtyard to the west. A large tennis hall was then built on the site of the courtyard.

literature

Office for open space and landscape planning: Natural monuments in Cologne. District 9. Mülheim. Published by the City of Cologne. Office for environmental protection. Cologne 1992, p. 27.
Johann Bendel : Homeland book of the district of Mülheim am Rhein. History and description. Sagas and stories. 2nd and 3rd ed., Self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1925, p. 398, 404.
Jürgen Huck : The mayor's office in Merheim and its predecessors through the ages. In: The mayor's office of Merheim through the ages. Ed .: Heimatverein Köln-Dellbrück eV “Ahl Kohgasser”, 2nd edition 1974, Cologne 1974, pp. 44–157.
Hermann J. Mahlberg : Morsbroich Castle in Leverkusen. From the knight's seat to the avant-garde museum. Müller and Busmann, Wuppertal 1995, ISBN 3-928766-17-1 .

Web links

Commons : Motte Kurtekotten - Collection of images

Individual evidence

^ Johann Bendel: Heimatbuch des Landkreis Mülheim am Rhein. History and description. Sagas and stories. 2nd and 3rd ed., Self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1925, p. 398.
↑ An unexplored island. Kölner Stadtanzeiger from October 14, 2008
^ Johann Bendel: Heimatbuch des Landkreis Mülheim am Rhein. History and description. Sagas and stories. 2nd and 3rd ed., Self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1925, p. 398 u. 404.
↑ Herbert M. Schleicher (arrangement): 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections. Volume V Ve-Z. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 50). Cologne 1990, p. 246.

[1] Johann Bendel: Heimatbuch des Landkreis Mülheim am Rhein. History and description. Sagas and stories. 2nd and 3rd ed., Self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1925, p. 398.

[2] An unexplored island. Kölner Stadtanzeiger from October 14, 2008

[3] Johann Bendel: Heimatbuch des Landkreis Mülheim am Rhein. History and description. Sagas and stories. 2nd and 3rd ed., Self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1925, p. 398 u. 404.

[4] Herbert M. Schleicher (arrangement): 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections. Volume V Ve-Z. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 50). Cologne 1990, p. 246.