Moth at Drove

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Drove moth
Remnants of the rest of the castle hill with moat

Remnants of the rest of the castle hill with moat

Creation time : probably 13th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill
Place: Drove
Geographical location 50 ° 43 '49 "  N , 6 ° 30' 58"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '49 "  N , 6 ° 30' 58"  E
Height: 180  m above sea level NHN
Motte near Drove (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Moth at Drove

The moth in Drove is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (moth) at Drove in the municipality Kreuzau in the district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia . The moth was first mentioned in the first half of the 13th century.

history

In the middle of the 13th century, the von Müllenark-Hunghen family came into possession of the fortification and subordinate rule (Drove was a subordinate rule in the Duchy of Jülich ). After the von Roir family, Bernhard von Weworden, called Bulver, became the owner in 1439. The castle came to the vom Elmpt family through marriage. This built the so-called "Panghshaus" in Drove. After decades of inheritance dispute between the von Weworden and von Elmpt families, Arnold Heinrich von Weworden captured Bertram von Elmpt there.

The castle was badly damaged in the Thirty Years' War . In 1673, during the wars against the French King Louis XIV, the castle suffered again and has never been completely repaired since then. On May 21, 1728, the Drove rule was divided. Wolf Christof von Rohe got the Oberdorf and Leversbach . The family castle remained in the possession of the von Holtrop family. It was no longer habitable as early as the 19th century and completely disintegrated and was demolished.

Today only a clear moth hill can be seen, about 5 m high and with a diameter of 50 m, as well as the dry ditch that was previously fed by the Drover Bach.

In 1986, earth probing work was carried out, which suggested a stone defensive tower , to the north there could have been a bailey with an economic section.

Drove Castle is in the immediate vicinity .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moth at Drove

literature

  • Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel. Cologne 1984.
  • History of the castles, manors, abbeys and monasteries in the Rhineland (...) Volume 8. FC von Mering 1875, p. 77 ff. (Online)

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