Erpernburg Castle

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Erpernburg Castle 2013
Erpernburg Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

The Erpernburg Castle is located about six kilometers northeast of the North Rhine-Westphalian city Buren in the district Brenken above the Almetales .

history

At the beginning of the 16th century, the gentlemen von und zu Brenken from the village of Brenken had lost their long-used houses on the Wewelsburg due to the redemption of deposits. Reineke von Brenken, who owned 2/4 of the Brenken shares, moved into the old castle in Wewer near Paderborn in 1515 by marrying into the von Imbsen family. Philipp received the Bruchshof in Brenken and his younger brother Georg built the Erpernburg on the hill above the Alme with the permission of the bishop, but he only lived in it for a short time. In a fire in 1684, the castle was so badly damaged that it was never rebuilt. The castle on the Brede, also called Niederburg, built in 1550, had already been destroyed in the Thirty Years War . Around 1712, under the descendant of Reineke von Brenken, Ferdinand Freiherr von und zu Brenken, who was later married to Juliane Countess of Westphalia, the construction of Erpernburg Castle began. The two-story, plastered mansion with a hipped roof and the four attached tower porches was built between 1712 and 1723. Nikolaus Wurmstich was named in the building files as a master mason . Five years later, the orangery was built on the garden side of the manor house according to plans by the Paderborn master builder Daniel Gottlieb Schleich. The baroque orangery was converted into a classical garden pavilion in 1833. The complex, which is not open to the public, is still owned by the noble family of the Barons von und zu Brenken .

literature

  • G. Waurick: Brenken. In: Guide to Prehistoric and Protohistoric Monuments. Volume 20: Paderborn plateau, Paderborn, Büren, Salzkotten . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1975, p. 243.
  • Ursula Quednau (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia 2, Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .
  • Isa Baroness von Elverfeldt: The knights from and to Brenken. (Volume 3) Nicolibri bookstore, Wewer 2015.
  • Isa Baroness von Elverfeldt: The barons from and to Brenken. (Volume 4) Nicolibri bookstore, Wewer 2015.

Web links

Commons : Erpernburg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ August Kracht : Castles and palaces in the Sauerland, Siegerland, Hellweg, industrial area . Weidlich, 1976, ISBN 3-8035-8011-0 , p. 159.

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 37.4 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 57.1"  E