Schweppenburg

Schweppenburg
East view of the Schweppenburg
Creation time :	around 1365
Castle type :	Location
Conservation status:	Receive
Standing position :	Noble
Place:	Brohl-Lützing
Geographical location	50 ° 28 '2 "  N , 7 ° 18' 30"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 28 '2 "  N , 7 ° 18' 30"  E

The Schweppenburg is a castle in the district Niederlützingen , today municipality Brohl-Lützing , the bottom of the valley Brohltal . Brohl-Lützing is part of the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

Schweppenburg Castle was first mentioned as a castle in 1365. Together with the Schweppenburger or Mosen mill , which is still working today , it came into the possession of the Andernach lay judge Arnold von Schweppenburg as an Electoral Cologne fiefdom in 1377 . It received its current form in the Baroque style through a renovation in the years 1637 to 1639 under Bertram von Metternich . The old fortified castle complex, which until then had served as a farm building, was closed in 1785. Since 1716 the castle has been in the possession of a branch of the Cologne patrician family von Geyr (in Cologne also Gir), who then named themselves after the castle von Geyr zu Schweppenburg .

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  Schweppenburg Castle 1852 - lithograph by H. v. Dirks

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  Schweppenburg Castle approx. 1870 - Alexander Duncker Collection

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  Schweppenburg Castle in the Brohl Valley

literature

• Karl Otto Jakob Ewich : The leader at the Laacher-See u. through the Brohlthal: With observations on the properties u. therapeutic effects of Heilbronn , Verlag CW Lichtfers, Neuwied, 1852
• Matthias Röcke: Castles and palaces on the Rhine and Ahr . ARE Verlag, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1991, ISBN 3-9802508-3-0 , pp. 35-37.
• Achim Schmitz: Pankratius Sackmann, brave defender of Schweppenburg. A story from the time of the French Revolution . In: Heimatjahrbuch für die Kreis Ahrweiler 1987. S. 151ff ( online ).
• Leo Stausberg: The Schweppenburg in the Brohltal. After a drawing by Traut . In: Homeland yearbook for the Ahrweiler district 1960 . Weiss, Monschau 1959, ISSN  0342-5827 , p. 72ff ( online ).
• Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich: "... like a monarch enthroned in the middle of his court". Castles on the Lower Middle Rhine . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2210-3 , pp. 148–151.
• Josef Busley and Heinrich Neu: Art monuments of the Mayen district , L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1941, pp. 406–411.

Web links

Commons : Schweppenburg  - Collection of Images

• Entry on Schweppenburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Material on Schweppenburg in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 212 kB)