Summer castle
| Summer castle | ||
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, remnants of the hill | |
| Place: | Food - Margarethenhöhe | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 25 '39.7 " N , 6 ° 58' 42.5" E | |
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The summer palace is an Outbound Motte (motte) in today's Essen district Margarethenhöhe in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located north of Lührmannstrasse.
It consisted of two islands, which are still recognizable as hills today, for the main castle and an outer castle . Overall, the facility measures 60 by 30 meters, the main castle hill is three meters high and 14 meters in diameter, the western outer bailey is 30 by 35 meters. A weir to dam the stream was located northeast of the facility. In terms of shape, it dates from the 10th to the 12th century.
The Sommerburg is first mentioned in the land register from 1668 and then in a file from 1768. Older records are not available.
According to legend, a knight of the Sommerburg returned home from a crusade with an oriental wife who later drowned herself from homesickness.
literature
- Hugo Rieth: The origin of Rüttenscheid - summer castle and Romanesque house. In: 1000 years of Rüttenscheid. Yearbook 1969 , pp. 7-33.
- Herbert Lorenz: Essen Archaeological Summer 1992. Script. Ruhrland Museum Essen, 1992.
- Hugo Rieth: The summer castle in Essen - a medieval tower hill castle. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege , No. 3, 2003, pp. 177–187.
- Elke Schneider: Motte Sommerburg. In: Detlef Hopp , Bianca Khil, Elke Schneider (eds.): Burgenland Essen. Castles, palaces and permanent houses in Essen . Klartext Verlag , Essen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8375-1739-2 , pp. 9-101.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Theodor Bramkamp: Pohlbürger. Leipzig: Lenz, 1913
- ↑ Wolfgang Schulze: The great Essen legend book. 1992, ISBN 9783893550500