Stolzenburg (Eifel)
| Proud castle | ||
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 Remains of the Stolzenburg |
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Sotenich | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 30 '56 " N , 6 ° 34' 3.5" E | |
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The Stolzenburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle in the Urft valley between the towns of Sötenich and Urft in the municipality of Kall in the Euskirchen district of North Rhine-Westphalia .
The Roman Eifel aqueduct ran past the foot of the castle . The Roman Canal hiking trail also passes the castle. Ceramic finds only indicate that the living space was settled in the Middle Ages .
The area around the castle has been under protection since 1954/1964 as a nature reserve "Auen und Hänge an Urft und Gillesbach" because of its southern exposure of the steep slopes and the special vegetation that this causes .
Castle complex
The system forms an oval 75 m long. Remnants of the wall indicate living spaces and presumably gate towers , and there are tunnels that were probably used as cellars. In addition, the castle was secured with a wall, rampart and moat . In the west, the castle had no fortifications, as it was protected here by an insurmountable steep slope.
history
Adlung considered the castle to be a "Roman observatory". Wackenroder refuted this claim, interpreted the remains as a medieval castle and assumed that the lords of the castle could have been the family of Johann von Sötenich , who was mentioned around 1405.
The pastor and local researcher Nikolaus Reinartz contradicts this, because he found the name Stolzenburg in a file of the Reich Chamber Court in the State Archives in Düsseldorf and dating from 1643 . It shows that the castle was probably the ancestral seat of the Knights of Dalbenden, who later moved to the more comfortable Dalbenden moated castle .
Another note can be found on the tranchot card . Here it says: “Proud Castle Ruiné - Temple Hern Kloster”. This information is wrong, because in the Eifel people often associated older castles with the temple lords .
Myths and legends
Little is known about the history of the castle, but the place is rich in legends and stories:
- A legend is about the noble freedom-loving knight Arno, who would rather give his life than submit to the sovereign.
- According to another legend, hard-hearted robber barons had a leather bridge built to Bielstein Castle, bowling with loaves of bread and torturing their hungry subjects until the castles were destroyed by divine judgment. Since then, the devil himself has been supposed to guard the lord's treasures.
- In some legends, the treasures of the Stolzenburg are guarded by a black, glowy-eyed dog ( Honk mot glönige Ooge ).
- Another story is about the crusader Raimund, who left his beloved castle wife Aspasia to move to the holy land. Years later, however, he finally came back to Stolzenburg as a disfigured, begging pilgrim, but where his childhood sweetheart Aspasia took him in again and finally married him.
- There is also talk of fairies, called Juffern , who are supposed to be up to mischief on the Urft below the Stolzenburg.
literature
- Harald Herzog: castles and palaces. History and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district (= A-series. Volume 17). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1067-6 , p. 471.
- Walter Janssen : Studies on the desert issue in the Franconian old settlements between the Rhine, Moselle and the north edge of the Eifel. Part II: Catalog (= Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland [Hrsg.]: Supplements to the Bonner Jahrbücher. Volume 35, Part II). Rheinland-Verlag u. a., Cologne 1975, p. 72.
- Sophie Lange: Stolzenburg at a steep altitude . In: 1999 yearbook for the Euskirchen district. Editor: District of Euskirchen. P. 101 ff.
- Nikolaus Reinartz : Stolzenburg and Dalbenden. In: Communications of the West German Society for Family Studies , Volume XIII, 1940–1944, Cologne 1956, Columns 25–32.
- Hans Peter Schiffer: The Urft Valley in the Eifel. Landscape, nature, history. LandpresseRegio, Weilerswist 2006, p. 90 ff, p. 161 ff.
- Hans Peter Schiffer: Municipality of Kall. History and folklore. Publisher: Municipality of Kall. Kall 2002, p. 51 ff.
- Stefan Siegfried: The Stolzenburg an der Urft nature reserve (Eifel). Recklinghausen 1969.
- C. Trog: Rhineland's wonder horn.
- Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district (= Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 11, section II). Verlag von L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932, p. 372 f.
Web links
- Entry on Stolzenburg (Sötenich) in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Sophie Lange: Stolzenburg at a steep altitude
- Interesting facts about the Stolzenburg ruins Excerpt from the Sötenich chronicle, part 1 (until 1900), by Georg May
- Historical reconstruction drawing
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nature reserve "Auen und slopes an Urft und Gillesbach" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
- ↑ a b c d e Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the Schleiden district. 1932, p. 373 f.
- ↑ Harald Herzog: Castles and Palaces. History and typology of the noble seats in the Euskirchen district. 1989, p. 471.
- ^ Nikolaus Reinartz: Stolzenburg and Dalbenden. 1956, column 26.
- ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes ) (query from August 20, 2012)
- ^ Walter Janssen: Studies on the desert question in the Franconian old settlements between the Rhine, Moselle and Eifelnordrand. Part II: Catalog. 1975, p. 72.
- ^ Sophie Lange: Stolzenburg on a steep height . In: 1999 yearbook for the Euskirchen district. P. 105.
- ^ A b Sophie Lange: Stolzenburg on a steep height . In: 1999 yearbook for the Euskirchen district. P. 102 f.
- ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: The Urft valley in the Eifel. Landscape, nature, history. LandpresseRegio, Weilerswist 2006, p. 161 ff.
- ^ Sophie Lange: Stolzenburg on a steep height . In: 1999 yearbook for the Euskirchen district. P. 105 f.