Wittenburg (Bentfeld)
| Wittenburg | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | House Bentfeld | |
| Creation time : | middle Ages | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Place: | Delbrück - Bentfeld | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 44 '11.1 " N , 8 ° 37' 14.5" E | |
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The Wittenburg , also called Haus Bentfeld , is an abandoned medieval Niederungsburg in Bentfeld , a current district of Delbrück in the Paderborn district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
According to local tradition, the Scherf farm is now in place of the castle.
history
The castle was the seat of the ministerial family of the Lords of Bentfeld , which died out before 1444 . Later it belonged to the von Suchtrop family, who sold it to the von Hörde zu Boke family in 1574 .
In a stock book of the Paderborn cathedral chapter , a tax to the castle is mentioned in 1673.
The name of the castle is preserved as a corridor and street name.
description
The name Bentfeld House seems to indicate a permanent house . The purchase contract of 1574 speaks of “their dwelling, like the one in Bentfeld, with all its old and new buildings”.
literature
Josef Tönsmeyer: The Lippeamt Boke. Salzkotten 1968, p. 239f.