Zievel Castle
| Zievel Castle | ||
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 Keep, building from 1661 and New Manor House (1828) |
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| Creation time : | before 1107 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Well preserved | |
| Standing position : | Domination | |
| Place: | Mechernich - Lessenich | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 37 '4.2 " N , 6 ° 43' 30.5" E | |
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The castle Zievel is a medieval castle near the Mechernicher district Lessenich . It is located on the southern edge of the forest area on the Billiger Berg near the federal motorway 1 , near the valley of the Veybach . It can be reached via the Wißkirchen junction, Bundesstrasse 266 and L 11.
history
Over the course of almost 1000 years of history, the complex has had many owners and owners.
The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1107. In that year it was owned by the Counts of Limburg . In the same century, a Gerhardus de Zivele is mentioned in a document in 1169.
In the 13th century, the castle was owned by the Lords of Zievel, who descended from the noble lords of Daun, in the 14th century it came to the Schmeich von Lissingen family, and from 1337 it was owned by the knight Johann Schmeich von Lissingen .
Karl von Metternich acquired the castle in the 15th century, so that it was inherited by the von Metternich- Müllenark family in the 17th century . At the end of the 18th century, however, it was already owned by the von Roth family. Since 1822 the castle and the associated lands have been owned by the Krewel family, who had been their tenants since 1766. In 1828 she had the old manor house demolished.
description
Zievel Castle is privately owned and used as a residence and business location. The outdoor facilities are only partially accessible; in the parkland around mansion, keep and outbuildings was the established in 1994/95 Club an 18-hole golf course created. Old trees and ponds surrounded by reeds, which once shaped the English landscape garden , surround the partly hilly fairways.
The rectangular complex was originally a moated castle , but its moats have not been preserved. The core of the round keep on the west side, greatly modified by the baroque dome and white paint, comes from an older predecessor. There is a gate tower each on the south-west and north-west corners. A two-storey building with a stepped gable next to the keep is dated 1661, so it comes from the Metternich expansion phase. The new mansion, painted in pink, was built between 1825 and 1828 and replaced the building that was demolished in 1828.
literature
- Heinrich Neu , Walther Zimmermann : The work of the painter Renier Roidkin. Views of West German churches, castles, palaces and cities from the first half of the 18th century . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1939, p. 168.
Web links
- Entry on Zievel in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry for Zievel in the private database "Alle Burgen".
