Essen - Burgruine Burg Altendorf 04
The photo shows the ruin of the castle Burgaltendorf at night, this stands on a peninsula to the south of the Ruhr in the Essener part of town Burgaltendorf, the village on a height of 100 m about NN.
The castle is one of the rare examples of a height water castle and at the same time the biggest preserved residential tower - also Donjon called - between the Rhine and the Weser river.
Established in the second half of the 12th. century in the Romanesque style, the arrangement was altered during the Gothic and the Renaissance and was extended, Among the rest, owners and owners were the noble families of Vietinghoff-Schell and from Mumm, before the castle came at the middle of the 19th. century to middle-class private property. After this it had gone to ruin at the beginning of the 20th. century to a ruin, began from 1903 first safeguarding measures to which from 1957 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1970 a systematic exposure and restoration of the preserved structural fabric joined.
Today the castle arrangement is a property of the town of Essen.
Essen - Burgruine Burg Altendorf 04
The photo shows the ruin of the castle Burgaltendorf at night, this stands on a peninsula to the south of the Ruhr in the Essener part of town Burgaltendorf, the village on a height of 100 m about NN.
The castle is one of the rare examples of a height water castle and at the same time the biggest preserved residential tower - also Donjon called - between the Rhine and the Weser river.
Established in the second half of the 12th. century in the Romanesque style, the arrangement was altered during the Gothic and the Renaissance and was extended, Among the rest, owners and owners were the noble families of Vietinghoff-Schell and from Mumm, before the castle came at the middle of the 19th. century to middle-class private property. After this it had gone to ruin at the beginning of the 20th. century to a ruin, began from 1903 first safeguarding measures to which from 1957 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1970 a systematic exposure and restoration of the preserved structural fabric joined.
Today the castle arrangement is a property of the town of Essen.