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The Schelmenburg - Bergen-Enkheim 🚴
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Germane 🚴♂️
May 12, 2021
Road cycling
The Schelmenburg is a pretty little water castle from 1700. The castle owes its name to its former residents. These were not particularly mischievous and shrewd, they were just called …
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Les Guilvinistes
February 17, 2018
Cycling
On the western edge of the medieval center of Bergen, between the market street and the "Am Weißen Turm", there is a small moated castle, the Schelmenburg. In the Middle Ages here was the seat of the noble family of the rogues of Bergen, the castle lost increasingly its military and lordly importance. After the extinction of the noble family, the buildings were used for agriculture, until in the 1960s, parts of the city administration moved into the moated castle.
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Rinaldini
July 15, 2024
Cycling
There are few architectural or archaeological sources about the time when Schelmenburg was built, due to centuries of subsequent construction. A terminus ante quem comes from the first mention of a rogue from Bergen in 1194.
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