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Ruins of Kaster Castle

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Ruins of Kaster Castle

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Location: Bedburg, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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2. Kasterer See – Alt-Kaster Historic Old Town loop from Bedburg (Erft)

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3. Erft Gate (Alt-Kaster City Gate) – Alt-Kaster Old Town loop from Königshoven

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Bumble-Bee

July 9, 2021

With a little imagination, one can still make out to some extent what the castle should have looked like. The compact but very naive walls of the ruins are already beginning when you consider when they were built.

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Stephan N

March 20, 2023

The former castle was surrounded by the Erft and two moats. It already existed before the old town of Kaster was surrounded by a castle wall. Its location was favorable because one of the few crossings over the Erft was possible there. The Erft also often demarcated the area of Cologne from that of Jülich. For a time, Kaster also served as a customs post.
In front of the main castle, the current ruin, was a bailey. It is believed that this is where the urban development of Kaster came from. In Welser's drawing you can still see the rectangle of the outer bailey. The Eulenturm, which is still standing today, was one of these four corner towers. In the outer bailey was the waiter's shop with storage buildings and handicraft workshops, even a mouse catcher from Maastricht was employed there. From there the waiters (cellarius) administered the payments in kind and money to the feudal lords.
The lords of Caster (known from 1148) were the feudal lords of the place and probably owned the castle. After their extinction, Kaster went back to the Counts of Jülich, who now expanded Kaster into a Jülich office. The castle was first mentioned in writing in 1273 when it was sold by the Count of Jülich to King Rudolph of Habsburg. He gave it back to Count Wilhelm IV of Jülich as a fief.
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geschichtsverein-bedburg.de/permanent/KasterBurg.html

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daha

January 14, 2018

The former castle of the Counts of Jülich dates back to the 13th century and was intended to control the crossing over the Erft. It was completely destroyed in the 30-year war.

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Location: Bedburg, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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