Hörder Burg
Hörder Burg stands in Dortmund’s Hörde district, near the Emscher River, as a former twelfth-century water castle. Its surviving tower belongs to that early medieval phase.
The castle served as the ancestral seat of the Hörde noble family before the Counts of the Mark expanded it. In 1340, Conrad of the Mark granted town rights to Hörde. Fires damaged the complex in 1505 and 1673, yet rebuilding preserved its original foundations. During the nineteenth century, Hermann Diedrich Piepenstock established an ironworks beside the medieval walls. The Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein later continued that industrial transformation before merging with Hoesch AG.
Renovation began in 2008, and archaeological excavations uncovered medieval artefacts beneath the site. A twentieth-century forecourt now stands alongside the castle’s older fabric. The complex houses Sparkassenakademie NRW and a museum tracing Hörde from the Middle Ages to the present. Nearby Phoenix-See adds an open setting to the castle’s medieval and industrial history.
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