Scharfenberg Castle

Scharfenberg Castle is a former castle in Scharfenberg, today a village in the town of Brilon in the Hochsauerlandkreis district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The castle fell into disrepair at the end of the 17th century and from 1783 a new manor house was built, which later served as a pastorate.

In 1306, the castle was first mentioned as dat Hus tom Scharpenberge. The possessions in Scharfenberg were probably transferred to the younger son Hermann von Padberg around 1300 through a division of inheritance in the House of Padberg. He built a castle on his estates and called himself von Scharfenberg. The castle stood in the border area of the territories of the Prince-Bishops of Cologne and the Counts of Waldeck. Due to constant territorial disputes on the border, it was destroyed in 1359, 1404 and 1473. In 1650, the castle building was once again partially renovated. In 1695, the castle, which was equipped with towers and outer baileys, was so dilapidated that only remains and old masonry remained. The outwork was still there, with a stone guard house or log house, a residential house with a cattle shed and a bakehouse. Johann Suibert Seibertz described before 1823 that the "main citadel was located on the extreme western point of the mountain ridge, where it dominated the whole village with all the roads leading through and up. It was surrounded by double walls, and separated from the rest of the ridges by a ditch, and cut off from all other sides by abrupt banks."

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