Harderwykenburg

The Harderwykenburg was built in the style of a medieval stone house soon after 1450 at the east end of the oldest road axle Leers on a flat Geesthuegel.

It is one of the oldest still received castles of East Frisia. The building from monastery stones, arranged as multi-storey apartment tower, measures 8.09 x 11.13 meters in the sketch. The external walls are strong between 0.96 and 1.23 meters. The steeply proportionierte building is today unfortunately cleaned.

Owner of the castle was probably Hayo Unken, muetterlicherseits a grandchild of the chieftain Focko Ukena. After it the castle "Unkenburg" was also called. In 1588 the Drost Dietrich Harderwyk Armgard, married a daughter of Hayo Unken IV, and arrived in such a way into the possession of the castle and coined/shaped from now on her name.

The apartment tower was supplemented by it by a zweigeschossigen cultivation. Carl Gustav baron to Inn and Knyphausen acquired the Harderwykenburg in the 1788 of the then owner Carl Stephan of Schilling. In the consequence she was left to a son in each case in the family by the father or the nut/mother: From 1841-1854 it found in the possession of Moritz baron to Inn and Knyphausen, until 1911 was it property of Dodo Alexander baron to Inn and Knyphausen. After its death became Edzard Inn and Knyphausen and his Mrs. Dorothea of Oldenburg, the owners of the Harderwykenburg. They were parents of the today's burgherrn Dodo baron to Inn and Knyphausen, which inhabit the castle since 1986.