Bruchhausen Castle
| Bruchhausen Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Old castle | |
| Castle type : | Location | |
| Conservation status: | preserved, residential building | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone, half-timbered | |
| Place: | Bruchhausen | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 36 '7.7 " N , 7 ° 15' 13.3" E | |
| Height: | 200 m above sea level NN | |
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The Bruchhausen Castle , also called the Old Castle , is a former castle house (courtyard) and today's residential building in Bruchhausen , a local community in the Neuwied district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The castle is located above the church at Waldstrasse 28-30. It is one of the oldest houses in Bruchhausen and is a protected cultural monument .
history
The castle was built and inhabited by the Spee von Langenfeld family in the 17th century . The von Geyr family is named as another owner.
In the 17th century the castle was inhabited by the Counts of Spee and was the scene of the drama " Witch Queen of Bruchhausen ". The old castle was entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate on October 17, 2000.
description
The late Gothic building (marked 1752) shows towering gables made of thick quarry stone walls with half-timbered additions from later times and borders the courtyard with the farm buildings, the oldest part of which is the barn.
At the deepest point of the vaulted cellar, which is deep underground, there is a lying "wine coffin" with radial feed channels, which should catch the wine that leaks out during fermentation or through clumsiness.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Bruchhausen Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- ↑ Alte Burg Bruchhausen at ich-geh-wandern.de
- ↑ Landkreis Neuwied (Hrsg.): Heimat-Jahrbuch 2002 des Landkreis Neuwied , Neuwied 2001, p. 123.
- ↑ The castle of the Counts of Spee at Urlaub-in-rheinland-pfalz.de