Upper Castle (Rheinbreitbach)

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Upper castle in Rheinbreitbach
The Upper Castle (2005)

The Upper Castle (2005)

Creation time : 14th Century
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: Receive
Place: Rheinbreitbach
Geographical location 50 ° 36 '59.8 "  N , 7 ° 13' 46.1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '59.8 "  N , 7 ° 13' 46.1"  E
Height: 83  m above sea level NHN
Upper Castle (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Upper castle

The Obere Burg is a stately home in Rheinbreitbach , a local community in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied , which dates back to the 14th century. It is the seat of the municipal administration and is available as a cultural monument under monument protection . This is how the Upper Castle was named to distinguish it from the Lower Castle to the north .

history

The castle was initially owned by a Junker von Lewendal as a fief of the St. Maria ad Gradus Monastery in Cologne. In 1655 it was owned by Dr. Adolf Bequerer passed over and fell to Peter von Geyr through his wife's marriage a few years later. From 1730 it belonged to the von Buschmann family, from 1829 to Johann Wilhelm Schmitz from Cologne. Around this time there was a significant expansion of the northern wing . In 1907 the writer Rudolf Herzog acquired the Upper Castle, who also had it expanded in the style of historicism and died here in 1943.

At the end of the Second World War , the building was damaged, which was only partially repaired decades later. In the mid-1980s, the property was put up for sale by the owners at the time. In 1990 the local community Rheinbreitbach acquired the castle in order to establish its seat there and to use it as a cultural center. By 1993, the building underwent extensive interior and exterior renovations. In 1992 the Obere Burg support group was founded , which supports the organization of cultural events, including art exhibitions , concerts and readings .

investment

Upper castle with park
Aerial photograph (2014)

The origin and the core of the building is a three-storey central section, one on the east side tracery bay- mounted. To the south is a part of the building built as a wine press and temporarily used as a dining room. The north wing of the Upper Castle with library and "chapel" has two stepped gables and two barrel vaults on the ground floor . These parts of the building are dominated by a four-story, originally three-story tower. The interior of the building includes (as of 1940) numerous paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as some sculptures. The castle is embedded in a park on its east and south sides, where the so-called park festival takes place every year in August .

literature

Web links

Commons : Upper Castle  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Neuwied district. Mainz 2019, p. 57 (PDF; 6.4 MB).