Upper Castle (Rheinbreitbach)
Upper castle in Rheinbreitbach | ||
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The Upper Castle (2005) |
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Creation time : | 14th Century | |
Castle type : | Location | |
Conservation status: | Receive | |
Place: | Rheinbreitbach | |
Geographical location | 50 ° 36 '59.8 " N , 7 ° 13' 46.1" E | |
Height: | 83 m above sea level NHN | |
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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
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
- Heinrich Neu, Hans Weigert: The art monuments of the district of Neuwied (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 16, Section II), Schwann, Düsseldorf 1940, pp. 353–356:
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 , p. 866.
Web links
- Entry on the Upper Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Obere Burg support group
Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Neuwied district. Mainz 2019, p. 57 (PDF; 6.4 MB).