Arff Castle

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Arff Castle

Arff Castle is a former moated castle in the Roggendorf / Thenhoven village of Cologne . It is located 20 km northwest of Cologne city center and right on the border with the city of Dormagen in the Rhine district of Neuss.

history

Arff Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

The first documentary mention of the knights van der Arffe, who gave the castle its name , took place in 1366. Albrecht von Baexen acquired the estate in 1572 by marrying Catharina von der Arff. But in the Truchsessian Wars from 1583 to 1586 the previous building was destroyed.

In 1750 Adam von Blittersdorf sold the estate to the von Buschmann family, who then, within five years from 1750 to 1755, had the current palace built. The architect was most likely the French Michel Leveilly . In 1803 the castle came to the von Geyr zu Schweppenburg family .

After the death of Christoph Freiherrn von Geyr zu Schweppenburg, the heirs sold the castle in 2015 to his niece Caroline and her husband Friedhelm von Landsberg-Velen , who also run the amusement park around Dankern Castle . Since then, Arff Castle has been used for weddings and other events.

investment

The main building and outer bailey as well as two parallel farm buildings and the manor house form the parts of the building and border the courtyard. The two-part garden was once surrounded by a moat. However, the feeding sources have dried up. It is a so-called Maison de Plaisance , a pleasure palace in which the nobility spent the summer months in the countryside, away from the cities.

Appreciation

entrance

The manor house is attributed to the architect Michael Leveilly and is a simplified repetition of Falkenlust Castle near Brühl , which is part of the UNESCO World Heritage “Augustusburg Brühl” and where Leveilly was the site manager under François de Cuvilliés the Elder . Leveilly also designed the Horr house in Grevenbroich in the Rhine district of Neuss and the historic town hall of Bonn .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Arff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ No second Dankern castle: The Haren family buys a castle near Cologne. In: noz.de . May 5, 2015, accessed November 16, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 4 "  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 57.5"  E