Bladenhorst Castle

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Palace complex from the southwest
Castle bridge and gatehouse
Grave slab of Philipp the Elder J. von Viermund († 1584), the man who completed the palace
Gatehouse in April 2015, in the background the south wing.

Bladenhorst Castle is a moated castle in the Bladenhorst district of the city of Castrop-Rauxel .

history

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1266. The Knights of Blarnhurst once lived there , followed by the von Düngelen family at the beginning of the 14th century . In 1338 Rötger von Düngelen made his property available to the Count of Kleve as Offenburg for use in the event of war. The castle came to Philipp von Viermundt († 1528) by marriage in 1496, and from 1624 to 1881 to the barons of Romberg , who had inherited it. Afterwards the barons Weichs zur Wenne and the Klöckner-Werke were responsible for the fortunes of the castle.

The complex originally consisted of four wings. The gatehouse, built as a fortification, is the oldest part of the complex, the chapel dates back to 1332 (demolished in 1941). The late Renaissance style castle dates from the years of renovation from 1530 to 1584 and is inhabited. Since the castle is privately owned, there are no tours or visits.

On February 16, 2006, Sparkasse Vest became the owner of the castle. After she had administered it for four years, she bought it at auction. Part of the north wing has consisted of owner-occupied apartments since 2001, the remaining part of the palace passed into the ownership of a private person from Dortmund in January 2007.

In 2010 the last part of the Grautenhaus was ready for occupancy. A year later, the old gatehouse could be used again as an apartment. The castle grounds are part of the Bladenhorst landscape park and are designed in the style of an English landscape garden.

Readings, concerts, lectures, dinner events, wine and summer festivals take place at irregular intervals in the knight's hall or in the palace courtyard. The castle opens regularly to visitors on the annual open monument day in September. Often oldtimers are also guests on various tours. Civil weddings of the city of Castrop-Rauxel have been taking place in the Rittersaal since 2015.

location

Bladenhorst Castle is located in the quarry landscape of the Emscherland between the courses of the Emscher , Deininghauser Bach and Salzbach . The natural features of this landscape made it possible for the castle moors to be laid out . At the end of the 19th century, a branch canal of the Dortmund-Ems Canal from the Henrichenburg ship lift to Herne was built in the immediate vicinity of the castle . As the Rhine-Herne Canal , it became the continuous shipping route in the Emschertal. The humid character of the low-lying forest can still be seen in the area around the castle and in the area of ​​the Dickenheide and the Castroper wood. Numerous ditches drain the area.

  • Address: Westring 346, 44579 Castrop-Rauxel

literature

  • Karl Hoecken: Bladenhorst Castle and its artistic legacy. Published by the cultural office of the city of Castrop-Rauxel, 1963.
  • Wilfried Reininghaus : House Bladenhorst, court and court of Castrop. Territorial, economic and ecclesiastical relations until the end of the Old Kingdom . In: Contributions to the history of Dortmund and the county of Mark , Vol. 94 (2003), pp. 63–86.
  • Ferdinand Schmidt: Bladenhorst Castle. Succession of ownership. In: The Märker. No. 1, 1951.
  • Wolfram Schmidt: Where the past, present and future meet. Bladenhorst moated castle - a cultural and historical monument of the city of Castrop-Rauxel. 2nd edition, Wulff Druck & Verlag, Dortmund 2009.
  • Stefan Kleineschulte: Bladenhorst Castle . In: Ministry for Building and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia / Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Burgen AufRuhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region . Editor: Kai Niederhöfer. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2010, pp. 314–317

Web links

Commons : Bladenhorst Castle  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 11.5 "  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 46.8"  E