Bollheim Castle

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Bollheim Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection , demolished in 1882
Preserved farm buildings from Bollheim Castle

Bollheim Castle is a lost aristocratic seat in Oberelvenich , a district of Zülpich in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The castle was close to the former and important Roman road from Reims to Cologne . Since it was in the swampy floodplains of the Rotbach , it was called a swamp castle .

The property was mentioned as early as 1067 when the Archbishop of Cologne in Anno II handed over the 500 acres to the St. Georg Abbey in Cologne . The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1331. After destruction and a lightning strike in the Middle Ages , the manor was rebuilt as a baroque palace from 1682.

Knight Godart von Boylheim (today: Gottfried von Bollheim) was the first owner of the castle. Around 1379 the castle moved to the von Vlatten family. Werner von Vlatten sold the village with the castle to the Count of Blankenheim in 1401. Another change of ownership followed to the later long-term owners, the von Hompesch family.

During the Thirty Years War , the Hessians and Weimar, allied with the French, moved into the castle in the winter of 1641/42. Wilhelm Hugo von Hompesch sold the property in 1843 for 86,000 thalers to Ludwig Prosper , Duke of Arenberg .

The castle was demolished in 1882–1885 by the von Arenberg family, allegedly due to disrepair; only the farm buildings and the guard houses have survived to this day.

After several changes of ownership to private individuals, Arnold Langen and several farmers bought the remaining farm buildings in October 1982 and have been running a Demeter farm there ever since .

literature

  • Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne, 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1226-1 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 52.4 "  N , 6 ° 42 ′ 42.1"  E