Brohleck Castle

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Brohleck Castle

Brohleck Castle - also called Brohleck Castle or Augustaburg - is a villa-like castle building on the Rhine above Brohl-Lützing ( Ahrweiler district ) from 1891.

history

1325 was Johann Burggraf of Rheineck the castrum or fortalitium Brule (Brohl), which had been his own property, the Archbishop of Trier, Baldwin of Luxembourg to feud on (Codex Rheno-Mosellanus III, I no. 132). In 1402 a descendant named Johann Burggraf von Rheineck received the castle as a fief. It remained a fief of the Burgraves of Rheineck until after 1428. Then it came to von Metternich zu Sommersberg, who appeared as the owner of the castle in 1449. In 1664 the presumed Palatine afterfief fell to von Hees through marriage . They sold their heirs to Carl Joseph Dinget, assessor at the electoral court in Koblenz. In the middle of the 19th century his son's grandchildren, the Stenzel brothers, lived in the castle. Theodor Hochkeppel (from 1862) passed the castle to the von Schell siblings and from them in 1888 to J. B. Michiels, who rebuilt and enlarged the castle house. The Michiels family then leased the house as a boarding school for boys.

In 1938 the castle belonged to a Munich bank and served as the Reichsführerinnenschule of the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD). In April 1942, around 100 Jewish citizens of the Ahrweiler district were housed here until they were transported to the concentration camps.

From the 1950s onwards, several Brohler families lived in rented apartments in the building. The castle has been left to its own devices since the 1970s and has now been renovated by the current owner.

The east wing of the house still contains a few remains of the castle complex. The tombstone of Bertram von Metternich (d. 1639), electoral Cologne bailiff at Andernach, lay on the forecourt .

literature

  • Joachim Gerhardt, Heinrich Neu, Edmund Renard and Albert Verbeek: Art monuments of the Rhine province, Ahrweiler district. Düsseldorf 1938, p. 213f.
  • Matthias Röcke: Castles and palaces on the Rhine and Ahr . ARE Verlag, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1991, p. 32f., ISBN 3-9802508-3-0
  • Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich: "... like a monarch enthroned in the middle of his court". Castles on the Lower Middle Rhine . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2210-3 , pp. 38-41.

Web links

Commons : Brohleck Castle  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 59 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 28 ″  E