Cortenbach Castle

The Cortenbach Castle ( Dutch Kasteel Cortenbach ) is one of the five castles or palaces of Voerendaal . The castle is located northeast of the city and is now privately owned. Therefore it is not open to the public.

history

The original medieval castle, on the remains of which today's castle was built, dates from the 14th century. The only remains of the castle are two round towers, the corner towers of today's castle. The present castle was completed around 1713 as a villa, probably by Leonhard Joseph von Lamberts zu Cortenbach , the son of the Aachen merchant Hermann Lamberts who died in 1700 . He had acquired Gut Cortenbach in 1682 and began demolishing the medieval buildings in order to build a contemporary country estate. Today's castle, which has a striking entrance gate, which is crowned by an onion-shaped tower , is classified as a national monument ( Rijksmonument ) of the Netherlands.

The castle housed an exclusive hotel and restaurant from 1939. Today the headquarters of a company in the field of cleaning, personnel and facility services is housed there.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Cortenbach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Cortenbach, kasteel (Voerendaal) , rijckheyt.nl

50.884722222222 5.9341666666667Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 5 ″ N , 5 ° 56 ′ 3 ″ E

[1] Cortenbach, kasteel (Voerendaal) , rijckheyt.nl