Rösberg Castle

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Rösberg Castle in September 2013 with the half-timbered house in the park in which Maximilian von Weichs lived
The palace from the park side in the second half of the 19th century, after Heinrich Deiters by Alexander Duncker

The Rösberg Castle is a baroque palace complex in Bornheimer district Rösberg in the Rhineland . The ensemble on the Schloßallee on the northern edge of Rösberg is elevated and offers a view over the park to the north-west of the Rhine Valley with the cities of Bonn and Cologne as well as over the courtyard to the Eifel Mountains behind . After extensive renovation in the 1990s, the complex was divided into condominiums.

history

A previous building by the Lords of Rösberg, the Counts of Are , was built in the 12th century and was located in the center of the village. The castle was destroyed several times and later abandoned. Written sources from 1669 only report the existence of ruins.

Construction of the castle

In 1629 the Electoral Cologne Chamberlain Gaudenz Freiherr von Weichs zu Glon was enfeoffed with the possession of Rösberg. His son, the hereditary hunter Ferdinand Joseph Freiherr von Weichs and his wife, Maria Carolina, b. Countess von Velbrück zu Gernth, had a castle-like complex built in the Westphalian Baroque style in the north of the village around 1730. For this purpose, the then valued master builder Johann Conrad Schlaun was commissioned with the design. The new residence was built from 1729 to 1731, and during the design Schlaun implemented the Maison de Plaisance type for the first time .

In April 1833 the farm buildings burned down, in October 1833 the house also burned and was largely destroyed in the process. In 1835, based on Schlaun's plans, the building was rebuilt by the Grand Ducal Hessian Lieutenant General Ferdinand Joseph von Weichs, a son of the first builder, and heightened by one floor.

World War II and post-war period

After a phosphorous bomb attack by the British RAF Bomber Command on Ash Wednesday night on February 27, 1941, the lock burned down again. The valuable inventory was largely destroyed. The castle and part of the farm buildings were destroyed except for the massive enclosing walls. After the war, the former field marshal Maximilian von Weichs lived together with his wife Margaretha in a half-timbered house built in the castle park, which still exists today. The castle was later rebuilt. In the 1990s, the Sayn-Wittgenstein family sold the property that they inherited. After extensive renovation and partial renovation of the farm buildings between 1989 and 1991, the property was divided into condominiums. The actor Günter Lamprecht owns an apartment here.

The facility is a listed building .

architecture

The facility consists of three buildings, which are grouped around an approximately square courtyard with sides of around 50 meters. On the northeast side of the courtyard is the main house (more of a representative mansion in terms of dimensions ), on the flanks the former farm buildings, which are angled at the corners to the courtyard side and which are now used as residential complexes - just like the main house. All buildings have two floors above ground, and there is additional living space in the mansard hipped roofs . The flank buildings show exposed brick construction, the brick masonry of the castle was washed in light red and the structural elements there plastered white.

The free-standing main house is regularly structured and has seven window axes (four on the sides), a discreet entrance risalit on the courtyard side (rounded off in the roof area) and a protruding risalit on the park side with windows on three sides. The corners of the building are rounded.

park

On the north-east side of the main house is a terrace, to which the sloping park of the complex connects. In the 18th century this park was designed as a baroque garden . Later there was a reshaping in the English landscape style ; the original, geometrically arranged beds are only partially recognizable. The park's previously existing waterworks, driven by a mill, were dismantled by French troops as part of the coalition wars.

The old trees of the castle park and the straight avenues leading to the castle are still preserved. The parks and the chestnut avenues are set as a protected landscape component in landscape plan no. 2 "Bornheim".

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Rösberg Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  2. ↑ a b Gudrun Gersmann, Hans-Werner Langbrandtner and Monika Gussone (ed.): Nobles living environments in the Rhineland: commented sources of the early modern period (=  writings, United nobility archives in Rheinland e V. . Band 3 ). Böhlau, Köln Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20251-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ From the history of the Rösberg volunteer fire brigade: The Second World War and Reconstruction. In: Chromik. Voluntary fire brigade Bornheim - Löschgruppe Rösberg, accessed on April 24, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Horst Bursch: Bornheim in old views. Volume 3, Europäische Bibliothek Verlag, ISBN 978-90-288-5780-3 , picture no.59.
  5. ↑ Alexandra Klaus: Stormy cures. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger. December 23, 2006, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  6. ↑ No. 12, List of Monuments of the City of Bornheim. (PDF) July 2011, accessed April 23, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b Baroque garden - Rösberg Castle. Cologne / Bonn region V., accessed April 24, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Sick trees are felled at Rösberg Castle. City of Bornheim, March 26, 2013, accessed April 24, 2016 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 8 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 53 ″  E