Raceberg Castle

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Raceberg Castle
Raceberg Castle
Raceberg Castle, aerial view

The race Schloss is an elegant property in Linz am Rhein , a town in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied , built 1846th It stands as cultural monument under monument protection and is known as residential space expelled.

location

Raceberg Castle is located one kilometer north of the entrance to Linz am Rhein at around 145  m above sea level. NHN , to the east and below the state road 256 (Linz– Kretzhaus ) as well as to the west and above the Rennenberger Bach . A branch of the stream flows through the area and is dammed in a pond .

history

Friedrich IV von Salm-Kyrburg had the palace built in 1846 as the summer residence of the princes of Salm-Kyrburg . The castle also had a hunting lodge northeast of the village (today a listed building ). During the first air raids on Linz during World War II , one of five incendiary bombs hit the castle on the night of August 25, 1940 , and the fire that had been set off was extinguished. After it was sold in 1992 to a family from Melle (Lower Saxony), the property was comprehensively renovated, after which it was designated as a monument zone in 1994 with the park .

description

Raceberg Castle consists of a classical , seven- or four- axis main building as well as three rear (street-side) and angularly arranged farm buildings. The landscape park (which is not open to the public) stretches to the east , and its trees are over 100 years old. The complex also includes a so-called "meadow rondel" and a burial site for the Lords of Rennenberg, which are part of the monument zone.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Rennberg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Neuwied district. Mainz 2019, p. 33 (PDF; 6.4 MB).
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 50 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ↑ Hermannsburg Hard, Cordula Kapser: Linz am Rhein: The city's history from prehistoric times to the present , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-412-06602-8 , S. 229th
  4. ↑ Castle recently renovated (PDF; 64 kB) , Rhein-Zeitung , Neuwied edition, May 11, 2007, p. 241

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 3 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 0.4"  E