Sinzig Castle

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South side of Sinzig Castle
North side of Sinzig Castle
Aerial view of the castle

The Sinzig Castle is a neo-Gothic villa in Sinzig , a town in the district of Ahrweiler in the northern Rhineland-Palatinate , which was built from 1856 to 1859. It is located on the property at Barbarossastraße 35 and is now used by the city of Sinzig for representation purposes, and the Sinzig local history museum is also housed there. The building is a listed building .

history

Until the beginning of the 19th century, the remains of a moated castle of the Dukes of Jülich-Berg, mentioned in 1337 , which lay outside the Sinzig city ​​fortifications , were visible . The building, which was converted into a castle between 1569 and 1574, was destroyed in 1689 during the War of the Palatinate Succession . So only the ruins of the moat and a round tower remained.

The park was designed by Peter Joseph Lenné around 1840.

In the years 1854 to 1858 according to the plans of was architect Vincenz Statz , a neo-gothic building in slate - quarry stone - masonry as a summer residence for the Cologne businessman Gustav Bunge built. Bunge bought the property in 1850, the year he married Adele Andreae. His initials still adorn the weather vane on the spire of the so-called castle today .

The history painter Karl Christian Andreae , a brother-in-law of Bunge, artistically painted the interior of the palace. Bunge's daughter Johanna (1851–1934), married to the Cologne banker and art patron Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Koenigs , inherited the villa. As one of the last heirs of the family, their daughter Elisabeth Johanna Adele von Wedderkop bequeathed the striking building to the city of Sinzig in 1954, which is entered in the list of monuments. After renovation work , the local history museum and the city archive were housed in the castle in 1956. The wedding room of the Sinzig registry office is located in the tower room with the historicist painting from the 19th century.

architecture

The tower-like projection on the south side, to the left of the entrance, is reminiscent of a castle. At the rear are the deep cut in the park, formerly the moat, and the foundations of the northeast tower are remnants of the old castle. The old masonry extends four meters high to the balustrade .

literature

  • Wilhelm Knippler: A Century of Sinzig Castle . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch 1974 for the district of Ahrweiler. Ahrweiler district, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1973, pp. 87-94 ( online ).
  • Matthias Röcke: Castles and palaces on the Rhine and Ahr . ARE Verlag, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1991, ISBN 3-9802508-3-0 , pp. 17-19.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '47.1 "  N , 7 ° 14' 58.2"  E