Wachendorf Castle

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Wachendorf Castle
Wachendorf Castle, aerial photo (2015)

The guard Schlossberg is on guard village , a district of Mechernich in North Rhine-Westphalia Euskirchen .

The castle in its present form was built around 1780. In 1883 it was last expanded or rebuilt based on the model of a maison de plaisance . In the course of these renovations, the representative main staircase and spacious halls were created . Today the building is an unusually large three-storey mansion with around 60 rooms, a high mansard roof and a six-storey central tower, partly surrounded by the remains of what was once an impressive fortification with ramparts and moats .

Wachendorf is mentioned for the first time in 1190 as a bailiwick . At the site of Wachendorfer castle was a knight's seat with bergfriedartigem Tower, originally late Gothic spire . This donjon is preserved as a central risalit in the castle, now with a mansard roof. At least the basement of the central tower and considerable wall sections of the north-western half of the manor house come from the medieval castle .

In the early 16th century, the castle came into the possession of the aristocratic Palandt family through marriage . Johann von Palandt was one of the most important knights of the Jülich rule . In 1628 led witch trials under the lord of the castle Marsilius III. von Palandt to the death of 16 people. From 1687 the property was inherited by the von Hatzfeld family , who passed it on to Anna Maria von Hallberg, born in 1768. von Holtzweiler, the mother of the ambassador to the Electoral Palatinate, Heinrich Theodor von Hallberg , sold. In 1780 Burg Wachendorf was acquired by the Bavarian Major General Adolph Freiherr von Ritz. Through the Euskirchen district administrator Johann Peter Schroeder , the property and the lands came to Baron Solemacher-Antweiler in 1877, who had the castle rebuilt to its present form. His son sold the property to Paul von Mallinckrodt in 1896 . Today the castle is the private property of his descendants, the Müller von Blumencron family. It serves, among other things, as the place of marriage for the Mechernich registry office and as a Zen temple.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives for the civil and criminal law of the Royal Prussian Rhine provinces , new series, 28th volume, 1st section, pp. 145 u. 146, Cologne, 1843; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ Jakob Katzfey: History of the City of Münstereifel and the Neighboring Locations , Volume 2, pp. 232, 234, 235, Cologne, 1855; (Digital scan)

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 46 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 39.1 ″  E