Vehn Castle

Vehn is a redirect to this article. For the German physicist, see Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn .

Vehn Castle with chapel (left margin)

Aerial view from the west

Aerial view from the southeast

The Vehn Castle is a castle near the forest of Löhndorf , a suburb of Sinzig in the district of Ahrweiler ( Rheinland-Pfalz ). The castle is a monument worth protecting .

history

The first mention of Vehn is by Schenkungs us 1019 certificate of Archbishop Heribert of Cologne handed down that the monastery Deutz donated goods. After 1266 the farm and the goods were first given to the Burgraves of Landskron as a fief , after 1370 to Messrs. Colve von Ahrweiler and finally in 1564 to Wilhelm von Orsbeck .

The north wing of this two-wing complex is marked with the year 1753, although major renovations were carried out in the first half of the 19th century. There were stepped gables added and part of the plant was plastered. The main wing has a coat of arms of the von Hocherbach family , who were feudal lords from 1676 to 1795, and a four-sided roof turret . During the French rule in the Rhineland , the ecclesiastical goods were confiscated and auctioned by the French state. The castle was acquired by Bahlsen in 1965 and is owned by a community of heirs of the von Nordeck and Bahlsen families.

chapel

The current chapel construction dates back to the 17th century and has unusual proportions. The nave is only 3.95 meters long and 2.75 meters wide; the choir, on the other hand, is 5.65 meters long and 2.75 meters wide. Only the baroque altar from 1690 can be seen from the furnishings on site. As long as the village of Löhndorf did not have its own pastor and church, the residents had to celebrate the service in the castle chapel. After the establishment of its own parish and the construction of the church in the village in 1830, the castle chapel was only for private use.

literature

• Kurt Bruchhäuser: Vehn Castle and its relationship to the parish of Löhndorf . In: Homeland yearbook for the Ahrweiler district 1958 .
• Matthias Röcke: Castles and palaces on the Rhine and Ahr . ARE Verlag, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 1991, ISBN 3-9802508-3-0 , pp. 23-24.
• Joachim Gerhardt, Heinrich Neu: The art monuments of the Ahrweiler district , Volume 2, L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1938, pp. 656–657.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Vehn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://archiv.rhein-zeitung.de/on/magazin/rlp/bilder/07/09/bilder10.html

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 21 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 58 ″  E