Brüggen Castle

Brüggen Castle (German: Burg Brüggen) is a water castle in the southeastern part of the Lower Rhine municipality of Brüggen in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was the most important castle in the north of the Duchy of Jülich.

The castle was built by the Count of Kessel in the 13th century to guard a ford over the River Schwalm. In the early 14th century it went into the possession of the dukes of Jülich, who had the existing building replaced by a quadrangular castle made from brick. After the occupation of Brüggen in 1794 by Napoleonic troops it was confiscated and resold by the French government to a private individual at the beginning of the 19th century. Today part of the castle houses a hunting and natural history museum.

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Brüggen Castle ranks #263 of 6,412 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #34 of the 450 mapped in Germany. Founded c. 1250, it is older than 73% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 555 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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