Haus Bodelschwingh

Haus Bodelschwingh is a moated castle in the Dortmund district of Bodelschwingh, which belongs to the borough of Mengede. It is one of 18 noble seats in Dortmund and is regarded as the largest and most prestigious complex in the city area.

The castle was the ancestral seat of the von Bodelschwingh family and developed from a simple two-room house of the late Middle Ages, which was extended in the Renaissance style in the 16th/17th century. Through the marriage of the heiress it passed at the end of the 19th century to the family zu Innhausen und Knyphausen, whose property the castle still is today.

The complex is entered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund. The associated castle park in the style of a landscape garden has been a protected monument since 1983. The manor house serves today as the residence of the family zu Innhausen und Knyphausen; the buildings of the outer bailey are let for residential and business purposes. The complex can be visited each year on the Open Monument Day.

Machine-translated from “Haus Bodelschwingh” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Haus Bodelschwingh ranks #4,752 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #362 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,534 times in the last 60 days, more than 60% of the atlas. 8 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Essen, 27 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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