Landsberg Castle

Landsberg Castle is a castle complex in the Ruhr valley within the municipal area of Ratingen, on the city boundary with Essen, in the immediate vicinity of Schloss Hugenpoet. It stands near the Kettwig district of Vor der Brücke, about one kilometre south-west of the centre of Kettwig on the road to Mülheim an der Ruhr-Mintard, in the middle of an English landscape park with extensive woodland.

The complex goes back to a medieval hilltop castle of the end of the 13th century, built by Count Adolf V of Berg. At that time it served primarily to secure the nearby important bridge over the Ruhr which connected Kettwig with Ratingen. From 1288 at the latest the castle belonged to the lords of Landsberg, who held their ancestral seat – with an interruption of 120 years – until 1903.

Altered several times during the 17th and 18th centuries, the complex received its present form in the Historicist style through the industrialist August Thyssen, who acquired it in 1903 and had it converted into his prestigious residence. Since these building alterations the former "Gut Landsberg" has been called "Schloss Landsberg". Since 1926 it has belonged to a foundation of the Thyssen family. After changing uses following the Second World War, it has been leased since 1992 to thyssenkrupp AG as a seminar and conference venue. It also belongs to several theme routes of the Route of Industrial Heritage.

Machine-translated from “Schloss Landsberg (Ratingen)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Landsberg Castle ranks #2,582 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #192 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Founded c. 1300, it is older than 63% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 860 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 3,240 times in the last 60 days, more than 77% of the atlas. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Essen, 12 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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