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Morsbroich Castle

Germany

Heritage status
architectural heritage monument in North Rhine-Westphalia
Location
Leverkusen
Coordinates
51.03611°, 7.03333°
Links
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Morsbroich Castle in Germany
Photo: Marcin-Janek · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Schloss Morsbroich or Schloß Morsbroich [ˈmoɐ̯sbʀoːx] in the Alkenrath district of Leverkusen is a former commandery of the Teutonic Order. Since 1951 the palace has housed the municipal museum of modern art, the Museum Morsbroich. At the end of April 2016 the museum was placed by the Deutscher Kulturrat on Die Rote Liste and classified in category 3, the early warning list.

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

In the rankings

Morsbroich Castle ranks #6,416 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #663 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 884 times in the last 60 days, more than 51% of the atlas. 8 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Cologne, 12 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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