Schloss Berge

Schloss Berge, also called Haus Berge, stands on the south side of the Buersche Berg in the Buer district of Gelsenkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was built as a moated castle to protect what is today the Gelsenkirchen district of Erle and was until 1433 the ancestral seat of the von Berge family. From 1521 Haus Berge was the property of the von Boenen family, whose member Ludolf Friedrich Adolf von Boenen rose to the rank of Imperial Count. His daughter Maria Anna Wilhelmine, a lover of Beethoven, was born at Berge.

Rebuilt into a palace in the first half of the 16th century and altered again in the last quarter of the 18th century, the manor house of the complex presents itself in the style of the Late Baroque on the threshold of Classicism. It is used today as a hotel and restaurant.

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

Schloss Berge ranks #5,138 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #387 of the 505 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,109 times in the last 60 days, more than 51% of the atlas. 10 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Essen, 14 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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