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Schloss Oberhausen

Germany

Heritage status
architectural heritage monument in North Rhine-Westphalia
Location
Oberhausen
Coordinates
51.49214°, 6.86033°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Schloss Oberhausen in Germany
Photo: Daniel Ullrich from Dorsten, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Schloss Oberhausen is a Neoclassical palace complex in the Oberhausen district of Alt-Oberhausen-Mitte. The estate gave its name to the railway station built nearby in 1846 and opened in 1847, and thus to the later city of Oberhausen.

A predecessor complex from the 12th/13th century stood around 200 metres from the present site and has by now vanished completely. After the estate had passed from the von Dücker family via the von der Hovens to the von Boenen family at the beginning of the 17th century, a new palace was built on the property between 1804 and 1818, to plans by the court architect of the Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt, August Reinking, for Count Maximilian Friedrich von Westerholt-Gysenberg and his wife Friederike Karoline von Bretzenheim.

After severe damage in the Second World War, the manor house was rebuilt at the end of the 1950s according to old original plans. Today, with the Ludwiggalerie, it houses an internationally renowned art museum; the palace park with its leisure facilities is a popular excursion destination for the people of Oberhausen. Under the name "Schloss Oberhausen und Kaisergarten", the buildings and the park have been, since the beginning of 2011, a station on the themed route Oberhausen: Industrie macht Stadt of the Route der Industriekultur.

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

In the rankings

Schloss Oberhausen ranks #5,779 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #549 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,206 times in the last 60 days, more than 61% of the atlas. 21 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Duisburg, 10 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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