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Schloss Rheda

Germany

Heritage status
Kulturdenkmal
Location
Rheda-Wiedenbrück
Coordinates
51.8508°, 8.29694°
Links
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Schloss Rheda in Germany
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Description

Schloss Rheda is a former moated castle in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, district of Gütersloh (North Rhine-Westphalia). Schloss Rheda is known internationally for its double chapel from the Hohenstaufen period and its valuable music library. The music collection has been on loan to the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster since 1966.

Schloss Rheda is among the mighty early moated castles in Westphalia that were at the same time the centre of a lordship with imperial immediacy and underwent the change from a defensive building of the Middle Ages to the Baroque residence of the territorial lord. Under the protection of the castle, the town of Rheda was founded in the 14th century as the economic centre of the small Lordship of Rheda.

Since 1557 the palace has been the ancestral seat of the princely house of Bentheim-Tecklenburg.

The palace and park of Rheda are part of the 100-Schlösser-Route.

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

In the rankings

Schloss Rheda ranks #6,913 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #737 of the 927 mapped in Germany. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,101 times in the last 60 days, more than 58% of the atlas. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Essen, 99 km away. See how Germany compares in the castle statistics.

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