Brüggen Castle

Brüggen Castle (German: Burg Brüggen) is a water castle in the southeastern part of the Lower Rhine municipality of Brüggen in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was the most important castle in the north of the Duchy of Jülich.

The castle was built by the Count of Kessel in the 13th century to guard a ford over the River Schwalm. In the early 14th century it went into the possession of the dukes of Jülich, who had the existing building replaced by a quadrangular castle made from brick. After the occupation of Brüggen in 1794 by Napoleonic troops it was confiscated and resold by the French government to a private individual at the beginning of the 19th century. Today part of the castle houses a hunting and natural history museum.

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Brüggen Castle ocupa el puesto 263 de 6412 en el mundo en la clasificación de fama de este atlas y el n.º 34 de los 450 que el atlas cartografía en Alemania. Fundado en ca. 1250, más antiguo que el 73% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 555 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XIII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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