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は、アトラスの城の知名度ランキングで世界263位（全6,412件中）、ドイツの450件では34位にランクされています。約1250年に創建され、アトラスの年代判明済みの城の73%より古い城です（13世紀に創建されたアトラス収録の555件のひとつ）。ドイツが他とどう比べられるかは、城の統計をご覧ください。

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