Flamersheim Castle

Flamersheim Castle, also known as Flamersheim Palace, is a former moated castle on the Flämmerbach stream in the Flamersheim district of Euskirchen in the Euskirchen district of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The foundation of the castle goes back to noble bailiffs who managed the church property, a demesne of the Cologne collegiate church of St. Maria ad Gradus, and wanted to secure their inheritance claims.

On June 1, 1358, the castle was already mentioned as a two-part noble residence with an outer bailey.

Later, the castle came as a Jülich fief successively to various families. In the 200 years between 1564 and 1774, the castle became a stronghold of Protestant doctrine, for which an evangelical church was built around 1770 on the market square. The Lords of Quadt, who resided in Flamersheim from 1564 until the mid-18th century, converted the main castle into a two-towered Baroque palace in 1776.

In 1861, the castle came into the possession of the factory owner's widow Bemberg, whose son Julius was elevated to the hereditary Prussian nobility in 1884 and whose descendants still inhabit the castle today.