To be privately owned
CastleBlatzheim
Kommandeursburg Castle (Blatzheim)
The Kommandeursburg Blatzheim is a castle on the Neffelbach in the Blatzheim district of Kerpen in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia.
In 1602, the Teutonic Knight Heinrich von Reuschenberg built the Kommandeursburg as a summer country residence for the Komtur of the Teutonic Order (Kommende Jungen-Biesen).
After French troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine from 1794 to 1802, Joseph von Schaesberg retreated to the Kommandeursburg and died there in 1812 as the last Teutonic Knight in Blatzheim.
When the ecclesiastical possessions in Cologne and Blatzheim were secularized in 1802 and the Teutonic Order was abolished by an edict of Napoleon in 1809, the Kommandeursburg came as a donation from Napoleon to the French General Georges Mouton de Lobau, later passed into German ownership and was continued as an agricultural estate.
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The castle, formerly surrounded by wide ponds, is an almost square brick complex, flanked by two corner towers with baroque slate domes and a round-arched gate entrance bearing the coat of arms of Heinrich von Reuschenberg with the inscription "To God alone be the honor, Anno 1602".
The castle is privately owned and can be rented for weddings or other celebrations.
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