Gödersheim Castle
Gödersheim Castle (German: Burg Gödersheim) is a ruined, Late Gothic,[1] water castle a few kilometres from Wollersheim, a village in the borough of Nideggen, in the county of Düren in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is located in the valley of the Neffelbach and has been protected as an historic monument since 22 October 1993.[2] The owners of the castle ruins and surrounding land were the Rhineland Regional Association (Landschaftsverband Rheinland) but, in 2016, an immediate neighbour, Helmut Waldmann, owner of the Gödersheim Mill, bought the ruins and adjacent buildings. He intends to demolish the buildings and build flats in the gatehouse and the ruins.[3]
Literature
[edit]- Paul Clemen (ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Düren (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz. Band 9, Abt, 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1910, pp. 355–358.
- Ulrich Coenen: Architektonische Kostbarkeiten im Kreis Düren. 2nd edn. Mainz, Aachen, 1989, ISBN 3-925714-27-8, pp. 226–227.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Burg Gödersheim.
- Portrait of Wollersheim Castle Archived 2016-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Description of the historic monument
- Castle will be rebuilt
References
[edit]- ^ U. Coenen: Architektonische Kostbarkeiten im Kreis Düren, p. 227.
- ^ Description of the castle ruins, retrieved 21 April 2012.
- ^ "Wollersheim: Burg Gödersheim: Von einer Ruine zum Schmuckstück?". 5 January 2017. Archived from the original on 7 January 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2018.