Castle Haag (German: Schloss Haag) was a moated castle in the Rhineland region of Germany. It is located in Geldern in the district of Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is owned by the Van Hoensbroeck family.

History

It is in 1337 that the castle is mentioned for the first time. The Van Hoensbroeck family acquired the castle in 1613 and it became their main residence instead of Hoensbroek Castle itself. The family still owns it.

The castle had many famous visitors like the Prussian king Frederick the Great, the French emperor Napoleon in 1804, the Russian emperor Alexander I of Russia in 1814, and William I, German Emperor in 1863.

The castle is today the home of the Hoensbroech family and the center of a golf club.

Description

The castle consisted of a manor house and two outer buildings. The manor house has been rebuilt in baroque style between 1662 and 1664, and in neo-gothic style in 1876/ 1877. Unfortunately, the manor house has been destroyed by an allied bombing in the second world war. Today only the outer buildings remain. A description of the life of the fervently Ultramontane noble family in the castle in the second half of the 19th century is given in the translation by Alice Zimmern of Count Paul von Hoensbroech's autobiography.

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Kamp Abbey (Kloster Kamp), also known as Altenkamp Abbey or Alt(en)feld Abbey (and in English formerly Camp Abbey) was the first Cistercian monastery founded in German territory, in the present town of Kamp-Lintfort in North Rhine-Westphalia.

History

It was founded in 1123 by Friedrich I, Archbishop of Cologne, and settled from Morimond Abbey. As the first Cistercian foundation in the region it attracted great endowments and became very wealthy and powerful.

Kamp was largely rebuilt in the 15th century but suffered extensive damage in the Reformation. The abbey was abandoned early in the Cologne War (1583–1588); many of the monks went to the city of Neuss, where they underwent the siege and bombardment of July 1586; another portion went to Rheinberg, which was the focus of three battles to take the city, the last in 1589. The abbey itself was destroyed by Adolf von Neuenahr in 1586. A small group of monks returned under abbot Polenius (1636–64), but re-construction did not begin until 1683, and the community did not return fully until 1700.

The abbey was secularised during the German mediatisation of 1802 and the buildings were sold, and mostly demolished. The church was converted for use as a parish church.

Between 1954 and 2002 a Carmelite community resided on the remains of the monastery. The last monk left the monastery in 2010.

The abbey site is still known for the terraced gardens and the orangeries.

