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Namedy Castle
Namedy Castle (Burg Namedy) is a moated riverside castle in the Rhine valley near Namedy, Andernach, Germany. The present appearance dates from early 20th-century remodelling by the Hohenzollern owners; the site originates in a 14th-century late Gothic manor and was later transformed into a Baroque pleasure palace.
Its prime
1909
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1909
What Namedy Castle looked like in its prime.
Long rectangular three- to four-storey building with a white plastered façade pierced by regular rectangular windows and a row of small dormers beneath a steep slate roof. A decorated central projection with a tall arched window and a baroque-shaped gable breaks the roofline. At each end a cylindrical corner tower rises above the main block: the left tower with multi-stage masonry and an ornate cupola, the right with a rounded slate cap. Grounds slope to a flat riverside lawn with wooded hills immediately behind.
Its story
The story of Namedy Castle.
Namedy began as a late Gothic moated castle of the mid-fourteenth century, built by the Husmanns, a patrician family from Andernach — Gerhardus dictus Husmann, who died in 1211, was the first lord of the court here. Later generations extended the buildings through the sixteenth century, until the male line died out in 1678 and the castle passed by marriage to the von Klepping family, who sold it in 1700.
The buyer, at 7,500 Reichstaler, was Johann Arnold von Solemacher, chancellor of the electorate of Trier, knighted by Emperor Charles VI in 1718 after appending to his name the labels and coat of arms of the ancient Husmann von Namedy family. The Solemachers made the castle a Baroque pleasure palace and inhabited it until 1794, when they fled the advancing French army occupying the left bank of the Rhine.
In 1909 Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen bought the castle and gave it its present look; it has remained in the possession of the Rhenish line of the Hohenzollern dynasty ever since.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1909.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Namedy Castle — including 1 interior: hall of mirrors (spiegelsaal). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
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Clans who held Namedy Castle.
The families that held Namedy Castle for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Husmann
Built by the Husmann patrician family of Andernach in the 14th century and held until the male line's extinction in 1678.
Klepping
Held by the von Klepping family by marriage, 1678–1700.
Solemacher
Held by the von Solemacher family, 1700–1794, from chancellor Johann Arnold von Solemacher's purchase until they fled the French.
Hohenzollern
Held by the Rhenish line of the Hohenzollerns since Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen bought it in 1909.
