Varlar Castle

Varlar Castle, in my memories the place where you could go ice-skating ages ago! Today it is always a nice starting point to get to by bike, mountain bike or on foot. The castle with the surrounding moat, the fields and the nearby forest invite you to spend time there. Geese and birds can be seen in the meadows. The castle itself can only be seen from the outside and from a distance, as it is private property! But along the moat you can get close via Pättchen.

in left wing it is inhabited by the princely couple with his family. In another part is the administration.

More details can be found here:

salm-horstmar.de/25.html

Varlar Abbey, often referred to as a monastery, was a Premonstratensian monastery founded by the Counts of Cappenberg in the Münsterland. The monastery, which was converted into Varlar Castle, is in the farming community of Varlar in the Osterwick district of Rosendahl. The community there existed from about 1123/24 until secularization in 1803. Afterwards the monastery became the property of the game and Rhine counts of Salm, who took over a large part of the extensive ecclesiastical property and for a short time also became rulers.