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Arnsberg District
Kreis SoestLippetalHovestadt Castle
DiscoverPlaces to seeCastlesGermanyNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Arnsberg District
Kreis SoestLippetalHovestadt Castle
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Hovestadt Castle
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Günter Bertling
September 22, 2017
Cycling
Generous castle complex with farm buildings, meadows and pastures, moat and a castle garden, which is open to the public, while the central castle island is reserved for the owners.
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buskultur
August 6, 2016
Cycling
In 1152, a knight's seat of a Dietrich von Hovestadt was first mentioned in Hovestadt. The archbishops of Cologne, who pursued Westphalia's territorial interests in this part, had a castle …
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August 6, 2016
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The line Hovestadt derer von Ketteler died out in the 17th century, and the property came in 1649 to the barons of Heiden Schönrath and Boke. In 1710 Freiherr - later Count - Friedrich Bernhard Wilhelm von Plettenberg-Lenhausen acquired the property. The Plettenberg-Lenhausen family moved their headquarters from Schloss Lenhausen to Hovestadt. This also started a new construction activity. To date, both castles are inhabited by branches of the Counts of Plettenberg.
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Hovestadt
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Hovestadt
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