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Little Castle by the Anton-Raky Pond

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Little Castle by the Anton-Raky Pond

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Location: Wegberg, Heinsberg, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Roland

July 25, 2018

A beautiful listed villa from the early 20th century, called the "Schlösschen", on Anton-Raky-Weiher.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

October 10, 2018

As in an English landscape park, the gatehouse of Anton Raky's former villa is located on the shore of the pond.
Anton Raky was an inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur who made a name for himself with the development of drilling machines for mining. He planned a huge villa here on the pond, but it was never completed and eventually blown up in the 1970s.

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S. M.

August 10, 2022

Anton Raky had a villa built near the Motte Alde Berg in 1903, but it was never finished and was blown up and demolished in 1972 by the then owner Sophia-Jacoba colliery. At the site of the building there is now the fisherman's pond. The former gatehouse, affectionately known as the "little castle", was spared from the blast. The artificially created Anton-Raky-Weiher, which is fed by the Helpensteinbach, creates a wonderful postcard idyll.

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Anneke B.

March 10, 2024

Nice castle on the Anton Raky Weiher.

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luktob07

May 12, 2024

The actual castle was demolished. The romantic building by the pond is the former gatehouse.

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Location: Wegberg, Heinsberg, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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