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Sörgenloch Castle

Name: Sörgenloch Castle
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Location: Sörgenloch, Mainz-Bingen, Rhenish Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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🇺🇦Uwe 🏃‍♂️1098🏍

November 30, 2024

On the archway of Sörgenloch Castle is the coat of arms of Barons Köth von Wanscheid from the 18th century.
The history of Sörgenloch Castle goes back to the 12th century. At that time, the place was owned by the St. Alban Monastery in Mainz and was more of an estate with a few residential buildings than a real town as we know it today. The estate's task was to supply the monastery with food and money through the so-called "tithe". However, it is unknown who managed the estate on behalf of the monastery. The place attracted attention around the same time that Sörgenloch Castle was built. At that time, coins and vessels from the Iron Age and antiquity were found. The Celts and the Romans had also already settled here.
The place around Sörgenloch Castle gained economic importance as an important place of pilgrimage in the 17th century. The money of the pilgrims who came to visit was also responsible for the fact that a simple manor house could be turned into the castle we see today a good 100 years later. The small Renaissance-style castle was built by the Köth-Wanscheid family, who ruled the town in the 18th century. Sörgenloch Castle is no longer owned by the local lords, but is run privately as a restaurant. Also part of the castle, but now independent, are the Catholic rectory and a second, former castle.

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Veronika 2020

December 3, 2024

The former country hotel has become a retirement home

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Location: Sörgenloch, Mainz-Bingen, Rhenish Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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