According to the owner, the entrance gate is often open and exploration is permitted.
It is planned to make the castle usable for weddings as well.
About history:
Already at the beginning of the 13th century. Landlords belonging to the knighthood had their seat on Dattenberg. Around 1320 the castle and the court located there became a fiefdom of the Electorate of Cologne.
Of the small castle complex, only the keep, which is greatly reduced in height, remains of the walled ring fortifications and a neck ditch broken into the slate have survived.
After the fall of Kurköln, the Prussian state sold the former fiefdom to wealthy private individuals, including the Cologne notary Josef Stoppenbach. In 1840, Stoppenbach built a country house with adjacent economic buildings on the site. In 1850 Baron von Mengershausen took over the property, followed in 1887 by the Berlin master builder Adolf Fuchs, who, in homage to the zeitgeist, gave the Stoppenbach country house the look it is today.
In 1949 the Cologne district acquired the property and used it for more than four decades as a place for recreation, meeting and education for young people at home and abroad.
Dattenberg Castle has been privately owned since 2003.