Wasserschloss Wilkinghege

The moated castle Wilkinghege is a former, built in the style of the late Renaissance country house in the district children's home the Westphalian city of Münster. Since 1955 it houses a hotel with an attached golf course.

History

Originally a water castle, which was first mentioned in documents in 1311 at the same place. It belonged to the family as a fief of Rhemen to Barenfeld and was transferred to the Lords of Cleyhorst, Erbmänner to Munster in the 14th century.

As of 1550, a country estate built on the site of the old water castle in the form of a water castle. It was built by the family of Steveninck to Broich, Erbmänner to Münster. In 1719, was rebuilt by Gottfried Laurenz Pictorius in the style of Baroque. The contract for this project given the Lord of Harde and his wife Catherine of Keppel. In the following years, the castle changed hands several times its owner, arrived in 1779 but returned to the ownership of Rhemen family Barenfeld.

After the extinction of the family, the castle changed hands again its owner. One of the residents and managers was Werner - Constantin Freiherr Droste zu Hulshoff, brother of the poet Annette von Droste- Hulshoff. The new owner was the family Winnecken, where it together with subordinated Good still belongs. Until the year 1955, followed by use as a farm before it was converted into a hotel and restaurant. Shortly after this transformation came in 1958 in a fire the building. The reconstruction was almost true to the original, so that the castle character was preserved. The old farm buildings of the estate were in 1970 converted into hotel rooms. From 1990 there was a reduction in the number of beds to meet so through a transformation to larger suites and rooms more demanding of guests.

Famous guests

Over the centuries, there were many well-known personalities at the castle and later the moated castle as a guest. Among them were:

  • Prince-Bishop Franz von Waldeck
  • Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen
  • General Jean -Baptiste Kléber
  • Franz von Furstenberg
  • Poetess Annette von Droste-
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