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CastleLippramsdorf
Ostendorf Castle (Lippramsdorf)
Haus Ostendorf is a former manorial estate with the right to be represented in the Landtag, located in the Lippramsdorf district of Haltern.
The castle is first mentioned in documents when the knight Bernhard Bitter and his wife Gertrudis de Ostendorp made it an "Offenhaus" (open house) for Bishop Ludwig II of Hesse of Münster on April 18, 1316.
In 1358, Johann von Raesfeld took over the house and its liberties. In the interim, it was a fief of the County of Ravensberg and the Essen Abbey. The von Raesfeld family remained in possession of the moated castle for over 400 years.
Due to bankruptcy, the manorial estate fell to Count August Ferdinand von Merveldt zu Lembeck in 1825. A fire in 1934 led to changes in the appearance of the complex.
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