Zieverich Castle

Zieverich Castle, formerly also known as Palantsburg, was a moated castle, a knight's seat, and a manor house in the Zieverich district of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Zieverich Castle was a knight's seat founded at the end of the 13th century by Giselbertus de Ceverich, a follower of Count Gerhard of Jülich.

In the 19th century, a change of ownership occurred, bringing the castle complex into the possession of the Cologne industrialist family Langen. Johann Gottlieb von Langen had castle-like extensions built by the Cologne architects Emil Schreiterer and Bernhard Below.

In 1952, the foundation of Pastor Jakob van Gils bought the building complex. The foundation cared for orphans and had the castle converted into an orphanage. During this conversion, the castle complex fell victim to a fire in 1956, destroying large parts of the manor house.

One of the demolished building parts was an extension from 1896, which led to an ornamental garden through French doors on the ground floor.

After a partial reconstruction of the manor house, the planned home was established there. The old outer walls of the rectangular floor plan and window axes were also preserved.