Schaesberg Palais

The Palais Schaesberg at Ritterstraße 16, 16a in Düsseldorf is a listed building. The building is now part of the Ursulagymnasium complex. With its "clear proportions and elaborately designed window frames," it is reminiscent of the facade of Bensberg Castle, the main work of court architect Matteo Alberti.

In 1684, Elector Johann Wilhelm gifted a largely undeveloped plot, property no. 16, to his General War Commissioner Friederich Christian Freiherr von Spee. The property with building no. 18, later no. 16a, was purchased in 1695 by his widow von Spee from the Kreuzbrüder. Via another interim owner, who had bought both properties in 1696, it had become the property of Count von Schaesberg by 1713. He had the palace built. Later, it was owned by, among others, the Prince of Arenberg. Until 1814, sessions of the Higher Court of Appeal were held in this palace for many years.