Orr Castle (Ruin)

Haus Orr was a manor house in what is now Pulheim in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia. The building and the associated former farm estate Kriegshof are still in existence today.

Haus Orr and its former farm estate Kriegshof are set back from the country road between Pulheim and Esch.

The grounds of Haus Orr included a park with a pond, which had two islands of different sizes. The smaller island presumably once contained a castle complex.

In the first documented mention in 1264, Orr was referred to as "Urre". In the 13th century, a Jh. Friedrich von Gyltling was lord of Orr. In 1342, Gobelinus von Udenkovendem donated lands of the place to the convent of St. Severin.

From 1576, the Archbishop of Cologne and the Duke of Jülich Berg disputed sovereignty. Since they shared high and low jurisdiction, taxation of the Orr country people was temporarily not possible.

The two-story manor house was built around 1838 by the banker Peter Daniel Koch, according to plans by the Cologne cathedral master builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner.

Koch's heirs sold the complex to Werner Pagenstecher.

After the war, the manor house was still inhabited, but was later abandoned and partially fell into disrepair, so that emergency stabilization had to be carried out to preserve the building.

The landscape park became overgrown and the pond systems dried out.