Altenkamp Castle

Gut Altenkamp is a former manor house in Papenburg. Haus Altenkamp is first mentioned as a burgmann seat of a local branch of the Lords of Düthe in 1394, when they acquired Haus Tunxdorf. In 1601, the branch of the Lords of Dünthe-Altenkamp died out and the castle passed to the line of Düthe-Fresenburg. In 1687, this line also died out and their possessions passed to the then son-in-law Johann Caspar von der Ruhr. His death in 1687 marked the end of the shared history of the houses Altenkamp and Tunxdorf, because when the property was divided among the sons Johann Caspar and Gerhard Tieman von der Ruhr, Altenkamp fell to Gerhard Tiemann. For financial reasons, he sold Altenkamp in 1723 to the Drost of Emsland, Hermann Anton von Velen. He had the house Altenkamp, surrounded by a moat, and the park designed at the beginning of the 18th century by the architect Peter Pictorius the Younger. The alliance coat of arms of Hermann Anton von Velen with his first wife Anna Dorothea von Ascheberg zu Botzlar is located above the portal. The heiress Anna Theresa von Velen married Clemens August von Landsberg, owner of Wocklum Castle, in 1756.