Caspersbroich Castle (Ohligs)

Caspersbroich Castle is a castle located in the Itter Valley in the Ohligs district of Solingen.

Around the year 1220, a vassal of Count Engelbert the Saint settled on the Itter, made the local swamps agriculturally usable, and built a manor house. In 1438, Junker Caspar von Pertsdorf bought the property and expanded it into a knight's seat. The knight von Pertsdorf was also bailiff in Solingen from 1460 to 1480.

After that, the castle had various owners, including the Lords of Bawyr. Caspersbroich belonged to the parish of Wald, today a district of Solingen, until 1808. The possessions of the castle lords also included the feudal cottages in Buschenhaus, Hagscheid, Sombers, Hülsberg, and Zwengenberg.

Through marriage, the von Romberg family came into possession of the castle in 1772, but only a few years later, Clemens Conrad Franz von Romberg had to sell the house again in 1809. In 1810, it came into bourgeois ownership and was acquired by its previous tenant Johann Adolf Holthausen.

In the 1860s, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft acquired the complex, which had an embankment built directly in front of the castle for the Gruiten-Deutz railway line. Subsequently, Caspersbroich Castle belonged to various entrepreneurs and industrialists from the Bergisches Land.

In 1964, the Düsseldorf actor Claus Gorges acquired the now heavily dilapidated property and renovated it by converting it into condominiums. Banker Alfred Herrhausen lived on the castle grounds from 1975 to 1984.