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Lerbach Castle (Bergisch-Gladbach)

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Schloss Lerbach is a former Neo-Renaissance manor house with an English landscape park in Bergisch Gladbach.

Originally, a moated castle stood here near a watercourse named Lerbach. The word Ler is probably derived from the Middle High German "lei/leie" (= rock, slate), which means Lerbach can be interpreted as Rock Stream. In May 1384, the castle was first mentioned in a document as a knight's estate, which passed into the possession of Johann von Hoenen.

In 1893, Richard Zanders acquired the complex for himself and his wife Anna von Siemens from Count Levin von Wolff-Metternich and had a manor house built in the English country house style by Ludwig Bopp according to plans by Gabriel von Seidl, which was completed in 1898. Subsequently, in 1900, he had the old moated castle demolished. Since then, the estate has been the seat of the Siemens and Zanders families.

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