Monaise Castle (Treves)

Monaise Castle (from French "mon aise" "my leisure", "my ease" - according to the Latin motto under the coat of arms: "Otium cum dignitate") on the Moselle has belonged to the Trier district of Euren since the "Bannstreit" (dispute over jurisdiction) in 1853, including the manor farm.

The castle, historically strongly linked to Zewen or today's Zewen district of Oberkirch, was built between 1779 and 1783 by François Ignace Mangin as a summer residence for the Trier Cathedral Dean and later Prince-Bishop of Speyer, Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk von Walderdorf. It was built as a pleasure palace with large reception rooms on the first floor, a simple upper floor (for the servants), and with a large terrace and grand staircase, and is surrounded by a park. For this purpose, the Oberkirch "sister village" Niederkirch was demolished.

From a building history perspective, Monaise is perhaps the best-preserved German example of a late 18th-century villa suburbana. After the French Revolution, the castle changed hands several times and was left to decay after the Second World War.

After thorough renovation between 1992 and 1997, Monaise Castle is now used as a restaurant. The manor farm is now an equestrian facility of PST Trier.