Bedburg-Hau is a municipality in the district of Kleve in the state of

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. It is located approximately 5 km south-east of

Kleve Kleve (; traditional en, Cleves ; nl, Kleef; french: Clèves; es, Cléveris; la, Clivia; Low Rhenish: ''Kleff'') is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. From the 11th century ...

. One of its main attractions is Museum Schloss Moyland, a castle with a museum of modern art dedicated to the German artist

Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( , ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and anthroposophy. He was a founder of a provocative art mov ...

. The park around the castle has a sculpture garden, herbal gardens and a rose garden. Castle Moyland was first documented in 1307. In the 1740s Frederick of Prussia used the castle to meet with a lover of his. In 1766 it came into possession of the von Steengracht family, and it remained in their possession until 1990 when the foundation Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland was formed to care for it. Once a medieval moated castle, the Castle was converted to its current appearance in the 19th century by Cologne Cathedral architect

Ernst Friedrich Zwirner Ernst Friedrich Zwirner was an architect born at Jakobswalde otlarniain Silesia in 1802, he died at Cologne in 1861. He studied in Breslau and Berlin, and worked at the latter place under Karl Friedrich Schinkel. From 1833 he was the leading a ...

, who transformed it in the Gothic Revival style. After being heavily damaged in World War II, it was only after the foundation was established that a comprehensive restoration was initiated, allowing the castle to serve its current purpose. The museum was opened in 1995. The reconstruction of Moyland Schloss was finally completed in 2007 with a topping ceremony when a replica of the historical spire was placed on top of the northtower. Bedburg-Hau is also home to St. Markus Church, which was built in 1124, and the mausoleum where Prince John Maurice von Nassau-Siegen was initially buried before his bodily remnants were brought to Siegen. A large area near the railway station is dedicated territory of the mental hospital LVR-Klinik Bedburg-Hau. The terrain was established around 1910, and now has many architectural monuments. Villages within the municipality of Bedburg-Hau are Hau, Hasselt, Huisberden, Louisendorf, Schneppenbaum, Till-Moyland and Qualburg.

Gallery

St. Markus (Schneppenbaum)4.JPG, St. Markus, Schneppenbaum Elisabethkirche Louisendorf, Bedburg-Hau PM18-02.jpg, Church Louisendorf Bedburg-Hau-Qualburg Koppelstraße 46 PM16-01.jpg, Farmhouse in Qualburg Till Sommerlandstraße PM18-10.jpg, Village center of Till-Moyland Grabanlage Fürst Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen PM17 01.jpg, Mausoleum John Maurice von Nassau-Siegen LVR-Klinik Bedburg-Hau PM18-01.jpg, LVR-Klinik Bedburg-Hau

References

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