Gödersheim Castle (german: Burg Gödersheim) is a ruined, Late Gothic, water castle a few kilometres from Wollersheim, a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

in the borough of

Nideggen Nideggen () is a town in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Rur, in the Eifel hills, approx. 15 km south of Düren. Nideggen is known for its ruined, but partly restored ...

, in the county of Düren in the German state of

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

. It is located in the valley of the Neffelbach and has been protected as an historic monument since 22 October 1993. The owners of the castle ruins and surrounding land were the Rhineland Regional Association (''Landschaftsverband Rheinland'') but, in 2016, an immediate neighbour, Helmut Waldmann, owner of the Gödersheim Mill, bought the ruins and adjacent buildings. He intends to demolish the buildings and build flats in the gatehouse and the ruins.

Literature

* Paul Clemen (ed.): ''Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Düren'' (= ''Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz''. Band 9, Abt, 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1910, pp. 355–358. * Ulrich Coenen: ''Architektonische Kostbarkeiten im Kreis Düren''. 2nd edn. Mainz, Aachen, 1989, , pp. 226–227.

External links

Portrait of Wollersheim Castle

References

retrieved 21 April 2012. U. Coenen: ''Architektonische Kostbarkeiten im Kreis Düren'', p. 227. {{DEFAULTSORT:Godersheim Water castles Castles in the Eifel Castles in Rhineland-Palatinate Heritage sites in Rhineland-Palatinate Buildings and structures in Düren (district)