The castle of Bürresheim is located at northwest of Mayen on a rock spur in the Nettetal. It belongs to the local church Sankt Johann. Together with Burg Eltz and the castle Lissingen, it is one of the few fcastles in the Eifel that were never conquered or devastated and were able to survive unscathed the wars of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as the social upheavals of the French Revolution . Built in the 12th century, Bürresheim was first mentioned in 1157 with its former owners, the noble Eberhard and Mettfried "de Burgenesem". Shortly before 1189, Eberhard's son Philipp sold his...

The castle of Bürresheim is located at northwest of Mayen on a rock spur in the Nettetal. It belongs to the local church Sankt Johann. Together with Burg Eltz and the castle Lissingen, it is one of the few fcastles in the Eifel that were never conquered or devastated and were able to survive unscathed the wars of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as the social upheavals of the French Revolution . Built in the 12th century, Bürresheim was first mentioned in 1157 with its former owners, the noble Eberhard and Mettfried "de Burgenesem". Shortly before 1189, Eberhard's son Philipp sold his share to the archbishop of Cologne , Philip I von Heinsberg , in Cologne , only to receive it back from him as a fief. The archdiocese of Trier recognized the importance of the plant and acquired under Archbishop Henry II of Finstingen, the other half of the former castle . The governors of Leutesdorf took over the fief of Cologne in 1359 from their last representative of Bürresheim, while the Trier part came to the Lords of Schöneck . Bürresheim became the Ganerbenburg in the 14th century . The von Schöneck did not remain long owners, because as early as 1473 Kuno von Schoeneck and his son sold their part of the castle and rule Bürresheim to Gerlach von Breidbach , whose son Johann 1477 could also acquire part of the Leutesdorfer Lehens. The rest of the castle part of the governors arrived at the beginning of the 16th century to Emmerich von Lahnstein . To those Lahnsteiner property flared up from 1572 ownership disputes that could not be settled even by a trial before the Imperial Court. It was not until 1659 that the parties reached an agreement, and the Breidbach family became sole owners of the castle. From then on, the family bore the name "von Breidbach-Bürresheim" and in 1691 it was even elevated to the Imperial Baron. Her most famous representative was Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach-Bürresheim , from 1763 to 1774 Elector and Archbishop of Mainz . At the time of Freiherr von Breidbach-Bürresheim, the imperial directorship Bürresheim comprised the villages next to the castleSankt Johann , Rieden and Waldesch , the hamlet of Nitz and the Bürresheimer Mühlen. [1] In 1796 the family died with the death of the last male heir, Franz Ludwig Anselm Freiherr von Breitbach-Bürresheim, the chief officer of Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, who died fleeing French troops. Castle Bürresheim inherited a grandson of the sister of the last Breidbach on Bürresheim, the Count Klemens Wenzeslaus of Renesse, whose descendants continued to live on Castle Bürresheim. After the last resident had died in an accident at the age of 32 and only 11 days after her wedding with her car, the castle also came in 1921 by inheritance to the count's family of Westerholt, Due to unfortunate circumstances, it was only 17 years later forced to sell castle Bürresheim complete with the equipment to the Provincial Association of the Prussian Rhine Province . In his possession, the castle remained until it came into the care of the "State Palace Administration of Rhineland-Palatinate " in 1948 , which it handed over in 1998 to her successor organization " castles, palaces, antiquities Rhineland-Palatinate ". While the ruins of Cologne Castle are not open to visitors, parts of Trier Castle can be visited as part of a guided tour. The fact that Bürresheim was for a long time in the hands of a single noble family, the castle owes its remarkable, unique interior, which includes pieces from late Gothic to historicism. Numerous portraits show members and relatives of the owner family and princes of yesteryear. Thus, a unique testimony of Rhenish nobility and living culture has survived to the present day. A short exterior shot of the castle can be seen in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade . In the film, it depicts the fictional Brunwald Castle on the German-Austrian border, where Professor Henry Jones senior is being held. Among other things, it can be seen in the children's film The Prince and the whipping boy as the castle of the king, from which the Prince and the whipping boy flee. In addition, a commercial for " 4711 Echt Kölnisch Wasser" showed the baroque garden as well as the castle in the background, and in May 2009 filming of the WDR fairytale film Rumpelstilzchen took place there. (translated from de.wikipedia.org)