Can you visit Schloss Marienfels?

No, it is a private residence and the interior is not open to the public.

Who built Schloss Marienfels?

The sugar manufacturer Eduard Frings commissioned it between 1859 and 1863, built to designs by engineer Carl Schnitzler.

Where does the name Marienfels come from?

It comes from a local legend in which a statue of the Virgin Mary was placed in a rock grotto to drive away the devil said to live there.

Who owns Schloss Marienfels today?

Entrepreneur Frank Asbeck has owned it since 2013, after it previously belonged to entertainer Thomas Gottschalk.

Does Schloss Marienfels have a film history?

Yes, from 1949 to 1952 it housed Hans Fischerkoesen's animation studio, one of the best known in Germany at the time.

Schloss Marienfels

Marienfels Castle

Remagen

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Where: Remagen

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Open within 20 km

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Schloss Marienfels stands in Remagen (Landkreis Ahrweiler), in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The building is a listed Baudenkmal. No visits are on record for this building.

Schloss Marienfels overlooks Remagen from a ridge between the town centre and the Unkelbach district, high above the Rhine and the Cologne to Koblenz railway line. This neo-Gothic villa was built between 1859 and 1863 for the sugar manufacturer Eduard Frings, designed by the Cologne engineer Carl Schnitzler. The building has eighteen rooms across roughly 800 square metres and stands within a wooded park of about ten hectares. It has remained in private hands since it was built, passing through a series of owners over the decades.

What to know

Schloss Marienfels is a private residence and cannot be visited inside.
The building can be seen from the Bundesstraße 9 running along the Rhine below, about forty metres beneath the castle.
The surrounding ten-hectare wooded park is part of the private estate and is not open to the public.
Over the years the building has served as a sanatorium, an animation film studio in the 1950s, and even the chancery of the Kazakh embassy between 1994 and 1996.
It is listed as a Kulturdenkmal in Rhineland-Palatinate, with its outbuildings and park forming a protected monument zone.

Where this château is

Remagen · Landkreis Ahrweiler · Rheinland-Pfalz

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Kölner Str. 8a, 53424 Remagen

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Heritage status: Kulturdenkmal in Rheinland-Pfalz

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Can you visit Schloss Marienfels?: No, it is a private residence and the interior is not open to the public.
Who built Schloss Marienfels?: The sugar manufacturer Eduard Frings commissioned it between 1859 and 1863, built to designs by engineer Carl Schnitzler.
Where does the name Marienfels come from?: It comes from a local legend in which a statue of the Virgin Mary was placed in a rock grotto to drive away the devil said to live there.
Who owns Schloss Marienfels today?: Entrepreneur Frank Asbeck has owned it since 2013, after it previously belonged to entertainer Thomas Gottschalk.
Does Schloss Marienfels have a film history?: Yes, from 1949 to 1952 it housed Hans Fischerkoesen's animation studio, one of the best known in Germany at the time.