Linnep, Ratingen-Breitscheid Palace

image author: Velopilger

Palace Linnep is situated amidst fields and woods. It is a very pretty Wasserburg, whose tower is supposed to more than 1000 years old.


image author: Velopilger


For a long time, roughly until 1500, the masters of Linnep lived here. In 1682 the then lord of the castle Baron Vincent Schott von Isselstein, gifted a plot of land near the palace protestant community where then a small church was erected, which is still used today.

After the ownership changed several times Ferdinand Reichsgraf von Spee bought the stately home in the year 1855. Since then it stayed in the possession of the earls von Spee. As it is still privately used today, only the grounds are open to the public.


image author: Frank Vincentz

How to get there:

Following from the Breitscheider junction of the Kölner Straße (B 227) direction Ratingen a gravel path leads after ca 600m left and runs near the castle into the Linneper Weg.