Burg Bollendorf

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Le château en bref

Bollendorf Castle stands on a rocky spur overlooking the Sûre (Sauer), a river that forms the border between Germany and Luxembourg here, at the entrance to the village of Bollendorf when approaching from Echternacherbrück. It occupies a strategic valley site, and local tradition places it on the foundations of an ancient Roman fortification. For a long time linked to the powerful Benedictine abbey of Echternach, located just across the river, the building served as the administrative seat of a sub-provostry responsible for managing the domain farms of Bollendorf, Ernzen and Irrel, before becoming the summer residence of the abbots. These gradually transformed it from a medieval fortified house into a residential mansion in the Baroque style. The present ensemble combines medieval remains, notably a curtain wall and a round tower pierced with arrow loops facing the river, with a Baroque residential wing featuring a light-coloured façade, whose portal bears the arms of Abbot Gregor Schouppe and the date 1739. Restored from the 1970s onwards by a private family, it now houses a hotel-restaurant in the heart of the Southern Eifel Nature Park.