Burg Sotterbach

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Le château en bref

Burg Sotterbach, in Reichshof in the Bergisches Land, is a two-storey fortified house (Festes Haus) with rubble-stone walls up to 80 centimetres thick, covered by a simple hipped roof and now rendered in bright yellow. The estate is recorded in 1141 as the residence of Olfiz von Sittinberg, a vassal of the counts of Berg. In 1583 it was one of the six 'Sattelgüter' of the lords of Bieberstein, von Karthaus and von Lixfeld in the parish of Eckenhagen. Passing to the Ley family in the 17th century, the building was thoroughly remodelled in 1739, a date recalled by iron anchors on the north wall, and came by marriage to the judge Wilhelm Bernhard Hasenclever. In the 18th century it belonged to the Kleine organ builders, then to their son-in-law Sigismund Roetzel. Worn down by troop quarterings, it was restored in the 1970s.