Schelenburg

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Schelenburg is a moated castle in Schledehausen, in the municipality of Bissendorf near Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It combines a 12th-century medieval residential tower, with walls 2.25 m thick standing on timber piles, a Renaissance building erected between 1528 and 1532 – presented by the municipality as one of the oldest Renaissance buildings in northern Germany – and later additions. First mentioned in 1160, the stronghold belonged first to the Sledesen and then, from 1396, to the von Schele family, who owned it for nearly six centuries; in 1977 it passed by marriage and inheritance to the Kellermann family. A fire destroyed most of the original fortress in 1490, sparing the tower. Privately owned, it can only be viewed from the outside.