Sögeln Castle

Sögeln Castle was a water castle north of the city of Bramsche in the Osnabrück district of Lower Saxony.

House Sögeln was first explicitly mentioned in the year 1350. However, in 1236 two brothers, Thethard and Heinrich von Sögeln, were already documented, who bore the same coat of arms as the well-endowed ministerial family of Braken surrounding Sögeln. Therefore, it is assumed that a branch of this family had built a permanent residence in Sögeln. In 1344, the estate was described as a "knightly residence" owned by the ministerial family of Ledebur, which held it as a fief from the Diocese of Osnabrück. In 1412, the castle knight of Quakenbrück, Boldewin von Knehem, was a tenant at Haus Sögeln. It is likely that he had married Ida von Ledebur, the last of her family. In 1426, House Sögeln was first explicitly mentioned as a castle. In 1585, the line of von Knehem in Sögeln became extinct, and the castle was sold in 1590 to the bishop's steward in Fürstenau, Heinrich von Langen. In the mid-18th century, the castle passed to the family von der Horst through marriage. In 1792, the castle was sold to Baron von Münster, who transferred it a year later to Friedrich Philipp von Hammerstein-Equord. Subsequently, the inner moat in the east was expanded into a pond, and the rest was filled in. The main buildings of the castle were demolished and replaced in 1793 by a classicist mansion. In 1817, he sold the castle to Georg Friedrich Rathgen from Bremen. The next owners were Ferdinand von Stoltzenberg in 1858 and since 1872 the family von Rappard.

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