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This site is a guide to some of the places we have visited. This is more of a journal of what we did than a definitive guide to these places. Traveling is more about living the experience than documenting every momement. So, if your favorite landmark is missing, it does not mean we did not see it, only that I did not take a picture.
![<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/106611111@N02/">gerdb1256</a> posted a photo:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/106611111@N02/55464806986/" title="Schloss Paffendorf - Paffendorf Castle"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55464806986_9293384c5e_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Schloss Paffendorf - Paffendorf Castle" /></a></p>
<p>Eine Vogtei Paffendorf wird erstmals im Jahre 1230 erwähnt.<br />
Nach 1516 wurde der Besitz durch Maria Mascherel von Rode, Tochter des Winand V. Mascherel von Rode, Herrn auf Burg Wijnandsrade (bei Nuth, Provinz Limburg), an ihren Ehemann Wilhelm von dem Bongart, den Herrn auf Burg Bergerhausen, gebracht (1531 übertrug ihm sein Schwiegervater auch Wijnandsrade, das bis 1916 im Besitz der Freiherren von dem Bongart verblieb). Die Burg Paffendorf blieb ebenfalls über 400 Jahre einer der Nebensitze des Geschlechts. Zum Hauptsitz wurde sie erst zu Beginn des 19. Jh. Die letzte Hausherrin, Marietta Freifrau von dem Bongart, verkaufte den Besitz 1958 an eine Vorgängergesellschaft von RWE Power, als der damalige Tagebau Fortuna-Garsdorf die Grenzen des Schlossparks erreichte. 1818 hatten die von Bongarts das wenige hundert Meter nördlich gelegene Rittergut Hof Curmen mit allen seinen Ländereien vom letzten Besitzer, Graf von Goltstein, gekauft und den Gutshof anschließend verfallen lassen. Das Gut, das erstmals 1196 erwähnt worden war und lange Zeit der Familie von Harff gehört hatte, bestand aus einer Motte und einer Vorburg mit Wassergräben. Auf dem Gelände neben dem Jüdischen Friedhof sind heute nur noch wenige Eindrücke im Gelände zu erkennen.<br />
A *Vogtei* (advocacy or bailiwick) of Paffendorf is first mentioned in 1230.<br />
After 1516, the estate passed to Wilhelm von dem Bongart—Lord of Bergerhausen Castle—through his marriage to Maria Mascherel von Rode, daughter of Winand V. Mascherel von Rode, Lord of Wijnandsrade Castle (near Nuth, Limburg province). (In 1531, his father-in-law also transferred Wijnandsrade to him; it remained in the possession of the Barons von dem Bongart until 1916.] Paffendorf Castle also remained one of the family's secondary residences for over 400 years; it only became their primary seat at the beginning of the 19th century. The last lady of the house, Marietta Freifrau von dem Bongart, sold the estate in 1958 to a predecessor company of RWE Power when the Fortuna-Garsdorf open-cast mine reached the boundaries of the castle park. In 1818, the von Bongarts had purchased the *Hof Curmen* knight's estate—located a few hundred meters to the north—along with all its lands from the last owner, Count von Goltstein, and subsequently allowed the manor complex to fall into ruin. The estate, first mentioned in 1196 and long held by the von Harff family, had consisted of a motte and a bailey, both surrounded by moats. Today, only faint traces of the site remain visible on the grounds next to the Jewish cemetery.</p>](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55464806986_9293384c5e_s.jpg)
