
Heimburg castle was built from 1294 on as a bastion in the Electorate of Mainz against the Palatines. It decayed later and was destroyed by the French in 1689.
In the 19th century it was rebuilt by the industrialist Hugo Stinnes.
Source: Mittelrheinforum
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