Kommende Ramersdorf, Medieval commandry in Beuel, Germany
Kommende Ramersdorf is a former Teutonic Order commandry in Ramersdorf, part of Bonn's Beuel district. The connected buildings enclose an irregular courtyard: a white main block with a blue-grey slate roof, a central section with dormers and slender spires, a round turret on the left and a square tower with a small spire on the right. An arched gateway stands at the far left, and a long wing with exposed brick below and a dark roof above extends to the right. The complex was rebuilt in Neo-Gothic style after a fire in 1842.
The site was founded around 1230 as a commandry of the Teutonic Order and served religious and military purposes. After secularization in 1803, ownership changed several times until it was later used as a hotel and restaurant.
The complex takes its name from Ramersdorf, first recorded in the 9th century, when the Cassius monastery of Bonn and Heisterbach Abbey held land and tithes there. The surviving Georgskapelle, built between 1220 and 1230, is the oldest part. Since 2017 the Cologne restaurateur Salvatore Luca has run the restaurant, and the city of Bonn still holds civil wedding ceremonies in the rooms on selected dates.
The complex sits in Ramersdorf, a district of Bonn's Beuel borough, near the A59/A562 motorway junction. The former English wing holds the hotel and restaurant; the city of Bonn offers civil wedding ceremonies in the rooms on selected dates. Renovation has continued since the 2017 sale to a Cologne investors' group, which added five suites to the hotel.
The citizens' initiative that blocked demolition in the early 1970s counted the local historian Heinrich Neu among its members. The complex had stood empty since 1973 and was to give way to the A59/A562 motorway junction before the campaign succeeded.
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