Haus Loburg, Coesfeld

Haus Loburg is a 16th-century manor house in the farming community of Sirksfeld near Coesfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an old noble seat surrounded by a moat, whose roots are said to go back to the times of Charlemagne. From 1550 to 1560, the estate was built by the Westphalian noble family von Graes and remained in the family for more than three centuries.

It was not until 1912 that Prince Alfred of the noble family Salm-Salm of Anholt Castle bought Loburg House for his son Franz Emanuel Konstantin Prinz zu Salm und Salm-Salm and his wife Maria Anna von und zu Dalberg, whose descendants still live at Loburg today.

On March 10, 1945, the facility was the target of a bombing raid in which the building, which had been used as an alternative hospital for St. Vincent Hospital since January 1945, was severely hit. A total of 7 people died in the attack, including the children Walter Ricker and Thekla Kösters, as well as 5 patients. Of the Loburg mansion, only the cellar of the completely destroyed west wing remained. The roof of the cellar vault is used as a terrace today. Besides the cellar, the Loburg chapel was the only completely intact part of the manor house after the bombing. Between 1946 and 1949, the gate wing was rebuilt as a two-storey brick building with ashlar integration and a stepped gable in the Renaissance style.

The seemingly still fortified estate is surrounded by agricultural buildings. Today, the Loburg comprises about 80 hectares of fields and meadows used for vegetable and grain cultivation as well as for livestock.