Schloss Eller
Neoclassical manor on a moated island, ringed by ponds and a wooded landscape park.
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This guide to Schloss Eller in Düsseldorf follows the water around the house rather than the house itself. It reaches back to the Lords of Eller, a fifteenth-century duke who seized the castle, and the knight who rebuilt it behind two rings of moat, then to the Prussian-era baron who arrived in the eighteen-twenties with demolition in mind. Best heard standing at the water's edge, facing the old tower.
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