Burg Bruchmühlen

Bruchmühlen Castle, also known as Gut Bruchmühlen, is a derelict moated castle on the Else in the Bruchmühlen district (Allee 14) of the town of Melle in the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony. The moated castle built in a damp valley on the Else gave the town its name to Bruchmühlen (Brokmole-Mühle im Bruche). It was first mentioned in 1322 as the open house of the Counts of Ravensberg, who entrusted it to the squire Albert von Vincke. The castle was destroyed in the first half of the 15th century, but in 1458 the Duke of Jülich, as heir to the Ravensberg family, gave his bailiff Lüdeke Nagel permission to rebuild and fortify Bruchmühlen.