The Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology and the Castle Reichenstein

On 26 June, professors and staff of the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology will fly to Burg Reichenstein near Mainz. It is a private tour in the footsteps of the history of the Institute, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2025.

The founding rector, the Luxembourg priest Johann Peter Kirsch, who is buried on the Campo Santo Teutonico, always spent the summer months at Reichenstein Castle. For this castle ruin had been bought by his brother Nikolaus Kirsch, a heavily wealthy industrialist, around 1900 and extended in the style of Rhenish castle romanticism.

Today's owner is Lambert Lensing Wolff, who is distantly related to Kirsch and has turned the castle into a wonderful place to visit and stay overnight, where all the historical memories of the Kirsch-Puricelli family can be seen. Dr. Albrecht Weiland, former Secretary of the Institute, will organise and sponsor the multi-day travel programme.

In addition to Mr. Lensing Wolff, the group will also be welcomed by Constantin Graf von Plettenberg, who has researched the Kirsch-Puricelli family history.

 

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