page_title: Are Castle
section_title: Gymnicher Porz gatehouse
hierarchical_section_title: Are Castle / Gymnicher Porz gatehouse
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Burgruine Are, Altenahr. Aufgang
context_page_description: Are Castle is the ruin of a hill castle that stands at a height of 240 m above sea level above the village of Altenahr in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was built around 1100 by Count Dietrich I of Are and is first recorded in 1121.
  Since 1965 the Are Gymnasium – a local grammar school – in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler has borne the name which is derived from the castle and its eponymous noble family.
context_section_description: Below Are Castle lie the remains of the Gymnicher Porz, Porz standing for Pforte or "portal". This was the lower gateway on the access road to the castle which, in combination with a wall, barred the way to the castle hill. The structure comprised a gatehouse over the access road, an attached castle house (Burghaus), with a basement and two floors housing living accommodation, and an attached tower. It took its name from the House of Gymnich. Several members of the family held the castle in fief (they were ‘’Pfandnehmer’’) in the  14th and 16th centuries. It is suspected that the gate system was built during this time. From time to time the Gymnicher Porz was an independent fief (Burglehen) of the House of Gymnich.
caption: The Gymnicher Porz (below left) and the ruins of the castle house
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