Burg Lede is a moated castle in the Vilich district of Bonn that hosts civil and free wedding ceremonies for up to 65 guests. The owners also arrange receptions, wedding photography and floral design for the day. This page covers what the castle states on its own site; it does not describe a seminar or conference offer.
Seminars and company events
The castle's site presents no meeting rooms, day delegate packages or corporate hire. It lists public events through the year, such as an Advent market on December 6, 2026, and a gallery that opens on Thursdays to Saturdays from 3 to 6 p.m. A company looking for a private evening should write to the castle and ask whether it can be arranged, since nothing is published on the subject.
Weddings and receptions
Couples can hold a civil ceremony or a free ceremony at the castle, for up to 65 people. The castle describes the offer as individual ceremonies in a historic setting, followed by a reception and photographs taken in the castle and its surroundings. Wedding florists work with regional and seasonal flowers, preferably from the castle's own garden, and make table arrangements, bouquets, buttonholes, wreaths and decoration for the wedding table. A cake table can be dressed with table decoration and onion-pattern crockery.
A dedicated contact for wedding enquiries is given on the wedding page of the site.
Rooms and capacities
The site states one figure: 65 people for a civil or free ceremony. It does not name individual rooms or give seated dinner capacities. Ask how the 65 guests are seated and where the reception takes place, and whether it uses the castle house, the park or both.
Catering
The wedding page speaks of receptions the team organises, but gives no detail on menus or caterers. Ask about catering, drinks and the end time of an evening when you send your request.
History and setting
The castle goes back to the early thirteenth century and is a typical example of a lowland castle of the Rhineland. A romanesque residential tower became a three-wing Gothic moated castle, first documented in 1361 as the seat of the knight Johann Schillink von Vilich. It was destroyed in the Cologne War and the Thirty Years' War and rebuilt with timber framing in the seventeenth century. It took its present name in 1907, when Otto Weinlig, who owned it, had it restored and extended. The garden designer Walter von Engelhardt drew the park in the same year. A stone three-arch bridge leads to the main house across the moat. The current owners bought the castle in 2018, and the building is listed as a monument.
The castle also houses the gallery Parrotta Contemporary Art, and the Park Labor association works on the historic garden.
Getting there
Burg Lede is at An der Burg Lede 1 in Bonn, 53225, at the edge of Vilich. By public transport, take the S 66 to the stop Vilich, or buses 540 and 640 to Vilich Kloster or Hamster. The site does not mention parking or bedrooms.
