Barbarossa-Denkmal

Knowing of Barbarossa's ties to Sinzig, the Bunge-Koenigs family commissioned the Bunge-Koenigs family commissioned the Cologne sculptor Wilhelm Albermann in 1875 to to erect a statue of Barbarossa at their summer residence. In the year 1951, the granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Bunge, Else von Wedderkop, bequeathed the monument to the town of Sinzig on condition that it be preserved. With great ceremony ceremony and many guests of honour, it was moved from its original original location next to the castle to its current position in the Lunapark.