was acquired by the former Minister of State the Baron vom Stein, who renovated the buildings and thus preserved them from dereliction. After the extinction of the family von und zum Stein the estate was inherited in 1926 by the family of the Counts of Kanitz. During World War II Schloss Cappenberg served as a place of safety to protect works of art from Allied bombing, including the collections of the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund ("Dortmund Museum of Art and Cultural History"), which were stored here, along with art treasures from various destroyed churches of Westphalia, as for example the by Conrad von Soest from the Marienkirche in Dortmund. From 1946 the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte was exhibited in the castle. The return of the collection to Dortmund did not take place until the opening of the new museum building in 1983. In 1985 the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe ("Landscape Society of Westfalen-Lippe") and the local authority of Kreis Unna rented rooms in the castle and converted them for use as a museum. Since then, in conjunction with the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, various exhibitions have been held here. In the west wing are kept the archives of Freiherr vom Stein, who lived in the castle from 1824 until his death in 1831, and also the archives of the former monastery. In the former abbey church is a portrait bust of the period around 1160 of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa made of gilt bronze. Nowadays Schloss Cappenberg is an excursion destination, with a museum, and is part of the Route der Industriekultur ("Industry Heritage Trail"). Art exhibitions and concerts are regularly held there. Abbey church The former abbey church, St. Johannes Evangelist, is mostly a 12th-century, Romanesque. The church has a standard cruciform basilica plan, with a nave of three aisles and three bays ending in a transept and a two-bay choir. Gothic vaulting and window tracery were added to the church, but especially the choir, in the 14th and 15th centuries. Several pieces of the church, most notably the cloister and the side chapels, were removed during the Baroque remodeling of the abbey, which surrounds the church on three sides. Gallery Notes References External links Schloss Cappenberg - official site Kreis Unna: Schloss Cappenberg Die Stiftung Cappenbergs, poem by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (Project Gutenberg) Castles in North Rhine-Westphalia Monasteries in North Rhine-Westphalia Premonstratensian monasteries in Germany