 Stockhausen was born in Burg Mödrath , the " castle " of the village of Mödrath . The village , located near Kerpen in the Cologne region , was displaced in 1956 to make way for lignite strip mining , but the castle itself still stands . Despite its name , the building is not actually a castle at all , but rather was a manor house built in 1830 by a local businessman named Arend . Because of its imposing size , locals began calling it Burg Mödrath ( Mödrath Castle ) . From 1925 to 1932 it was the maternity home of the Bergheim district , and after the war it served for a time as a shelter for war refugees . In 1950 , the owners , the Düsseldorf chapter of the Knights of Malta , turned it into an orphanage , but it has subsequently returned to private ownership and is today a private residence again ( Anon. n.d. ; Anon . 1950 ) . 
