History of Schloss Buschfeld [Buschfeld Castle]
"The once powerful castle"of Buschfeld was first documented in 1170 in connection with Knight Wilhelm Schilling von Buschfeld, Lord of Bornheim. His descendents lived in Buschfeld for around 300 years. They went on to extend their name with the addition"von Buschfeld". 
Much remains unknown about this family; the odd snippet can be found in old records such as that created by the Aachen history society in 1887. This contains a mention of Hermann von Buschfeld (1414 - 1451), who attacked and plundered the village of Weiden together with a host of armed men, before interring his prisoners in Burg Buschfeld. The city of Aachen requested the then Archbishop Dietrich II of Cologne (1414 - 1463) to order the release of the prisoners and the return of their stolen possessions.
Further, somewhat more peaceful, records on the von Buschfeld family are contained in the book by Ralf Wilhelm Breuer "Hersel am Rhein". The historic book of flags,"Geschichte der Kölnischen, Jülischen und Bergischen Geschlechter, Erster Theil", contains just a brief mention of the Schilling von Buschfeld family. The final member of the family is named as Catharina von Buschfeld, heir to"Gracht"(an additional house of the Buschfeld estate) and the forest. In 1538, she married Hieronimus Wolff von Goldenberg, known as Metternich zu Friesheim, who later went on to name himself Hieronimus Wolff Metternich zur Gracht.
Arnold von Buschfeld built Burg Konradsheim [Castle Konradsheim]. In 1337 he sold the freehold rights to the home, built with his own means, to Walram von Jülich, the Archbishop of Cologne. The coat of arms of Knight Schilling von Buschfeld bears two crossed yellow bars at the centre of a blue background. Today, this coat of arms is the emblem of Bornheim.
In 1448, Johann von Buschfeld sold the castle and its grounds ["dat Sloss, burgh ind huyss Buysfelt mit Thurnen, portzen, Bruggen, vurburge, grauen, wyeren, visscheryen, Schuyren, gulden, Renten ind synre zubehoere"] to Knight Everhard von Quaden. Over the 300 years that followed, Buschfeld flourished under the Reich's von Quadt barons, to become a prosperous and influential institution, the influence of which reached well beyond the domain of Cologne.