Top 20 Castles around Emmerich am Rhein

The Anholt moated castle in Isselburg is one of the most impressive castle complexes in Westphalia and has been the family property of the Princely House of Salm and Salm-Salm since 1641 and is privately inhabited. The moated castle is surrounded by a 35 hectare, beautiful castle park. Directly adjacent to the historic landscape park is a golf course and Anholter Schweiz, which is well worth seeing. You shouldn't miss a short trip across the border to the beautiful Achterhoek.

The country estate is located near the German border and has a history that dates back to the fifteenth century. Today's country estate (house and park) was created at the beginning of the 19th century. Landfort is a so-called complex historical country estate in which a monumental house with outbuildings forms a unit with a surrounding park, garden or forest

The Aspel house is located about 3,000 meters northeast of Rees-Haldern and is considered an example of castle and palace history spanning more than a thousand years. A stone castle was built in the 12th century from an earth mound castle (motte type) built around 950. This castle became a moated castle almost 500 years later under Prussian influence in the 17th century. Visible today is a baroque, two-wing palace complex on the site of the former outer bailey. The builder of the first stone castle was Count Palatine Richzio. Other owners: Archbishops of Cologne, the von Wittenhorst - Sonsfeld family (after 1686) and the congregation of the "Daughters of the Holy Cross" (since 1850). In 1850, the order "Daughters of the Holy Cross" from Liège (Belgium) bought the manor house. They followed a call to the hospital in the city of Rees. A monastery, novitiate and lyceum were set up in the castle. During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs and shells. After the war ended, it served as a military hospital and hospital before the school was reopened in 1946. In 1972 the monastery and school were separated. Today the Spiritual Center of the Daughters of the Holy Cross is located there, a place of silence, prayer and encounters. After almost 172 years, the story of the Daughters of the Holy Cross in Haus Aspel in Rees-Haldern will come to an end in 2022.

After extensive renovation, it is now open for tours.

A number of historical buildings can still be seen in the city.

If you are in the town of `s Heerenberg, you should definitely go to the dam around Haus Bergh, from there you can take great photos of the fortress.

Haus Aspel is a castle in the Haldern district of Rees in the Kleve district, which has been owned by the Daughters of the Holy Cross since 1850 and is used as a monastery. The facility is located three kilometers north-east of Rees in a damp lowland on the Aspeler Meer, an old Rhine body of water that has been a nature reserve since 2010. It emerged from a high medieval motte whose mound is one of the largest and best preserved on the Lower Rhine.[1] The complex was owned by the von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld family for almost 100 years, who had the ruined building rebuilt in 1722. Expanded and modernized in the 19th and 20th centuries, today's building complex consists of baroque and neo-baroque residential buildings and a neo-Gothic monastery church. The buildings cannot be visited from the inside, but the church and the exterior of the monastery are open to visitors.

Haus Aspel is a castle in the Haldern district of Rees in the Kleve district, which has been owned by the Daughters of the Holy Cross since 1850 and is used as a monastery. The complex was owned by the von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld family for almost 100 years, who had the ruined building rebuilt in 1722. Expanded and modernized in the 19th and 20th centuries, today's building complex consists of baroque and neo-baroque residential buildings and a neo-Gothic monastery church. The buildings cannot be visited from the inside, but the church and the exterior of the monastery are open to visitors. Unfortunately, due to "Corona" no visit was possible :O(