Haus Horst Castle

As of today (end of October 2022), something seems to be happening to the building, at least it is scaffolded. However, the whole thing around doesn't look that great anymore. Maybe it will.

Haus Horst is a water-enclosed knight's seat in Mönchengladbach's Giesenkirchen district.

Horst is first mentioned in a document dated January 15, 1338. On that day, the knight Hermann von der Horst entrusted his "castrum meum dictumdy Hurst situn prope Ledeberg" to the archbishop of Cologne, Walram von Jülich, with the consent of his wife Margaretha for 200 marks. The house, surrounded by moats, bodies of water and fisheries, together with the outer bailey and suburbium, became an open house for the Archbishopric of Cologne in the Liedberg district.