The newly renovated castle is a three-storey solid building with a hipped roof, dormers and simple plaster structure. The construction goes back to the late Gothic period, it may have been a permanent house before. In 1738 it was rebuilt with the exception of the four main walls. Until the renovation, it was a well-fortified building with 1 m thick walls on the ground floor and slits of light instead of windows. Two more have survived on the east side. There is an exposed late Gothic window with a straight lintel and stone on the first floor, as well as a toilet bay. Originally the building had high stepped gables, these were hewn down during the renovation in 1738 and the interior of the house gutted. With the exception of the east facade, the facades were designed symmetrically.

Corner tower of the curtain wall with key notches
Around the castle there is a circular wall with numerous key notches carved from ashlar and four protruding corner towers from the first construction phase. This is about 3 m high and 80 cm thick. On the inside, under the notches, there is a heel on which so-called bouncing wood was probably resting. The hook on the underside of the rifle barrel of the hook bushes could be pried into this beam to reduce the recoil. The protruding corner towers allowed the base of the wall to be shot from the side. These were originally inwardly open shell towers, which were later closed by wooden walls. The tall helmets were put on during the last renovation (1982–1984).

The former moat can still be seen as a strip of wasteland on the south and east sides. The facility is accessed from the north; there used to be a bridge here, the inner part of which could be raised.

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