17th century and later a former late Gothic mansion, mansion 2-storey in 3 axes with arched windows and stepped gable on the entrance facade, 6-cornered 3-storey brick courtyard including moat.
Text from the information board: Haus Raedt: From the manor to the Wasserschlösschen in Tudor style Haus Raedt is located on the road to Kempen, tucked away in the middle of a large park. Like many other aristocratic residences on the Lower Rhine, it has changed its appearance over the centuries. Because with the invention of gunpowder and cannons, thick castle and city walls lost their defensibility, so that many castles such as Haus Raedt were rebuilt like castles over time. The knight's seat is mentioned for the first time in the first half of the 14th century. Unlike Haus Donk or Brempt, this castle does not stand in a river valley, but on the plateau of the Kempener Platte. But here too, wide, partly staggered trenches adorned the moated castle, of which, however - apart from a pond system that nestles around Haus Raedt, nothing is left. The formerly large forest park-like complex of Haus Raedt was for the most part converted into a noble fruit orchard decades ago, so that one can still imagine the generosity of bygone days based on the current extent. In the 30s of the 20th century the frozen trenches were still used by the village youth for ice skating. Today the seat consists of a two-story Tudor mansion. This English style of art and architecture from the Tudor period (15th to 17th centuries) is reflected in an asymmetrical brick building with odd towers and roof lines, decorative battlements and chimneys and a free-standing six-sided tower from the 17th century. This probably goes back to a former Berfes.
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