Haus Empel is the ruin of a moated castle in Empel, a district of Rees in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Kleve. It is located in a nature reserve directly on the Empeler Meer, an arm of the old Rhine, and is surrounded by moats. The unsecured ruin is privately owned and is not open to the public, but in 2007 it served as a backdrop for Dominik Graf's TV film Das Vowde.

House Empel was first mentioned in a document in 1240 as the property of the knight Bernard von Rees. In a document from 1256, the Emple estate is mentioned and expanded into a castle in the 13th and 14th centuries.

The remains of Haus Empel are on an island with the shape of a slightly warped rectangle. To the south-east of this is a square area surrounded by moats, which is divided into two halves of equal size by a path in the middle. In all likelihood, these are the remains of a baroque garden. Access to the castle island is provided by a lattice gate on the southwest side, which is separated over half its length by a parapet-like, curved wall. The gate is flanked by two embossed gateposts with the Latin numerals MDCC (1700), on which Minerven used to sit. Busts of Roman emperors once stood on the wall. The portal and boundary wall are from a baroque renovation around 1700.

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