The castle Borbeck is a baroque moated castle in Essen Borbeck. Since the 14th century, it was the preferred residence of the Essen prince abbesses and received its present appearance in the 18th century. Since the 1980s, it has been used as a venue for continuing education and cultural events.
The castle complex in Borbeck consists of a main building and an elongated farm building, which lies northeast of the main building. The two castle buildings are surrounded by a 42-hectare castle park in English landscape style.
The three-storey main building is surrounded by a six- to nine-meter-wide moat, which ends to the north in a castle pond. It owes its present, sober appearance rebuilding and extension work in the first half of the 18th century. The northern part of the brightly plastered rectangular building with its two square corner towers and curly gable dates back to the Renaissance, but was later changed into Baroque forms. The quarry stone masonry of his core building rises on a 16 × 18 meter-measuring floor plan and was built in the middle of the 17th century. It is adjoined to the south by a five-axis expansion, which was probably begun in 1744. The pitched roof of the building has a series of dormers on both sloping ceilings. At the southern end of his ridge there is a ridge turret with a small bell. At both corners of the north façade rise four-storey corner towers, which are closed by a curly hood with an octagonal lantern. Both the towers and the building are accentuated by corner troughs, which are now hidden under the plaster. A 13 meter long stone bridge leads to the main portal. Dating back to the 19th century, it replaced a wooden bridge whose two-sided cobblestones were reused.