A somewhat overgrown staircase takes you to the rock on which the castle was built and to the foot of the castle wall. A little further east you come across an 'archway'.
Schloss Herzford is a moated castle near the independent town of Lingen in southern Emsland. It was built in 1337 as the "Thor Slipse" castle on the left bank of the Ems.
.It was probably built at the beginning of the 14th century. It was first mentioned in 1578, when Count Arnold II of Bentheim sold the castle to the Frenswegen monastery. …