Stockhausen Castle

The castle complex is surrounded by a moat and consists of a manor house at the southeast corner of the area, a gatehouse with an adjoining coach house and stable, as well as two barns and a dovecote. The complex includes lands covering approximately two hectares.

The two-story manor house made of quarry stone with a square corner tower at the southeast corner has a concluding half-hipped roof and is structured by windows in four axes. A small flight of steps leads to the portal, above which a coat of arms stone with the year 1699 indicates the year of construction. The building was erected at the end of the 17th century, incorporating existing building fabric, as it also contains older structural elements.

The gatehouse from 1672, to which a stone arched bridge leads, is a two-story building made of quarry stone with a half-timbered upper floor of bricks and a concluding gable roof with a roof turret and weather vane. Adjoining it are the so-called coach house and a former stable, both of which are single-story.

It is presumed that the estate formerly included a Baroque garden, of which nothing remains today. Only a chestnut avenue west of the complex is still preserved, at the northern end of which lies a small cemetery with about 20 graves. This was the hereditary burial site of the owner family von der Recke and was probably laid out at the end of the 18th century.

When the complex was built is not yet known. However, its beginnings date back at least to the 14th century, as at that time the castle was owned by the Kyllfois family, before it passed to the Knights of Westorp in 1411. The heiress Anna Margaretha von Westorp brought the castle into her marriage with Dietrich von der Recke in the first quarter of the 17th century, whose family sold it to Hans-Werner Schürmann in 1979. He had the then dilapidated buildings restored.