Nassenerfurth Castle

The core of the castle complex is the main castle, consisting of three interconnected large, three-story buildings, angled roughly semicircularly against each other. It was built around 1600 and is surrounded by walled moats, which are partially silted up on the north side. From the outer bailey in the west, a two-arched stone bridge leads over the moat to the main gate in the middle of the west side.

The gate passage with the Renaissance portal in the narrow, three-story gatehouse of plastered rubble stone with corner quoins is round-arched in a rectangular frame. The jambs and frame pilasters of the portal are executed in flat rustication, the pilasters with Tuscan capitals and obelisks above. The spandrels are decorated with medallions. Above the portal is a coupled twin window on three consoles; to the right and left of it are two ornamental stones with strapwork crowning the portal.

South of the gatehouse is the three-story solid residential and main wing of the castle. It is structured on the (eastern) courtyard side with four axes, and on the southern gable side with three axes. On the irregularly structured west side, only the window arrangement serves for structuring. The windows are single or coupled twin windows. The three-story north wing, adjoining the gatehouse to the north, is solid on the ground floor and first floor in its southern half, otherwise timber-framed. The northeast wing adjoins it at an almost right angle to the northeast, with a solid ground floor and two timber-framed upper floors. The timber-framed parts of both wings date from shortly after 1800. On the courtyard side, these two wings are decorated with a plinth cornice.

In the angle of the north and northeast wings, on the courtyard side, is a four-story polygonal stair tower with rubble stone masonry, corner quoins, and a plinth cornice, which projects with three sides of an octagon and is decorated above its three upper floors by a continuous cornice with an ogee profile. On the south side is the entrance with the year 1600 between two putti heads above the Gothicizing shoulder arch portal. Above the portal runs an ogee-profiled cornice with dentil molding; on it, between herm pilasters and a triangular gable and framed by volutes, is a double coat of arms of the von Baumbach and Schutzbar genannt Milchling families. The stair tower and the two adjoining wings belong to a common building concept, and from the height of the stair tower as a stone structure, it is concluded that the two building wings must also have originally had stone upper floors or significantly more representative timber framing.

The entrance to the outer bailey in the west is a pointed arch portal with the year 1515 in the keystone. South of it stands a residential house built or renovated in 1662 with a solid ground floor and timber-framed upper floor, and to the north, a 50 m long, solid two-story barn with a timber-framed upper floor and a wooden gallery on the courtyard side. The year 1622 is found on a window on the exterior.

The castle stood empty for almost 40 years since the late 1960s, was then renovated, and can now be rented for various occasions such as family celebrations.