Burg Angermund

Burg Angermund is a water castle in Düsseldorf’s Angermund district, surrounded by a wide moat fed by the Angerbach. The elongated oval complex has a two-metre-thick ring wall built from limestone, tuff, and occasional bricks. A brick bridge leads to the fifteenth-century gatehouse, whose passage displays the year 1635 and a Ravensberg coat of arms.

Philipp von Heinsberg acquired the site in 1167, and a written reference to Allodium de Angermonde appeared in 1188. From the thirteenth century, the Counts and Dukes of Berg used it as a northern border fortress and administrative seat. The round tower held a prison, while negotiations held here in 1479 contributed to the union of several duchies in 1511. Military importance declined after the seventeenth century, and agricultural use later damaged the buildings before restoration began in 1982.

The western main building contains a thirteenth-century northern section, Gothic cross windows, and a restored hall with a large fireplace. A late Romanesque biforium window remains walled up on the northwest exterior. The former 26-metre round tower disappeared in 1716, while the privately inhabited residence remains protected as both a building monument and an archaeological monument.