Bourheim Castle

Of the formerly two-part complex, only the brick outer bailey remains today. Of its manor house, only the ruin of a substructure with a barrel vault still exists.

The main building was a two-story structure on a rectangular floor plan, measuring approximately 12.5 × 9 meters, and dated from the 15th century. It stood on a motte-like hill, and its two narrow sides featured stepped gables. To save the remains of the rubble masonry from final collapse, they were encased with brick walls for stabilization in 1840. The moat that surrounded the building is still visible today.

North of the site of the former manor house is the three-winged farmyard on a U-shaped floor plan, which opens to the southwest towards the former main house and encloses an inner courtyard measuring approximately 60.5 × 32.5 meters. The single-story building wings with saddle roofs date from different centuries and are the successors of building tracts that were built from the inside against the medieval defensive walls of the estate. With the exception of the gatehouse, they only have windows and doors facing the secure inner courtyard. The outer side of the northwestern wing is about 73 meters long, while the southeastern part of the building measures about 55.5 meters on the outside. Wall anchors in the form of the year 1703 identify the northeastern, 46-meter-long tract of the outer bailey as buildings from the beginning of the 18th century. Older is the simple, 18.5 × 8 meter gatehouse of the complex at the southern end of the northwestern outer bailey wing. It was built around 1600 in the Renaissance style. The light rusticated bluestone ashlar of its round arch portal stands out clearly from the red of the other brick walls. Above the archway is the alliance coat of arms of the Eys called Beusdael and Friemersdorf zu Pützfeld families, together with the year 1706. However, the oldest part of the outer bailey is the former administrator's house at the southern end of the east wing. The two-story building dates from the 16th/17th century and adjoins the inner courtyard with an eaves-facing part. Two gable-facing tracts adjoin it at the rear, and all parts of the building have saddle roofs. The partly original windows (some were replaced during the 19th century) have bluestone ashlar surrounds. Although now bricked up, the former entrance of the house can still be recognized by the preserved transom and jambs.