Anger Manor

Haus Anger is a former manor house in the Anger Valley in Ratingen. The complex today consists of a fortified main building made of quarry stone with a steeply rising hip roof. The asymmetrical fenestration arranged at different heights and irregularities in the masonry suggest numerous alterations, which are believed to originate from a residential tower from the 12th century. The building is framed by agricultural outbuildings. Remains of the once water-filled moats that surrounded the manor are no longer visible today. Haus Anger is located in a wide river plain at a historic crossing over the Angerbach, nestled between the Angermühle, a medieval compulsory mill, and the Angerforsthaus. Since May 31, 1985, Haus Anger has been listed as a residential tower in the monument list of the city of Ratingen.

Haus Anger was first mentioned in a document in 904 as angeron curtis. In 1148, it passed into the possession of the Imperial Abbey of Werden as curtim que dicitur Angera, which then granted the estate to its vassals. It is unclear whether Haus Anger was de-fortified after the Battle of Worringen in 1288, as the peace treaty between Adolf VIII of Berg and the Archbishop of Cologne Siegfried von Westerburg forbade the people of Cologne from building fortifications or castles on the Anger. At the latest since 1461, the former manor house has only appeared as an agricultural estate.