Broich Castle

Haus Broich is a two-part complex, consisting of a manor house and an outer bailey located to the south. Southwest of the manor house is a symmetrically laid out French garden with a square floor plan, whose origins date back to the 18th century and which is now used as an orchard and vegetable garden. North of the manor house and the kitchen garden, there is a small castle park designed in the style of English landscape gardens. The complex also includes a small tea pavilion with a bluestone staircase and an elongated brick building from the early 19th century, which formerly served as a barn and bakehouse. It is covered by a hip roof and has pointed arch windows on its narrow side. House, courtyard, garden, and park are enclosed by a high surrounding wall.

Manor House

The baroque manor house is a single-wing brick building, erected around the middle or in the second half of the 17th century. It stands on a small, rectangular island, surrounded on all sides by a moat. This measures between 9 and 12.5 meters in width and has brick retaining walls on both sides. It is the only remaining remnant of a formerly larger moat system, whose other moats were filled in over time. The two-story house has a floor plan measuring approximately 15.5 x 13.5 meters and is topped by a pan-tiled hip roof. The plastered outer walls are tinted pink. Its narrow sides are divided into three axes by rectangular windows with simple frames of hewn variegated sandstone. The long side of the house has four axes of windows of the same design. A two-arched bridge leads over the moat to a small terrace, from which a curved flight of steps leads further to the entrance of the building. Contrary to baroque design principles, this is not located in the central axis of the building, but is slightly offset to the west. Defining decorative elements of the combined bridge-staircase complex are baroque bluestone pillars with attached pine cones. On the southwest narrow side of the building, a three-story tower with a rectangular floor plan adjoins it. Although it has one more story than the manor house, its curved, slate-covered hood only slightly overtops the manor house roof. Originally, the flanking tower had a counterpart on the northeast narrow side, but after this tower collapsed in 1860, the remains were completely removed and the tower was not reconstructed. Notable interior features of the manor house are its barrel-vaulted cellars and a simple wooden staircase from the Baroque period.

Outer Bailey

Of the formerly three-winged, horseshoe-shaped outer bailey, only one and a half wings remain as a partial ruin due to war-related destruction. The simple brick building tracts with bluestone molded elements date from the 18th century. The side wings formerly housed barns and stables. The main wing in the southeast is formally emphasized by a central risalit. In this is the gatehouse with a basket-arched gate passage, framed by rusticated stonework. On the courtyard side, above the archway, are the coat of arms of the von Hallberg family and the year 1743.

On the other side of the street, opposite the gate entrance, stand two brick gate pillars, to which a straight path, about 380 meters long, leads from the southeast. Each pillar has a spherical bluestone finial and a bluestone fender stone.