Kallenberg Manor

Haus Kallenberg is a former manor house and current farm located on Kallenberger Weg in the Kirchende district of Herdecke. Further east lies a hereditary burial site and a cemetery. To the south flows the Ender Mühlenbach.

In 2005, a shopping center was built on the former pastureland belonging to the farm, north of the wooded hill of the same name, Kallenberg (198 m above sea level).

The Lords of Vaerst zu Callenberg resided at this knight's seat as early as the beginning of the 15th century. Their coat of arms shows a shield quartered 12 times in red and gold, a blue escutcheon, and on the helmet a golden and a red palm branch or two green branches with berries.

Around 1400, Hermann von dem Vorste was listed as enfeoffed with Haus Heven in Bochum. In the Protestant church of Kirchende is the tombstone of Hermann von dem Varst from the year 1549. It stands today in the church's tower room.

Around 1774, the family bought itself free from the feudal lordship of Werden Abbey. In 1774, Baron Friedrich Goswin von Vaerst zum Callenberg acquired Haus Weitmar and Haus Bärendorf in Bochum.