Crange Castle (Ruin) (Herne)

Around 1440, Duke Adolf II of Cleves had the moated castle built. As early as 1441, he enfeoffed Derick van Eykel, then bailiff of the Märkisch office of Bochum, with this property. North of the castle was the Laurentius Chapel, consecrated in 1449, but demolished as early as 1873. Its altar can now be found in Ahausen Castle. In 1637, ownership passed to the von Rump family. A fire in 1761 led to a renovation of the building in the classical style. The owners moved out in 1812, and the castle was leased. Through inheritance, the property later passed to the Counts of Landsberg-Velen, who sold it to a canal construction company in 1905.