Broicher Hof, Manor estate in Eschweiler, Germany

Broicher Hof is a former knight's estate in Eschweiler-Dürwiß, of which only the manor house with its corner turrets remains. Until the Second World War, farm buildings adjoined the house; these were destroyed in the war, and the house itself was heavily damaged. The building later housed flats, the Arbeiterwohlfahrt and, until early 2008, the Eschweiler forestry office.

Adam von Broich was enfeoffed in 1434 with the Vogtei zu Broich and estates at Pattern, Wyß, Roide and Vrankenhoven; the Hof zu Wyß came through his mother, sister of Johann von Werth. A 1677 deed divided the Broich holdings and gave the Hofe zu Wyß to the elder son Maximilian. The last feudal holder was Carl Phillipp Freiherr von Broich, chamberlain to the Elector of Cologne; after 1890 the estate passed to widow Heinrich Schmitz, then to Josef Kerres in 1927 and to the BIAG Zukunft in 1941.

The coat of arms above the entrance door is the alliance coat of arms of Johann Werner von Broich and his wife Richmund Anna Margarethe von Siegen zu Sechtem und zu Broich. The stone was set above the portal of the old parish church until 1944; that church, destroyed in the war, was originally the family chapel of the von Broich family. The bar in the centre of the Broich shield still appears in the municipal coat of arms of Dürwiß.

The manor house is located in a rural part of Eschweiler and is easily accessible via several cycling routes in the region. Visitors can view the exterior of the historic structure from the street and explore the surrounding countryside.

The estate's original name, Dürwisser Hof or Der Hofe zu Wyß, comes from a time when the local landscape was dominated by thornbushes and wet meadows. This old name is rarely remembered today, but historians value it as evidence of how the land was used in medieval times.