Schloss Herten, Castle in Herten, Germany

Schloss Herten is a red brick castle in Herten featuring round towers and separate buildings for the carriage house and chapel, connected by a moat system. The complex is surrounded by an English landscape garden containing over 3,000 trees.

A fortified house of the Herten family on this site was first recorded in 1376 as a fief of Werden Abbey; the family itself appears in documents from 1286. From 1520 the Coesfeld architect Henric de Suer and his son Johann rebuilt the tower house into a late Gothic four-winged castle for the Stecke and Nesselrode families, finished in 1560. A fire around Christmas 1687 destroyed much of the north and west wings, and Franz von Nesselrode-Reichenstein rebuilt them by 1702.

The name Herten comes from the knightly family first recorded in 1286 with Gerlach von Hertene. The great hall of the east wing holds a ceiling fresco in linear perspective, rediscovered during the 1974–1989 restoration and described as without equal in Westphalia. The castle now houses a café and hosts concerts and festivities.

The castle lies at the western edge of Herten's town centre, within an English landscape garden. The park, owned by the city since 2008, is used for walking, picnicking, jogging and cycling. The main building houses a café and serves as a venue for concerts and festivities.

About 200 metres north of the castle, an orangery was completed in 1725, following an English fashion of the time. The park itself was laid out as a French formal garden with fountains and statues around 1700, then converted into an English landscape garden between 1814 and 1817.