Schloß Bloemersheim, Moated castle in Neukirchen-Vluyn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Schloß Bloemersheim is a moated castle near Neukirchen-Vluyn, first documented in 1406 as the Blomertshof estate. Its main building and outer bailey were originally linked by two drawbridges, and the filled-in water ditches between them remain visible in the grounds. The castle courtyard and garden are closed except during occasional cultural events, but the rear facade facing the castle pond can be seen from a nearby cycle path.

A farmstead called Blomertshof was first documented in 1406 as a sub-fief of Haus Gastendonk. Around 1560 the estate passed by marriage from the Baldrich family to the lords of Hoennepel genannt von der Impel, and in 1667 it was enfeoffed to Freiherr von Pelden genannt Cloudt, Droste of Moers. Plundered by French troops around 1790, it was sold in 1802 for 17,000 talers to the Krefeld silk manufacturer Friedrich Heinrich von der Leyen, whose family expanded it into the present castle.

The name Bloemersheim is pronounced with a lengthening "e". The estate has been the ancestral seat of the Freiherren von der Leyen since 1802, when silk producer and Krefeld mayor Friedrich Heinrich von der Leyen bought it for 17,000 Taler; the family still runs a estate administration with fruit sales and forestry. The castle courtyard and garden open only for rare cultural events.

The castle courtyard and garden are only open during rare cultural events; there is no regular visiting access. The rear side facing the Schlossweiher can be viewed well from a popular cycle path that passes the estate.

The estate's name is pronounced with a lengthening "e", and the complex grew from a late-medieval water castle whose main building was once reached over two drawbridges. The border between the Duchy of Geldern and the County of Moers ran straight through the castle grounds and the kitchen of the main building; only under the Prussians in 1724 was it shifted so the whole site belonged to the Principality of Moers.