Château de Kambach, Water castle in Kinzweiler, Eschweiler, Germany

Château de Kambach is a water castle in Kinzweiler near Eschweiler, consisting of a rectangular two-story main building with a steep roof and a tower, surrounded by a wide moat on an island. Today it houses a restaurant and sits within a golf course that was built around the historic grounds.

Haus Kambach was first documented in 1463, when Jakob Adam von Broich held it as a fief from the Cologne cathedral chapter, an arrangement that lasted until the Napoleonic era. In 1686 the widow of Daniel von Hetzingen sold it for 7,000 Reichstaler to Simon Matthias Gilles; in 1699 it passed to Johann Bernhard von Cotzhausen, who had the old manor largely demolished and rebuilt by 1701.

The name comes from the Kambach stream, called Combach until the 19th century, which rises from two springs in the nearby Kambachwäldchen and feeds the moat around the main building. The round-arched blue-stone portal in the south wing of the former service building, moved here from the east side, carries the year 1701 and the joint coat of arms of the von Cotzhausen and von Gangelt families.

The site lies between Kinzweiler and St. Jöris, and since 1992 the former manor has served as a restaurant, bistro and golf clubhouse. The forecourt was farmed until 1990/91. The main house stands on an island in a wide moat, reached by a four-bay brick arch bridge whose last section was once a wooden drawbridge.

The southeast corner features a tower topped with an octagonal cap and lantern, an unusual architectural accent. Two baroque vases depicting scenes of Perseus remain in the western garden where visitors can see them.