House Herbede, Manor estate in Witten, Germany.

House Herbede is a moated knight's estate in the Herbede district of Witten, with a walled outer bailey and a main house that was rebuilt after 1540 and joined to older stone buildings around 1563 to form a four-winged complex around a central courtyard. It stands in the Ruhr valley near the Kemnader See.

The site's origins reach back to the 11th century. In 1225/27 Arnold von Didinghofen held Herbede as a fief from Kaufungen Abbey; from 1311 the von Elverfeldt family lived here as Burgmannen. In the 14th century timber buildings were replaced by a stone house with an adjoining tower. A large fire around 1500 badly damaged the complex; a cellar new building followed in 1540, joined to the existing stone houses around 1563 to form a four-wing layout with a central courtyard. The Protestant Herbede line of the Elverfeldt died out in 1889, and the estate passed by inheritance to the von Rheinbaben and von Gemmingen families.

The name Herbede comes from the old lordship held in fief from Kaufungen Abbey by Arnold von Didinghofen in 1225/27. Today Witten's registry office keeps a wedding room in the house, and changing art exhibitions are shown in the rooms, so the former knight's estate is used for marriages and gallery visits.

The outer grounds and the inner courtyard are freely accessible; the buildings themselves are used for events, weddings and exhibitions. The vaulted cellar restaurant has been closed since October 2016, so do not count on refreshments on site. The site lies in the Herbede district of Witten, a short distance from Lake Kemnade.

During renovations in the 1980s, workers found weapons, armour parts and household goods in the cellar of House Herbede. They had probably fallen through the ceilings during the large fire around 1500 and were never recovered afterwards.