Schloss Rurich, Château in Hückelhoven, Germany

Schloss Rurich is a two-story manor house with a central risalit and two narrow corner risalits on its garden side, its facade divided into seven window axes. A coat-of-arms stone above the courtyard entrance bears the alliance of Hompesch and Ketzgen von Geretzhoven and the year 1659. West of the house stands a single-nave Neo-Gothic brick chapel with a polygonal choir, and opposite lies a three-winged coach house with mansard roofs.

Rurich was the seat of the family of the same name, first documented in 1248 with Engebrand and Wilhelm von Rurich. The old castle, completed in 1585, was taken by imperial troops in 1609 and plundered the following year. Gustav Vincent von Hompesch had it demolished in 1787 and built the present manor by 1790; between 1860 and 1870 it was remodelled in Neo-Gothic style, with a corner tower added in 1862 and the new chapel consecrated in 1865.

The chapel, consecrated in 1865, is a single-nave Neo-Gothic brick hall with a polygonal choir, added west of the manor house. The families who owned Rurich took the name "von Rurich" for generations, whatever their actual surname, a custom that began with the von Zweibrüggen in the mid-15th century.

The English landscape park covers about 10 hectares, not 20, and is bordered by the lower Rur floodplain. Sections of the old moats of the predecessor castle are still visible, and the park holds a fallow deer population. The estate lies in the Rurich district of Hückelhoven, in the Heinsberg district of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) in the park had a trunk circumference of 6.24 metres measured in April 2024, making it the second-largest known tree of its kind in Germany by girth. On the former castle island stands an old Ginkgo biloba, and the park also holds a group of mature London planes and two Atlas cedars.