Schloss Rhede, Renaissance château in Rhede, Germany

Schloss Rhede is a two-winged brick Herrenhaus built from 1564, its wings meeting at a right angle. The northeast wing keeps its original curved stepped gable with bands of blue-fired brick; the narrower southwest wing was rebuilt in 1845/46 with simplified gables and a small roof turret. An octagonal stair tower with a slate onion dome stands in the angle, and a square moat surrounds the island.

A castle of the lords of Rhede stood here until 1324, when troops of the Bishop of Münster destroyed it during a feud; Bocholt forces razed the rebuilt house in 1388. In 1426 the Bishop of Münster allowed the lords of Rhemen to build anew on the present site. Lubbert von Rhemen had the keep demolished in 1546 and erected the two-winged Renaissance house, completed in 1564. The male line died out in 1695; the Salm-Salm family acquired the estate in 1860 and owns it today.

The house is private and lived in by Emanuel Prince zu Salm-Salm; the park is not open to the public. The name Rhede goes back to the knightly family von Rhede, later van Reede, whose descendants held Saasveld, Amerongen and Drakensteyn. Legends tell of a noble maiden's ghost and of a duel fought at the castle.

The house is privately owned and lived in, and the park is not open to the public, so the moated island and facades can only be viewed from outside. The building stands in Rhede in the Münsterland region of North Rhine-Westphalia, near the Rheder Bach stream.

The octagonal stair tower at the inner corner of the two wings carries the alliance coat of arms of Lubbert von Rhemen and Hillegunde von Diepenbrock zu Kortenhorn, its slate-covered onion dome rising above the moat. The northeast wing keeps its original 1564 scrolled stepped gable, banded with lozenges of blue-fired brick.