Schloss Berensberg, Manor house in Kohlscheid-Berensberg, Herzogenrath, Germany

Schloss Berensberg is a manor house with a four-wing layout, white stone walls, and rectangular windows framed in limestone. A square four-story tower rises at its southwestern corner, while a preserved former gardener's house with a T-shaped floor plan stands on the grounds.

The founding date is uncertain; the site was probably the high-medieval ancestral castle of the minor noble family von Berensberg, first documented with Junker Goswin von Berensberg in 1250. In 1580 Spanish troops besieged the moated castle for weeks during the Eighty Years' War. Around 1600 it was rebuilt as a four-wing complex on the old foundations, and in 1714 Balduin Friedrich von Reuschenberg and Maria Anna von Brüninghausen erected the present baroque manor house.

The name Berensberg comes from the noble family of the same name, first documented in 1250 with Junker Goswin von Berensberg. The estate later passed by marriage to the von Harff and von Reuschenberg families. Over the main entrance, a stone tablet bears the alliance coat of arms of Balduin Philip von Reuschenberg and Maria Anna von Brüninghausen with the year 1714.

Schloss Berensberg stands on Berensberger Straße in the Kohlscheid-Berensberg district of Herzogenrath, right beside the Aachener Landgraben, the medieval boundary ditch of the Aachen realm. The four wings are mostly used for farming and are rented out, so the buildings are seen from the street and the courtyard side rather than toured inside. The listed former gardener's house, a brick building with a T-shaped plan, stands east of the main complex.

The 1580 Spanish siege was survived through an underground passage to the nearby Wolfsfurth, allowing the castle's occupants to escape before the site was taken, plundered and burned. The passage is not visible today, but the episode explains the rebuilding as a four-wing complex around 1600.