Schellenberg Castle

Schellenberg Castle, located in the forest of the same name in the German city of Essen, is a large castle complex with many residential and outbuildings. The first mention of Schellenberg dates back to the XII century. For many centuries, the castle belonged to different German families: Messrs. von Breuch, the Orst families, Fittinghoff-Schell, who rebuilt it to their taste.

The castle acquired its present appearance at the end of the XVII century and is now a baroque manor. On the territory of the castle you can see the main two-storey building with a tower, a stone house, a residential lord's house on the south side of the castle, a pseudo-Gothic building on the north-west side and outbuildings on the courtyard. In 1918, an orphanage was equipped in the castle, since 1920, for several decades there was a Catholic society for helping children and women, in 1967 the Higher School of Police was located here. Nowadays, the premises of the castle are rented out to firms and companies.