Gracht Castle

Gracht Moated Castle in Erftstadt-Liblar is one of the moated castles of the Cologne region. It is a two-part complex with a three-winged bailey and a two-winged manor house. The castle garden was probably laid out in the French style at the beginning of the 18th century by Münster garden architect Gottfried Laurenz Pictorius and redesigned in its rear parts in the 19th century in the style of an English landscape park. The seat of lordship belonged to the Wolff-Metternich family for four centuries, who had their ancestral seat there until 1957.