Schloss Heltorf

Schloss Heltorf is a water castle in Angermund, Düsseldorf, near the city boundary with Duisburg. An English landscape garden surrounds Schloss Heltorf and its historic buildings.

Heltorf first appears as Hof Helethorpe in an eleventh-century rent register belonging to Kaiserswerth Abbey. Forestry activity on the estate reaches back to the twelfth century.

The Counts of Spee have owned Schloss Heltorf since 1662, and the estate retains agricultural and forestry functions. The main building has a classical design.

Heinrich Theodor Freyse rebuilt the main building in the early nineteenth century, giving the castle its classical character. The garden hall contains frescoes from the Barbarossa cycle.

Karl Stürmer and Heinrich Mücke created works for the fresco cycle in the large garden hall. A neo-Gothic tower extension houses an extensive collection of old books.

Vincenz Statz designed the tower-like extension in 1862. Maximilian Weyhe designed the park as an English woodland garden in 1803, with exotic trees and an old rhododendron plantation.

The estate extends across land in Düsseldorf and the southern Ruhr area, while sustainable forestry remains part of its operation.