Lembeck Castle

The Lembeck Castle is a moated castle in Dorsten on the border of northern Ruhr area and southern Munsterland. It is in the Hohe Mark Nature Park-Westmünsterland surrounded by the woods "The Copenhagen" and "Kippheide" south of the town of Dorsten part Lembeck in the northwest of Recklinghausen. The lock name "Lembeck" derives from the Low German ago. The root word "beke" means "flowing water" and "river". The modifier, which is language related to "clay" and "glue" is "slimy" for. Thus, one can translate Lembeck as Lehmbach what the former site of the castle suggests the middle of a swamp and marshland.