Schloß Gehrden
Castle Hotel · Brakel-Gehrden
Granted by the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn, and brewed to this day in the horseshoe-shaped outer bailey in Rheder.
✦On 2 July 1686 the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn granted the brewing right to the owner of the Rheder estate, Christian Falcko Freiherr von Mengersen. In 1716 his son Burchardus Bruno Freiherr von Mengersen, minister to the Prince-Bishop in Paderborn, commissioned the then still young Baroque architect to build the church of St. Katharina in Rheder and the horseshoe-shaped outer bailey, which has housed the various departments of the brewery from the very first day. In the following generation, in 1750, the palace was built.
The brewery was extended for the first time and converted into a steam brewery on the Bavarian model. This made it possible to brew bottom-fermented beer, which keeps and travels better. Where the Weidenpalais stands today, ice ponds were laid out in the first half of the 19th century to harvest ice for cooling the beer in winter. The mill of 1710 was converted into a wheat mill. The storage cellar at the foot of the ‘Sieseberg’ nature reserve was also built during this period.
After a temporary lease of the estate and brewery around 1850, the von Spiegel family took over farming and brewing again from 1902. The brewery was further expanded and modernised. Even then, wooden vats and storage barrels were replaced by aluminium tanks.
The newest venue in Rheder castle park: an old barn, completely gutted and modernised, right next to the newly built Weidenpalais. Old masonry and wooden beams meet concrete and steel — with room for around 65 people.
Hearty brewhouse cuisine, freshly tapped beer from our own brewery and cosy hours in the unique ambience of the Rheder Castle Brewery.
Crispy pork knuckle fresh from the grill or ½ roast chicken · pretzel or bread roll · coleslaw · mixed salad · including 3 freshly tapped beers of 0.3 l or Annen lemonade
Rustic snack board with Pfefferbeißer & sausage specialities · hearty cheese · pretzel · dripping & gherkin · including 2 freshly tapped beers of 0.3 l or Annen lemonade
Warm scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, cold cuts and cheese specialities · oven-fresh rolls, bread & croissants · homemade jam · yoghurt and fruit · coffee and tea station, orange juice
Hearty cauldron goulash, slowly braised, with fresh bread · including 1 freshly tapped beer (0.3 l) or Annen lemonade
Freshly baked cake and freshly brewed coffee
Kale with smoked sausage, Kassler and boiled potatoes · including 3 freshly tapped beers of 0.3 l or Annen lemonade
Mixed salad to start · classic Sunday roast or roast chicken with matching side · dessert · including 1 drink (0.33 l beer or Annen lemonade)
Freshly baked cake and freshly brewed coffee
With apple red cabbage and dumplings — also with salad to start and dessert. Including 1 drink (0.33 l beer or Annen lemonade).
Whether it’s a company outing, a club trip, a birthday or a Christmas party — we host your celebration in the Park Barn and, if you wish, show you on a tour of the Rheder Castle Brewery how we have been brewing since 1686.
Rounded, off-dry taste
Mild, malty taste
Rounded and malty · 18.5 % original gravity
Full-bodied, bitter and spicy taste
Rounded, off-dry taste
Naturally cloudy wheat beer speciality
Isotonic, reduced in calories
Real beer enjoyment, but alcohol-free
50 % lager, 50 % lemonade
Alcohol-free, with a hearty malty taste
Lemonade with natural orange extracts
Lemonade with natural lemon extracts
Lemonade
After the liquidation of the Hütt brewery in Bettenhausen at the Knallhütte, the traditional beers HÜTT and Hessisches Löwenbier continue to be brewed in Rheder to the original recipes — nine generations of North Hessian brewing history, carried on by a house with the same standards.
This means the Hessian classics will now also be on the menu at Schloß Gehrden — alongside Pils, Helles and wheat beer from Rheder.
You’ll find the range in both restaurants and in the vaulted bar — and directly from the brewery.
✦Impressions from the house, the kitchen and the park — and the quickest way to reach us.
4-star castle hotel in the Weserbergland. Hotel, restaurants, event venue.
