In its monumental form made of basalt lava stone, the castle gate in Nickenich is an ornament of the place.It was once the entrance to the farm buildings in the castle district.
This Eifel view on the Mausauel, above the Obermaubach reservoir, is located at an altitude of 250 m above sea level and offers you a view in a northerly (westerly) direction beyond the reservoir to the last hills of the northern Eifel before the transition to the Jülich-Zülpicher Börde.