House Mozenborn
| House Mozenborn | |
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 The mansion |
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| Alternative name (s): | Mozenborn Castle |
| Creation time : | before 1500 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | Wall remnants, trenches |
| Place: | Düren |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 46 '42 " N , 6 ° 27' 22" E |
| Height: | 139 m above sea level NN |
House Mozenborn located on the eastern edge of the Düren district Birgel in Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Mozenborn's moated castle from the 15th or 16th century stood at Haus Mozenborn . Only silted up trenches and the stump of a round tower have survived. There are no records of the castle's demise.
The manor house was first mentioned in a document in the 14th century. At that time it was owned by the Schinmann von Moitzenborn family.
The Mozenborn house today consists of a rectangular farmyard from the 18th century, which is a few 100 meters away from the old castle. The courtyard was probably built after the castle building fell apart. The mansion is a two-storey, transversely rectangular limed brick building from 1789 with a mansard roof . Two axes were added to it on the side facing the farm buildings in the 20th century.
The building is still inhabited by the Ley family today. The offices of Carl Ley Landschaftsbau GmbH Gut Mozenborn are located on the upper floor .
The building is entered in the list of monuments of the city of Düren under No. 4/001.
owner
The knight Schinmann von Mozenborn was married to Irmgard von Hirzelin from Cologne. The son Dietrich and the grandson Johann were the successors in the possession of the Mozenborn family. The last bearer of the name Schinmann von Mozenborn married a Johann Frambach von dem Weyern zu Schweinheim. His daughter Mergen brought the house into the marriage with Wilhelm Spies von Büllesheim. This couple founded the family "Spies zu Mozenborn".
By marriage and inheritance, the property came into the ownership of Franz Spies von Büllesheim , Herr zu Mozenborn, Schweinheim , Kettenheim and Schimpern in 1525 . He is then followed by son Wilhelm Spies von Büllesheim, Lord of Mozenborn and Schimpern, Herzoglich-Jülischer Rat and bailiff of Wilhelmstein and Eschweiler .
The descendant, Elisabeth Margareta Gundula Spies zu Büllesheim, later married Bertram von Frimersdorf, known as Pützfeld. Their only daughter, Margareta Anna Theresia von Pützfeld, heiress of Mozenborn since 1716, married Baron Damian Lothar Josef von Eltz zu Rühbenach in 1725. His son Franz Josef Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Eltz took over the estate from him in 1738. He was an Elector of Trier treasury, bailiff of Boppard and called himself in 1759 hereditary bailiff of Rübenach.
During this time the old castle complexes seem to have fallen into disrepair. Baron von Eltz had the new farm yard, which still exists today, built northeast of the old building. In 1766 Franz Josef Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Eltz sold the Mozenborn estate to the Counts of Hochsteden, who soon sold the Mozenborn house again. Many years later it came into the possession of Johann Wilhelm Engels, a doctor from Düren. Wilhelm Engels came from a pastor's family in Kettwig and came to Düren through his marriage to Margarethe Angnes Homborg from Düren. The Mozenborn house served under him as an important meeting place for the Reformed. His grandson, Johann Wilhelm Carl Engels, was a captain in the ducal and later in the Prussian service. In 1822 he was named mayor of Birgel.
After his death and that of his wife, the estate was sold by the heirs to the rent master Wilhelm Peter Josef Künster in 1851. Due to high debt, the Künster family had to sell the estate in 1909. The new owner was Karl Jacobi, whose descendants later managed the estate. In 1916 the Viktoria brewery Mozenborn was located in the building. The brewery owner was H. Kürschner. An empty beer bottle with the inscription: Viktoria-Brauerei, Mozenborn , can be found in the Museum Hürtgenwald 1944. The owner of the distillery was Carl Jacobi in 1928: Submission of the distillery owner Carl Jacobi in Mozenborn on March 20, 1928 because the agricultural property of his distillery and the distillery rights were retained - Transfer II b 5733 / Rr 48.
After the sons Leo, Karl and Robert Jacobi, Karl Jacobi's grandson, Carl Ley, became the new owner in 1959.
Only a half-crumbled stump of a former round tower is left of the once fortified courtyard.
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Pawliczek: Directory of monuments of the city of Düren 1984. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter. No. 76, Düren 1987, ISSN 0416-4180
- ^ Lothar Müller-Westphal : Coat of arms and genealogies of Düren families. In: Dürener Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Contributions to the history of the Dürener country. Volume 20, Düren 1989, pp. 786-787, Schinman von Mozenborn, ISSN 0343-2971
- ↑ Viktoria Brewery Mozenborn in the directory of German master brewers (No. 1748)
- ^ German Reich: Minutes of the full sessions of the Reichsrat, Volume 1928, p. 173 + p. 200, C. Heymanns Verlag, 1928