Hausen manor

A wing of the outer bailey of the Hausen manor, rebuilt on fire

The Hausen manor was a manor in what is now the area of the city of Eschweiler in the Aachen city region . The property was located between the former villages of Erberich and Langendorf near what is now the Blausteinsee . During the French period at the beginning of the 19th century it belonged to Mairie Froenhofen . The estate was demolished in the 1970s because of the future opencast mine . Part of his bailey was in Aachen- fire but was rebuilt true to the original.

history

The gate tower of the manor around 1916

The estate already existed in the 13th century and was owned by the Bruch von Hausen family until 1374, whose ancestral home it was. It was later owned by Sin (t) zig's family. The widow Katharina von Erp, married von Sinzig, used the estate as body breeding before her son Wilhelm inherited it. Then the property came to Heinrich von Haittert. In 1480 Gut Hausen was owned by Stefan von Siegenhofen called Astel, before it came to Raitz von Frentz in 1485 . 80 years later it was bought by the Huyn von Amstenrath family in 1565 , and in 1645 Count Huyn von Geleen owned the estate. He was later followed by the princes of Salm-Kyrburg .

At the beginning of the 18th century, Maria Anna von Blanckart , Baroness von Hochsteden, acquired the manor and from 1716 had the four-winged outer bailey rebuilt. Her daughter brought the property to the von Fürstenberg family by marriage , who were still the owners at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time the Gothic mansion was only a ruin . It stood southeast of the outer bailey, which was surrounded by moats, and was connected to it in earlier times by a drawbridge . The building had a square floor plan measuring approximately 12 × 12 meters. The western part of the northwest facade was marked by a risalit , behind which a staircase was hidden. The basement had a barrel vault . The outer bailey burned down in 1914, only the gate tower and an adjoining residential wing remained. According to the will of Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim, when he died on May 25, 1925, his relative Rudolf von Fürstenberg-Körtlinghausen inherited the property.

In 1973 the manor had to give way to the opencast mine of the future. However, part of the south-western wing of the outer bailey was not laid down, but dismantled and rebuilt south of the cemetery in the Aachen district of Brand. Its current location is found at 50 ° 45 '6.9 " N , 6 ° 10' 22.1" O . The hamlet of Hausen in the area of the municipality of Aldenhoven is a reminder of the estate's location at the time . A memorial stone for the manor was erected there on May 18, 1994. 50.751911111111 6.1728111111111

description

The brick building at the current location is part of the former entrance wing of the outer bailey, whose wall anchors date it to 1717. The arched portal is located in a three-storey gate tower, which is closed off by an octagonal dome . With its bright corner cuboids, it has the typical shape of a gate building for the Jülich and Limburg regions . A large coat of arms stone above the entrance gate with the alliance coat of arms Hochsteden-Blanckart and the year 1716 identifies Maria Anna von Blanckart as the client. A few loopholes are spread across the entire front . The so-called Grafenzimmer is located on the first floor of the gate tower . It has a bluestone fireplace in simple Renaissance shapes .

literature

Karl Franck-Oberaspach: The art monuments of the Jülich district (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 8, Section 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1902, pp. 186-187 ( digitized version ).
Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 73 .
Christian Lenz: On the history of the Hausen manor. In: Rur flowers. Leaves for entertainment, edification and instruction, supplement to the Jülich Kreisblatt. Vol. 8, No. 18, 1928, no p.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b C. Lenz: On the history of the manor house of Hausen. 1928, no p.
^ Richard Klapheck: The architecture on the Lower Rhine . Volume 1, reprint of the 1916 edition. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8128-0020-9 , p. 301 ( digitized version ).

50.865472222222 6.2795Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 55.7 ″ N , 6 ° 16 ′ 46.2 ″ E

[lenz-1] C. Lenz: On the history of the manor house of Hausen. 1928, no p.

[klapheck-2] Richard Klapheck: The architecture on the Lower Rhine . Volume 1, reprint of the 1916 edition. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8128-0020-9 , p. 301 ( digitized version ).