Lembeck Castle

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Aerial view of the main and outer bailey
Southwest view of the main house

The Lembeck Castle is a moated castle in the city of Dorsten on the border of northern Ruhr area and southern Münsterland . It is located in the Hohe Mark Nature Park, surrounded by the forests "Der Hagen" and "Kippheide" south of the Dorsten district of Lembeck in the northwest of the Recklinghausen district .

The castle name "Lembeck" is derived from Low German . The basic word “beke” means “flowing water” or “brook”. The defining word, which is related to “clay” and “glue”, stands for “slimy”. Lembeck can therefore be translated as Lehmbach, which indicates the former location of the castle in the middle of a swamp and moorland.

description

building

Area map of the castle, 1804

The Lembecker Wiesenbach will be dammed into a rectangular pond measuring 190 × 160 meters and surrounding the facility. The individual parts of the castle are located on islands that are connected by bridges.

The baroque palace complex is symmetrically structured by a 500-meter-long straight east-west axis . It begins with a 200-meter-long avenue that runs from the east towards the former three-winged outer bailey.

Outer bailey

The two-winged outer bailey has a simple single-storey facade with a width of 110 meters, which is only interrupted by a two-storey gate structure made of ashlar sandstone in the middle. Accessible via two successive bridges, it now has a simple mansard roof . Its keystone above the gateway with the coat of arms of Dietrich Conrad Adolf von Westerholt zu Lembeck and his wife Marie Theodora von Waldbott-Bassenheim-Gudenau shows the year 1692, the year in which the renovation of the outer bailey was completed.

The southern wing of the outer bailey is bounded at its ends by single-storey corner towers with Welschen hoods and imperial handle ends , which have key notches in the basement . The southeast tower also has an embrasure as can be found on the left and right of the gate.

  • View of the outer bailey from the northeast

  • Portal and gatehouse of the outer bailey

  • View into the courtyard of the outer bailey

Mansion

The three-story mansion can be reached via the outer courtyard and a stone arch bridge. Originally planned as a three-wing complex, it was only built as a two-wing building, probably for financial reasons. It used to be plastered with incised cuboids, not as previously assumed with painted cuboids.

The east wing with its two pavilion towers is 94 meters long and was completed in 1679. The northern wing is of an older date and was included in renovation work between 1674 and 1679 (see building history ).

The portal of sandstone is placed in front of and considerably more elaborate than that of the outer bailey. Due to its height up to the roof approach, it looks like a medium risk . It shows the alliance coat of arms of Burchardt von Westerholt zu Lembeck and his wife Clara von der Recke . The passageway behind it is based on models from the Italian Renaissance and Mannerism . Similar transit halls can also be found in the Palazzo Pitti and Palazzo Strozzi in Florence as well as in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome : When it rained, guests could enter the building with dry feet, while their carriages were turned around or parked in the courtyard.

A wide, 14-step sandstone staircase leads from the inner courtyard of the manor house to a terrace from the 19th century, from which today's entrance portal can be reached.

On the side facing the inner courtyard, the facade has a small, renaissance-like bay window that stands on double curved sandstone consoles. Its front is divided by six windows, the glass panes of which are partly provided with dates (latest date 1677) and give an indication of its construction time.

All of the mansion's corner towers have Welsche hoods and pear-shaped arrow slits in their base.

To the west, the Herrenhausinsel is connected to the park by a wooden bridge . The bridges pillar of brick are with yellowish Baumberger sandstone taken and used by arms holding Putten crowned. The pillars were designed by Johann Conrad Schlaun in 1728 and erected after 1730. The putti hold the coats of arms of Ferdinand von Merveldt and Maria von Westerholt-Lembeck.

  • Main house, east side

  • View of the main house from the northwest

  • Main house, west side; in the foreground the chapel tower

  • Aerial view of the main house

Chapel tower

The chapel tower in neo-Gothic style is located on the northwest corner of the manor house. It is the most frequently modified part of the castle. Its portal on the east side dates from the end of the 17th century. His cellar used to be a prison, later it served as the wine cellar of the restaurant located in the castle. Its former cross vault was demolished in 1737.

The tower got its name from the chapel , which has been guaranteed since 1737 and which was first mentioned in 1363 - at that time still in the hall chamber house. The claim that the chapel was moved there from the hall chamber house in 1692 has not been confirmed based on the documents available to date.

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Lembeck Castle seen from the southwest side

Interiors of the manor house on the mezzanine floor

Floor plan of the mezzanine floor

The Lembeck interiors do not have the hierarchical arrangement of rooms around a central room or hall , which is common in other baroque palaces , which is probably due to the fact that the old building fabric did not allow this during construction in the last quarter of the 17th century. The room arrangement in the cabinet system in Enfilade follows French models, although this was already out of fashion in France at the time of construction. However, the passages of the rooms are not exactly in one row.

With the exception of the Fidelitas cabinet, the small salon and the small hall, all rooms are paneled with a dark, coffered oak lambris , which is typical of early baroque furnishings.

Main wing

Hall

Five rooms adjoin the 45 meter long corridor facing the courtyard. On its eastern walls hang five large tapestries from the 17th century from a Flemish workshop with depictions from the legends of Odysseus and Iphigenia . A heraldic cartouche from the end of the 17th century shows the alliance coat of arms of the Westerholt and von der Recke families. A collection of porcelain of Dutch and Asian origin completes the furnishing of the hallway.

Tower room

With its 5.75 x 5.75 meter floor plan, the room takes up the entire south tower. As the only living room in the entire castle, it has a massive ribbed vault . The lower part of its walls and the areas between the windows have paneling made from parts of wedding chests from the Rococo and Empire periods . On the south wall of the room there is a fireplace from 1563, which was originally located in the burned down north wing of the outer bailey.

Fireplace room

The fireplace room has a beamed ceiling that was only exposed under a stucco ceiling in 1960/61 and still has remains of the original painting from the 17th century. The room was named after its fireplace made of Baumberger sandstone, which has rich decorations in the Renaissance style. The coat of arms attached to it refers to the family ties to the von Raesfeld and von Bronckhorst families , who were resident at Anholt Castle . A floor plan from 1779 shows two dressing rooms on the south side of the room, which provide an indication of its former function as a parade bedroom.

Biedermeier room

The room got its name only recently from the style of its furnishings. Otherwise it is very unadorned and has no architectural decoration.

bedroom

The architectural eye-catcher of the bedroom is a large, classicist stucco rosette on its ceiling. The room is equipped with a late Gothic cupboard from around 1500 and a four-poster bed with a canopy bearing an alliance coat of arms of the von Raesfeld and von der Recke families.

Fidelitas cabinet

The Fidelitas cabinet was named after an oil painting on the ceiling showing an allegorical representation of Fidelitas . It is the only originally preserved wall painting by Lembeck. The most striking distinguishing feature from the other rooms is the white of its oak lambris. Small oval oil paintings are framed by his stucco in delicate pastel tones, which probably depict portraits of the daughters of Dietrich Conrad von Westerholt and his wife Maria Theodora von Waldbott-Bassenheim-Gudenau. With a floor space of only 10.6 m², the smallest room in the entire castle, it was completely restored in 1972 .

Small salon

The room above the passageway has doors and paneling that is painted white. Chinois wallpapers from the 18th century line its walls. The oak parquet floor has been preserved in its original form. A former fireplace was replaced by a cylindrical cast iron stove in the 18th century when this new type of heating became fashionable.

Small hall (Wittelsbacher Salon)

The small hall is the only room on the mezzanine floor to have three windows. It has a stucco ceiling that is held in pastel tones and a parquet floor that is inlaid . In front of a fireplace made of red marble from the Rococo and Régence times , it bears the initials of the castle residents at the time, Clemens August von Merveldt and his wife Marie Antoinette, née Countess von Wolff-Metternich. A painting above the fireplace shows the Cologne prince-bishop Clemens August. On the west wall hangs a portrait of Goswin von Merveldt, the Grand Prior of the Order of Malta for Germany and Prince of Heitersheim. Supraports over the doors show portraits of the Westerholt daughters.

The room is equipped with white and gold-framed seating in the Rococo style, the covers of which are made of tapestry embroidery . They come from the Merveldter Hof in Münster, which was destroyed by bombs in 1941.

Boasting room

The Prahlhans room is at the northern end of the main wing and thus in the oldest part of the manor house. It is lower than the other rooms, but on the same level as the Schlaunsche Saal. It has a rich stucco work, some of which is even finer than that in the large ballroom and dates from around 1730/40. His black marble fireplace was not built until after 1779 and it is noticeable that it is not at the back of the fireplace in the adjoining small room.

North wing

Former dining room (red salon)

The former dining room has a wall thickness of 2.30 meters in the east, making it the thickest wall of the entire wing. The rectangular room is divided by a wall into a corridor-like passage measuring 2.55 × 6.35 meters and an almost square cabinet with a floor plan of 5.90 × 6.35 meters. The former dining room with its classicistic stucco work from the end of the 18th century owes its nickname Red Salon to its wall covering made of red silk damask .

Large ballroom (Schlaunscher Saal)

The large ballroom designed by Johann Conrad Schlaun in the late Baroque style is the largest room in the palace and, with its 140 m² area, takes up the entire width of the north wing. It has a total of six entrances, four of which are in the east and west walls. The fifth and actual main entrance is in the south-east corner, while the sixth is hidden more inconspicuously behind the middle of the three terrace-facing south windows from 1738. A window in the north wall is symmetrically opposite each of these. Supraports over the doors show scenes from rural life.

At both ends of the hall there is a black marble chimney in the middle, which was installed there before 1738. Above each hang a mirror and the portraits of the then owner Ferdinand Dietrich von Merveldt and his wife Maria Josepha Anna Theodora Gabriele, née von Westerholt. A further eleven portraits showing the children of the lords of the castle and their spouses and a portrait of an unknown person hang on the wall surfaces covered with green silk damask, the lower half of which is paneled with coffered oak lambris. The valuable wall covering was renewed in 1954 based on old photos after it was stolen in 1946 by members of military troops stationed in the palace.

The most remarkable features of the ballroom are its elaborately designed stucco work on the ceiling, which probably dates from the period 1730 to 1733. They are very similar to the stucco work in the yellow apartment in Augustusburg Castle and in the rooms of Nordkirchen Castle , which was also designed by Schlaun. The Lembeck stucco was badly damaged by water ingress resulting from damage to the building during the war and was restored in 1954 and restored in 1973. Today they are presented in soft green, yellow and pink pastel tones.

Former library

The cabinet to the west of the Schlaunschen Hall used to house the palace library. The 6.40 6 m² room was almost completely destroyed by a bomb hit on its northwest corner during the Second World War and was subsequently no longer restored "in its old splendor". Today it is the only room in the castle without wall paneling. In the room there are portraits of members of the von Merveldt and von Galen families, as well as a painting depicting the death of Richard the Lionheart and belonging to the Nazarene school .

Chapel tower

The chapel has a neo-Gothic interior. The master gallery is on the east side and is supported by two free-standing pillars. Red-brown, blue and gold-colored ornaments decorate the coffered stucco ceiling .

Park

After renovation work between 1674 and 1692, a baroque garden based on the French model with symmetrical axes was laid out to the west of the palace based on a design by August Reinking . An inventory of the landscape surroundings of Lembeck from 1804 shows how the “all-pervasive” east-west axis of the facility ended in the forest area “der Hagen”.

Hardly anything can be seen of the eastern installations today. Only a few overgrown aisles in the forest show that this part was once part of the design concept.

In the 19th century, under Ferdinand-Anton von Merveldt, the park was redesigned into an English landscape garden in line with contemporary tastes.

history

Owners and residents

With Adolf von Lembeck (also "von Lehembeke") a knight of this name was first mentioned in 1177 as a ministerial of the Münster diocese . His family, the Lords of Lembeck, exercised jurisdiction over the glory of the same name . Since 1390 the castle at that time was an open house of the bishop of Münster.

When the male line of Johann von Lembeck died out in 1526, the property came to this powerful Westphalian noble family through Johann's daughter Berta, who had been married to Bernhard I von Westerholt since 1515 . Bernhard I. founded the line "from Westerholt to Lembeck". His official enfeoffment with the glory by the bishop of Münster, Franz von Waldeck , happened in 1536. Bernhard was his confidante and had the supreme command of the episcopal cavalry . He was also a member of the committee for the expulsion of the Anabaptists from Münster and supported the bishop when he had to flee to Dülmen from the Anabaptist movement in 1534 . When Bernhard I died on August 26, 1554, his son Bernhard II took over the family business as majorate and continued the tradition of strong ties to Münster.

In 1576 the Eighty Years War broke out over the castle and glory of Lembeck. Both Bernhard II and his son Matthias, who succeeded him as majorate of the family, did their best to protect their fiefdom from evil, but could not prevent the region from suffering badly from the war. Matthias von Lembeck enjoyed a high reputation among the nobility in the region and, together with the lords of Velen , von Galen and von Raesfeld, was able to prevent the Münster monastery from being occupied by Spanish troops. Even more, through negotiations with the Spaniards from 1607 onwards, Matthias even managed to ensure that the monastery would not be bothered by Spanish troops. The ailing Matthias handed over the rule to his brother Johann while he was still alive.

The consequences of the Eighty Years' War resulted in a high level of debt for the von Lembeck lords, so that Johann was forced to sell the castle complex in 1631 to his relative Bernhard von Westerholt-Hackfurt zu Entinge from the Dutch branch of the family. That Bernhard was the main creditor of the Lords of Lembeck and raised claims totaling 111,000  Reichstalers , which could not be redeemed in any other way.

Bernhard von Westerholt-Hackfurt zu Entinge fought on the side of the Catholic League during the Thirty Years' War and made it up to colonel in the imperial army. Until 1633 the castle and the glory were spared from this war, but then it also broke out over Lembeck. At the beginning of 1633 rose Emperor Ferdinand II. Bernhard for his military achievements in the realm baron , but the message did not reach the freshly baked barons more in his castle in Lembeck, as he had before the troops of the Landgrave William V of Hesse Kassel had to flee to a family estate in Haselünne . Since February 16, 1633, General Peter Melander von Holzappel has resided there in his place. According to the then applicable martial law, he had taken the castle for himself and made it his headquarters. Bernhard was quickly expropriated and died on November 19, 1638 in "exile".

It was not until 1641 that Bernhard's eldest son, Burchard, managed to take possession of the castle again for his family. His son Dietrich Conrad Adolf was raised to the hereditary status of imperial count in 1700 and had the complex expanded and converted into one of the largest moated castles in the Münsterland between 1670 and 1692. When he died in 1702 without male descendants, his heir daughter Maria Josepha Anna brought the castle to this noble family in 1708 by marrying Drosten Ferdinand Dietrich von Merveldt zu Westerwinkel from Wolbeck , who were elevated to the rank of imperial count in 1726. The facility is still in their possession today. The current owners are Ferdinand Graf von Merveldt and his wife Catharine.

Building history

A well-fortified property , the so-called " Oberhof in der Le (h) mbecke", is mentioned in documents from the 12th century. It was located a little away from the former villages of Lembeck and Wulfen and was administered and inhabited by the Lords of Lembeck on behalf of the Bishop of Münster.

They built a tower hill castle as a new family seat at the site of today's castle, which was first mentioned in the 14th century. It stood in the middle of swamp and water and was extended to the north by an annex with two rooms (a so-called two-chamber house). In the 15th century an extension and a corner tower (the so-called chapel tower) were added to the west.

Around 1490 the property of both houses existing at the time was merged. The old castle was then torn down.

Lembeck Castle received its basic, present-day form under Dietrich Conrad Adolf von Westerholt-Lembeck, who had it expanded and rebuilt in the Baroque style between 1674 and 1692. The builder commissioned with the execution is still unknown today. A surveying certificate from 1674 mentions a "Master Emond", but it is not certain whether it was the master builder or just a master mason. In that year, the renovation and expansion of the old three-chamber house began. A wing was added to the south and was completed in 1679.

A renovation of the outer bailey followed until 1692. The individual construction phases of these buildings can still be read from the different heights of the storeys and clearly visible construction joints. Attempts were made to cover the latter with plaster that is no longer preserved today. In 1741 the gate building received its present mansard roof. Previously, like all the towers in the palace complex, it was crowned by a Welsche hood.

Floor plan of the mansion cellar, 1819

The Münster architect Johann Conrad Schlaun was responsible for the subsequent renovation work in the 18th century. The splendid Schlaunsche Saal in the north wing of the main building with late baroque furnishings is named after him. Along with its extensive redesign, a Renaissance bay window on the north facade of the wing was demolished.

After the chapel tower was found to be in disrepair in 1829, it was fundamentally restored between 1831 and 1833. Preserved documents from the construction period suggest that the work must not have been a pure renovation , but rather an almost complete demolition and reconstruction.

Lembeck Castle around 1865, Alexander Duncker collection

In 1887 the north wing of the outer bailey containing the stables burned down with both corner towers and was not rebuilt. However, the dating of the fire could be wrong, because only in 1889 there is a note on the file that suggests a fire in that year: "One of the four corner towers of the outer bailey was cremated by the carelessness of the Russians."

During the Second World War, Lembeck Castle suffered considerable damage in 1943 as a result of bomb hits and vandalism by the occupiers. After the repair, which the architect Franz Schneider began in 1947 and his son Paul Schneider-Esleben initially continued in 1948, the owners at the time, Maria-Josefa Freifrau von Twickel , née Countess von Merveldt, and her husband Johannes opened the complex to the public in 1954.

In 1958, the south wing of the outer bailey was converted for residential purposes, as the castle owners needed quieter accommodation. Before that, the outer bailey was used purely as a tool and stable building, and a brandy distillery was set up in its south-west tower in the 19th century.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the State Office for Monument Preservation carried out numerous restoration and redevelopment measures at Lembeck Castle. Among other things, the Schlaun bridge piers to the garden were restored in 1969 and a gray plaster was applied to the red bricks of the chapel tower in 1977, based on earlier times. After renovation work, a hotel was opened on the upper floor of the manor house and a restaurant was opened in the vaulted cellar .

The four basic construction phases of the manor house at Lembeck Castle can now be read off very clearly from the wall thicknesses of the existing building stock: the thicker the wall, the higher its age. Preserved parts of the former residential tower or chamber house of the Lords of Lembeck in the north wing are up to 2.30 m thick. With the exception of the west side of the Prahlhans room and the north and south walls of Schlaun's ballroom, the preserved walls are to be assigned to the second construction phase (1.90–2.10 m). The extension of the southern wing and the three corner towers can be characterized as the third construction phase: The facade walls of the wing are 1.10–1.30 m thick, while the corner towers have a wall thickness of 1.40–1.70 m. The low wall thickness of the chapel tower compared to the other two corner towers can be explained by its likely rebuilding from 1831.

Todays use

building

Part of the castle served as a hotel and restaurant until the end of 2016. In addition, the system is now used for a variety of purposes. It is home to a castle museum on the mezzanine floor of the main building, which can be visited as part of a guided tour. During a tour, you can see, among other things, works of art that the owners have collected over more than 300 years; for example Chinese porcelain , Flemish tapestries , paintings and furniture from the Rococo and Empire / Biedermeier periods .

In the attic of the main house, the local history museum operated by the local history association Lembeck (open Saturday and Sunday afternoons) has found a home since 1992 . You can see collections of handicraft and agricultural equipment and everyday objects from bygone times as well as archaeological finds.

In the former castle kitchen in the basement of the main house there is also a gallery showing pictures by the artist Hanns Hubertus Graf von Merveldt . Their baroque ambience is also available for civil weddings. In addition, some rooms in the castle can be rented for private purposes. For example, the Schlaunsche Saal is available for festivities or the castle chapel can be used for weddings or baptisms.

Twice a year, major events in the castle park attract more than 20,000 visitors. The four-day country party takes place in late spring , and in late summer the castle grounds host the fine arts market . In addition, concerts are held regularly in the ballroom of the palace.

Park

Part of the castle park

The former private garden of the castle owners gradually developed into an excursion destination for the whole family as the number of castle visitors increased.

In 1960, the then head of the palace gardening department, Heinrich Nottelmann, began growing rhododendrons at Lembeck Palace. In 1967 an area of ​​four hectares immediately adjacent to the park was developed as a rhododendron garden. This was planted with the self-bred species as well as purchases from a Holstein breed. Today the garden is called Heinrich-Nottelmann-Park and with its 150 different rhododendron species and 70 other tree species is particularly attractive during the rhododendron bloom (from mid-May to mid-June).

In addition to the gardens, there is a playground and a petting zoo on the grounds of the park , which provide entertainment for the younger visitors, while the older ones can have fun on the rentable barbecue area .

literature

  • Hans-Peter Boer, Andreas Lechtape: Castles and palaces in the Münsterland. 2nd Edition. Aschendorff, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-12766-7 , pp. 41–44.
  • Gerd Dethlefs: The moated castle Lembeck. Venue and museum of Westphalian aristocratic culture. In: Westfälischer Heimatbund (Hrsg.): Yearbook Westphalia 2015 (= Westfälischer Heimatkalender. New episode, volume 69). Aschendorff, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-402-15821-0 , pp. 127-135.
  • Ulrike Evers: Lembeck Castle. A contribution to the art of castle architecture in Westphalia . Lit-Verlag, Münster 1981, ISBN 3-88660-020-3 ( digitized extracts ).
  • Eberhardt G. Neumann: Lembeck Castle (= DKV art guide . Issue 261). 10th edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Lembeck  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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