Biegerhof
The Biegerhof is a medieval courtyard in the Duisburg district of Huckingen on the border with Wanheim-Angerhausen on the old Angerbach .
Meaning of the name
The name is derived from a large arch ( the bend ) of the Angerbach, in which the Biegerhof is located.
history
The history of the Biegerhof has not yet been fully processed. In 1956, an extensive court archivist was discovered. The Duisburg city archivist Günter von Roden sifted through and organized the documents. Archaeological investigations were carried out on the foundations of the farm, but not on the large, artificially constructed mound nearby. The hill, on the top of which wall remains were found and which possibly forms the oldest part of the Biegerhof, is located in a lowland of the Angerbach . It is believed that the entire complex is a medieval moated castle of the moth type (tower hill castle). The Biegerhof would have been the farmyard for the manor house on the mound, which, according to oral tradition, was also used as a life raft during floods .
The Biegerhof is first mentioned in a document on April 16, 1374 as a feudal court of the Counts of Berg . The history of the farm probably goes back to the Franconian times (5th - 8th centuries). In 1104 the abbot of (Essen-) Werden , Rutloff (Rudolf I) von der Mark, referred to the court as te Biege . A mill also belonged to the farm, probably on the neighboring Spick. Due to the ducal privileges of 1404 and 1450, she was not subject to compulsory meals. There is no trace of the mill today.
On April 9, 1508, Johann von Limburg , the last Herr von Broich from the House of Limburg, arranged for his liege lord Herzog von Berg, Johann's son-in-law Wirich von Daun , Count zu Falkenstein and Herr zu Oberstein to be the husband of his adoptive daughter Irmgard von Sayn and future master from Limburg and Broich to enfeoff with the Biegerhof.
In the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) Wilhelm von Nassau , General of the States General , and Wilhelm Wirich von Daun-Falkenstein issued letters of protection, so that the court was spared from the burdens of war, although there was obviously some devastation in the area. In 1645, for example, Wilhelm Wirich had to be satisfied with only 18 instead of 24 Heister wood from the Huckinger Mark, as the region had been spoiled by soldiers from Haus Angerort . A few years later, in 1648, Wilhelm Wirich transferred the Biegerhof in exchange for a loan of 2000 Reichstalers for 10 years to the married couple Hans Wendell Beckh and Sibilla. In the first quarter of 1658 the Biegerhof was badly damaged by floods and ice . The cattle also perished.
In contrast to many other courts of that time, the court was independent of church institutions as a Bergisches fiefdom, but the fiefdom was withdrawn in the second half of the 17th century by Count Palatine Philipp zu Jülich-Berg and Count Palatine von Neuberg due to excessive indebtedness of the court the court pledged to the Jesuits in Düsseldorf in 1678 , which is why the court was also called the Jesuitenhof zu Huckingen for some time . In 1734 the tenants of the Jesuit court asked for a delivery of wood. Duke Karl Philipp asked about the status. In 1737, the Mündelheim pastor Borrigs and some Huckingers asked permission to build a brick oven on the Bieger field.
The owners of the Biegerhof called themselves ingen Biege or simply Bieger , which eventually became the family name of the tenants and later owners of the Biegerhof. A lease letter dated December 1, 1798 is known in which the lease is transferred to Heinrich Bieger after the death of his father Peter Bieger. In 1799 the Biegerhof was again badly damaged by a flood of the century. After the secularization under Napoleon , the farm was sold by the Bergisches Schulfonds to the Bieger family in 1807, who then held the farm for several generations. In 1960 the Bieger family sold the 300,000 m² farm to the city of Duisburg .
Todays use
From 1961 the city of Duisburg expanded the Biegerhof as a local recreation area for the southern districts of Wanheim-Angerhausen , Buchholz and Huckingen . The Biegerhof and the connected recreation park are today a ground monument and, due to the existing biodiversity and its importance as a breeding and feeding biotope, a landscape protection area of the city of Duisburg.
The park with its 7 km network of trails includes a. various playgrounds, a boules court, two community gardens and a beer garden. To the east of the farm a riding arena was built, in which the Duisburger Reiterverein 64 eV has been housed since 1964. Park visitors can observe the riding activities on the outdoor facilities and a 1.3 km circular riding trail.
literature
- Dietmar Ahlemann, Bernd Braun: Biegerhof and Mühle am Spick , in: Bürgererverein Duisburg-Huckingen eV (ed.), Huckinger Heimatbuch (Volume III), Duisburg 2015, pp. 197–227.
- Bernd Braun: Biegerhof and Motte. In: Bürgererverein Duisburg-Huckingen eV (Hrsg.): Historical hiking trail in Angerland - Huckingen and the surrounding area. Completely revised new edition, Gladbeck 2012, pp. 21–23 ( PDF ; 7.3 MB).
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also list of German hill-towers .
- ↑ Spee'sches Archiv Heltorf, Q1,24 No. 259.
- ↑ LAV NRW R Düsseldorf, Jesuits, U 69. ( Regest )
- ↑ Spee'sches Archiv Heltorf, Q1,24 No. 305.
- ↑ Spee'sches Archiv Heltorf, Q1,24 No. 343.
- ↑ Spee'sches Archiv Heltorf, Q1,24 No. 393.
- ↑ Spee'sches Archiv Heltorf, Q1,24 No. 395.
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 36.2 " N , 6 ° 45 ′ 11.7" E
