Dyckburg

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The Dyckburg Church, after which the living area was named.

Dyckburg is the collective name for the living areas ( districts ) Sudmühle and Mariendorf in the east of Münster in Westphalia, which are located north of the Dyckburg Church and belong to Gelmer . Dyckburg is largely shaped by agriculture. In the west it borders on the districts of Sprakel and Coerde , in the east on Handorf . Around 500 people live in Dyckburg.

The origin of the living area was formed by the Dyckburg, which was already documented as mansus to dycke (house on the pond) in 1400 and was originally owned by the von Bischoping family of hereditary men from Münster ; later it was acquired by the patrician and merchant Johann von Berswordt, who was four times mayor of Munster. The oldest stone evidence of the Dyckburg is in the tower room of today's Dyckburg church; there is a lintel with a coat of arms and motto of the old Westphalian family von Berswordt from 1572 inserted into the wall. Around 1545 the Berswordts built the moated castle, called Dikhus around 1500, into a "free house", a country estate that was called Diecksburg in 1664 and later generally referred to as Dieckburg or Dyckburg . In its time, the Dyckburg is a four-winged castle complex surrounded by moats with an outer bailey on an offshore island. Apart from the aforementioned lintel and the two ponds that still exist, nothing remains of the Dyckburg from the 16th and 17th centuries.

In 1722 ownership passed to the cathedral provost Friedrich Christian von Plettenberg , who was appointed by the Westphalian master builder Johann Conrad Schlaun (1695–1773), in addition to two economic buildings that are still standing today, including a baroque entrance gate, to use the oldest part of this Dyckburg church as a court chapel in honor of the Mother of God modeled on the basilica of the Holy House in Loreto (Italy), which was inaugurated in 1740, which is why it is still called the Loreto Chapel today. The image of Mary in the altar niche is also a replica of the image of grace from Loreto. The Latin inscription above the entrance to the church indicates that 1740 was the year this first church was built.

After several changes of ownership, Count Bonifatius von Hatzfeld- Trachenberg acquired the Dyckburg in 1884 and, with the help of his rich wife, Princess Olga von Manouckbay (also Manuc Bey ) from Chișinău , had the Loreto Chapel enlarged in 1894 by the architect August Rincklake through the octagonal domed structure and the neo-baroque choir area with a lower barrel vault to the church in its present form. In addition, he had the burial chapel built for his family in 1914, in which he and his wife later found their final resting place, as well as a residential building for the clergy of the church, the later rectory. The latter was sold together with the associated parish garden in 2010 due to parish mergers. As a splendid ornament, the burial chapel received a mosaic of the risen Christ based on a sketch by the painter Friedrich Stummel from Kevelaer. The Jesus grave corresponds to the Silesian tradition of the count.

On August 31, 1921 - shortly before his death - the count donated the church, the house and the garden to the parish of St. Mauritz. The Dyckburg Church thus became a regular branch church of this old Münster parish. The Dyckburg estate, including the Count's residence, now known as the Boniburg , was sold to the city of Münster in 1923 by the Count's second wife, Aline Collee Janssens, whom he married after Olga's death.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′  N , 7 ° 41 ′  E