Güsten Castle

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Front side of Güsten Castle

The so-called Burg Güsten stands in Güsten , a district of Jülich in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia . Although the name of the complex suggests that it is a castle , the Güstener Burg is just a former estate . It has not yet been proven that this is a successor to the Harffenburg , which was occupied by Güsten from the Middle Ages . The complex stands as since April 11, 1990 monument under monument protection .

history

Goods on the tranchot card; the four-winged estate in the center of the village is easy to see

The history of the founding of the Güstener Burg has not yet been clarified. The current complex was possibly built in the second half of the 18th century on the foundations of the medieval Harffenburg. At the time, this was the seat of the bailiffs who were appointed by the Prüm Abbey to manage their Güsten property. It is possible that Güsten Castle is a successor to Harffenburg, but this has not yet been confirmed. The tranchot map from the beginning of the 19th century shows Güsten Castle as a closed four-wing complex that is surrounded by a multi-part ditch system . At that time it was owned by the Coenen family, from which it came to the Bürsgens family in 1846. The last member of the family bequeathed the property to his nephew on his death in 1956, who sold the facility to Rheinbraun around 1980 . In 1996 the Hoffarths bought the building in order to use it as a riding stables and stud . Today, among other things, Rhenish warmblood horses and Dartmoor ponies are bred there.

description

Güsten Castle is a four-wing complex, the wings of which enclose a trapezoidal inner courtyard measuring around 21.5 × 35 meters. A basket arched gate in the north wing of the building complex provides access to this . The residential building, also known as the mansion , is an eaves brick building with a gable roof and light-colored corner blocks made of stone , the two floors of which rise on the west side of the complex on a 30.5 × 11 meter floor plan. Its façade facing Johannesstrasse, which was plastered in the 19th century and is now whitewashed red, is divided into six axes by windows. The windows have light sills and lintels made of bluestone in the form of segmental arches with a closing wedge stone . In the third axis there is a tower-like, raised risalit with three storeys, which are closed off by a slate-covered hip roof. It is a former gate tower , the ground floor of which was the former entrance to the inner courtyard. This was walled up at the end of the 19th century and replaced by the current window. The relic of this gate passage are the slanting family coats of arms, which are difficult to recognize to the right and left above today's window due to the paintwork. At the same time risalit received his third floor, which blocks fries on Traufgesims an architectural feature of the late historicism is. The corners of the gate tower are emphasized by pilaster strips , on the front of which small bricks are indicated in the plaster.

The three remaining wings to the east of the house date from the 18th and 19th centuries and are mostly older than the manor house. While the brickwork of the north and south wing on the ground floor was made of brick, these wings on the upper floor have half-timbered walls . They were supplemented by modern additions and extensions for today's use.

In the basement, cellars with barrel vaults suggest that these are older structures than those in the buildings above ground. However, this is not certain and would first have to be confirmed by extensive construction studies that have not yet been carried out.

The former moats of the complex have long been leveled, but can still be made out in the relief of the site.

literature

Web links

Commons : Burg Güsten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Monuments in the city of Jülich: Güsten Castle in Jülich-Güsten , accessed on March 11, 2012.
  2. ↑ O. Zanger: Baudenkmäler in der Stadt Jülich , p. 48. Holger A. Dux only dates them to the first half of the 19th century.
  3. ↑ a b D. Holterman, HA Dux: Die Dürener Burgenrunde , p. 71.
  4. ↑ Castle history on burg-guesten.com , accessed on March 11, 2012.
  5. ↑ Information according to the online cadastral map of Güsten.

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 22 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 55"  E