Hagen Castle (Duisburg)

Hagen Castle
Creation time :	probably 1200 to 1300
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, location, Motte
Conservation status:	Tower mounds and moats
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Duisburg- Obermeiderich
Geographical location	51 ° 28 '51.2 " N , 6 ° 48' 0.9" E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '51.2 " N , 6 ° 48' 0.9" E

The Burghagen was a medieval castle from the type of a motte (Motte) in Duisburg district Obermeiderich (Nauheimerstrasse) in the northern district Meiderich / Beeck . After the sinking of the castle that was in close proximity mansion Hagen established that the 1939 razing fell victim.

history

The history of Hagen Castle and House, which can be traced back to the 13th century, is closely linked to the jurisdiction in Meiderich. Up until the beginning of the 19th century, the castle and mansion were the seat of the respective (court) lords of Meiderich.

In 1268 Gerhard Hagen, son of a knight of the same name, was a judge in Meiderich. He was also a Burgmann at Holten . This family probably also included Wilhelm von Hagen, a knight in Kirchhellen who owned the Monning farm at the end of the 13th century.

From around 1300 to 1400, jurisdiction was exercised by the Lords of Stecke. They handled their jurisdiction over Meiderich like a separate rule of Meiderich . The Counts and Dukes of Kleve had to be content with suzerainty. From 1400 to 1442 this rule was in the hands of the Lords of Götterswick. They were followed again by von Stecke. In 1478 the rule passed to the Lords of Myllendonk , who exercised it until 1633. Then the Counts of Bronckhorst zu Anholt Meiderich received a fiefdom , but already in 1669 they sold their feudal right to Wilhelm Rulemann von Quadt zu Wickrath and Zoppenbroich , whose successors held jurisdiction in Meiderich until the beginning of the 19th century.

After Cleves register map 1734, in which the plant is still located, it was an approximately rectangular main castle with two round corner towers and a square main tower and a front of it larger and also surrounded by moats Vorburg . At that time the castle included 70 ½ acres and 55 acres of individual lands. The main castle was arranged around an elevation of a good 25 meters in diameter, known locally as the gallows hill .

Until the middle of the 18th century, the castle was inhabited by family members of the respective court lords. Around 1750, a Colonel von Quadt is still proven. In the second half of the 18th century the property seems to have been leased or rented. From 1783 to 1788 a Freiherr d'Ablaing was the owner of Hagen. His son-in-law, a Mr. de Mol, husband of BCP de Mol née d'Ablaing, had the house appraised in 1799. A value of 74,896 Reichstaler was determined. The old castle was probably abandoned shortly afterwards. In its place, a new mansion with farm buildings and surrounding moats was built about 50-100 meters south of the old castle in the first third of the 19th century , the so-called Haus Hagen .

The owner in the following years (from 1806 to at least 1817) was Friedrich Konrad Wilhelm von Gillhausen, who lived with Cornelia Charlotte Wilhelma d'Ablaing, the sister of the o. G. Wife of Mr. de Mol, was married. In 1822, a judge Ferdinand Wiedenbrück at Haus Hagen is documented; 1861 his widow and her son Ferdinand. At this time the former manor was so badly run down that it had to be sold to the industrialist Franz Haniel in 1865 for only 53,000 thalers . Shortly after the consolidation of the Neumühl colliery with the property of the Haniel family in 1890, Haus Hagen became part of the colliery's administration. In 1937 it went to the German Reich (Reich Treasury), as flak positions were to be built on the area around Haus Hagen as part of the defensive measures aimed at the Second World War . Work began in August 1937. In the course of this construction work, Haus Hagen was demolished on June 14, 1939.

In 1948, the social work of the Inner Mission laid the foundation stone for the current imposing Hagenshof complex . Only the driveway to the manor house, the moats and the former tower hill of the castle are faintly visible.

photos

Burgstall Burg Hagen
Location Haus Hagen

Web links

literature

Günter von Roden : Our old Duisburg. Volume 1: The city as it was. 4th edition. Mercator-Verlag, Duisburg 1967, p. 54.
Günter von Roden: History of the city of Duisburg. Volume 2: The districts from the beginning. The entire city since 1905. Braun, Duisburg 1974, ISBN 3-87096-101-5 , p. 132 ff. (Incl. Photo of Haus Hagen (Fig. 22) around 1935).
Bernhard Rosenbaum: The former knight's seat in Haus Hagen in Duisburg-Obermeiderich. In: Kai Thomas Platz (Ed.): Dispargum, Annual Reports of Duisburger Stadtarchäologie, Volume 1 (2016), Büchenbach 2017, pp. 165–196.
City archive Duisburg, inventory 85/8 Salm-Meiderich, files No. 66.