Hausen Castle (Heimbach)
| Hausen Castle | |
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 Portal of Hausen Castle |
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| Creation time : | before 1348 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | Received or received substantial parts |
| Construction: | Quarry stone |
| Place: | Hausen |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 39 '6 " N , 6 ° 29' 38" E |
| Height: | 223 m above sea level NN |
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The Burghausen is on the eastern edge of Hausen , a district of Heimbach above the Rur in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia .
In 1348 a bearer of the name "von Hausen" first documents, namely the squire Gerlach von Hausen.
At the beginning of the 16th century the moated castle in Hausen was no longer owned by the noble family "von Hausen", but belonged to the von Berg zu Blens family .
The castle came to Dietrich Kolff through marriage and inheritance. In 1571 he married Ida Spies von Büllesheim zu Bubenheim . He built the four-winged castle complex of dry stone , the individual of renovations and new buildings castle parts apart essentially still exists today.
A large part of the outer walls, the east wing with the exception of the gate and the two-story manor house are still preserved.
In 1832 the Kolff von Vettelhoven with Clemens Goswin died out in the male line at Burg Hausen . After the Kolff family died out, the castle was divided into two smaller manors by building a new wing across the courtyard . In addition to the church , a second access to the property was created with the south gate.
After extensive renovations, the eastern half of the former moated castle now serves as a hotel and restaurant.
history
Hausen was a Jülich ministerial castle, the origins of which go back at least to the 14th century, when the lords of Hausen, who named themselves after her, relatives of Jülich's Erbrosten and marshal Dietrich Schinnemann von Aldenhoven, held his castle Veynau . Hausen belongs to the row of knight seats between the Jülich state castles of Heimbach and Nideggen, designed to strategically secure the Rur. The two-part principle, which can still be read today, has been preserved from this period, the separation of the main and outer bailey in separate ditch systems . Today's south gate corresponds to the location of the medieval entrance to the castle. The south wall and house are based on the 14th century castle, as are double-shell masonry in the cellar of the north wing. The water-filled trenches were partly preserved until the 20th century. In the 15th century, Hausen came to the relatives of the von Berg family, who sat in the neighboring Blens and Lüppenau castles and also held the Irnich, Berg and Dürffenthal castles near Zülpich. The Lords of Berg were a knightly family of ministers belonging to the Dukes of Jülich and served them in many high court offices, such as councilors and court masters.
Daniel von Berg, Herr zu Hausen, Dürffenthal, Blens, Berg and Irnich, donated several times for the Bürvenich monastery, where his aunt Johanna von Berg had been abbess, including half a farm at Hausen from their inheritance in 1450. Sons and grandchildren donated for the Mariawald monastery ; the penultimate man from Berg zu Hausen is buried there. In 1534, his granddaughter Agnes von Berg brought the knight's seat in Hausen, which was suitable for the state assembly, to her husband Johann Kolff, Herr zu Vettelhoven, Heimersheim and Winterburg, whose coat of arms, accompanied by the coats of arms of his parents and his wife, is in a second use above the door of the house. He or his son Dietrich († 1589) are likely to have largely rebuilt the castle house, the substance of which can still be seen today in the outer walls of the existing house . The valley-side Zwinger with rampart and moat, the walls of which form the north wall of the north wing, also goes back to this construction project; Parts of the previous buildings were integrated and are visible in the southern outer wall and in the basement of the north wing. Dietrich's sister Catharina became the second abbess of Hausen in Bürvenich. The barons von Kolff from the ancient nobility of County Are belonged to the Jülich knighthood because of Hausen and were sworn to the state parliament; their property Winterburg was in the rank of subordinate rule . They provided high officers, bailiffs, commander of the Teutonic Order, chamberlains and chamberlain, councilors and lawyers. In the 17th and In the 18th century, they renewed the eastern part of the entire complex in its original form. The castle was drawn by Renier Roidkin around 1720 ; East wing with gate, kennel and the at least two-winged mansion with stair tower in the corner are clearly visible and can be easily assigned to the present-day existence. A gate tower with a turret obviously stood at the site of today's south gate and can be defined as the original medieval entrance to the outer bailey. The last noble owner of Hausen, Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Freiherr von Kolff, held high positions in Jülich, Bergisch and Electoral Cologne, most recently that of a privy councilor and chief appeals judge , and sold his property on the left bank of the Rhine before his death in 1810. His two sons died childless, the younger one in 1810 1832.
Before 1820 the castle was divided by an intermediate wall into the front courtyard (formerly outer bailey) and the inner courtyard (formerly main castle). While the east wing and the outer walls in the front courtyard are part of the old outer bailey, the residential buildings were rebuilt in the 19th century. The intermediate ditch and the southern ditch were filled in. In the inner courtyard, new farm buildings were placed on the old outer walls and on the kennel, the substance of which has now been almost completely replaced. Only the courtyard wall of the stable with the partition wall as the rear wall still comes from the renovation phase of the 19th century. The west wing of the manor house served as the residential building of the inner courtyard ; after severe damage in World War II , the interior was renewed in other forms. In 1853 the still existing south gate made of sandstone blocks with heraldic gable Nesselrode / Harff was installed, which was moved to the broken house Rath near Mechernich.