Hemmersbach Castle
| Hemmersbach Castle | ||
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 Part of Hemmersbach Castle |
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| Creation time : | around 980 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Preserved essential parts | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Place: | Kerpen - Horrem | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 55 '7.9 " N , 6 ° 42' 15.7" E | |
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Burg Hemmersbach is a moated castle in Horrem , town of Kerpen , in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
A nobleman, Wigmannus von Heymenbach, is known as early as 980 , who gave its name to Hemmersbach Castle, where he lived. The name Heymenbach at that time became Hemmersbach over the years . This first castle, about which little is known, fell into disrepair.
A new castle was probably built around 1100. It was then inhabited for the next 400 years. This castle is still preserved today as a remnant ("motte") in Horrem. In 1326 the Scheiffart von Merode took over the property as the line of the Hemmersbach family died out. Construction of a new castle began as early as the 14th century and was first mentioned in 1483. The previous castle was destroyed in 1366 by the troops of the Maas-Rhein peace alliance . Due to the lack of heirs from the Scheiffart von Merode family, the castle fell to Heinrich von Vercken in 1620. He received it as a fiefdom from the Count Palatine . During the Thirty Years War , Hemmersbach Castle was captured and the castle chapel was set on fire. The rest of the castle and the surrounding village of Horrem suffered severe damage.
After a few more changes of ownership, the castle came to Franz Adolph Berghe von Trips in 1751. He was enfeoffed with Hemmersbach, as the Trips family was descendants of the Scheiffart von Merode family. On January 4, 1793, a great fire broke out. The castle house burned down to the walls and there wasn't much that could be saved. In 1797 another fire destroyed the outer bailey. It was not until 1837 that the castle complex was rebuilt by further descendants of the Berghe von Trips. The castle got its current appearance through a renovation carried out in 1899/1900.
In the 20th century, the Formula 1 racing driver Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips (1928–1961), the last descendant of the von Trips family, lived at Hemmersbach Castle. His mother moved from the castle to the adjoining Villa Trips , which today houses the “Gräflich Berghe von Trips'sche Sportstiftung zu Burg Hemmersbach” foundation.
Last owners and uses
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Herbert Hillebrand
Since the late 1980s, the castle has been inhabited by "Burgenkönig" Herbert Hillebrand , who also used it as the company headquarters. Hillebrand went bankrupt in 1999 . Insolvency administrator Hans-Gerd Jauch noted that the move of Countess Berghe von Trips to a bungalow in the castle park could have signaled to Mr. Hillebrand that since the end of serfdom, the maintenance of such properties as a residence has not been paid in the long term. He sold the castle to the brothers Bernd and Helmut Breuer for 17.5 million marks .
Bernd and Helmut Breuer
After a meeting with Kai Krause , then Prime Minister Wolfgang Clement initiated an initiative to set up an incubator and locate young start-up companies in the castle. For this purpose, the “Byteburg operating company” was founded in 2000 on the initiative of the state government, which then became the tenant of the castle. The concept should follow Krause's thoughts on his Byteburg Rheineck. Krause's Byteburg concept originally envisaged several castles in which innovative concepts were to be developed and implemented. The originally planned incubator in Burg Hemmersbach never came about.
Suspicion of subsidy fraud
For years (as of 2011), the castle has been at the center of a subsidy scandal involving the chairman of the board of the largest German municipal savings bank, Sparkasse KölnBonn , Gustav Adolf Schröder , because of his support for buyers. The castle is for sale. (Status 2011)
As the castle is privately owned, a tour of the complex is not possible.
Use after 2011
According to media reports, the French company Châteauform ', which operates seminar and conference facilities, has signed a long-term lease for Burg Hemmersbach. After renovation work, the castle opened for corporate events in 2017.
literature
- Annaliese Ohm and Albert Verbeek: Die Denkmäler des Rheinlandes 17., Kreis Bergheim Vol. 2, Düsseldorf 1971, pp. 42–44 and Fig. 177–184, ISBN 3-508-00186-5
- Landeskonservator Rheinland, Rheinische Schloßbauten im 19. Century, Arbeitsheft 37 , Harald Herzog, Bonn 1981: page 25 as well as ill. No. 119–128, ISBN 3-7927-0585-0
- Henriette Meynen: Moated castles, castles and country seats in the Erftkreis, Cologne 1979, pages 88–91, ISBN 3-7927-0521-4
- Hermann Hinz : Archaeological finds and monuments of the Rhineland Vol. 2, Bergheim district, p. 254f
- Susanne Harke-Schmidt and Franz Kretzschmar: Burg Hemmersbach , Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-7616-1515-9
- Johann Peter Dethier, Contributions to the patriotic history of the Bergheim district , p.77ff
Web links
- Hemmersbach Castle: as a high technology center
- Material on Hemmersbach Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF download; 335 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kölnische Rundschau : Broken dreams in Hemmersbach. January 26, 2011, accessed August 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Andreas Damm Kölner Stadtanzeiger : Business crime about Hemmersbach Castle. January 24, 2011, accessed August 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Ralph Jansen: New use of Hemmersbach Castle in Horrem becomes a seminar hotel - Source: http://www.rundschau-online.de/23707992 © 2017. Rhein-Erft Rundschau, March 11, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2017 .