Hohenscheid Castle (Solingen)
| Hohenscheid Castle | ||
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 North facade of Hohenscheid Castle 2018 |
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| Alternative name (s): | House Hohenscheid | |
| State : | Germany (DE) | |
| Location: | Solingen | |
| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Standing position : | Gentry | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Todays use: | Christian living and living community | |
| Geographical location: | 51 ° 8 ' N , 7 ° 6' E | |
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The Castle High Scheid , also house the High Scheid called, is in Bergisch Land about 100 meters above the Wupper in the south of North Rhine-Westphalian city of Solingen . It goes back to a high medieval hill castle , which was the ancestral seat of the lower aristocratic von Hunscheid family.
story
Until the 16th century
The first mention of a knight Hermann von Hohenscheid comes from the year 1238. He and his brother Theodor were also listed in documents in the middle of the 13th century and named themselves after the noble residence of the same name . Beatrix von Hunscheid was mentioned in a deed of donation in 1241. Luther von Wrede called Honscheidt has been handed down as the owner for the 15th century.
In 1551 Haus Hohenscheid was owned by the Lords of Bornhausen. This was followed by numerous changes of ownership. Among others, the von Quadt , Schenk von Nideggen and von Ketteler families were masters of the facility.
In 1579, Johann von Ketteler and his wife Agnes, a née Schenk von Nideggen, acquired the castle house from Johann von Quadt and his wife Gertrude Deutz. However, as early as 1589, Hohenscheid no longer served as a noble residence, but was managed by tenants. For that year it is known that Agnes and her son Wilhelm von Ketteler leased the property to the half-man Johann Lipp.
17th to 19th century
The Baron Johann von und zu Gysenberg received the plant in 1632 as inheritance and gave some of it to the family of Westerholt . In 1741, however, the property was reunited in one hand. In that year Hohenscheid Castle belonged to Josef Clemens August von and zu Westerholt-Gysenberg . This was followed by several changes of ownership in quick succession before the plant was acquired in 1793 by the Solingen merchant Peter Knecht for 11,500 Reichstaler .
After the Solingen farmer Artur Hammesfahr bought the Hohenscheid house in 1852, he had the complex redesigned and expanded in a historicist manner in the then prevailing spirit of the Romantic era . The result was a castle house with a massive corner tower (often referred to as a keep ) with a neo-Romanesque appearance.
From the 20th century
Around 1940 the building housed a restaurant with a roof terrace. In the summer of 1955, the facility - like the nearby Burg Castle - served the director Herbert B. Fredersdorf as a backdrop for the fairy tale film Puss in Boots .
In 1961 a generous renovation and modern expansion took place in order to subsequently use the building for a luxury hotel. For example, Paul McCartney and his wife Linda and their three children were among the guests of the hotel in 1972 as part of the European tour of his band Wings . In 1973 the Rolling Stones stayed at the Burghotel during their three appearances in the Essen Grugahalle . Your frontman Mick Jagger , drove up in a Mercedes - Limousine ago. The Scottish Football Association had booked rooms there for the time of the 1974 World Cup , but did not use them because the team had previously been eliminated from the tournament. Also in 1974 Kammersänger René Kollo stayed there.
The hotel ceased operations in January 1975. The city of Solingen then used the building as a refugee shelter in the 1980s . After this use ceased, the building gradually fell into disrepair. In July 1986 the Lübecker Hypothekenbank auctioned it before the couple Wolfgang and Anni Hausmann from Wipperfürth took over the property in 1987 in a very poor condition.
Todays use
Together with friends, the couple was able to repair and expand the building again in the following years. The two founded the “Christian Life Center Burg Hohenscheid” association and later transferred ownership of the complex to him. In doing so, they laid the foundation for its current use as a Christian living community. There are regular devotions there. In connection with a short prayer on Sunday, a café is also open in the afternoon from April to October. In addition, the building is not open to the public.
description
The castle stands on a hill overlooking the valley of Wupper west of Hofschaft Balkhausen in the district of Solingen Höhscheid , near the conservation area Wupper loop Bielsteiner cottas. Today's building is essentially medieval , but it was extensively rebuilt and expanded in the 1960s, so that its volume more than tripled. The newer building fabric can be clearly distinguished from the older parts.
The original Castle House has three floors of rubble masonry on a rectangular plan and a four-arched arched fries in the style of Romanesque Revival above the entrance. Its northeast corner is marked by a monumental tower, the five floors of which rise above a square floor plan. The original high entrance , above which there is a weir bay, is still preserved on the first floor . Crenellated corner buildings rise on the defensive platform , which also existed on the roof of the castle house before the redesign. During the conversion to a hotel, this was expanded into a large five-axis residential building with four floors and largely determines the current appearance of the complex. The formerly lightly plastered facades on the south and west sides are now clad with slate panels.
The interior has been completely modernized.
literature
- Alfred Lauer: Bergische castles and palaces. Leisure guide with directions and hiking suggestions. RGA, Remscheid 1998, ISBN 3-923495-37-4 , pp. 120-121.
- Heinz Rosenthal : Solingen. History of a city. Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the 17th century. Walter Braun, Duisburg 1969, DNB 457973358 , pp. 41-45
- Kurt Niederau: The owners of the Hohenscheid house in the 15th and 16th centuries. In: Kurt Niederau: Anchor and Sword. Contributions to the history of Solingen. Volume 5. Walter Braun, Duisburg 1983, ISBN 3-87096-094-9 , pp. 28-50.
Web links
- Jens Friedhoff's entry on Hohenscheid Castle in the " EBIDAT " scientific database of the European Castle Institute
- Christian Life Center Burg Hohenscheid e. V.
- Information about and old pictures of the castle
- Information about Hohenscheid Castle from Michael Tettinger
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Entry by Jens Friedhoff on Hohenscheid Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on August 3, 2021.
- ↑ a b Andreas Erdmann: Fantastic views on the District Administrator-Lucas-Weg. In: Solinger Tageblatt . Online edition April 26, 2021 , accessed July 19, 2021.
- ↑ a b c d e Alfred Lauer: Bergische castles and palaces. 1998, p. 120.
- ^ Kurt Niederau: The owners of the Hohenscheid house in the 15th and 16th centuries. 1983, p. 49.
- ^ Heinz Rosenthal: Solingen. History of a city. Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the 17th century. Braun, Duisburg 1969, p. 42.
- ↑ a b Fritz Hinrichs: "Rest on House Hohenscheid." In: The home. Contributions to the history of Solingen and the Bergisches Land. Volume 14, No. 5, 1938, ISSN 0179-048X , p. 17.
- ↑ Fairytale locations: Where Puss in Boots Helps Happiness , accessed on August 6, 2021.
- ↑ a b c Wilhelm Rosenbaum: The Rolling Stones in Hohenscheid Castle. In: Solinger Tageblatt. Online edition of September 19, 2014 , accessed on August 2, 2021.
- ↑ a b Information about the castle by Michael Tettinger , accessed on August 2, 2021.
- ↑ a b Information on Hohenscheid Castle at goruma.de , accessed on August 2, 2021.