Holtrop Castle

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Holtrop Castle
Creation time : 850 to 900
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Lower nobility
Place: Bergheim- Niederaussem
Geographical location 50 ° 58 '44 "  N , 6 ° 38' 34"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '44 "  N , 6 ° 38' 34"  E
Holtrop Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Holtrop Castle
Location of Holtrop in the Rhenish lignite district
Holtrop Castle on the 1807 Tranchot Map

The castle Holtrop is an Outbound Lower Rhine Wasserburg in the former church Niederaußem (today Bergheim ). It gave the district Holtrop its name and was demolished with the hamlet as part of the expansion of the Fortuna-Garsdorf opencast mine in 1958.

history

The first traces of settlement in the area of ​​the castle date from the period between 850 and 900 AD. In 1196 the name of the family von Holtrop was mentioned for the first time. At that time there were already stone buildings, which were supplemented by a gate tower in the 13th century. In 1479 the castle became the property of the von Nesselrode zu Landscheid family . With the marriage of Phillipina von Nesselrode and Edmund von Reuschenberg zu Setterich, the castle changed hands again at the beginning of the 16th century. After the property was inherited several times within the von Reuschenberg family , in 1628 Johann von Reuschenberg zu Overbach sold the free aristocratic seat in Holtrop with house and farm to Adam von Siegenhoven called Anstel.

Both the castle and the associated courtyards were severely damaged several times over the years, for example a man from Bergheim set fire in 1534 and in 1542 the troops of Emperor Charles V destroyed the residential tower. In addition, around 1600 "Hispanic people of war" burned down the Holtop farm.

In 1727 the house burned down and was then rebuilt in the Baroque style . Parts of the castle were demolished in the 19th century. In 1958, the remains of the plant finally had to give way to the brown coal opencast mine and were also demolished.

legend

A legend also deals with Holtrop Castle. The author is unknown, but the style suggests that it was made after 1800.

The game hunt at Holtrop
There sat on Holtrop having a happy feast
the Knights of Bedburg , Harff and Laach .
They caroused and played and got hot;
Until the Holtroper said, "One main joke I know:
Tomorrow morning when the bells are ringing
for Christmas, then we sound the hunting horn.
The pious will roll their eyes!
The Frauweiler ladies should see that!
The ground is black, there is still time to rush.
Too soon, fields and forests are covered in snow.
What about the hunt, take it!
That will be a hello in the Erft valley! "
And the Bedburger grumbled: "I don't hunt
on Christmas Day, when friendship breaks too. "
And the laugher laughed: "At the Red Cross
I'm at eight for the hustle and bustle. "
And the Chlotar from Mosterttampe exclaimed:
"When the holtroper is hunting, I'm not staying at home.
In the beech wood on the oak wide
let's meet at noon
to snack and drink on the meadow plan ".
And the Holtroper called: "Great, that's how it's done"
And when the knights the last potion
chased in the throat and the sun sank
the mistress of the castle came mildly to the lord of the castle:
"Oh, do not hunt when through village and field
invite the Christmas bells to church!
That only harms body and soul ".
"What ?! Women blaring and bigotry!
Wild master, bring the squires here tomorrow! "
The storm wind roared around the tower and around the house,
then the guests moved out of the gate.
And when the night fell on the knight's house,
Armor fell bare in the hall.
"The old man is still rumbling in the grave,"
said the one from Holtrop coolly, "We're hunting!"
The morning dawned over the castle
then the baggage train pushed through to the gate.
And again the lady of the castle pleaded mildly:
"Oh, do not hunt when through village and field
invite the Christmas bells to church!
"You yell in church for God's grace!"
The lord of the castle spoke and turned to the supply train.
Suddenly from his wife's lips it flowed:
"Whoever likes to hunt on Christmas feast,
like to hunt until the last day! "
“That would be Valhalla!” With a defiant word
the knight blew up to the forest heights.
Over there was already at the Red Cross
the Laacher, armed for hustle and bustle.
"Wildheil"! How gladly one shook hands!
A steed at the edge of the cross shuns,
and the Holtroper struck in a high arc
in the wet field. With a curse
towards the cross he rubbed the dirt clean.
Then it went in with squires and bracken
in the twilight forest, through the meadow, in the field.
But no game was taken from the pack.
There was no deer to be seen in the forest.
No hare hopped across the Au'n;
And even if the hawk flew high,
with empty fangs he pulled earthward.
And you boiled for a happy catch,
never succeeded in bolting an animal.
The bell sounded in Hamlet
the change peasants and nuns already.
There went with pounding and yapping and shouting
from the hermitage the wild hunt over
and mixed the horns louder reverb
In singing and prayer and organ sound.
And proud, fine heroic day aware,
called the Holtroper: "Now to Johanneslust!
The Bedburger does not hunt; we want to see,
whether his animals celebrate Christmas there! "
The wild crowd roared away to the valley.
A stag jumped up in Siefen.
Surrounded by the yapping pack and the baggage train,
now swung rider and horse to Buchholz.
And the holtroper shot forward in the chase
and blew his horn in joyous rush.
Listen! Wasn't that the harper's tone?
It's getting closer and closer already!
Without the prey I was still stalking.
Jach rushed the racer up to the heights.
Already close he saw the deer's leap.
Already he raised his spear for a fatal throw -
there a bolt from the thicket
and hit the bustling heart.
He sank silently towards the earth.
And everyone who came with horror and horror
look at the petrified features of the dying man.
"Who did the shot"? one ponders and asks.
One accuses the other, sued.
And the laugher shouted: "I announce the feud
the harffer; he took the shot.
A sad train passed through hamlet,
just as the noon bell rang.
One carried veiled on a green stretcher
the dead defiant hunter image
and carried it through village and forest and meadow
to Holtrop to the death inspection.
A woman's heart broke on the stretcher
in tears together in horror and pain:
"I cursed you until Judgment Day.
God, do not hear what angry the lip said! "
The woman's supplication found peace in the monastery.
It's been a long time since the deed happened.
But the storm roars on Christmas Eve.
Through the forests of the Erft valley with thundering power
and rattles on the castle roof, they still say today:
“God protect us from harm! The Holtroper is hunting! "

Web links

literature

  • Wilhelm Piepers: Holtrop Castle. A thousand years of building history of a Lower Rhine moated castle. (Bergheimer Contributions to Researching the Middle Erft Landscape, Issue 1). Jos. Ninety, Bedburg-Erft 1960, OCLC 44773876 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jobst Kloft (arrangement): Inventory of the document archive of the princes of Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg zu Schönstein / Sieg. Volume 5: Regesten No. 2251 to 3507, 1607-1852. (Inventories of Non-Governmental Archives, Vol. 31). Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-922018-61-0 , p. 76.
  2. ↑ Thomas Fröschl (Ed.): Imperial assemblies 1556–1662. The Reichsdeputationstag in Worms 1586. (German Reichstag files). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-35280-8 , p. 262.