Namedy Castle

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Namedy Castle
Aerial view of Namedy Castle in Andernach

Aerial view of Namedy Castle in Andernach

Creation time : 14th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: receive
Standing position : Patrician
Place: Andernach - Namedy
Geographical location 50 ° 27 '21.4 "  N , 7 ° 21' 24"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '21.4 "  N , 7 ° 21' 24"  E
Namedy Castle (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Namedy Castle

The castle Namedy is a lock -developed Wasserburg in Andernacher district Namedy in Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate . The castle is privately owned by the Hohenzollern family and is used, among other things, as an event location.

history

The moated castle

Namedy Castle was built in the 14th century by the Andernach patrician family von Hausmann as a small moated castle with the involvement of the noble court "Niederhof". Gerhardus dictus Husmann (died 1211) is known as the first lord of the castle; his grave slab was previously in the monastery.

View from the south

The knight mayor of Koblenz and councilor Dr. iur. Antonius von Hausmann zu Namedy (also Anton von Husmann), brother of the last abbess of the Namedy Cistercian monastery , Hildegard von H (a) usmann (1518–1562), and his second wife Margeretha zu Eltz built the castle complex between 1550 and 1560. In 1633 the castle suffered from pillage by Swedish soldiers.

After the death of Friedrich Ruprecht von Hausmann in 1664, the daughter Anna Katharina brought the castle house to her family, whose male line died out in 1676, into the marriage with her husband Andreas von Klepping. He was followed by Franz Wilhelm von Klepping. The von Klepping family came from Dortmund and probably never lived in the castle until it was sold in 1700.

The baroque castle

View from the east

The Electorate Chancellor Johann Arnold von Solemacher (1657–1734) from Koblenz bought the manor Namedy in 1700 for 7,500 Reichstaler from Maximilian Melchior von Klepping, the son of Franz Wilhelm. In 1718 he was by Emperor Karl VI. after the addition of the name and coat of arms of the old Husmann family, elevated to the rank of imperial knighthood by Namedy . He converted the castle into a palace complex in the Baroque style . The residential wing was raised and two side wings were added. His son Johann Hugo von Solemacher (died 1763) completed the building. In the floor plan and elevation plans from 1709 (in the State Main Archives Koblenz, see bibliography) the state before the building expansion can be clearly seen.

The von Solemacher family lived in the castle until the French took possession of the left bank of the Rhine . Before the arrival of the French troops, Johann Melchior von Solemacher († 1820) fled to Koblenz with all his inventory. After that, the building was used as a hospital and powder magazine and was completely ruined. Windows, stairs, floors and doors served as heating material for the hospital, only the roof survived the demolition. For fear of war and further destruction, the renovation did not take place until 1856. Through the marriage of Josephine von Solemacher († 1836), daughter of Johann Melchior, with the electoral Trier Privy Councilor Christoph Josef Linz, the property came to this family. He was succeeded by his son, Senior Government Councilor Franz Linz in this possession. In 1896, Baron Arnold von Solemacher bought the castle back from the Linz family. From this in 1907 the hotel group Gebrüder Eberbach GmbH took over the building. In 1908 two Upper Silesian coal magnates, Prince Henckel von Donnersmarck and Prince zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen , bought the property, but in 1909 it was sold on to a Swabian prince from the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family .

View from the north with the mirror hall extension

Prince Karl Anton zu Hohenzollern was in the Prussian service as Lieutenant General and had received the information that the castle was for sale from his Berlin hairdresser, who came from Andernach. He liked the building and through his wife, Josephine of Belgium , a sister of the Belgian king, he also had the means to buy it. In addition, the castle was about equidistant from Sigmaringen and Brussels , the hometown of the couple. He had the Andernach architect Clemens Kroth add a single-storey hall of mirrors with two corner towers to the north-west wing. An attached hotel wing was removed again. During the First World War , Princess Joséphine maintained a hospital in the Hall of Mirrors . With the German invasion of Belgium at the beginning of the First World War , however, the Belgian royal family stopped their compensation payments to the wife of the German general. On his return in 1918, the prince found the castle occupied by American soldiers who were very disrespectful to himself and to the inventory. He died there on February 21, 1919 at the age of 51, as the service had seriously affected his health on several fronts.

In 1919 the son Albrecht Prince von Hohenzollern took over the castle. In 1933 the stair tower and southeast tower were given new hoods in the baroque style . In 1988 the now very dilapidated property went to his son Godehard Prince von Hohenzollern. This began with the restoration and developed the castle into a cultural center, in which concerts from classical to jazz , theater performances, and art exhibitions took place. The German Foundation for Monument Protection was involved in the restoration of the Hall of Mirrors in 2003 . Since Godehard's death in 2001, his widow Heide Princess von Hohenzollern has been running the castle and the cultural events.

Events

Concerts take place regularly at the castle. The castle also serves as a performance venue for plays, readings and visual arts. Cultural partners include the Beethovenfest Bonn, the foundation of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate Villa Musica, the Middle Rhine Music Festival, the district of Mayen-Koblenz and the city of Andernach.

The rooms can also be booked for private or business events. The castle is also a popular venue for weddings, corporate parties and other major festivities.

In December 2008, a complete special episode which was on the castle WDR telecast animals a home search recorded.

literature

  • Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich: "... like a monarch enthroned in the middle of his court". Castles on the Lower Middle Rhine . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2210-3 , pp. 110-115.
  • Josef Busley and Heinrich Neu: Art Monuments of the Mayen District , L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1941, pp. 354–358.
  • Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, inventory 700.030, map 424023, floor plan and views from around 1709, full text search of the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz .
  • Johann Christian von Stramberg , Rheinischer Antiquarius, Department III, Volume 5, Koblenz 1858, pp. 166-184 .

Web links

Commons : Burg Namedy  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Busley and Heinrich Neu: Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Mayen, L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1941, p. 354
  2. ↑ Julius Wegeler: Gallery of famous people in Koblenz , Koblenz 1865, pp. 65–67
  3. ^ Johann Christian von Stramberg, Rheinischer Antiquarius, Department III., Volume 5, Koblenz 1858, p. 181