Sound barrier castle

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Sound barrier castle

The Schallmauer castle is a baroque mansion on the northern edge of the Berrenrath district of Hürth . It was built in 1714 and was one of the few structures that survived the demolition of the former town of Aldenrath .

history

The name of Burg Schallmauer goes back to the former owners of the property, the noble Schall von Bell family, who owned moorland here and resided at Gleuel Castle. The name is made up of “sound” and “moor” to “sound moor”, later “sound wall”. In the middle of the 16th century, Friedrich von Sachsen-Lauenburg , canon of Cologne and Bremen , had a small country palace built for the Cologne canons on the site of today's Schallmauer Castle. In 1673, however, the castle was destroyed by Dutch troops in the Dutch War against Louis XIV . As the property of the Cologne Cathedral Chapter , the ruins were handed over to the Cologne Canons of Geyr , who bequeathed them to their nephew Rudolf Adolf von Geyr.

In 1714, Rudolf Adolf von Geyr had the simple manor house that is still preserved today. This is a three-storey plastered building in a simple baroque design, the builder was probably the former Bonn palace builder.

Around 1930, Schallmauer Castle came into the possession of the brown coal mining company Roddergrube AG (later Rheinbraun ), together with the hamlet of Aldenrath , located about 500 meters to the northwest, consisting of 12 houses with 73 residents. The place was besieged by the Berrenrath opencast mine and finally demolished. Before the land and buildings were sold to the Roddergrube, the hamlet consisted of 12 houses with 73 inhabitants and Aldenrath Castle, which is located a little further up the valley and was also demolished in 1936. The Schallmauer castle remained standing, however, and thus came into the immediate vicinity of the resettled village of Berrenrath , which was relocated in 1959 to the site of the former hamlet of Aldenrath, which was now charred by the Gotteshülfe mine . In 1978 the castle went into private ownership. It has been owned by media manager Helmut Thoma since 1993 .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Clemens Klug: Hürth - as it was, as it was. Heimatverein Hürth (Steimel Verlag) undated [1961/1962]
  2. ^ Frank Kretzschmar: Erftkreis cultural region - losses of a monument landscape ; ISBN 3-7927-1228-8 ; Pp. 58/59
  3. ↑ Company entry at moneyhouse.de (accessed Nov. 2015)

literature

  • Heinz Firmenich: City of Hürth. Rheinische Kunststätten Heft 36, 2nd edition 1981; P. 12. ISBN 3-88094-356-7 .
  • Clemens Klug: Hürth - art treasures and monuments. Heimat und Kulturverein Hürth, 1978; P. 72.

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 56.4 "  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 54.1"  E