Stammeln Castle
| Stammeln Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1460 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Preserved essential parts | |
| Construction: | Brick | |
| Place: | Elsdorf - Heppendorf | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 54 '58.6 " N , 6 ° 37' 32.7" E | |
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The Stammeln Castle is a listed estate, formerly a moated castle , northwest of Heppendorf , today part of the town of Elsdorf . Today it is used as a riding stables and as a residential complex.
history
Little is known of the history of the castle. On the Jülichen Ritter list of 1460 is named as the owner of a property to a stammering Wilhelm Schilling of Gustorf. Katharina von Schilling brought the estate to Andreas von Randerath by marriage , who expanded it in 1583. Later also owned by the von Wassenberg family from Haus Wammen (Selfkant). In modern times, the property belonged to descendants of the sugar manufacturer Valentin Pfeifer from the Pfeifer & Langen company until 1962 . His granddaughter, Hedwig (called "Heidy") von Gienanth, b. Pfeifer (1907–1972) was the last owner. Your husband Dr.-Ing. Conrad Freiherr von Gienanth (* 1903) was an officer in the Wehrmacht; he fell on May 12, 1942 on the Eastern Front.
investment
The oldest part of the brick building, the north-west and south-west wing with the strong corner towers, dates from the 16th century. A round tower is in front of the western corner, a square tower with a cross vault on the upper floor stands on the south corner between the castle and the outer bailey / courtyard. A former, slightly protruding battlement with loopholes can still be seen on the walls of this older complex . These older parts are on the side of the complex facing away from the road. The eastern wing was built around 1900. The two round arched gates framed by a stone house were reused from an earlier building, one bears the inscription 1666. On the street side, a striking facade reminiscent of brick Gothic, richly structured by windows, rosettes and stepped gables, was placed in front of the gable .
Todays use
There are six rental apartments in the manor house and the outer bailey, and the courtyard with its two hectares of grassland has been used as a riding stables since the 1980s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henriette Meynen: Moated castles, palaces and country estates in the Erftkreis , p. 68
- ↑ online: Britta Wonnemann: Thick wooden beams, Stammeln Castle in Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Rhein-Erft, from Dec. 15, 2011 p. 39
- ↑ According to the family
- ↑ after Meynen
literature
- Heinrich Philip Bartels: Chronicle of the Pfeifer family , around 1975 (only published in the family circle)
- Henriette Meynen: Moated castles, palaces and country estates in the Erftkreis , edited by vom Erftkreis, Cologne 1980, p. 28