Colynshof

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The Colynshof mansion, view from the southwest

The Colynshof is a former estate on the southern outskirts of Aachen in the so-called Aachener Heide. The formerly heavily fortified complex belonged to a group of late medieval mansions in the vicinity of the imperial city . Repeatedly rebuilt and expanded, it came into municipal ownership at the beginning of the 20th century. After the building complex was repaired around the year 2000, the buildings are now used as apartments. They cannot be visited.

The entire complex was included in the list of architectural monuments of the city of Aachen in 1984 and is therefore a listed building .

description

location

The Colynshof is in the Aachener Heide, southwest of the city center of Aachen, below the source of the Paubach. The buildings are located in the green spaces that accompany the Paubach. Only a few meters further east is the Colynshof youth hostel, which got its name from the neighboring estate.

Origin and variants of names

Colin or Colyn is a well-known Aachen family, from whose ranks the mayor of the imperial city of Aachen has been appointed several times since the 15th century . At the latest at the beginning of the 16th century, the entire property came to this council family, after whom the property was subsequently named.

The farm was first mentioned in writing in 1632 ("Colyn auff seine Hauß in der Heyden"). In later documents he is named Kohlenshoff (1693) and Collinshof (1850). On the relevant sheet of the tranchot map from 1805/1807 the property is listed as Kolyn's farm.

Building stock

The manor house , a bluestone portal, parts of the surrounding wall and the building of the farm yard with two round corner towers have been preserved from the formerly larger overall complex . The property was previously protected by a moat that was fed by the Paubach flowing past. However, there are only small remains of it, because it was already dried out and leveled in the first quarter of the 20th century.

The farm buildings with the two round corner towers

The manor house is a two-storey, whitewashed brick building with a pan-roofed hip roof from the second half of the 18th century. Its former cross-frame windows have now been replaced by lattice windows with house frames. Wall anchors in the form of the numbers 1, 6 and 9 (with a gap between the 1 and the 6 that can be filled by a 5) testify to construction work in the 16th century. Inside there are two mighty chimneys from the 16th century and classicistic stucco decorations on the upper floor.

The south-west corner of the mansion is adjoined by a round arched portal made of bluestone. Its inscription in the wedge tells of the year of construction: A [NNO] 1675 S [ANCTA] URSULA. The portal has a square frame and a rectangular frame to accommodate a drawbridge that is no longer in existence . Still in its lower region loopholes received.

To the west of the manor house are the former farm buildings, the north and south corners of which are occupied by round towers . The northern tower is a reconstruction, while the southern one still consists of historical buildings. Only its crenellated crown has been renewed.

history

Residents and owners

The builder and thus the first owner of the property is unknown. At the latest at the beginning of the 16th century it came to the Colyn family, whose property it was still in the 17th century, as Bonifacius Colyn spent his old age on the farm with his daughter who lived there after his return from the imperial ban in 1602. After 1632 the last owner of the Colyn family sold the property to the couple Heinrich and Petronella a Campo, before Paulus von Rimburg and his wife Maria Buvy bought it on July 30, 1672. However, these were only front men for the Aachen Ursulines , who thus appropriated the estate, although Aachen citizens were forbidden at the time to sell goods located in the Aachen Empire to religious institutions. The order was followed in 1768 by the wife of the mayor of Broich as owner.

After frequent changes of ownership in the 19th century, including a Mr. Rispaud-Dugnebelle in 1820, the Aachen city council decided on February 3, 1905 that the city should purchase the property. She set up a day-care center for children there (opening on June 27, 1921), which, after being expanded and remodeled, was used as a children's home from June 2, 1923. The city youth hostel was later moved to Colynshof, which opened there on July 5, 1932.

On February 17, 1998, the city of Aachen parted with the property, which had been partially destroyed in the Second World War . Today it is the private property of several parties who use the property as a residence after renovation.

Building history

The results of architectural studies show that the Colynshof mansion is the successor to a building built before 1400 made of slate stone masonry with yellowish mortar . In the 15th century, this original building was replaced by a half-timbered building with a vaulted cellar . Remnants of the building fabric from this second building phase can still be found in some of the interior walls. A large double chimney system was installed later. Further changes probably followed in the 16th century when the existing house was extended by a brick extension on the west side. The preserved wall anchors on the south facade of the house in the form of digits indicate that this may have happened in 1569. Later the whole building was divided exactly in the middle by a brick wall. However, when this took place is unknown. Perhaps this change was due to a complicated division of the estate, as a result of which the building had to be divided exactly in the middle.

When the Colynshof was owned by the Aachen Ursuline monastery, the nuns had a gate built next to the manor house. Probably after the change of ownership in 1768, another renovation took place in the second half of the 18th century, during which the building was raised and given a uniform hipped roof.

During the Second World War, the property was partially destroyed, including the building used by the city youth hostel. As a replacement, a new building was erected a little east of the manor in the 1950s and inaugurated on July 3, 1953. The buildings still standing, historical was after the sale in 1998 to the year 2000 fully refurbished and converted into apartments.

literature

Web links

Commons : Colynshof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry by Jens Friedhoff on the Colynshof in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  2. ↑ Lord Mayor of the City of Aachen (Ed.): List of the monuments in the area of ​​the City of Aachen (in the version of the 18th supplement). City of Aachen, Aachen 2016, p. 6 ( PDF ; 228 kB).
  3. ^ Günter Breuer: Aquisgranum ... from the warm waters. Shaker, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-8322-1216-7 , pp. 26-27.
  4. ^ Karl Faymonville et al .: The secular monuments and the collections of the city of Aachen. 1981, p. 206.
  5. ↑ a b c Wera Groß: Colynshof - a mansion reveals its building history. 2000, p. 166.
  6. ↑ a b Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 1: Rhineland. 2005, p. 47.
  7. ^ A b Karl Faymonville et al .: The profane monuments and the collections of the city of Aachen. 1981, p. 205.
  8. ↑ Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen : The lay judges of the royal chair of Aachen from the earliest times until the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 50 , 1928, ISSN  0065-0137 , pp. 303-310 (No. 245) .
  9. ↑ a b c Wera Groß: Colynshof - a mansion reveals its building history. 2000, p. 162.
  10. ^ Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachen coat of arms and genealogies. A contribution to the heraldry and genealogy of Aachen, Limburg and Jülich families. Tape . Aachener Verlags- und Druckerei-Gesellschaft, Aachen 1908, p. 93 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Bernhard Poll (ed.), Hans Siemons: History of Aachen in data (= publications of the city archive of Aachen. Volume 12). City archive Aachen , Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-87519-214-1 , p. 243.
  12. ↑ Bernhard Poll (ed.), Hans Siemons: History of Aachen in data (= publications of the city archive of Aachen. Volume 12). City archive Aachen, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-87519-214-1 , p. 276.
  13. ↑ a b Bernhard Poll (ed.), Hans Siemons: Aachens history in data (= publications of the Aachen city archive. Volume 12). City archive Aachen, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-87519-214-1 , p. 308.
  14. ^ Chronicle of the city of Aachen for the year 1998. City of Aachen, Aachen undated, p. 10 ( PDF ; 336 kB).
  15. ↑ a b Wera Groß: Colynshof - a manor house reveals its building history. 2000, p. 163.
  16. ↑ a b Wera Groß: Colynshof - a manor house reveals its building history. 2000, p. 164.
  17. ↑ Bernhard Poll (ed.), Hans Siemons: History of Aachen in data (= publications of the city archive of Aachen. Volume 12). City archive Aachen, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-87519-214-1 , p. 373.

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 9.8 "  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 14.9"  E