Dückeburg

Dückeburg
The Dückeburg from the north
Creation time :	before 1444
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	essential parts received
Standing position :	Noble
Construction:	Quarry stone
Place:	Langenfeld - Reusrath
Geographical location	51 ° 5 '42.4 "  N , 6 ° 58' 29.2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '42.4 "  N , 6 ° 58' 29.2"  E
Height:	59  m above sea level NN

The Dückeburg is a listed moated castle in Langenfeld - Reusrath ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

location

Dückeburg is located on Reusrather Strasse , a little north of the intersection with Alten Schulstrasse at the Dückeburg crossroads . Reusrather Straße used to be an important link between Immigrath and Reusrath. It ran parallel to the Mauspfad (in the course of today's Opladener Straße ), the oldest, supra-regionally important trade route through the Rhineland , which connected the Rheingau in the south with the Hellweg in Essen . In the east of the Dückeburg lies the Further Moor with the locations Furth and Hapelrath . Reusrath joins in the south, Galkhausen in the west and Immigrath in the north. The former Niederungsburg is now surrounded by fields and meadows, but in the north and east it is only a short distance from the Galkhauser Forest, through which the Galkhauser Bach flows.

Surname

As with the other settlement areas in Langenfeld, the meaning of the name, here “dücke”, is varied. The suggestions range from the "thick" castle to a "crouching" (hidden) castle to a derivative of the Middle High German "dugen" or "diuken". The former can be translated as "sink", the latter as "push" or "push", which led to the assumption that the Dückeburg is the successor to the legendary "sunken castle" in Hapelrath . If this assumption were correct, a previous building could already have borne this name, namely the Motte Flachenhof ground monument in Immigrath.

history

The Dückeburg is first mentioned in 1444 as Duckenburch . The first owners were the gentlemen von Zobbe and von Sieberg. A Johann Pieck von Sieberg made part of his fortune trading bricks , of which he is said to have sold entire shiploads to Cologne . They were followed by the lords of Etzbach for more than 200 years from 1466 . During this time, Wilhelm von Etzbach pledged the inheritance of the Dückeburg on November 26th, 1524. Messrs. Spies von Büllesheim followed the von Etzbach's .

In 1795 the castle was destroyed by fire during the invasion of French troops. The former castle complex was then rebuilt as a manor on the foundation walls . The two-storey residential building has a half-hipped roof , and an outside staircase dominates the courtyard and the adjacent farm buildings. The gate is between pillars in the middle of the wall that closes the courtyard. From the middle of the 19th century (Müller mentions the year 1829) the estate was owned by Count Mirbach zu Harff and subsequently by their heirs, the Lords of Loudon-Vorst-Gudenau.

In 1816, the Dückeburg is listed as a former knight's seat in a table with place names with nine inhabitants.

After extensive renovation in accordance with listed buildings in the years 2002 to 2004, the courtyard is now privately owned. The mix of styles from different centuries was retained in the measures. A restoration of the moats that existed 100 years ago , which were 55 paces wide to the northwest and surrounded by a 1.5 meter high and up to four meter wide rampart , was not done. Hydraulic engineering measures presumably belonging to this in the forest towards Trompeter Straße are still awaiting closer exploration as possible soil monuments.

The Dückeburg was in the public focus in June 2013. The owner (a Langenfeld entrepreneur) had applied for a private helipad in the immediate vicinity of the Dückeburg, which was met with broad rejection among the population. The decision of the Düsseldorf district government was still pending after almost 2½ years. At the beginning of February 2016, the applicant withdrew his application, thus anticipating a decision by the district government.

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  View of the Dückeburg from the forest

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  The Dückeburg from the southeast

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  The Dückeburg from the north

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  Main building of the Dückeburg

Historical mentions

Vicar position in Reusrath

According to a compilation from 1578 contributed in the Honnschaft the owners of Dückeburg Reusrath the bulk of the cost of a vicar place at the Church of St. Barbara . The owners at the time, the von Etzbach family, provided “heusgen, hoef, garden, lant and 1 morgen heuwais”, a total of around four acres of land. However, the von Etzbach family did not have the sole right to fill the vicar position; the population had to be involved.

From the time of the Reformation

For Reformation in Reusrath a zealous struggle between reigned Lutherans and Calvinists . Many of Reusrath's citizens were close to the Lutherans, only a few to the Calvinists. This minority also included the bailiff von Monheim and “Inwohner zur Dickhenburg”, Johann von Etzbach, who promised Lutheran preachers but called Reformed preachers and thus brought them and the whole population into great difficulties.

The Dückeburg hunting ground

In 1670 the Dückeburg hunter Hansen was questioned under oath on the Weyerhof in Hapelrath, now a desert , about the Dückeburg hunting grounds . He indicated the course of the Wupper as the southern border , the Rhine in the west , the Rothenberger Hof, the hamlet of Furth, Gladbach without the Leichlinger Sandberge as the eastern border , but then Rupelrath and Gosse , long the Ohligser Straße to Ossenbruch , in the north Schwanenmühle and Rietherbach except for the “court”, then back to Immigrath and from there in a straight line via Ganspohl, Stevenshoven south of the Knipprather forest to the Rhine.

The "theft road" to Monheim

The border road of the Dückeburg hunting area from the Ganspohl south past Stevenshoven and Knipprath to the Rhine was called the "thief road". This name can still be found on a map by the cartographer LeCoq from 1805. Whether it was associated with the gallows on the "Galgendriesch" or with the lack of freedom of the Langenfelder in relation to the Monheim office (something like the theft of freedom) remains unknown. However, Langenfeld's administration from Monheim was never a one-way street: With Johann and Bernhard von Etzbach, Dückeburg provided two officials from Monheim. From April 15, 1814 to September 30, 1851 Monheim was reversed from Richrath . The name “Diebstraß” for the connection to Monheim has long since disappeared.

The profitability of the estate from 1824

According to a Prussian law from 1824, so-called `` Altlandtag '' goods paid a principal property tax of 75  Reichstalers or more. In Solingen circle there were twelve of these goods. According to information provided by District Administrator Hauer in 1932, the Dückeburg took the last place, the Wasserburg Haus Graven the sixth place. Nevertheless, in contrast to the former knight's seat Langfort in today's Langfort , both were still listed as profitable farms.

Web links

• Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Dückeburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedhelm Görgens: Langenfeld . Droste, Düsseldorf 1984.
2. ↑ Claus-Peter Peters, " Langenfeld im Wandel der Zeiten ", Langenfeld, self-published 2013
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ritter-pitter.de, Motte Flachenhof, first Dückeburg, accessed on July 7, 2009. 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Environmental Protection and Beautification Association Langenfeld eV: A guide through the built history of Langenfeld .
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Rolf Müller: City history Langenfeld Rhineland . Langenfeld City Archives 1992.
6. ↑ rotterdam-bau.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed July 7, 2009.  
7. ↑ Stephan Meisel: Dream domicile in historical walls . Edition of the Rheinische Post from June 18, 2005.
8. ↑ Wolfgang Wegener, " Memo on the business trip from April 19, 2001 "