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Düsternau, copper engraving 1785

Düsternau was a manor in the district of Rott in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald) near the state road 269 between Neustadt (Wied) and Peterslahr in a loop that forms the border between the districts of Altenkirchen and Neuwied at Ehrenstein monastery , lay.

history

The manor Düsternau, a former moated castle with aristocratic freedom, was a fiefdom of the Counts of Isenburg-Grenzau . According to Constantin von Schoenebeck in 1789, the main building had two floors and, according to the view from 1785, had a small triangular gable in the middle of the mansard roof. In addition to Gut Düsternau, on the nearby mountain slope, there was the Electoral Cologne "Düsternauer Höfchen", which had been leased in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Fiefdoms of the Düsternau estate were the von Düsternau family in the 16th century . Before 1519, the Überlahr farm between Peterslahr and Burglahr was added and from then on the owners called themselves "Lords of Düsternau and Überlahr". In 1614 the last feudal bearer from the von Düsternau family, Hans Wilhelm von Düsternau, died and the Count von Isenburg moved in the Düsternau estate as a settled fiefdom and finally sold it in 1635 to Hans Georg von der Hoven called Pampus . In 1665, the noble von Schoenebeck family came into possession of Düsternau through inheritance . The members of this family held the office of governor of the Altenwied office and the Lahr rule at that time . The last owner of Düsternau from this family was the doctor and philosopher Bernhard Constantin von Schoenebeck . In 1821 he had to sell the property due to inheritance disputes. It was bought by a von Runkel family in Heddesdorf who let the building fall into disrepair.

literature

  • Margot Bitterauf-Remy: The art monuments of the Altenkirchen district. Düsseldorf 1935, p. 150.
  • Hans Günther rifle: Desolations in the area of ​​Flammersfeld. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter. Vol. XI / 1941, pp. 282-283.
  • Josef Schäfer: Düsternau and Überlahr. In: Home calendar of the Altenkirchen district. Jg./1976, pp. 188-197.
  • Albert Hardt: History of the Lahr rule with the Düsternau farms and of lust in the time of the Electorate of Cologne. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen. 29th Jg./ 1986, pp. 177-183.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Pellmann: The Hertmanni family. Cleve 1928, p. 243, p. 525.

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '53.7 "  N , 7 ° 28' 2.8"  E