Dyckhof

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Main house from the south

The Dyckhof , also called Gut , Haus , Schloss or Burg Dyckhof , is an estate surrounded by a moat in Niederdonk, part of the town of Büderich, which is now part of Meerbusch .

Formerly built as a simple moated castle , the main house was converted into a representative mansion in the baroque style in the 17th century (completed in 1666) . The tower's elaborate roof hood , which is unique in its kind in the Rhineland, is particularly striking .

Since the Middle Ages, the Dyckhof has been the seat of various families of the lower nobility for a long time . At the beginning of the 19th century, the farm finally came to the influential Werhahn family from Neuss , who owned the farm buildings until 1997 and the manor house with ancillary buildings until 2012. In 1997/98, the former farm buildings were restored by the Verhülsdonk family, who now operate them , and have been used as a hotel and restaurant ever since . The mansion also became the property of this family in 2012.

The building complex has been a listed building since 1981 . It is listed as number 9 in the list of monuments of the city of Meerbusch .

description

The Dyckhof is made up of a large, three-bladed farmyard together and a manor house.

The three wings of the farm yard, which enclose an inner courtyard, are single-storey and made of brick . A defensive wall from the 14th century is integrated into an outer wall of the buildings . The owl tower on the west side is striking , a square, former defensive tower with a pyramid roof .

The manor house on the east side of the inner courtyard consists of a tower and an attached residential building - each with two floors. The brick construction was still visible from the outside until the 19th century, later the entire building was plastered . What is striking about the house is the complicated roof structure with two parallel, angled gable roofs , each ending in a stepped tail gable . The main door of the house facing the courtyard is designed as a portal with a baroque frame.

The tower of the house with the cube-shaped base is the oldest part of the whole courtyard. It probably dates from the 14th or 15th century. The original function as a castle tower can still be seen from the strong structure and shape. When the courtyard was converted into a representative mansion from 1666, the late medieval fortified tower was decorated with a large baroque hood . On the ground floor there is a large hall with a beamed ceiling.

The slate roof of the tower is the most striking structural element of the Dyckhof. The octagonal roof, crowned by a lantern , is bulged in the shape of an onion and drawn in twice. Externally, it is reminiscent of the roof hoods of the Aachen town hall that were erected a few years earlier . The construction technique used is also remarkable: in order to create the curved shape, the roof cladding was not lined - as was common in house construction at that time - but the load-bearing oak beams themselves were bent like the frames of a ship . It is therefore assumed that the builder, who is not known by name, had knowledge of shipbuilding . The weather vane on the top of the tower shows the coat of arms of the Werhahn family with two fighting cocks , the initials "FW" (for Franz Werhahn) and the year 1807. The Werhahn coat of arms is also emblazoned above the door of the main house.

The Dyckhof forms a complete ensemble with the neighboring Gnadenkapelle Maria in der Not. Until 1890 the whole area was completely surrounded by ditches. The Dyckhof is surrounded by a way of the cross , the stations of which were recreated in the 1960s and 1970s by the sculptor Wilhelm Hanebal . Furthermore, a Siebenschmerzweg connects the Dyckhof with the Gnadenkapelle and the Meer monastery .

  • Main house from the courtyard

  • Portal of the main house

  • Main house with a station of the cross by Wilhelm Hanebal

  • Weather vane with the coat of arms of the Werhahn family on top

history

time owner Residents
14th century Von
der Heghe family		 1393: Johann von der Heghe
15th century Thys von der Heghe
Von
Meekeren family		 Diederich von Meekeren
Johann and Godert von Meekeren (until 1472)
Thönis von Kurbeke (until 1489)
16th century
17th century
Von Norprath family		 Johann von Norprath († 1516)
Georg von Norprath († 1559)
Goddart of Norprath († 1628)
Johann von Norprath († 1658)
Wolfgang Günther von Norprath († 1686)
Franz Friedrich von Norprath (until 1701)
18th century Baron Bernhard von Bronkhorst (until 1718)
Kloster Meer (until 1804)
19th century
20th century
21st century		 Henry Moynat
(until 1807)		 Johann Andreas Werhahn
(tenant from 1794; owner from 1807)
Family
Wehrhahn
(until 2012)


The Verhülsdonk family

(til today)

Franz Arnold Werhahn (1806–?)
...



The Dyckhof was built as a low castle of the moth type , which was protected by moats. It has always been an allodial good that was not linked to a feudal obligation and could be freely inherited and sold.

The Dyckhof is first mentioned in a document in 1393 in a Neuss document. From this time on the estate was owned by various families of the lower nobility. In the 14th and 15th centuries these were the von der Heghe, von Meekeren and von Kurbeke families.

From the late 15th century to 1699, the Dyckhof was the residence of the Neuss patrician family von Norprath, a now extinct noble family whose ancestral seat was the Norbisrath estate near Hülchrath and Neukirchen , for seven generations . In 1666 was Baron Wolfgang Günther von Norprath, Lord of Dyckhof and Hulhausen, archbishop Chamberlain and 1668-1687 bailiff of Linn and Uerdingen , the estate-consuming to implement and expand. In 1674 he also acquired the Schackum house .

The rule of the von Norprath family ended in 1718 with the sale of the Dyckhof to the Meer monastery. After its abolition in 1804 and its secularization , the Dyckhof was bought by the Parisian banker Henry Moynat. Only three years later (1807) he sold the farm to Johannes Andreas Werhahn, who had been running the farm as a tenant since 1794 . Peter Wilhelm Werhahn , who later increased the family's influence considerably, was born there in 1802. He later moved his main residence to Neuss. Franz Werhahn, Peter Wilhelm's younger brother, took over the Dyckhof. He lived in the yard with his wife Maria, née Radmacher, with whom - according to a memorial stone near the yard - he had ten children. The mansion was owned by his family until 2012, before it was sold to the Verhülsdonk family.

In 1997 and 1998 the farm buildings were restored and converted into a hotel and restaurant.

literature

  • Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the Neuss district (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 3, Section 3). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1895, pp. 14-15 ( online ).
  • Kurt Niederau : The gentlemen v. Norprath on the Dyckhof (1st part) . In: Meerbuscher history books . tape 10 . History Association Meerbusch, 1993, ISSN  0930-3391 , p. 4-79 .
  • Kurt Niederau: The gentlemen v. Norprath on the Dyckhof (2nd part) . In: Meerbuscher history books . tape 11 . History Association Meerbusch, 1993, ISSN  0930-3391 , p. 59-95 .
  • Robert Rameil: Bibliography on the history of the Dyckhof and its owners . In: Meerbuscher history books . tape 10 . History Association Meerbusch, 1993, ISSN  0930-3391 , p. 80-81 .

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Older alternative spellings of the name: D <y / ü / i (e)> (c / k) k (er (s)) ho <f / ff / v (e). Attention, risk of confusion with the nearby estates Dückershof near Kaarst- Holzbüttgen , Dücker (s) hof near Vorst and with Schloss Dyck near Jüchen-Aldenhoven. Dyck is Lower Franconian and means dike .
  2. ↑ It is probably about the Heekeren family .
  3. ↑ Kurbeke is today's Körbecke in Westphalia

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Meerbusch , accessed on January 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ Mike Kunze: Dyckhof is on the market . In: wz Newsline (online edition of the Westdeutsche Zeitung ) of February 7, 2012 ( online , accessed on August 27, 2012).
  3. ↑ a b c d History of the Dyckhof on the website of the hotel-restaurant , accessed on 23 August 2011.
  4. ^ A b Paul Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Neuss , p. 15.
  5. ↑ Robert Rameil: The weather vane on the tower of the Dyckhof . In: Meerbuscher history books . tape 14 . History Association Meerbusch, 1997, ISSN  0930-3391 , p. 171-172 .
  6. ^ Topographical survey of the Rhineland , sheet 44: Düsseldorf ( online ).
  7. ↑ The Dyckhof in the memorial gallery of the Meerbuscher Kulturkreis , accessed on January 10, 2012.
  8. ↑ a b Kurt Niederau: The gentlemen v. Norprath on the Dyckhof (1st part) .
  9. ↑ a b Historical Association for the Lower Rhine (ed.): Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . No. 200 . L. Röhrscheid, 1997.
  10. ^ Paul Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Neuss , p. 14.
  11. ↑ Kurt Pritzkoleit: Men, Powers, Monopolies. Behind the doors of the West German economy . Rauch, 1963, p. 81 .
  12. ↑ Jan Popp-Sewing: Monuments for sale . In: Rheinische Post . Online edition from February 24, 2012 . Retrieved March 27, 2012.

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 29.2 "  N , 6 ° 40 ′ 59.2"  E