Grummmühlen
Grumsmühlen was a former knightly estate near Langen in Emsland , which has been in the possession of the Dukes of Croÿ since 1923.
history
The name Grumsmühlen (old: Grumsmeulen 1516) is derived from an oil mill that stood on the site. According to Schriever, the final word could mean grum = make noise . In the 16th century, the then manager of the farm, Albert Göding, was still called Grumsmöller. A second mill, the Puttken mill, was later built on the site and still exists today. The name is possibly derived from Niederdtsch. puttken = running along shuffling.
Grumsmühlen has a very eventful history with many ups and downs. Around 1300 the farm was a treasure-free, with a mill shelf justified half inheritance in the possession of the Count of Tecklenburg .
In the first half of the 16th century, the Fraterhaus zum Springhorn in Münster owned the property. Grumsmühlen was sold by the Fratres in 1562 to the Lingen rentmaster Adolf van Limborch (also Limborg), who lordly expanded the estate with a tower and moats . After the murder of Van Limborch, Grumsmühlen was sold to Ernst Mulert, Drosten from Lingen, in 1572 . This came from an old Dutch noble family that lived on the Laar estate near Ommen . Grumsmühlen was not very big at that time. Around 1550 Grumsmühlen had 4 Maltersaat arable land, 30 loads of hay, so much (oak) wood that 30 pigs could be fattened in it and a garden of 4 bushels of linseed for the oil mill. That corresponded to an area of around 50 acres of cultivated land. Mulert expanded the inheritance through further acquisitions, in particular through the purchase of parts of the old Thuine estate . Through the transfer of the Thuiner noble justice, Grumsmühlen became a knightly property. The connection between the House of Mulert and the Grumsmühlen estate to Thuine dates from this time. The tomb of the Mulert family can still be seen in the parish church of St. Georg zu Thuine . Mulert was ambushed and killed too. The tomb of the Mulert family is located in the Thuiner parish church of St George .
A checkered history followed. Especially in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War and afterwards, the estate was completely run down and went bankrupt in 1673, from which Joachim von Böselager from Eggermühlen finally bought the property. The house, which probably dates from Boeselager's time, was renovated in 1842. In 1923 Grumsmühlen was bought by the Duke of Croÿ and is managed from House Merfeld . Today the estate consists only of the buildings and some surrounding areas.
literature
- Wilhelm Kohl - Germania Sacra. Diocese of Münster 7, The Diocese 2 , Walter De Gruyter, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-1101-7514-2
- Rudolf von Bruch - The Knights' Seats of the Emsland , Verlag Aschendorff, Münster 1962, ISBN 3402051311
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Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 33 " N , 7 ° 25 ′ 38" E