Gut Bodenhof

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View of the Bodenhof estate on a watercolor drawing by Caspar Wolf , 1870/71

The Good Bodenhof , also briefly only Bodenhof called, was a manor house with a prestigious mansion south of the former city of Aachen on the road to Eupen . Until the 17th century the estate was also known as the Laboenhof . All that remains of the property today is the former main portal , a few wall bases and an arched bridge . These remains are under monument protection .

history

View of the estate from the southeast, drawing by Caspar Wolf, 1780/81

The estate went back to a moated castle , which was a property of the Aachen Marienstift . Mentioned in writing for the first time in a document dated May 29, 1438, the facility had been in the possession of Laurenz (Lenz) von Cronenburg (also called Cronenberg) since that year. He was probably the first recipient of this newcomer. After his death, Bodenhof Castle passed to his son of the same name, who bequeathed it to his son Arnold in 1545. This was successively followed by his two brothers Simon (1548) and Hermann von Cronenburg (1563). From his marriage to Maria Wolff came the daughter Catharina, who married the copper master Michael Amya and brought him the estate in 1586. Through their son Hermann, the property passed to grandson Michael in 1629. However, at that time it was no longer the sole owner. His aunt Susanna, his father's sister, had married Leonard Römer, who was also enfeoffed with a quarter of the estate in 1629. It was not until the death of Susanna's and Leonard's son Daniel in 1686 that the Amya family were the sole owners of the property again. From 1655 to 1657, the tenants at that time replaced the old moated castle with a new building, the eastern wing of which was a neat residential building.

Gut Bodenhof on the Tranchot map

Towards the end of the 17th century, the Amya family no longer lived on the estate, but had moved to the Netherlands (then Republic of the Seven United Provinces ). So from 1694 Kurbrandenburg soldiers quartered there . They fortified the manor house by entrenching the moat and dug loopholes in the walls of the round corner towers. At that time Hermann Amya, a nephew of Michael Amya, owned the estate. He inherited it from his father Matthias, Michael's brother, in 1676. When he died in 1700, his son Jakob succeeded him as owner. After he died in 1730, his widow sold the property on August 2, 1732 to Helena von Coutten, widow of the banker Johann von Leyendecker. Their heirs sold it on 22 May 1750 at the Palatine Hofkammerrat Franz Rudolf von Collenbachstraße. He was awarded the property as an Allodium . He had the left wing extended for himself and his wife Maria Barbara Therese Chorus in 1750 and new economic buildings built. On January 13, 1804, the Aachen needle manufacturer Karl Philipp Pastor acquired the estate. He died there only six years later in 1810. After his death on November 18, 1818, his heirs sold the estate to needle manufacturer Heinrich Nütten-Schillings, who had a large veranda added to the manor building. The Nütten family made structural changes to the manor house from 1860 onwards. The drawbridge was removed and the stone bridge leading to the portal was extended by an arch to the building. At the same time the moat was drained. On the residential building, the owners had the cross floors of the cross floor windows removed in order to have more light inside. In addition, the large barn on the southern flank of the facility was demolished.

During the Second World War , the estate was destroyed by fire. In the 1950s, when the Philips company bought the area in order to build new buildings for their company, the ruined manor house was still standing. The partially preserved garden front was dismantled in the summer of 1961 to the level of the building plinth because it was later to be shown as a facade for a modern new building at this point. But that never happened. The farm buildings were laid down in 1962, only a brick bridge and a monumental archway remained. The new buildings erected on the site after the war are now used by the Aachen University of Applied Sciences , among others .

description

Preserved portal and bridge of the Bodenhof estate
Portal and bridge of the Bodenhof estate, view from the side

The estate was a four-wing complex that was surrounded by a moat. The four wings of the building, of which the eastern wing was formed by the representative manor house, surrounded an inner courtyard. To the north of the square was a pond that is still preserved today.

The mansion was a two-story brick building, the outside of which was whitewashed at the beginning of the 20th century. It had a slate hip roof . Its east-facing, 36.3 meter wide façade was divided into ten axes by windows and had a wide central projection . On the two east corners stood slender round towers with bent , polygonal helmets that were covered with slate. At the top stood weather vanes with the year 1750. On the ground floor of the manor house, the two central axes were taken up by a large, arched portal made of blue stone blocks, the gate opening of which was flanked on both sides by pilasters . The cover for the former drawbridge is still clearly visible today. A double- blown gable rises above the cranked cornice, with a heart-shaped cartridge emblazoned in the gable area . This showed the coat of arms of the Amya family until 1750, before Franz Rudolf von Collenbach had it removed. At the level of the attic, the central projectile had a dwarf-like structure with a triangular gable as the upper end. There was a clock in the gable. To the east of the manor house was a symmetrically laid out Baroque garden , which was divided into a northern and a southern section by the straight access avenue . The driveway ended at a two-arched bridge that led over the moat to the main portal.

The manor house was joined to the west by a horseshoe-shaped farmyard from 1750. He took on a barn, coach houses , stables and a tenant apartment.

literature

  • Karl Faymonville : The profane monuments and the collections of the city of Aachen (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 10, Section 3). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1924, pp. 201-204.
  • Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 15 .
  • Hans Königs : Report on war damage and construction work on the secular architectural monuments in Aachen. In: Yearbook of the Rheinische Denkmalpflege. Volume 25. Werner, Worms 1965, ISSN  0341-924X , p. 85.
  • Christian Quix : Contributions to the history of the city and the empire Aachen, Part VI: The Bodenhof. In: From Aachen's prehistory (AAV). Vol. 5, No. 4, 1892, pp. 56-63 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Gut Bodenhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ C. Quix: Contributions to the history of the city and the realm of Aachen, Part VI: The ground courtyard. 1892, p. 52.
  2. ↑ Directory of the monuments in the area of ​​the city of Aachen (in the version of the 17th addendum). Status: 2013 ( PDF ; 129 kB).
  3. ^ A b K. Faymonville: The art monuments of the city of Aachen. 1924, p. 201.
  4. ^ A b K. Faymonville: The art monuments of the city of Aachen. 1924, p. 202.
  5. ^ C. Quix: Contributions to the history of the city and the realm of Aachen, Part VI: The ground courtyard. 1892, p. 54.
  6. ↑ Information on Michael Amya on Familienbuch-euregio.eu , accessed on July 24, 2015.
  7. ↑ a b C. Quix: Contributions to the history of the city and the empire Aachen, part VI: The ground yard. 1892, p. 55.
  8. ↑ B. Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of "permanent houses". 1984, p. 15.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g K. Faymonville: The art monuments of the city of Aachen. 1924, p. 203.
  10. ↑ Information on Hermann Amya and his descendants on Familienbuch-euregio.eu , accessed on July 24, 2015.
  11. ↑ a b Hans Küppe: Aachener wrought iron from the Middle Ages to the year 1812. In: Peter Ludwig (Hrsg.): Aachener Kunstblätter. Volume 27. Verlag des Aachener Museumsverein, Aachen 1963, p. 165.
  12. ^ A b c Hans Königs : Report on war damage and construction work on the secular architectural monuments in Aachen. In: Yearbook of the Rheinische Denkmalpflege. Volume 25. Werner, Worms 1965, ISSN  0341-924X , p. 85.
  13. ^ K. Faymonville: The art monuments of the city of Aachen. 1924, p. 204.

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 30.7 ″  N , 6 ° 5 ′ 1.2 ″  E