Good Gansbroich

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Gut Gansbroich seen from the northeast (2007)

The Good goose Broich is at Baal located Hofgut. It used to belong to the former municipality of Doveren and is now in the area of ​​the city of Hückelhoven in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Heinsberg .

The farm was first mentioned in a document together with its owner at the time in 1350. Most of its current structure dates from the 17th and 18th centuries and has only recently been extensively restored .

location

Gansbroich on the Prussian map from 1845
Doverheide, Grittern Manor Doveren Doveren-Baal industrial park
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Fallow Rurich

The Baaler Bach and the Rur run southwest of the farm, and the Groß-Künkel quarry pond to the west.
The Mönchengladbach – Aachen railway line runs in the southeast .

description

Gut Gansbroich is a closed four-wing complex with a rectangular floor plan. The former moats fed by the Rur are now filled in, but some of them still existed at the beginning of the 20th century.

The core of the complex is the house built in 1661 on the northeast corner. Its ground floor with brickwork is painted white. His first floor and attic are to be in half-timbered carried and used by a gabled roof completed. On the courtyard side, a modern, single-storey extension was placed in front of the house, so that the former main entrance is now in the interior of the house. Its massive, wooden lintel shows the carved inscription

“THE HOUSE IS IN GOD'S HANDS, GOD THE ALMIGHTY SHELTERS IT FROM WEATHER, FIRE AND ENEMY. BUILT BY UDO OIDTMANN AND JOHANN CHRISTUPHELL OIDTMANN AND MARIA CATHARINA PACKEN, MARRIED; DONE ON MAY 23rd, 1661 ”.

The portal of the estate (2007)

The residential building used to be attached to farm buildings, which formed the other wings of the complex. A good half of the west wing was taken up by a barn, which is now used as a two-family house after renovation work. This is followed by a new building to the south, which was erected there instead of a dilapidated and demolished stable building.

The east wing with its white painted brick outer wall now houses offices - just like the south wing. Iron wall anchors in the form of digits indicate the year of construction of the building: 1775; The wall anchor with the number 5 is difficult to find today because it is covered by a downpipe . Its arched portal is framed by brick pilasters and is crowned with a flat gable bearing a coat of arms plate with the year 1749.

history

Owners of the estate have been attested by name since the Middle Ages . In 1350 a Godtfried von Nyvenheim zu Nierhoven bei Lövenich is mentioned as the owner.

Later, the estate - a fief of the Heinsberg man chamber - was owned by the Udman / Oidtman family of lay judges for several centuries . Paul Clemen (see literature ) describes it as their ancestral home. Heinrich Udman from Erkelenz acquired the estate in 1443 from a Wilhelm von Vrankenhoven, known as "van Korentzich", a knight in Körrenzig.

In 1661 Johann Christoph Oidtman rebuilt the house with his uncle Udo and was enfeoffed with the estate on December 28 of the same year. The well-known genealogist Ernst von Oidtman comes from a branch of the family .

In 1775 today's farm buildings were built. By marriage in the 19th century, Gut Gansbroich first came to the Byll family and finally to the Aretz family.

After extensive renovation and restoration work under the direction of the architect Franz Peter Greven from Hückelhoven, the estate now houses office space for companies in the service sector, while the former barn has been converted into a two-family house.

literature

  • Edmund Renard : The art monuments of the districts of Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 8, Section 2). Reprint of the 1904 edition. Schwann Bagel, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-590-32112-1 , pp. 17-18 ( digitized version ).
  • Hans-Henning Herzberg: City of Hückelhoven (= Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 315). Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1987, ISBN 3-88094-5330 , p. 25.
  • Frank Körfer: Gut Gansbroich. The checkered history of an estate and its residents. In: District Heinsberg (Hrsg.): Home calendar of the district Heinsberg 2014. District Heinsberg, Heinsberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-925620-35-5 .
  • Frank Körfer: Haus Gansbroich, an old estate between Baal and Doveren. In: 1100 year of Baal. Contributions to local history. Jülich 1993, ISBN 3-87227-042-7 , pp. 101-102.
  • Ernst von Oidtman : On the history of the Erkelenz families of lay judges. Erkelenz History and Antiquity Association, No. 4, Erkelenz 1922.

Web links

Commons : Gut Gansbroich  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Frank Körfer: Haus Gansbroich, an old estate between Baal and Doveren. 1993, p. 102.
  2. ↑ Edmund Renard: The art monuments of the districts Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen. 1982, p. 262.
  3. ↑ Edmund Renard: The art monuments of the districts Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen. 1982, p. 261.

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 50 ″  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 20 ″  E