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The castle house of Gut Grittern, north-west view

The Good Tern Grit , also home Grit Tern or manor Grit Tern called one is listed former manor southwest of Doveren , a district of Hückelhoven in the district Heinsberg ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ). Today's main building has its roots in a 16th century building and is part of a whole chain of mansions in the Rur valley . The facility is privately owned and cannot be visited.

history

The castle house before the renovation around 1900

Nothing is known about the beginnings of the late medieval moated castle Grittern. It was probably the ancestral seat of the noble family of the same name , which, judging by the coat of arms, was of the same origin as the lords of Körrenzig . Sophia von Grittern brought the property to her husband Dietrich von Lieck by marriage in 1535. The descendants of the two, Johann von Lieck and his wife Elise von Wevorde, had the castle house built in the late 16th century. In 1654 the system came to Elise Christine von Lieck's husband Wilhelm Degenhard von Hompesch-Bollheim. The count family remained the owners of the water-protected buildings until 1840 . The Codex Welser from 1723 shows a view of the complex from the time it was owned by Hompesch-Bollheim. However, the drawing there is only very imprecise.

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Grittern estate was owned by the government assistant Konrad Bresges from Rheydt . Around 1900 he had the second floor of the castle house demolished during a major renovation project in order to unify two formerly separated building parts and to align them in height. The two buildings were then given a common roof. For this, the client had one of the Renaissance-era stepped gables removed from the main building. At the same time, a modern villa was built for Bresges on the grounds of the complex according to plans by Otto March and a Renaissance fireplace from the castle house was installed there. The new building was destroyed during the Second World War and the castle house was also badly damaged. The latter was rebuilt in 1970/75. It has been a listed building since July 6, 1987. The outer bailey was added to the list of monuments on March 30, 1994 .

description

Gut Grittern is a two-part complex, consisting of a two-storey main building and the 19th century farm buildings to the northwest.

Outer bailey building

The castle house is a two-story brick building with a rectangular floor plan and a high basement. It used to be surrounded by a wide moat that was fed by the Nysterbach , but the ditch system was drained around 1900 and has since been leveled. The current state of the main house results from a major renovation around 1900, during which part of the building was removed. The house has different types of windows ( cross- storey and cross- storey windows as well as longitudinally split windows), they all have a house border . The short sides of the house show gables from the Renaissance period, while the rear is curved and less elaborate. The gable on the north side is a stepped gable adorned with stone balls, which is divided horizontally by stone friezes . It bears a great resemblance to the gable of the manor house of the Teutonic Order Coming Siersdorf . Three light stone panels integrated into the gable show rosette or star reliefs . A simple wooden staircase leads to the main entrance of the building below with the alliance coat of arms of the Lieck and Wevorden families. This is crowned by a triangular gable and framed on both sides by volutes . Inside the house is a renaissance fireplace, the lintel of which is decorated with 15 ancestral coats of arms of the Lieck / Wevorden couple. It was moved to a new building at the beginning of the 20th century and destroyed there in World War II. Its individual parts were salvaged from the war rubble in the 1970s and reassembled and restored in the castle house .

The three-winged brick bailey was completely rebuilt in the 19th century. Its roof is even more recent and dates from the 20th century because it had to be replaced after a fire between the two world wars. The west wing has three arched entrances on the courtyard side , on the roof there is a compass rose with a weathercock . In the single-storey north wing there is also the arched courtyard entrance. The east wing houses a coach house and a residential wing on its two floors . During the Second World War it served as accommodation for prisoners. At its southern end is the administrator's house from the end of the 19th century. This brick building has blocks of friezes on its eaves .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Clemen: The art monuments of the districts Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen , p. 30.
  2. ↑ a b c Description of the Grittern estate in the list of monuments of the city of Hückelhoven , accessed on April 28, 2012.
  3. ^ Heinsberg Tourist Service (ed.): Information on castles, palaces and mansions in the Heinsberg leisure region . Self-published, Heinsberg ( PDF ; 61 kB)
  4. ^ Karl Emerich Krämer : From castle to castle between Cologne and Aachen . 2nd Edition. Mercator, Duisburg 1984, ISBN 3-87463-117-6 , p. 22.
  5. ↑ P. Clemen: The art monuments of the districts of Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen , p. 31.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 21.2 "  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 53.3"  E