Good Müllenark
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The Good Müllenark even castle Müllenark called, stands near Schophoven , a district of indene (Rheinland) in the district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is a listed building .
history
Müllenark was still a village in the 14th century with a parish church mentioned in a document around 1300 . The noble family of the same name was one of the most important in the Duchy of Jülich in the Middle Ages .
Gerhard von Molenark, mentioned in a document in 1129, is the first of this family to be known by name. The most famous of those from Molenark is Heinrich I von Müllenark , who was Archbishop of Cologne from 1225 to 1238 . During the numerous armed conflicts between the Archbishops of Cologne and the Jülich Princely House, Count Wilhelm IV of Jülich besieged Gut Müllenark in 1234 in vain. Then he moved to Rövenich to hold a meeting with the archbishop's army. Before the battle broke out, however, peace could be reached through negotiation.
In 1249 Mathilde von Molenark married none other than the niece of the Cologne archbishops Heinrich von Molenark and Konrad von Hochstaden , Walram von Jülich, a son of Wilhelm IV but finally to return it to the rightful owner, Konrad von Molenark. The property remained a Cologne fief in the following period . The Jülich counts, who found this archbishop's enclave in the middle of their own sphere of influence extremely uncomfortable, later took possession of the castle again. The dispute with the von Molenark family culminated in a lawsuit that ended in 1317 with a judgment in favor of this noble family.
In the 14th century, the Hoen von Müllenark families, later the Banritzer von Müllenark families, who lived in the castle, were no longer named as archbishop but as Jülich feudal people. After the death of the last Banritzer von Müllenark at the beginning of the 15th century, his brothers-in-law Dietrich von Langel and Johann von Eynenberg shared Müllenark and the land belonging to it. By marrying von Langel's daughter, Dietrich von Hanxler came into possession of one half of the property in 1466.
Gerhard von Hanxler, Dietrich's son, was very important for the history of the property. He carried out important structural changes on Müllenark in the first half of the 16th century. The foundation walls of the main castle , which was built under his client, are still preserved today. Above all, the battery tower still in the substructure on the northeast corner of the main castle with its four meter thick brick walls is impressive. It could not be broken even with the powder guns that appeared in the 15th century . The battery tower lost its task of protecting the northern front of the originally much narrower outer bailey when it was rebuilt in the 17th century.
Heinrich von Mirbach, Gotthard von Hanxler's son-in-law, was the next owner of the estate. After the line of those von Mirbach died out on Müllenark in 1626, there was a dispute between two inheritance parties. The Spanish Colonel von Rovelli spontaneously took possession of the property at gunpoint.
In 1668 Johann Wilhelm von Metternich became the new owner of Gut Müllenark. Metternich was the heir of the Eynenberg family, who owned the property together with those of Langel in 1466. But neither von Eynenberg nor their heirs had paid much attention to Müllenark in the period that followed. Johann Wilhelm von Metternich behaved differently, who reunited the property after more than 200 years by purchasing the Mirbach share. In 1670 Metternich also built the three-wing baroque new building of the outer bailey, the western front of which with the large basket arched gate is 85 meters long.
The Metternich family went into debt in the following century. According to a court order, Müllenark was opened for public sale in 1769. It is not entirely clear why the property remained in the possession of the von Metternich family. It seems as if the related family of Villers-Masbourg gave the bankrupt residents of Müllenark a helping hand.
After the death of Anna Maria von Metternich in 1818, the property fell to the von Villers-Masbourg family. In the last quarter of the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century, Müllenark, which was no longer the residence of a noble family, headed towards decline. In 1909 it was bought by the Honnerbach family from Hamm at an auction of the Counts Villers-Masburg property . Before the First World War , it was bought by the Düren metal works . Around 1920, a new residential building was built on the site of the old, ruinous manor house.
Dürener Metallwerke sold Gut Müllenark in 1930 to the Axer family, who sold it to the Schagen family in 1932. In 1952, the Rolfes family acquired the property, which at the end of the 1970s was transferred to the association “Union to Help People in Need in Society”. RWE has been the new owner since November 1st, 1980 . The Lanckohr family has been managing Müllenark since 1957. After the transfer of ownership from Gut Müllenark to today's RWE, the Lanckohr family stopped farming. At Gut Müllenark only two residential units are still inhabited, otherwise the buildings are fallow, but are in good condition. RWE has leased the land to a farmer from the municipality of Inden. The estate still includes around 7.8 hectares of land.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 27.9 ″ N , 6 ° 24 ′ 10.6 ″ E