Good Mielenforst
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Good Mielenforst is a farm and a former knight's seat in Cologne district Dellbrück . Today, after extensive renovation, it is used as a condominium complex ("Hofgut Mielenforst"). Gut Mielenforst is located on the edge of the Königsforst , on the Eggerbach and not far from the mouse path . The name is said to be derived from the Celtic “mil” = soft, swampy.
history
Already in 1196 a Konrad de Milinvorst was mentioned as "dapifer" (Latin: "Aufträger von Essen" = Truchseß ) of the Count von Berg . A family of Milenvorst has been known since the 13th century. In the 15th century ownership fell back to the Counts and Dukes of Berg. In 1596 it was pledged to a knight von Heimbach called Hoen; At the end of the 17th century it was owned by the von Steinen family , who held it until 1774 and had a new mansion built in 1711. Then it fell to the state and remained a domain property.
In 1822 the Cologne lawyer Friedrich Hohenschutz acquired the estate with around 350 acres of land. The textile industrialist Paul Andreae from Mülheim bought the estate from his daughter Josephine and her husband Franz Wilhelm Freiherr von Saint-Remy zur Biesen in 1882, which now includes around 750 acres of forest, pastures and farmland. Andreae had the current manor house built by 1885 by gradually closing down the old courtyard and replacing it with new buildings in the neo-renaissance style . In the meantime, he rounded off his property, which included land in the mayorries of Merheim and Bensberg. In 1904 the estate was converted into a family entourage, and in 1909 the Andreae family was raised to hereditary nobility by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
After the end of the First World War , the New Zealand Rifle Brigade of the British occupying forces had its headquarters at Gut Mielenforst. A photo shows the future Edward VIII as Prince of Wales during a visit on January 18, 1919.
During the Second World War , Gut Mielenforst was an anti-aircraft control center for Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine. The tower, which had been stripped of its helmet for reasons of flight safety at the Cologne-Ostheim Air Base, was used as an observation tower. In the basement of the administrator's house, the soldiers painted office scenes, anti-aircraft guns and a city panorama of Cologne framed by anti-aircraft floodlights on the walls. Beyond the pond, an underground bunker with two entrances was built in the park.
The Andreae heirs sold Gut Mielenforst to the city of Cologne in 1978. While the park was placed under nature protection as early as 1959 , Gut Mielenforst was included in the list of monuments of the city of Cologne in 1980 (No. 669). From 1988 the city tried to sell the property, which was implemented by transferring it to a property developer on April 1, 1997. With the expiry of the lease on October 31, 1999, the agricultural use of the property also ended. The courtyard was converted into a commercial unit and 47 residential units by 2003 and converted into partial ownership (planning: Badtke Architektur GmbH; open space design: Brigitte Röde). The mansion remained undivided (except for the separation of the kitchen wing), the historical roof landscape, in particular the helmet of the corner tower, was reconstructed. The building, courtyard and park are not open to the public. However, regular viewing appointments for the public were agreed with the city curator's office, for example on the day of the open monument .
description
Gut Mielenforst is a four-sided courtyard that consists of coach house wings in the west, stables and storage buildings in the north, large cattle and sheepfold in the east, and tenant houses and servants' houses and a feed mill in the south. On the southwest corner is the manor house, which is connected to the tenant house through the main gate; Another historic gateway is on the northwest corner. Excavations around 2000 have shown that the courtyard used to cover only the western half of the current site.
The mansion
The manor house is located in the preferred south-west corner of the courtyard. It was built in 1883-85 based on designs by the Berlin architect Hans Grisebach . The two-storey house in the style of the German Renaissance ( Neo-Renaissance ) is a plastered building with red sandstone details and has a tower on the southwest corner. The main facade faces south; A loggia with three round arches opens up on the ground floor , behind which the central hall of the house is located.
The representative rooms are located on the ground floor: the dining room adjoins the transverse hall, to which the kitchen wing adjoins. To the west is the ladies' or music room, designed in the form of Louis-seize . To the north of the hall, facing the inner courtyard, there is the master bedroom with dark baroque paneling and built-in bookcases, as well as the stairwell. The original furnishings were auctioned publicly after the mistress of the house died in 1935.
The park
By relocating the Mielenforster Kirchweg, which originally ran directly past the manor house, to the southeast, space was gained for an extensive park. In front of the south and west facade of the manor house, there was a pond, which was divided in half by a bridge, in the place of earlier ditches and horse ponds. A terrace was created in front of the main facade. Large trees divided the area, designed as a landscape park, of which only remnants are visible today, such as a large bald cypress on a peninsula protruding into the pond . There are two historic gates on Mielenforster Kirchweg; the first leads next to the "mill" to the farm buildings. The second opens onto a chestnut avenue, which was largely destroyed by the storm Friederike on January 18, 2018, which leads through the park to the gateway between the manor house and the tenant house.
Associated buildings in the area
At the approach from the Mauspfad there are several workers' houses from around 1900 for farm employees. About 700 meters to the south is the Andreae family grave in the forest, the main access axis of which is oriented towards the Cologne Cathedral, which is visible across the field . The Mielenforster Kirchweg, which leads in a south-westerly direction to Cologne-Merheim , is only partly on the line of sight between the Merheim church tower and the tower of the mansion, due to today's bypassing the Cologne-Merheim motorway junction. Not far away on the mouse path is an old wayside shrine, which is also connected to the park gate by a path axis.
literature
- Alexander Kierdorf: Gut Mielenforst in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine. Yearbook for history and regional studies of the Geschichts- und Heimatverein Rechtsrheinisches Köln eV Vol. 23, 1997, ISSN 0179-2938 , pp. 45–72 (also as a special edition).
- Hans Michels, Rudi Müller: Dellbrücker street names and pictures tell a story. A publication that makes Dellbrücker history tangible in words and pictures. Heimat-Verein Köln-Dellbrück eV, Cologne 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons , source: nzetc.org
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 41.8 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 4.8" E
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