Gut Rosenberg

50.83253 6.04548Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 57.1 ″ N , 6 ° 2 ′ 43.7 ″ E

Courtyard of Gut Rosenberg

Gut Rosenberg is a historic four-sided farm in the Horbach district north of Aachen on the Dutch border.

history

The oldest mention of the Rosenberg estate comes from May 26, 1274. The oldest city seal of Aachen, the so-called Charles seal, used from 1150 onwards, is on the deed of the knight Johannes de Porcheto. As a fiefdom of the Archbishop of Cologne, the estate has been under the Jülich subordination of Heyden since 1361.

A site plan of the property with a floor plan, garden and pond shows a four-sided courtyard that is almost entirely surrounded by water. In 1967 the water surface, which has since been considerably reduced, was reduced by 4.5 meters when straightening the former Locher Straße on the north side.

The current building stock mainly dates from 1784 (main building) and 1825 (auxiliary building).

The origin of the name Rosenberg is unclear. The location of the property on a former Roman road and a later Jewish cemetery allow the assumption that the origin lies in a Roman burial ground. For the Rose Festival in May, the Romans laid roses on the graves and turned the grave fields into rose gardens. Steinkaulbach, which passes Gut Rosenberg, was formerly called Rosebeke.

Todays use

Main house from the courtyard

The approximately 1,800 m² usable area of the listed building complex is today the seat of the Academy for Craft Design Gut Rosenberg of the Aachen Chamber of Crafts (HWK), which was founded in 1985 on the initiative of the incumbent HWK President Anton Immendorf in association with the FH Aachen and its rector Hildegard Reitz and has been since 1994 was settled at Gut Rosenberg.

Web links

Presentation of the story on gut-rosenberg.de visited on September 25, 2012
Steeger, Albert: Studies on the Lower Rhine Regional Studies, Kevelaer 1981, ISBN 3-7666-9239-9

Individual evidence

↑ Sheet 86 of the map of the Rhineland by Trauchot and v. Müffling from April 21, 1805 to June 30, 1807. Berlin State Library, map department.
^ Felix Rütten and Albert Steeger : settlement history of the office of Kempen. Special print from the annals of the historical association issue 119 Düsseldorf
↑ Academy for Handicraft Design "Gut Rosenberg"

[1] Sheet 86 of the map of the Rhineland by Trauchot and v. Müffling from April 21, 1805 to June 30, 1807. Berlin State Library, map department.

[2] Felix Rütten and Albert Steeger : settlement history of the office of Kempen. Special print from the annals of the historical association issue 119 Düsseldorf

[3] Academy for Handicraft Design "Gut Rosenberg"