Good Weyern
Gut Weyern is an estate with a manor house in the Burgau Forest on the outskirts of Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia .
The estate is located in the Düren city forest (Burgauer Wald) right next to a green rubble mountain . This artificial mountain consists of debris from the city of Düren after the air raid on November 16, 1944 . Opposite is the Düren Vocational Promotion Agency .
The Good Weyern includes the parcels 17 to 32 of the hall 62 in the district Düren .
The estate, formerly called Grevenweyer, must have had this name before 1336, when the Counts of Jülich were appointed margraves and belonged to Jülich. The dukes of Jülich-Berg owned the estate until the French takeover.
Oldest news
On November 28, 1398, the location of properties belonging to the Bedbur farm, a fief in the judicial district of Lendersdorf, is described as "Tusschen der Rüren and Greven weyer". On January 8, 1409 it says: Hermann von Dülken pays 10 Malter rye from 13 1/2 acres of fields and vineyards “by des Grevens wijer”.
In 1532/33, the former military master Johann Nickel mentions a house belonging to Gut Weyern. Among other things, two ponds and a moat were also listed. The ponds were fed from a Rur pond and a nearby spring. The following tenants have been known since the end of the 17th century:
Johann Hilger Mulartz with his wife Katharina Christina Steprath, since 1695 Hofrat Johann Neuling (1723 and 1739 he was mayor of Düren). It was owned by the Frinken family at the beginning of the 18th century. The treasurer Frinken stated on 27 September 1711 that the building a little house and cattle stables BE REDUCED. This house stood in the then dry Heffelsweiher. The tenant family Frinken were replaced by the mayor of Düren and Vogt Anton Hermann Balthasar Ricker. In 1754 the estate had four ponds with a total of 93 acres. Ricker put several ponds, including the Heffelweiher, under water again. He also had stables and a barn built. The two outward sloping brick pillars at the entrance also date from his tenancy.
Other tenants were the Nörvenich rent master Maximilian Theodor Emmanuel Mertz von Mertzenfeld (1759), Paul Thurn, second husband of Mertzenfeld's widow Eva Hohns (1796), and Leonard Jacob Engels. He leased the Weyerhof on February 3, 1799 for an annual lease of 485 francs. At that time there was a distillery and a bar on the first floor of the house . Engels appointed Matthias Hochmann from Krauthausen as the manager , who lived on Gut Weyern until 1802 and had to pay Engels half of the annual rent.
Until the French era, Grevenweyern always remained in the possession of the Dukes of Jülich-Berg and the Electors of the Palatinate .
After being taken over by the French state, the estate was sold to Ferdinand Joseph Effertz from Aachen on July 13, 1804 at a price of 17,200 Francs . Three days after the purchase, he informed the domain administration that he had bought the property for the Düren businessman Johann Paul Schenkel. The tenant was Jakob Kuckertz, whose family lived on the estate until 1872. Johann Paul Schenkel bequeathed the property to his son Rudolf Schenkel . The Weyerhof came to the Prym family through the daughters Wilhelmine Elisabeth (married to Kommerzienrat Carl Friedrich Schoeller ) and granddaughter Ernestine Schoeller (married to Richard Prym) . Ernstine died on June 214, 1878 in Düren and bequeathed the Weyerhof to the three children Friedrich, Eugen and Ida Helene. The tenants were the Chorus (1880), Schnitzler (from 1893), Strepp (1903–1910), Buntenbroich (around 1925) and the Kieselstein couple (from 1926). On June 28, 1940, the city of Düren acquired Gut Weyern from the Prym heirs. The purchase price of 328,000 marks also included 330 acres of land.
The two characteristic, outwardly inclined brick pillars at the entrance to the courtyard date from the 18th century. Part of the property is surrounded by a moat . On the outside you can see the Köpfelstein , the remains of an execution site .
building
In the oldest accounts from 1532/1533, Wehrmeister Johann Nickel mentions a house belonging to the estate. He had paid carpenters and roofers. He paid five marks for bundles of straw to cover the roof.
The two-storey five-axis mansion was built at the beginning of the 18th century and has a gable roof . It is a brick building with stone walls . A modern extension was built on the field side.
In a plan from 1810, the building was 43 m long and 20 m wide. The barn was 48 m long and 10 m wide.
There is a large pond right next to Gut Weyern, which was previously used for fish farming . There was an animal park on an island east of the estate. A baroque archway made of natural stone stands on the artificial peninsula in Hausweyer . There are no traces of an associated building.
The ponds
The following ponds are recorded at the beginning of the 17th century:
- the lowest pond (19 acres)
- the middle pond (20 acres)
- the mountain pond (10 acres)
- the house pond (5 acres)
- the new pond from Keeßkammer, Heffel- and Vaßelqweiher (16 acres)
- the black pond (5 acres)
In 1756 the following fish were bred at the Weyerhof:
- Pike
- carp
- Tench
- Perch
- Crucian carp
- Eels
- Whitefish
Monument protection
The building is registered under No. 1/005 in the list of monuments of the city of Düren.
swell
- Gut Weyern - The princely Grevenweyern near Düren , Ernst Nellessen in Dürener Geschichtsblätter No. 53, Düren 1974, pp. 111–129
Individual evidence
- ↑ Düren City Archives, Prym Archives, No. 84, Bl. 58
- ^ Herbert Pawliczek: Directory of monuments of the city of Düren 1984. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter. No. 76, Düren 1987, ISSN 0416-4180
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 58.5 ″ N , 6 ° 29 ′ 31.8 ″ E