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Manor house of Gut Wolfshoven

The Wolfshoven estate is an old manorial property in the Stetternich district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Jülich . His manor house from the 19th century has remained almost unchanged to this day. Because of its two crenellated towers, the estate is popularly known as Wolfshoven Castle . The plant is since January 12, 1987 under monument protection .

history

The estate was first mentioned in a document in 1526. At that time it belonged to the Jülich aldermen and Mayor temporary Kyrstgen van der Heggen, who had it from a tenant farm. Presumably passed by inheritance to the Weyerstraß family, they then sold it to the Jülich customs officer Kaspar Sengel. His daughter Adelheid took the property to her husband Bartholomäus Lövenich.

In 1663 the estate was so heavily indebted that it was auctioned. The new owners became the married couple Peter von Mercken and Maria von Lövenich, who pledged it to the Jülich mayor Peter Codonaeus and his wife Regina Jansen in the same year for 1200  Reichstaler . The Codonaeus family claimed the status of a manor for Gut Wolfshoven and thus the exemption from tax, which led to a long-running dispute with the community of Stetterich, which did not recognize the tax exemption. The dispute finally ended in a settlement in 1748: Stetterich did not receive any taxes, but was able to purchase the estate for only 350 Reichstaler from the widow Maria Josepha Constantia Proff, née Codonaeus.

The community leased the fields to local farmers and sold the property including the forecourt without the associated forest and meadows to two hermits , Johannes Leusch and Peter Zimmermann. After the facility, which was surrounded by a moat , was badly damaged in an earthquake, it was sold to Caspar Stein from Stebenich. He rebuilt the hermitage and became a hermit himself in 1778.

In 1800, a fire destroyed the Church of Stebenich including the pastorate . The pastor temporarily found an apartment at Gut Wolfshoven until a new rectory was built. In 1822, the Jülich merchant Herbert Kaiser bought the property at auction. After the owner's death in 1833, his son-in-law Gottfried Baumeister sold it to the Jülich businessman Bernhard Wilhelm Grünewald. His son Carl, a textile and cloth manufacturer, had today's manor house and farm buildings built on a hill above the hermitage in 1858. From then on, this served as the gardener's apartment. For the new building of the manor house, the client chose an architecture that was in vogue among the emerging bourgeoisie from the mid-19th century. With his representative country estate, Grünewald wanted to copy the nobility's way of life, but the new building did not remain in his possession for long. As early as 1869 it was sold to the Hückelhoven farmer Heinrich Walther Blancke, who had been the leaseholder of the farm for several years. In 1885 he sold it to Peter Walther Blancke, who in turn sold the property to Jacob Jordan from Düsseldorf only three years later .

Jordan only remained the owner for two years, then in 1890 it was sold to the Düsseldorf family Ohde, who after only four years sold Gut Wolfshoven to Paul Lüttgenau from Düsseldorf. Lüttgenau had the hermitage demolished in 1899, but its foundations are still around 200 meters south of the estate today. Before the Second World War the estate of the was teacher Peter Remark inhabited from which it came to Edith Daniels.

In 1956 Gut Wolfshoven became state property and subsequently served as a shelter for the homeless. Hans van Sloun has owned the manor since 1969.

description

Gut Wolfshoven is a four-wing courtyard with a manor house on the southeast side. Once bordered a likely than landscape garden designed park to the building, from him but are only small remnants exist.

Farm buildings

Gate entrance with spolia of the fortress Jülich

The three-wing farm yard is closed off from the street by a high brick wall . It is one of the few structures that still originate from the 19th century. The remaining parts of the farm buildings have been modernized. In the middle of the wall is a large entrance gate , which is flanked by two massive bluestone pillars. These are spoils from the Jülich Fortress, which was razed in 1860 . Two courtyard wings consist of a barn and a parking space on the north-east side and a barn and a garage on the south-west side of the courtyard area. The third side is taken up by another barn, which is partly clad with brick.

Mansion

The two-storey mansion with brickwork is closed off by a simple hipped roof. Its year of construction can be precisely dated by wall anchors in the form of the year 1858. Its narrow sides are divided into two axes by windows, while the long side facing the courtyard has seven axes. Its central axis is formed like a risalit . The eaves cornice is supported on this side by cast iron consoles . Overall, the courtyard facade shows the typical characteristics of a residential building architecture from the classicism period .

The façade of the mansion is on the side facing the garden. In the meantime, it is stylistically based on the castle architecture of the Middle Ages . At the corners there are square towers with three storeys and coupled arched windows with central pillars . Their upper ends with a cantilevered battlements over a brick arch fries . The two corner towers flank a wide flight of stairs leading to an entrance in the middle of the five-axis facade. This is divided horizontally by two parapet cornices. On the upper floor there are arched window openings, above them again an eaves cornice, which this time is supported by acanthus-decorated consoles made of terracotta .

The inner walls of the building consist of half-timbering with bricked compartments . The height of the ground floor is 3.85 meters, while the upper floor is 3.75 meters high. The cellar has barrel vaults . Some of the stucco ceilings have been preserved in the rooms . The rooms are arranged symmetrically around an axial corridor followed by a staircase. The flooring of the hallway on the ground floor consists of bluestone and light and reddish marble .

literature

  • Ulrich Coenen: Architectural treasures in the Düren district. 2nd Edition. Mainz, Aachen 1989, ISBN 3-925714-27-8 , pp. 208-210.
  • Dirk Holtermann, Holger A. Dux : The Düren castle tour. Cycling between the Rur and the Eifel. Bouvier, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-416-02979-8 , p. 62.
  • Octavia Zanger: Monuments in the city of Jülich. Stadt Jülich, Jülich 1989, ISBN 3-921869-02-1 , pp. 91–92.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Description from the monument authority on limburg-bernd.de , accessed on October 17, 2015.
  2. ^ A b U. Coenen: Architectural treasures in the Düren district. 1989, p. 208.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f U. Coenen: Architectural treasures in the Düren district. 1989, p. 209.
  4. ↑ Geocoordinate: 50 ° 55 ′ 2.7 ″  N , 6 ° 24 ′ 46.7 ″  E
  5. ↑ a b O. Zanger: Architectural monuments in the city of Jülich. 1989, p. 91.
  6. ↑ O. Zanger: Monuments in the city of Jülich. 1989, p. 92.

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 6.2 ″  N , 6 ° 24 ′ 48.1 ″  E