Hallenburg Disternich

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The Hallenburg is a moated castle in the district of Disternich of the North Rhine-Westphalian municipality of Vettweiß in the district of Düren . It was named after the von Efferen family , called Hall, who had the brick main building erected in the 16th century .

The plant is since September 30, 1986, listed building .

description

From the formerly two-part castle only is on original buildings today mansion from the 16th century preserved. The construction follows the medieval type of residential tower , but is no longer particularly geared towards defense. The almost square brick building stands on a slightly raised island, surrounded by a moat . Its two floors rise on a high base made of quarry stone . The long side facing the courtyard is divided into five axes by transverse floor windows , while the shorter transverse sides have three axes. The windows are framed by walls made of light sandstone and have blue and white shutters . In the center axis of the front of the courtyard, in the panel of the former drawbridge, there is the small arched portal , to which a narrow bridge over the moat leads. A two-part skylight sits above it . The building is closed by a high hipped roof with small dormers , which is crowned by two weather vanes . It offers around 420 square meters of living and usable space. Inside, the building fabric has been significantly revised and has hardly been preserved in its original state. The cellar vault is one of the exceptions . The modern rooms include a spacious vestibule and the so-called marble hall on the ground floor as well as a library and seven bedrooms on the upper floor.

To the east of the main building there is an elongated, two-storey brick building that was built as an office building according to Manfred Langenbrick's plans. It stands on the foundation of the former south wing of the outer bailey and offers around 790 square meters. In the past, the outer bailey was surrounded by its own moat and dates back to the 18th century. While the eastern half-timbered wing was used as a barn, the right-angled, southern brick wing was a stable, which could be dated to 1793 by wall anchors . Its arched archways were bricked up at the beginning of the 20th century. In the middle of the wing was a house entrance with a simple triangular gable above . Due to the destruction of the war nothing is left of the farm buildings.

The castle buildings stand in the middle of a 100 square meter park , which is lined with tall poplars .

history

Drawing of the Hallenburg in 1904 by Albert Nies

A Jülich family of ministers named itself after Disternich since the 13th century . It was first mentioned in a document in 1217 with Euerardus de Disternich . His descendant Engelbert von Disternich made his castle available as an open house to Count Walram from Jülich on January 7, 1288 for a payment of 40  marks from Cologne denarii . In the 14th century the Rost von Disternich were the sole owners. Perhaps in the same century the system was bought by the von dem Bongart family . After Daem (Adam) von dem Bongart's death between 1522 and 1524, his sister Katharina inherited the property and took it to her husband Adolf von Efferen, known as Hall. The name of the castle is derived from his family, who built today's core castle in the 16th century .

In the 17th century, the Hallenburg came into the ownership of the von Colyn family through marriage. Gerhard von Efferen and Johann Georg von Colyn sold the Niederungsburg in 1670 to Heinrich von Groote. Certain ownership claims seem to have remained with the two families, because in 1707 Heinrich von Groote, Count von Efferen and Adolf Georg von Colyn are joint owners, with Groot's share making up the lion's share at 4/5. He came to Müddersheim Castle through marriage to Rudolf Adolf von Geyr .

In 1719 the St. Maria Abbey in Cologne acquired the property and enfeoffed the von Wendt family with it. The von Fürstenberg, Waldbott von Bassenheim and Beissel von Gymnich families followed her as fiefs . After the secularization during the Napoleonic period, the Frohn family became owners and kept it until 1857. They were followed as owners by the family of the landowner Ferdinand Esser, and in 1964 by the “castle king” Herbert Hillebrand and his Svenja Hillebrand. For Hillebrand, this was the first castle that he bought. He lived there with his family for many years. Hillebrand had the manor house renovated in the early 1970s and an office building built on the foundation walls of the outer bailey, which was destroyed in World War II. After years of vacancy, a sale is planned for 2018.

A community bought the castle in December 2017 and has been using it as a shared apartment since then .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hallenburg Disternich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the Düren district. P. 62.
  2. ↑ a b c Entry of the Hallenburg in the list of monuments of the municipality of Vettweiß , accessed on March 12, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Ulrich Coenen: Architectural treasures in the Düren district. P. 54.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Information on Disternich Castle on the Hillebrand Group website , accessed on March 8, 2018.
  5. ↑ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cöln, the principalities of Jülich and Berg, Geldern, Meurs, Kleve and Mark, and the imperial monasteries of Elten, Essen and Werden . Volume 2. Wolf, Düsseldorf 1846, certificate no.68 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cöln, the principalities of Jülich and Berg, Geldern, Meurs, Kleve and Mark, and the imperial monasteries of Elten, Essen and Werden . Volume 2. Wolf, Düsseldorf 1846, certificate no.832 ( digitized version ).
  7. ^ A b c Ulrich Coenen: Architectural treasures in the Düren district. P. 53.
  8. ^ Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the district of Düren. P. 61.
  9. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/wird-die-burg-disternich-zum-luxushotel-1.1674582
  10. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/eine-burg-elf-bewohner-unzaehlige-ideen-1.1922404

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 52 ″  E