House Amecke

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Aerial view of Haus Amecke
Inner courtyard of Haus Amecke
Side view
Driveway

Haus Amecke is located in the Amecke district of the city of Sundern , a town in the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

location

The manor house "Haus Amecke" is located on Sorpesee on the road to Allendorf.

history

House Amecke, also "Castrum Adenbecke", was first mentioned in 1338. In 1338 Count Gottfried IV enfeoffed Johan Wrede with two mansi ( hooves ) in Amecke. In the next 60 years the farm was transformed into a moated castle . The Kulm limestone for construction was extracted in quarries on the Steinert and Langeloh mountains. First the middle wing and the east wing of the main building with an archway were probably built.

In 1419 the house was divided into an upper and a lower house. The lower house has remained in the possession of the Barons von Wrede-Amecke to this day . The upper house came into the possession of Johann von Heygen zu Ewig and Amecke by marriage around 1530 , who bequeathed it to his son Heinrich von Heygen zu Amecke in 1571. Later it came to the Droste zu Füchten and Erwitte . It was not until 1758 that the von Wrede family was able to buy back the upper house. The mansion was surrounded by a moat until 1830. In 1923, the previously separate houses were connected by a stair tower.

In 1923 the director Svend Gade shot parts of the silent film The Secret of the Brinkschultenhof on Haus Amecke . The star of the film was Henny Porten . Other parts of the film were shot in the area around Amecke and in the old town of Arnsberg . The residents of Amecke and Arnsberg acted as extras in the film. The film was restored by the Film Museum in Babelsberg.

When heavy fighting broke out between the Wehrmacht and the US Army in Allendorf and the surrounding area in April 1945 , the Wehrmacht set up a field hospital in Haus Amecke. Nine German soldiers were buried in the park. The US Army then set up a camp for foreign workers in the house . During its use as a warehouse, parts of the archive and furniture were stolen and destroyed.

In 1998, the current owner Eberhard Freiherr von Wrede (* 1968) took over the business. In the same year, a golf course was laid out on agricultural land near the castle.

literature

  • Horst Conrad (Red.): 800 years of the von Wrede family. Published by the von Wrede family, Münster 2002.
  • Friedhelm Ackermann, Alfred Bruns: Castles and palaces and monasteries in the Sauerland. Strobel, Arnsberg 1985, ISBN 3-88793-006-14 .
  • Lutz Dursthoff: The German castles and palaces in color. Castles, palaces, fortifications, manor houses and aristocratic palaces in the Federal Republic of Germany and Berlin (West). Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8105-0228-6 , p. 734.
  • Jens Friedhoff : Theiss Castle Guide Sauerland and Siegerland. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1706-8 .
  • Friedrich Schulte-Kramer: A world star in Amecke - Henny Porten made a silent film in the Sauerland. In: Sunderner Heimatblätter. Vol. 19, 2009, ZDB -ID 2096153-4 , pp. 4-7.

Web links

Commons : Haus Amecke  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eberhard von Wrede: House and manor Amecke . In: Sunderner Heimatblätter. Vol. 27, 2019, ZDB -ID 2096153-4 , pp. 14-17.

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 56 ′ 59 ″  E