Amstenrath House

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House Amstenrath, view from the direction of the outer bailey

The Amstenrath House , also called Amstenrath House , Small House and Reuschenberger House or simply manor house , is a moated castle in Eynatten , a district of the Raeren municipality in the German-speaking part of Belgium . Built by a member of the von Eynatten family, it passed through an heir to the von Reuschenberg family , then to the von Harff family , before the property fell to Arnold Huyn von Amstenrath in 1647. He had a new castle built, which changed hands again and again through other heir daughters, before the von Franssen zu Cortenbach family became owners in 1817. Haus Amstenrath still belongs to their descendants today.

The plant is a protected monument since June 3, 1987 under monument protection . It is privately owned and cannot be viewed. The Vlattenhaus is only around 200 meters south-west in the immediate vicinity .

history

The history of Haus Amstenrath is closely linked to that of the neighboring Vlattenhaus, as both were owned by the von Eynatten family. The brothers Peter and Johann von Eynatten shared the family property among themselves. Johann's son of the same name probably had a fortified manor built on the site of today's castle in the second half of the 14th century , while Peter only had the Vlattenhaus built shortly afterwards. To distinguish between the two complexes, Johanns Gut was called the "Small House", while the Vlattenhaus was known as the "Large House". Johann von Eynatten married Johanna von Neuburg in 1398, heiress of Neuburg Castle and the Gulpen rule in the Duchy of Limburg .

In 1431 Amstenrath was owned by Colyn Beissel, because in that year he sold it to Jacob von Rabottrad. As early as 1447 it belonged to Martin von der Heyden , who transferred it to Arnold von Benssenraede. His daughter brought it to her husband Johann von Binsfeld through marriage . In 1501, the couple's children sold the house, then known as Besteraedter Hof, to Servatius (also Vaes) von Eynatten, forest master of the Duchy of Limburg and grandson of the builder. In 1508 he had the courtyard replaced by a new building that he bequeathed to his son Johann Nikolaus. His daughter and heiress Agnes married Jakob von Reuschenberg, whereby the property came to his family and was now called Reuschenberger Haus.

The property passed to the von Harff family through the couple's heir. After it fell to Gotthard von Harff as heir in 1599, he passed it on to his brother-in-law Frambach von Gulpen as trousseau for his sister Anna in 1599. Anna's marriage remained childless, and so the house reverted to her brother's underage children. Their guardians left it to an uncle on their mother's side, Arnold Huyn von Amstenrath, in 1647 to settle outstanding debts. He had the facility rebuilt, giving it its current appearance. Since then it has been known as the Amstenrath House. After Arnold also acquired the rulership rights over Eynatten and Hauset in 1651 , these were raised to a separate rule , which is why the term manor house was also common for Amstenrath.

The complex was inherited in 1663 by Arnold's daughter Clara Anna and her husband Gerhard van Dieden Malatesta, a cavalry captain in Spanish service. They mortgaged the house on a loan given to them by a member of the van den Bergh family. The lien came as heir to Anna Maria van den Bergh, married Countess of Limburg-Stirum and Bronkhorst , whose daughter Anna Bernhardine married Baron Philipp Wilhelm von Hoensbroech and brought the lien into the marriage. Her husband claimed the pledge from Johann Arnold von Dieden Malatesta, who had been lord of the castle since 1667, but he could not redeem the pledge. Philipp Wilhelm von Hoensbroech therefore had the Amstenrath house and its 232  acres of land confiscated in 1701 in order to sell it. The complaint of the siblings von Dieden Malatesta against this procedure at the Lehnshof in Brussels was unsuccessful, the property was awarded to the Hoensbroech family. In order to still be able to keep the Amstenrath house, the siblings borrowed money from the Aachen merchant Nikolaus Moeren, who finally acquired the property from them in 1704.

After Moeren's death in 1709, Amstenrath passed to his daughter Johanna, who had married the Aachen mayor Johann Kaspar Deltour in 1687 . He was enfeoffed with the castle in 1712. Together, the couple had the facility redesigned to suit the taste of the time. Among other things, it got new windows and today's access bridge. The interiors received a new design with stucco ceilings based on French models. In 1733 the son Johann Caspar inherited the property, which after his death in 1743 passed to his younger brother Johann Jakob Joseph. His heiress was his cousin Anna Maria Theresa, who had married Nikolaus Leonhard Charlier in 1746 and brought him the Amstenrath house. The Charliers ran into high debts and had to sell the facility by court order in 1780 or 1785.

The new owner became the Eupen cloth merchant and mayor Arnold Roemer Lambertz, who also owned the Vlattenhaus. After his death in 1788, his daughter Maria Sibylle inherited the property and bequeathed it to her husband Andreas Joseph Franssen, Mayor of Eynatten, before her death on March 10, 1817. House Amstenrath still belongs to the descendants of his family, which is now called Franssen von Cortenbach. After the death of André Joseph Hubert Robert Franssen von Cortenbach in 1946, the house came to his widow Marie Tychon and their children. By decision of June 3, 1987, it was placed under monument protection retroactively to January 1, 1985.

description

Schematic site plan of the plant

House Amstenrath is a two-part complex, consisting of a bailey and the manor house to the northwest of it . The buildings are surrounded by a park in landscape style surrounded, in which a Gothic cross is erected from the year 1584th

The three-winged outer bailey consists of farm buildings made of blue rubble , which were heavily modified in the 19th century and surround a courtyard with cobblestones . Two barns are dated to the years 1826 and 1829 by wall anchors . The gabled roofs of Vorburgtrakte have a tile roof . There used to be square towers on the south and east corners, but only the stumps have survived today.

The manor stands on a square island. The moat surrounding it is expanded to a castle pond on the western side. The building with corner blocks was originally a three-wing quarry stone building , the open east side of which was later closed by a high wall. The two storeys of the manor house are closed off by slate-covered hip roofs with weather vanes . Arnold Huyn von Amstenrath built a gate in front of the east wall in the 17th century , to which a drawbridge led over the moat coming from the southeast . Today this has been replaced by a three-arched stone bridge. The arched entrance to the gateway has a profiled cornice above the lintel . Above that there is a niche with the inscription "w sub tuum Praesidium" and a small statuette .

The gateway leads to a narrow, rectangular inner courtyard that gives access to the three wings of the building. The stone coat of arms of Arnold Huyn von Amstenrath hangs over one of the arched entrances with a house border . In contrast to the rest of the building, the façades on the courtyard side consist of plastered half-timbering .

literature

  • Karl Emerich Krämer : Castles in and around Aachen. 1st edition. Mercator, Duisburg 1984, ISBN 3-87463-113-3 , pp. 66-69.
  • Alfred Minke: Castles, palaces and a "quarter" in the Duchy of Limburg. In: Verkehrsverein Eynatten (ed.): 800 years Eynatten. Contributions to the history of the village. Volume 1. Eynatten 2013, pp. 13-17.
  • Fabrice Müllender: nobility - coats of arms - castles. In: Verkehrsverein Eynatten (ed.): 800 years Eynatten. Contributions to the history of the village. Volume 1. Eynatten 2013, pp. 50-51.
  • Manfred Nimax: Castles, palaces, mansions in East Belgium. 3. Edition. Nimax, Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-020297-1 , pp. 14-20.
  • Guy Poswick: Les Délices du Limbourg. Self-published, Verviers 1951, pp. 307-312 ( digitized version ).
  • Heribert Reiners : The art monuments of Eupen-Malmedy. Pedagogical Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-590-32117-2 , pp. 115-118.
  • Administration of the German-speaking Community (Hrsg.): Raeren (= monument directory. Volume 8). Administration of the German-speaking Community, Eupen 1990, pp. 315-318.
  • Christian Quix : Contributions to a historical-topographical description of the Eupen district, together with an appendix: The former rule of Mesch. Mayer, Aachen 1837, pp. 175-180 ( digitized version ).
  • Castles and fortresses in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. A tour of discovery. GEV, Eupen 2002, ISBN 90-5433-159-3 , p. 162.

Web links

Commons : Haus Amstenrath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Decree for the protection of the Amstenrath house from June 3, 1987 (PDF; 95 kB)
  2. ↑ specified by Fabrice Müllender: Adel - coat of arms - castles. 2013, p. 50. The list of monuments on ostbelgienkulturerbe.be, on the other hand, specifies the second half of the 15th century as the construction period. See information on the Amstenrath house on ostbelgienkulturerbe.be .
  3. ↑ a b c d Alfred Minke: Castles, palaces and a "quarter" in the Duchy of Limburg. 2013, p. 16.
  4. ↑ a b Heribert Reiners: The art monuments of Eupen-Malmedy. 1982, p. 116
  5. ↑ Leonard Korth ( edit .): The Count of Mirbach's archive in Harff. Volume 2 (= Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . Volume 57, Section 2). J. & W. Boisserée, Cologne 1894, p. 217.
  6. ↑ C. Rutsch: Eupen and the surrounding area. Mayer, Eupen 1879, p. 261 ( online ).
  7. ↑ a b Christian Quix: Contributions to a historical-topographical description of the Eupen district, along with an appendix: The former rule of Mesch. 1837, p. 179.
  8. ^ A b Karl Emerich Krämer: Castles in and around Aachen. 1984, p. 68.
  9. ^ Guy Poswick: Les Délices du Limbourg. 1951, pp. 311-312.
  10. ^ A b Administration of the German-speaking Community: Raeren. 1990, p. 315.
  11. ↑ House Amstenrath on belgiancastles.be ( Memento of 8 September 2018 Internet Archive )
  12. ^ A b Administration of the German-speaking Community: Raeren. 1990, p. 316.
  13. ↑ Castles and fortresses in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. A tour of discovery. 2002, p. 162.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 40 "  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 56.4"  E