House Anger

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House Anger from the north
Haus Anger and the Angermühle form an ensemble in the floodplain of the Angertal nature reserve

Haus Anger (also: Haus Angern ) is a former manor in the Angertal in Ratingen .

description

Today the complex consists of a fortified main building made of quarry stone with a steep, hipped roof . The asymmetrical windows arranged at different heights and irregularities in the masonry suggest numerous alterations, the core of which is said to go back to a residential tower from the 12th century. The building is framed by agricultural outbuildings. Remnants of the once water-filled trenches that enclosed the manor are no longer visible today. Haus Anger is located in a broad floodplain at a historical crossing over the Angerbach , embedded between the Angermühle, a medieval forced mill , and the Angerforsthaus. Since May 31, 1985 Haus Anger has been registered as a residential tower in the list of monuments of the city of Ratingen .

history

Haus Anger was first mentioned in a document as angeron curtis 904. In 1148 it passed as curtim que dicitur Angera into the possession of the Reichsabtei Werden , which gave the property to its servants. It is unclear whether House Anger after the Battle of Worringen in 1288 softened been since the peace treaty between Adolf VIII. Von Berg and Cologne Archbishop Siegfried of Westerburg forbade the people of Cologne, on the Anger create fortifications or castles. Since 1461 at the latest, the former manor has only appeared as an agricultural estate.

Todays use

While the neighboring buildings of the Angermühle were saved from complete ruin as early as 1984/85, Haus Anger and the Angerforsthaus underwent extensive renovations in 2013 after many years of structural neglect. The ensemble of buildings is located in the middle of the Angertal nature reserve between Heiligenhaus and Ratingen and is a popular recreational destination.

literature

  • Heinrich Ferber: The manors in the Amte Angermund . In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Yearbook of the Düsseldorf History Association. tape 7 . Ed. Lintz, Düsseldorf 1893, p. 100–101 ( uni-duesseldorf.de [accessed August 5, 2020]).
  • Theo Volmert: Knight seats and castles on the Anger - Haus Anger . In: Die Quecke - Angerländer Heimatblätter . No. 45 , September 1975, p. 4-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinrich Ferber: The manors in the office of Angermund . In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Yearbook of the Düsseldorf History Association. tape 7 . Ed. Lintz, Düsseldorf 1893, p. 100–101 ( uni-duesseldorf.de [accessed August 5, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Haus Anger with Angermuehle - a former knight's seat on: derwesten.de
  3. ↑ LAC I 83.
  4. ↑ LAC I 364.
  5. ^ Haus Gräfgenstein in Angertal - a fortified residence in the 13th century, by Nicole Perschau (PDF; 197 kB) on: apud-angeron.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 53.8 "  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 57.3"  E