House Assen

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House Assen

Haus Assen is a moated castle in the Lipperenaissance style in Lippborg , a district of the municipality of Lippetal in the district of Soest (North Rhine-Westphalia).

history

House Assen around 1860

The "Borch to Assen", which already existed in the 11th century, belonged to the Amtshof Honsel an der Lippe, which Emperor Heinrich II gave to the Abdinghof Monastery in Paderborn in 1023 . In 1384 Röttger von Ketteler received the castle as a fief . The property was divided in 1455. In 1564 Laurenz von Brachum built the Neu-Assen house south of the castle on behalf of Goswin von Ketteler; his brother lived in the old castle. The buildings were later joined together. At the end of the 16th century, the separate estates were united when Konrad von Ketteler married Odilia von Ketteler. The inheritance from the childless marriage went to Odilia's sister Eva, who had married Goswin von Ketteler zu Hovestadt . The next heiress was Goswin's sister, married to Gottfried von Heyden. After disputes over inheritance could not be settled, Johann Heinrich von Galen , supported by his brother Christoph Bernhard von Galen, bought the property and moved into house Assen in 1653. Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Prince-Bishop of Münster , wanted to know a confidante with his brother on the southern border of his territory . After the Assen branch of the family died out , Clemens August Graf von Galen (1748–1820) from Dinklage took over the Assen house. The castle was in 1850 the second family residence next Burg Dinklage , today Klosterburg Dinklage . Matthias Graf von Galen (1800–1878), brother-in-law of the Mainz social bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler , and his wife renovated Haus Assen from scratch and in 1858 built the neo-Gothic palace chapel . Haus Assen remained in the family's possession until 1997.

After the crisis of the Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst & Co. (SMH) banking house in 1983, the personally liable Frankfurt private banker Ferdinand Graf von Galen was forced to transfer the house to his father at the end of 1984 and to buy the forests and meadows belonging to the Assen house 32 million marks (as reported by Spiegel at the time) to be sold to the meat wholesaler Alexander Moksel and his wife Antonie. With the sale of his Westphalian headquarters, which had been in the family's possession since 1653, the banker was able to pay off his private debts. In 1997, his father, the then head of the former Westphalian count family von Galen, Christoph Bernhard Graf von Galen (1907-2002), who lived alone at the castle after the death of his wife, gave his residence to the Order of the Servants of Jesus and Mary (SJM). He justified his decision as follows: “My wife died in 1992, my children have long since grown up and are not interested in taking over and continuing to run Haus Assen. The effort for maintenance and renewal is great. And I live here alone in the big building. [...] I therefore thought of finding some Catholic institution that Haus Assen could use appropriately, but also wanted to take on the associated burdens. ”Through his daughter Johanna Gräfin von Westphalen , honorary president of the Catholic Scouting Society of Europe, which is spiritually supervised by the SJM ( KPE) , came into contact from Galen with the religious order founded in 1988 and handed over Haus Assen to it in 1997. In 1949 he had already handed over another family seat, Dinklage Castle in the Oldenburger Münsterland , to the order of the Benedictine Sisters . In 2018, the SJM moved their novitiate from the Blindenmarkt to Haus Assen.

SJM-Kolleg Haus Assen

House Assen

The Congregation for operation from 1997 to 2016 in the surge tank with the College of Cardinal von Galen , a boarding school for boys, which according to Christoph Bernhard Graf von Galen Uncle Clemens August Graf von Galen was named. Until 2012 it was under the direction of Father Raphael von Canstein . The college was originally supposed to be expanded into a grammar school, but this failed in December 2005 when the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia refused to grant it . The school lessons for the residents of the college were therefore given independently of the religious order outside the castle in a grammar school in Beckum .

To mark the ten-year anniversary of the establishment, a memorial to the namesake Cardinal von Galen was inaugurated on September 8, 2007 in the inner courtyard of the moated castle. The bronze sculpture by the Cologne sculptor Elmar Hillebrand depicts the cardinal seated with the manuscripts of his sermons from 1941.

On January 22nd, 2016, one day after the death of Countess von Westphalia, Father Paul Schindele, as Superior General of the SJM , announced the closure of the boarding school at the beginning of the summer vacation . It was not possible to attract enough students to continue running the boarding school; the number of students has fallen from 17 to 10. The building should, however, be structurally renovated and continue to be used by the SJM. An amount of more than € 250,000 was estimated for the repair of the roof . As announced, the boarding school was closed in the summer of 2016. In January 2017, the planned renovation work began in the crypt and basement, and a construction hut was set up on the site .

See also

Web links

Commons : Haus Assen (Wasserschloss)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gl: Order moves novitiate to Lippborg. In: The bell online. March 29, 2018, accessed March 30, 2018 .
  2. ^ Kili: Stone Lion of Münster . In: Westfalenpost . Edition of September 13, 2007.
  3. ↑ Michael Dülberg: Boarding school at Haus Assen closes in summer. Soester Anzeiger from January 22, 2016, accessed on January 24, 2016
  4. ↑ House Assen needs investments. The bell , July 14, 2016
  5. ↑ First construction hut on Lippborg House Assen. The bell, January 16, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 28 ″  E