House Bönninghausen (Eickel)

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House Bönninghausen, view from the southwest

The Bönninghausen house was a noble residence in Eickel , which is now a district of Herne . The former moated castle was on today's Burgstrasse.

At the beginning of the 15th century, a member of the family was first mentioned in a document, which named itself " von Bönninghausen " after its layout . She owned the house until the 17th century, before the Kumpsthoff family bought it. At the end of the 18th century in the possession of the first mayor of Bochum , Haus Bönninghausen was bought by his tenant Peter Jakob Muckenheim in 1855. His family sold the property , which had been badly damaged in World War II, in 1955 to the city of Wanne-Eickel , which had it closed in 1960.

building

The manor house made of field fire bricks had two floors and a hipped roof . It dates from the 17th century and stood on the east side of an island surrounded by a moat . A coat of arms, presumably of the Kumpsthoff family, hung over its portal . At the north-western corner of the island, a 6 × 6 meter, finally 6.80 meter high defense tower, perhaps from the 14th century, guarded the adjacent access bridge on the north side. The tower had masonry made of quarry stone and a pyramid roof . Inside there were two superimposed rooms. Key notches testified to his defensive strength. A small courtyard took up the rest of the castle island and was enclosed by a stone wall. A staircase led from the bridge to the courtyard of the house. At its upper end were two lion sculptures holding coats of arms. They were installed there in 1914.

When the mine pit king in the district Röhlinghausen drilled was, was the moat dry, the area was transformed into garden land. According to a legend, the Bönninghausen house and the nearby Dorneburg house are said to have been connected by an underground secret passage , but such a passage could neither be found during the demolition work of the Dorneburg nor during the demolition of the Bönninghausen house.

history

It is not known who built the House of Bönninghausen. In a register of the Wattenscheid office from 1411 a person liable to pay interest by the name of Hermanns van Bonynchusen in villa Boninchusen is mentioned, and in 1486 a Jan to Bonynchusen was mentioned in the treasury of the county of Mark . Further family members were named in 1519 and 1618. The von Bönninghausen family held the estate named after them until the 17th century, before it came to the Kumpsthoff family from Dinslaken in 1630 - presumably through purchase . Since that time the facility has been called Haus Kumpsthoff . As early as 1636 Georg Kumpsthoff and his wife Helene Clara von Plonnies had pawned their estate and their farm at Bönninghaus.

House Bönninghausen in 1908, view from the northeast

The former mayor of Bochum, Gerhard Wilbrand Lennich , acquired the Bönninghausen house around 1796 and spent his retirement there. The estate was divided and sold in pieces in the 19th century. The Vogelsang farm and the Bönninghaus farm on Reichsstraße became independent. The remainder of the property including 30 acres of land was leased to Peter Jakob Muckenheim in 1837  , who finally bought it in 1855. The Muckenheim family ran a gardening and seed business on the land. At that time the property was popularly known as Haus Muckenheim . In 1928 the land was sold to the city of Wanne-Eickel.

In the winter of 1944/1945 the mansion and the farm buildings were badly damaged by aerial mines during the Second World War . After Heinrich Muckenheim died on September 14, 1950, his family sold the mansion in 1955 to the city of Wanne-Eickel. This applied for a demolition permit for the Muckenheim house from the state conservator in Münster. Because the state curator was not aware that the complex was the Bönninghaus, a listed building, the requested permit was granted and the demolition began in April 1960. When the true facts became known, the city stopped the work, but only the foundation walls of the defensive tower of the former estate were preserved. A suggestion by the state conservator to preserve the remains of the defense tower could not be complied with because the demolition work was already well advanced. That is why today only the Bönninghauser Strasse in Herne, which was named by a council resolution on March 14, 1968, and an information board on Burgstrasse remind us of the Bönninghausen house.

literature

Web links

Commons : Haus Bönninghausen  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Ludorff: The architectural and art monuments of the Gelsenkirchen-Land district. 1908, p. 17.
  2. ↑ a b c d History of the Bönninghausen house on wanne-eickel-historie.de ( Memento from March 1, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c d e Manfred Hildebrandt, Ralf Frensel, Jeannette Bodeux, Franz Heiserholt (arrangement): Herne - from Ackerstraße to Zur-Nieden-Straße. City history as reflected in street names (= publications by the Herne City Archives. Volume 1). 2nd Edition. Stadtarchiv Herne, Herne 1997 ( online ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )).
  4. ^ A b c d Albert Ludorff: The architectural and art monuments of the district of Gelsenkirchen-Land. 1908, p. 16.

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '52.4 "  N , 7 ° 10' 4.4"  E