Baerl House
| Baerl House | ||
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | No longer received | |
| Place: | Baerl | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 29 '39.2 " N , 6 ° 40' 58.2" E | |
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House Baerl was a medieval strong house at the Hofstraße 2 in Duisburg district Baerl , district of Duisburg-Homberg / Ruhrort / Baerl .
history
House Baerl was, as the outline drawings on old maps suggest, a solid house in the shape of a moth , i. H. a multi-storey, tower-like building surrounded by a wall and moat, only accessible via a drawbridge. The moth was 30 to 40 meters in diameter. Inside, the motte had its own well, the remains of which could be seen until the beginning of the 19th century. On old maps it is called fortalicium . The lords of Baerl were the owners of the house for centuries . Members of the family appear for the first time in 1234. The knights Conradus and Arnoldus de Barle are named in the corresponding document .
An appraisal from 1732 describes the house as follows: "The aristocratic house with a lower square, garden and tree garden, as far as it belongs under the fief, is about 6 acres. In view of the fact that the house mentioned is built of wood, with stone That it is completely rotten and dilapidated, that the barn is covered with straw and the walls are clad, and that the Bauhaus also needs various repairs, the appraisers estimate all of this at 500, if left with the old freedoms Rthl. "
It was therefore a half-timbered building with a tiled roof. According to the description, as early as 1732 the house must have remained largely undamaged and unchanged for centuries. Structurally, it seems to have been a rather old-fashioned, peasant noble residence at that time. It was opposite the Baerler Church, in a depression between Grafschafter Strasse and the Paschmannshof. The house was connected to the church by an underground passage.
The house remained in the hands of the von Baerl family until 1653. Then the last of this name, Cornelius von Baerl, ceded the fiefdom to the husband of his niece Judith Elisabeth von Baerl, named Colonel Gerhard von Hafften. After his son Arnold Georg died, the house went to Baron Wilhelm von Driesch in 1694, who married a sister of Arnold Georg. After Wilhelm's son Friedrich Wilhelm was involved in a murder case and long-standing court disputes, the house was given away by Frederick the Great in 1759 to a particularly deserving officer, Lieutenant General Johann Georg Wilhelm von Keller , as a fiefdom. In 1784 Baron Caspar Anton von der Ruhr bought the knight's seat suitable for the state parliament. Immediately afterwards the good seems to have been all-modified. The land was given to Baerler residents in plots. The then already rotten house was at that time, i. H. Canceled at the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th century.
Around 1830 the Baerler teacher Gottfried von der Thüsen bought the property from a noble woman in Ossenberg. At that time the last remains of the wall were torn down and the trenches filled in. Later the remains of the gate's pillars will be broken off.
Today nothing reminds of the medieval Baerl house. The site is now protected as a ground monument.
literature
- Ernst Kelter: House Baerl and its residents . In: Chronicle of the community of Rheinkamp. Moers 1959.
- Jürgen Kwiatkowski: On the history of Baerl zu Baerl. Part 1. In: Yearbook 1992/3 of the districts on the left bank of the Rhine in the city of Duisburg, pp. 19-27.
- Jürgen Kwiatkowski: On the history of Baerl zu Baerl. Part 2. In: Yearbook 1993/4 of the districts of the city of Duisburg on the left bank of the Rhine, pp. 22–31.