House Beeck (Geilenkirchen)

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House Beeck, view from the northeast

Haus Beeck is a mansion in the Beeck district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Geilenkirchen . It stands in the center of the village and goes back to a medieval fortification by the Lords of Randerath . The building stands as since 3 May 1983 monument under monument protection .

history

Since 1166 Beeck belonged to the Lords of Randerath, from whom it came to the Dukes of Jülich in 1392 . The Beeck house, at that time a water-protected, fortified structure, remained in the possession of a branch line from Randerath. In the second half of the 14th century Hermann von Randerath was master of the house. His son of the same name tried to defend himself against Jülich claims by entrusting his property to the Lords of Heinsberg as a fief in 1422 .

Inaccurate view of the house in Codex Welser , around 1720

As a marriage good, the house changed hands three times in the following 125 years. In 1444 it came to the von Hochsteden family, from whom it got to the von Adelebsen family through marriage in 1499 . Around half a century later, before 1547, the property changed to the von Quadt zu Alsbach family . When this died out in 1647, her heirs from the Bruchhausen family sold the Beeck house to Adrian Peter von Hannet.

Around the middle of the 18th century the complex came to the von Holling family through marriage, and they had a new building built in 1784. Older buildings from the 15th / 16th Century included. After that, the two-part complex consisted of a simple mansard house with a mansard roof and a farm yard, which consisted of two building wings that were parallel to each other and was still defensible through loopholes . The von Holling family remained the owners of the Beeck house until the 20th century, because in 1904 it belonged to Baroness Ernestina Josephina Maria von Wrede, a von Holling born who had married Heinrich Leopold von Wrede.

In World War II house Beeck was heavily damaged. The farm yard was completely destroyed, only the outer walls of the manor house remained. The latter was rebuilt in its current form after 1945.

description

Haus Beeck is a simple two-story rectangular building with a tiled hipped roof . Its masonry from brick is white elutriated . The short sides of the house are divided into four axes by windows , the long sides are three-axis. The north-west corner of the building - the kitchen used to be there - protrudes like a risalit . Due to the preserved remains of a block frieze , this part can be dated to the 15th to 17th centuries. On the west side of the manor house are more recent buildings.

The moat of the complex has largely been preserved. Only on the east side has a piece been leveled.

literature

  • Marco Kieser: The monuments in the Heinsberg district. City of Gelsenkirchen. In: District Heinsberg (Hrsg.): Heimatkalender des Kreis Heinsberg 2006. District Heinsberg, Heinsberg 2005, p. 59.
  • Karl Emerich Krämer : From castle to castle on the Lower Rhine. Volume 2, 2nd edition. Mercator, Duisburg 1985, ISBN 3-87463-076-5 , p. 24.
  • Edmund Renard : The art monuments of the districts of Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 8, Section 2). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, pp. 211-213 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Haus Beeck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Text of the monument authority for House Beeck on limburg-bernd.de , accessed on January 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d Entry by Markus Westphal about House Beeck in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  3. ↑ a b c d e Edmund Renard: The art monuments of the districts of Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen. 1904, p. 212.
  4. ^ Karl Emerich Krämer: From castle to castle on the Lower Rhine. Volume 2, 1985, p. 24.
  5. ↑ Marco Kieser: The architectural monuments in the Heinsberg district. City of Gelsenkirchen. 2005, p. 59.

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 6 ° 11 ′ 16.8 ″  E