Haus Berge (Essen)

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House mountains
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Essen - Bochold
Geographical location 51 ° 28 '42.9 "  N , 6 ° 58' 29.7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '42.9 "  N , 6 ° 58' 29.7"  E
Haus Berge (North Rhine-Westphalia)
House mountains

Haus Berge is a lost, medieval moated castle in what is now Essen 's Bochold district . In 2017 it was entered as a ground monument in the list of monuments of the city of Essen.

history

Haus Berge was on the Borbeck mill stream . The water castle was about 50 × 100 meters in size and was surrounded by a ten meter wide moat . The first written mention of the castle ( op den Berge ) comes from the year 1291.

In 1794 a castle was built on the site of the castle, but it fell victim to a fire in 1858. A year later, new neo-classical buildings were erected on the same site , which were used as an orphanage from 1867/1868 and shortly thereafter as a nursing home. In World War II these buildings were destroyed. In 1946/1950 a new branch of today's Elisabeth Hospital was built at the same location .

From 1995 archaeological excavations were carried out. Quarry stone foundations and a three meter wide base trench were found. The dendrochronological analysis of found wooden stakes resulted in the year 1254. A Pingsdorf shard that was also found can even be dated 10/11. Century to be dated.

Today, the Haus Berge geriatric center is located here, sponsored by the Contilia Group . The site is partially open to the public.

Web links

literature

  • Detlef Hopp , Cordula Brand: Urban archeology in Essen . Essen 1999, page 59 ff.
  • Bianca Khil: House Mountains. In: Detlef Hopp, Bianca Khil, Elke Schneider (eds.): Burgenland Essen. Castles, palaces and permanent houses in Essen . Klartext Verlag , Essen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8375-1739-2 , pp. 30–33.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ground monument Haus Berge in the monument list of the city of Essen ; accessed on March 2, 2020
  2. ↑ Hopp / Brand (1999), page 61.