House Berghofen

Haus Berghofen was a manor in the Emschertal . It stood in today's Dortmund district of Berghofen .

history

The name Berghofen has been handed down as early as the 13th century, as a Theodericus von Berichoven was mentioned as early as 1229. In the middle of the 13th century Haus Berghofen was a fief of the Arnsberg Count Gottfried II of Arnsberg , which he gave to Adalbert von Berghofen. In the 14th century the feudal sovereignty changed to the Counts of the Mark .

During the great Dortmund feud , the lords of Berghofen fought on the side of their liege lord, Count Engelbert III. from the mark . In the course of the fighting, Engelbert von Berghofen was captured by the Dortmunders on May 27, 1388, but was soon released again.

The Berghofen house was rebuilt in 1684 after the house was damaged in the Thirty Years War . The new building was probably built on the same site, but the soil has not yet been archaeologically examined.

After the 15th century, the Berghofer family was no longer mentioned. In 1486 Gadert van Eyll was the lord of Haus Berghofen. In the following years, ownership was very often inherited in the female line, so that the names of the owners often changed. The Berghofer line finally died out in 1711 with Wilhelm Heinrich von Eickel. From now on the house was only inhabited by tenants. Von Eickel's widow Catharina von Ossenbrock married Wilhelm Dietrich zu Elverfeldt for the second time . The house remained in the possession of his family until 1889.

When Baron Ludwig von Elverfeldt died in June 1889 without an heir, Haus Berghofen - along with many other properties such as Haus Herbede and Haus Kotten - came as heir to Ludwig's cousin Viktor Hugo Freiherr von Rheinbaben. Since he died without male offspring, Berghofen came to the von Gemmingen and von Wedel families through marriage. In 1800 about 500  acres of land belonged to the Berghofen family. In 1905, the Dortmund public utilities acquired 260 acres of meadow and forest in the Berghofer Forest for the construction of a water supply system. The Berghofer Forest was later converted into a local recreation area. After the Second World War, the Ruhrsiedlungsverband acquired around 100 acres of land to cultivate the land. In 1966 the building contractor Hermann Sommerey bought Haus Berghofen. In 1969 it was demolished. Only the barn and part of the old wall at the corner of Fasanenweg and Selzerstrasse have survived to this day.

literature

• Hans Georg Kirchhoff and Siegfried Liesenberg (eds.): 1100 years of Aplerbeck: Festschrift on behalf of the Association for Home Care . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-735-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Haus Berghofen in GenWiki , accessed on May 14, 2012.
2. ↑ Hans Georg Kirchhoff and Siegfried Liesenberg (eds.): 1100 years of Aplerbeck: Festschrift on behalf of the Association for Home Care . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-735-5 , page 194.
3. ↑ Hans Georg Kirchhoff and Siegfried Liesenberg (eds.): 1100 years of Aplerbeck: Festschrift on behalf of the Association for Home Care . Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-735-5 , page 196.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Information on Haus Herbede in GenWiki , accessed on May 14, 2012.

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 40 "  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 58.7"  E