House Blegge

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House Blegge

Haus Blegge or Haus Blech is an old knight's seat and district in the Paffrath district of Bergisch Gladbach . It was built as a moated castle . Since 2016, it has housed the old people's home and residential building St. Raphael of the Caritas management and sponsoring company in the historic building and in a new building in the park, which rented the property from the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus von Hiltrup .

The nearby Schmidt-Blegge-Straße commemorates the property and its former resident Ernst Schmidt.

history

The previous castle

The oldest document referring to the existence of Paffrath dates from 1160. It shows that in Paffrath there was a spiritual manor of the cathedral chapter with an incorporated church. At that time there was a castle close to the church to protect the population, which formed a single property with the church. This castle fell into disrepair early on and lost its status as a knight's seat to the later built, somewhat secluded Blech House, which was mentioned in documents as early as 1183 and 1262. Montanus mentions a knight Sigwin von Blech for 1183, Sybodo von Blech for 1260 and his son Engelbert von Blech as Knight of Castle Blech for the period 1273–1280.

In the 15th century, the Lords of Blech seem to have died out. The estate then passed to the Lords of Menzlingen. In 1454, Pastor Voeghe named Ulrich von Menzlingen in his Red Missal , who was a waiter and court administrator in Paffrath and lived at the Blech. Konrad von Menzlingen sold the property on June 9, 1463 at the Palatine Stefan Rhine, the same as by Cologne provost of the cathedral chapter gave away, which gave it in 1540 to William of Neven long lease.

The Lords of the Reven remained the owners of the Blech house until the 17th century. The Thirty Years' War overran the country. The Blegge House was not spared either. In 1643 it is reported: “The residents of Paffrath fled into the woods. Towards the end of June, shortly before the harvest, even the noble house of Blech was empty and abandoned. ” Around 1670, a dispute over the inheritance of Blech emerged. Since no direct male descendants of the von der Reven family lived on Blech, the ownership should go to the closest blood relatives. Half of the inheritance initially went to the von Kalkum-Lohausen family . The dispute continued until 1695 with the result that the Baroness von Lohausen received six seventh of the inheritance of sheet metal. The last seventh and 200 Cologne thalers went to the gentlemen von Reven, who no longer lived on tin. Later the estate came to the Kessel called von Bottlenberg .

Today's Haus Blegge

With a letter of purchase dated March 15, 1752, the Gladbach lime manufacturer Johann Jakob Bützler (1707–1767) acquired the knight's seat, the residential building of which he had built a few years later in its current baroque form. He kept the surrounding moat of the previous castle. He chose Johann Georg Leydel as the architect . While Johann Jakob Bützler was still alive, his daughter Anna Margarethe became heiress. In 1764 she married Johann Baptist de Caluwé , who came from Flanders . From this marriage in 1774 the heir to the estate Johann Franz Wilhelm de Caluwé, called Johann Wilhelm, emerged. He fell in love with the maid of the house Anna Maria Schmalzgrüber. Johann Wilhelm's father resisted any connection between the two because, in his opinion, Anna Maria was not befitting . Nevertheless, both married on May 12, 1800 and moved into the Blech house together. The marriage had twelve children, including Anna Gertrud Jacobine Hubertine, known as Gertrude. She married Vinzenz Jakob von Zuccalmaglio on December 22, 1835 , and lived with him until 1848 at House Blech.

After the death of Johann Franz Wilhelm de Caluwé on October 5, 1853, none of the heirs wanted to take over the large estate. It was successively sold to the following new owners: initially Karl Wilhelm Hermann Wever, in 1863 Friedrich Adolf Schmidt. Since 1885 his son, the city councilor Ernst Schmidt (1839–1911), lived in the property. After his marriage to Auguste Leverkus, daughter of privy councilor Carl Leverkus , he lived in Haus Blegge until his death, which at that time developed into a center of social life in Bergisch Gladbach. His heirs sold in 1936 to the (unrelated) businessman Wilhelm Schmidt. Since 1951 the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus von Hiltrup have been the owners of Haus Blech, which was called Haus Blegge at the beginning of the 20th century. This renaming is due to the fact that the term sheet metal does not sound significant enough for a moated castle and the knight Sibodo von sheet metal appears in the documents as Bleghe .

Building description

The manor house with a manor house is water-protected. A single-storey coach house with a round arched gate entrance is in front. The mansion rises above a high base on a square floor plan. The plastered building on two floors is covered with a mansard hipped roof. The two laterally protruding towers, with the same height as the roof, are crowned with curved hoods. The portal in the central axis is accessible via an outside staircase . A brick bridge leads to the forecourt, which was framed with wrought iron lattice in 1755.

monument

House Blegge is registered as a monument under no. 72 in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .

  • Side view with moat

  • right side view

  • Lateral view from the left

  • Part of the moat

  • The rise

literature

  • Heinrich Dittmaier : Settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land , Neustadt an der Aisch 1956.
  • Hans Leonhard Brenner : Did the Knights of Katterbach really exist? in: Heimat between Sülz and Dhünn, issue 1, Cologne 1994, p. 12 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New operator: Order hands over Haus Blegge in Bergisch Gladbach to the CBT. March 16, 2016, accessed on January 24, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ A b Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 197 ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
  3. ↑ Inge Flock: In search of the roots of the old church village Paffrath , Diss. Bergisch Gladbach 2011, p. 20 ff.
  4. ^ Anton Jux: The Bergisch Botenamt Gladbach - The history of Bergisch Gladbach up to the Prussian times , Neustadt (Aisch) 1964, p. 216.
  5. ↑ a b c Vincent of Zuccalmaglio: History and description of the city and the district of Mülheim a. R. , Cologne 1846, p. 327.
  6. ↑ Helmut Rosenbach: The old Paffrath, Katterbach - Paffrath - Hand in History and Stories , Bergisch Gladbach 1993, p. 25 ff.
  7. ↑ Heinz Ewald Junkers (transmission), Lothar Speer (translation and commentary): Das Paffrather Rote Meßbuch , Bergisch Gladbach 1991, p. 185.
  8. ↑ Jux p. 107.
  9. ↑ Rosenbach, p. 25.
  10. ^ Gerda Panofsky-Soergel : The monuments of the Rhineland, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis , Volume 1, Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1972, ISBN 3-508-00187-3 , p. 92f.
  11. ↑ Jux p. 431 ff.
  12. ↑ Rosenbach p. 25
  13. ^ Alfred Lauer: Bergische castles and palaces. Leisure guide with directions and hiking suggestions 1998, ISBN 3-923495-37-4
  14. ↑ Jux p. 440
  15. ↑ Jux p. 451 f.
  16. ^ Jux p. 454
  17. ↑ Jux S, 417
  18. ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X

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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 50.3 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 15.1"  E