House Boisdorf
Haus Boisdorf or Gut Boisdorf is located south of the district town of Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia, between the districts of Rölsdorf and Lendersdorf ; embedded between a landscape and nature reserve ("southern Rurauen"). Address: An Gut Boisdorf 8 and 10.
history
Haus Boisdorf is a late medieval manor house . Its owners were also the owners of the Boisdorf paper mill. The Boisdorfer Mühle is a watermill and is located on the Lendersdorfer mill pond .
In 1403 the Boisdorf house is mentioned for the first time as a fiefdom of the Duke and later Grand Duke of Jülich and from 1547 as the seat of the Lords of Wedendorf . The von Wedendorf family died in 1693 with the death of Werner Adolf von Wedendorf. After Werner Adolf's death, the house came into the possession of his brother-in-law Christian Arnold Freiherr von der Horst zu Milsen, the second husband of Martia Katharina von Wedendorf. This marriage remained childless.
A legal dispute arose around 1700 about the Boisdorf inheritance. In 1707 a Johann Mathias von Inden is named as the lord of Boisdorf. However, the house is won from him by Karl Klamor Ferdinand von Horst, a son of Christian Arnold von der Horst from his first marriage, in a court case.
His son Karl Kaspar von der Horst was the last abbot of Kornelimünster and died in 1883 at Haus Boisdorf. The estate then went to his niece, the daughter of his sister Maria Anna Theresia, who came from her marriage to Bernhard Alexander Freiherr von Hövel. She was married to the Bavarian general Johann Friedrich Karl Felix Joseph Freiherr von Dalwigk-Lichtenfels. The von Dalwigk-Lichtenfels family owned the estate for two more generations .
In 1871 Julius Franz Otto sold the Boisdorf house with 361 acres of land and the associated grinding mill to the secret councilor Leopold Hoesch for 99,000 thalers. In 1881 Leopold Hoesch sold the grinding mill and several lands to Nikolaus Knipprath, who changed them back to a paper mill .
In the following years the good changed hands frequently; Balthasar Menzen acquired it from Hoesch and sold it on to the royal chamberlain and district administrator of the Düren district, Max von Breuning. When Max von Breuning died in 1909, his nephew Oswald von Nell zu Trier inherited the Boisdorf house. At the end of the 19th century, the property passed into civil ownership. Since 1937 the new owner of Boisdorf (through a foundation) is the town of Düren with about 111.5 hectares of property.
After the Second World War , the moat of the complex was filled in. The estate was used for agriculture for some time. The courtyard had been empty since the mid-1980s and the entire ensemble was in danger of deteriorating. In 1993 Gut Boisdorf was acquired by businessman and medical sociologist Rudolf Weyergans from Aachen . From 1995 the estate became the headquarters of Weyergans High Care AG and the first apartments were completely renovated. In the following years up to 1998, a further 14 individual apartments with a size between 54 and 220 m² were built.
architecture
The first two apartments were completely renovated in 1994 under the direction of the architect Udo Heiermann from Aachen. By 1998, another 14 apartments were built between 54 and 220 m² in size. At the same time, a guest house with four fully equipped double rooms was created. The largely intact clay plaster was restored in several apartments . Lintels, gates and vaults, which were restored to the state of the art at the time due to a bomb damage after the Second World War, have been restored to their original state.
The building is entered under No. 1/026 in the list of monuments of the city of Düren. The house is a nine-axis plastered brick building , two-storey and with a mansard roof .
Individual evidence
- ^ Weyergans High Care AG - company. Retrieved September 29, 2012 .
- ^ Herbert Pawliczek: Directory of monuments of the city of Düren 1984. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter. No. 76, Düren 1987, ISSN 0416-4180
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Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 6 ° 28 ′ 28.7 ″ E