House Brabeck

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Main building Haus Brabeck

Haus Brabeck is a former manor in Kirchhellen- Overhagen, today part of the city of Bottrop . Most of the buildings still standing today date from around 1700. The complex has been a listed building since 1991.

history

House Brabeck was first mentioned in a court transfer from the year 890 as "Borathbeki" . On November 16, 1583, Brabeck was captured in the Truchsessian War , the castle destroyed and Jörgen von Brabeck captured. In 1668 a large hailstorm fell over the Brabeck lands, whereupon the von Brabeck family erected the hail cross still standing today on the highest point of Kirchhellen. In 1728 the Brabeck family was transferred to the von Westerholt family . The Counts of Westerholt sold the Brabeck house together with the Hackfurth house, which was part of the same peasantry, to Klemens August von der Wenge on House Beck. In 1845 the manor is still listed as eligible for the state parliament. On July 1, 1848, Count Levin von Wolff-Metternich became the owner of the Brabeck family after he had married into the von der Wenge family.

After the death of the last noble sole owner, Reichsgraf Friedrich von Wolff-Metternich, the house passed to a community of heirs on April 1, 1929. In 1938, the Hibernia mining company bought the Beck and Brabeck houses and 500 acres of real estate. In 1956 Brabeck was acquired by a family from Gelsenkirchen-Buer. As early as 1963, the family sold the building again to the city of Gladbeck , which leased the farm. Today Haus Brabeck is privately owned.

investment

Until the 1920s, the Brabeck house was surrounded by a continuous moat. Today only remains of it are preserved. The oldest existing part of the building is the southwest tower, a two-story building with an almost quadratic floor plan. The main building dates from around 1700 and was previously accessible from a flight of stairs from the courtyard. A bell from 1655 is still on the roof today. The barn opposite the main building north of the courtyard bears an inscription from 1617. There is also an old sheepfold near the house. In this is the former church door of the Kirchhellen church of St. Johannes d. T. built in , which dates from the Renaissance and is framed by six coats of arms.

The Brabeck house used to have a water mill, which was built in 1844. It still stands today and is also privately owned. The mill pond was filled in in the 1920s.

Say "Ancestress of Brabeck"

The house has a legend with three stories about the spirit of the ancestress of Brabeck. Anyone who made fun of them experienced a misfortune. One of the stories deals with several knights who did not believe in the ancestor's existence and made fun of her. According to legend, they were found dead in the cellar the next morning. The second legend is about a christening ceremony at which one of the guests present is said to have invited the ancestor. This guest is also said to have died after meeting the ancestor. In the third story, a pilgrim is said to have seen the ancestress and asked how she could be redeemed. She is said to have replied that she should be buried and after the pilgrim had taken her bones out of the dungeon and had them buried in a Christian way, according to legend, she was never seen again.

literature

  • Oliver Karnau: House Brabeck . In: Ministry for Building and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia / Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Burgen auf Ruhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region . Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2010, pp. 36–38
  • Hans Büning, Johannes Rottmann: The noble houses of Kirchhellens Part 2 . In: Series of publications by the Verein für Orts- und Heimatkunde Kirchhellen No. 16, 1986, pp. 37–84

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Grütjen: Kirchhellen - your bells . In: Association for Orts- und Heimatkunde Kirchhellen (Hrsg.): Series of publications of the Association for Orts- und Heimatkunde Kirchhellen . No. 48 , 2017.
  2. ↑ Hans Büning: Kirchhellen legends . In: Association for Orts- und Heimatkunde Kirchhellen (Hrsg.): Series of publications of the Association for Orts- und Heimatkunde Kirchhellen . No. 6 , 1977.

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 24 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 16 ″  E