House Broich (Jülich)

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House Broich, mansion

House Broich (with Rhenish Dehnungs-i , pronounced Brooch ), more rarely also called Hallberg Castle , is a former aristocratic residence in the Jülich district of Broich . Developed from a medieval moth , the property today includes a water-enclosed, baroque manor house , the ruins of its former outer bailey , a former farm building as well as a garden and a landscaped park .

The most outstanding event in the history of the house was the overnight stay of the French King Louis XIV , who set up his quarters there in May 1672 on his way to Neuss.

The plant is since 1 September 1986 under monument protection . It is privately owned and cannot be viewed.

history

House Broich emerged from a tower hill castle (Motte), which was built in a swampy area. This is indicated by the word Broich , which means something like wet meadow , break or swamp landscape . It was probably a small, wooden building that was erected on an artificially raised hill and was surrounded by a moat . The complex was first mentioned in a document in the middle of the 14th century when it was owned by the Mulart von Broich family.

In the 15th century the estate belonged to the von Wachtendonk family . Numerous changes of ownership followed until the 18th century. The von Wachtendonks were inherited by the von Quadt family before the Broich family came to the von Siegen family. In the course of time, the wooden moth was replaced by a stone manor house with associated farm buildings. After all, the residential building was so comfortable that the French King Louis XIV considered it sufficient for himself and made a stopover there on May 30, 1672 when he was on the way to Neuss .

In 1738 or 1742 the von Siegen family sold the manor to the royal court chamberlain Peter Theodor von Hallberg (1691–1752) from the Hallberg family , who later also owned the Horrich house in Brachelen . His descendants, who were resident at Haus Broich, named themselves after this possession of Hallberg-Broich. One of them was the writer and explorer Karl Theodor von Hallberg-Broich , also known as the hermit von Gauting , who was born at Haus Broich in 1768. Descendants of Peter Theodor von Hallberg still live there today. Since the death of Juliana Gangloff Baroness von Hallberg zu Broich in 2013, the former knight's seat has been offered for sale by the Gangloff family.

During the Second World War , the outer walls of the outer bailey were destroyed and shared the fate of the entire town. The ruins were subsequently only partially restored.

description

House Broich is a two-part complex, consisting of a manor house and an outer bailey to the south. Southwest of the manor house is a symmetrical French garden with a square floor plan, the origins of which date back to the 18th century and which is now used as a fruit and vegetable garden. To the north of the manor house and the kitchen garden there is a small castle park , which is kept in the style of English landscape gardens . The complex also includes a small tea pavilion with bluestone stairs and an elongated brick building from the beginning of the 19th century that used to be a barn and bakery . It is covered by a hipped roof and has ogival windows on its narrow side . The house, courtyard, garden and park are enclosed by a high wall .

Mansion

The baroque mansion is a single-wing brick building that was erected around the middle or in the second half of the 17th century. It stands on a small, rectangular island that is surrounded on all sides by a moat. This measures between 9 and 12.5 meters in width and has brick lining walls on both sides . It is the only remaining remnant of what was once a larger trench system, the other trenches of which have been filled in over time. The two-storey house has a floor plan measuring around 15.5 x 13.5 meters and is closed off by a pan-covered hip roof. The plastered outer walls are washed pink. Its narrow sides are divided into three axes by rectangular windows that have a simple cladding made of hewn red sandstone . The long side of the house has four axes through windows of the same design. A two-arched bridge leads over the moat to a small terrace , from which a curved flight of stairs leads to the entrance of the building. Contrary to baroque design principles, this is not in the central axis of the building, but is slightly offset to the west. Decisive decorative elements of the combined bridge and staircase are baroque bluestone pillars with attached pine cones . A three-story tower on a rectangular floor plan is attached to the south-western narrow side of the building. Although it is one storey higher than the manor house, its curly, slate-roofed hood only slightly protrudes from the manor house roof . The flanking tower originally had a counterpart on the northeast narrow side, but after this tower collapsed in 1860, the remains were completely removed and the tower was not reconstructed. The mansion's interior fittings are remarkable, its barrel-vaulted cellar and a simple wooden staircase from the Baroque period.

Outer bailey

Partial ruin of the outer bailey

From the former three-winged outer bailey in the shape of a horseshoe, only one and a half wings are left as partial ruins due to war-related destruction. The simple building wings made of bricks with structural members made of bluestone date from the 18th century. The side wings used to include barns and stables. The main wing in the south-east is formally emphasized by a central risalit . In this is the gate construction with a basket arched gate passage, which are framed by a square frame. On the courtyard side, above the archway, there is the coat of arms of the von Hallberg family and the year 1743.

On the other side of the street, opposite the gate entrance, there are two brick gate pillars , to which a 380 meter long, straight path leads from the southeast. Each pillar has a spherical crown made of bluestone and a curbstone made of the same material.

literature

Web links

Commons : Haus Broich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Description of the monument of the house , accessed on January 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Information on Broich on the website of the city of Jülich , accessed on January 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c Dirk Holterman, Holger A. Dux: The Dürener castle tour. 2001, p. 102.
  4. ↑ Walther Zimmermann , Hugo Borger (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 3: North Rhine-Westphalia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 273). Kröner, Stuttgart 1963, DNB 456882847 , p. 110.
  5. ↑ Description of the monument to the Hallbergschen Hof in Aldenhoven , accessed on January 5, 2020.
  6. ↑ a b Ulrich Coenen: Architectural treasures in the Düren district. 1989, p. 52.
  7. ↑ a b Information according to the online cadastral map for Broich.
  8. ↑ Information according to the German basic map (DGK5) available online.

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 45.3 ″  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 19.6 ″  E