House Broich (Troisdorf)

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House Broich, status 2007.
Back with entrance, as of 2020.
Building outline in the park, as of 2020.

The Broich house , also known as the castle , is a former aristocratic seat in the northwest of Spich near Troisdorf , the most populous city in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Originally a late medieval moated castle of the Lords of Broich to Spich from the 12th century, is located here today after a renovation in the early 17th century, a mansion in the late Renaissance style at the Castle Road 17 / corner of Forest Street .

history

The name Broich refers to a swamp area . A Udo de Bruche was raised to the nobility by the Count von Berg . For several centuries his descendants were vassals of the counts and later dukes of Berg. For 1412 Ludwig von dem Bloedesheym and later a Sophia von Velbrück are shown as the owner . Probably from 1522 to 1742 the complex was owned by the Barons von Wolffen . Augustin von Wolffen had the new manor house built on the basis of the old castle around 1620 to 1623. Only the high, cross-vaulted cellar, probably from the end of the 14th century, has survived from the previous building. House Broich was a manor suitable for the Landtag . Augustin von Wolffen was referred to as a land baron and in 1621 enfeoffed the Ahrwichterich manor from the Trier fiefdom . He was with Cäcilia, geb. von Verken , married. Wolffen had adopted the Lutheran faith , his wife was Calvinist . From 1622 to 1693, Reformed worship was regularly held by a traveling pastor in the Broich House . Of the couple's three children, their daughter Anna married Abraham Loison, a lieutenant colonel in the Swedish Götz regiment, around 1630 ; from 1633 Loison was in command of the Swedish garrison of Siegburg Fortress . This connection is said to owe Spich the sparing of attacks by the Swedes in the Thirty Years' War .

In 1721 Franz Bernhard von Westrem ( abbot in Siegburg Abbey from 1706 to 1735) took over the ownership of Haus Broich on the basis of a maintenance contract that Johann Friedrich Winand von Wolffen had concluded with him for his wife. The abbot had the farm run by a tenant ( Heinrich Görres ). In 1745 the Molkenbauer family became owners of the property, in 1790 it was sold to Finance Councilor Kerris and in 1817 or 1826 it was acquired by the nail smith Christian Renner , who was succeeded by Josef Renner . The Renner family had the two tower buildings added around 1880 . In 1893 Laura Bouserath inherited the building and in 1897 or 1898 it was taken over by the manufacturer Raymond Hoddick from Langenfeld, who leased part of the associated land to the Kunstsandstein- und Thonwerke GmbH , in which he was a founding partner, for the purpose of mining the sand and clay deposits there . After Hoddick's death, the Kommerzienrat Wolff from Elberfeld acquired the mansion in 1902. It is known that the property was inherited in 1970 by Christa Löwer , who sold it to the city of Troisdorf in 1971. The city used it as a youth center until 1988. In 1989, the Knaust brothers' advertising agency , founded in 1979, acquired the property.

The moat system of the moated castle was leveled in the 19th century. The farm buildings date from before 1867. The complex was renovated in the 1970s. Today's park was created in 1980. In front of Haus Broich, only about one kilometer away from the famous Spicher Hohlstein , there is a large quartzite block.

architecture

The main building, which was originally surrounded by trenches , has two wings. The narrow, but higher, four-story main house with its eye-catching, curved Renaissance gables and a steep roof is joined at right angles by a lower, two-story side wing. There are also smaller, more recent additions, including a small square tower. On the outer gable side of the main house there is an alliance coat of arms for the marriage of Augustin von Wolffen in the Renaissance style entitled “Wolff - Verken. Anno 1623 ". Wall anchors were used on the gable facade .

The building is registered as a monument (No. 56) in the list of monuments of the city of Troisdorf.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Website of the city of Troisdorf ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on December 22, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.troisdorf.de
  2. ↑ a b c Paul Clemen : Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 5: Siegkreis , p. 949 f
  3. ^ A b Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (editor), Rheinland-Verlag, 2007
  4. ^ HJ Vetter, Authentic collection of the noble coats of arms and family tables that existed and sworn up at the Bergische Knighthood , Cologne 1791, p. 65
  5. ↑ Website of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Troisdorf (webarchive); accessed on December 22, 2017
  6. ^ Tonindustrie-Zeitung and Keramische Rundschau , Volume 24, Issue 1–6, 1900
  7. ↑ Christian Hubert Thaddäus Delvos, History of the Parishes of the Deanery Siegburg Volume 39: History of the Parishes of the Archdiocese of Cologne , JP Bachem, 1896, p. 342
  8. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Troisdorf , List A, as of March 2017


Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 49.9 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 16.3 ″  E