House Coull

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House Coull from the north

Haus Coull is a former manor in Straelen on the Lower Rhine . The listed building ensemble is located in the middle of a small park on the road to Wachtendonk about 800 meters from the city center. Up until the Prussian era, the facility was fit for the state parliament . Today it is privately owned and cannot be visited.

history

House Coull was formerly a personal profit of the Abbey of St. Michael in Siegburg , with which the mayor's office in Straelen was connected. It was first mentioned in a document in 1406. The reason for this was the sale of the property of Friedrich von Housen and his wife Liesbeth von Boedberg to Johann von Asselt. Probably shortly after 1619, the year Junker Johan von Asselt died, the house came to the von Haefften family. In 1678 Johann Gerard von Haefften is guaranteed as Drost of Straelen, which was then under Spanish rule. In 1724 the facility was owned by the von Baexen family. She came to House Coull through the marriage of Conrad Emanuel von Baexens to Maria Catharina von Haefften in 1711.

North side of the Coull house on a drawing by Alexander Frans van Aefferden, 1840

The dependence on the Siegburg Abbey had disappeared over time, because around 1780 Haus Coull was referred to as "adeliche [s] Allodial -Guth". In 1831 it was then the property of the Straelen notary, Johann Wilhelm Thomas Koch. During his time as owner, Alexander Frans van Aefferden made two drawings of the property in 1840, through which its appearance at that time has been passed down. In the second half of the 19th century, the main building of the complex underwent a major redesign. The north wing was reshaped in the neo-Gothic style and provided with stepped gables. Along with the renovation work, the owners had today's landscape garden laid out.

During the Second World War , German soldiers and Hitler Youth were quartered in the Coull house . Much of the valuable inventory was lost during this time, including numerous valuable pieces of furniture. The house's painting collection did not survive the war either, because although it had been brought from Straelen to the supposedly safer Cologne , it was destroyed in a bomb attack on June 30, 1943. Shortly before the end of the war, Augusta Schmidt-Schweikert, b. Kochs and her husband Georg left Haus Coull and went to Cologne. After Allied troops marched into the Lower Rhine region, the house's archive was completely destroyed when American soldiers either banned the documents or threw them into the complex's moats .

The marriage of Augusta and Georg Schmidt-Schweikert had remained childless, and so after the death of his wife, Coull's owner appointed his hunting friend Degenhard Freiherr von Loë - Mheer as heir. The facility is still owned by his family today. Degenhard's son Eduard had the building and park extensively restored between 1996 and 2000 .

description

Coull house consists of an L-shaped mansion and the southwest located Vorburg which are surrounded by a double grave system. To the east of the building is a rectangular area on which the former gardens were located. Since the second half of the 19th century, access to the outer bailey has been via a stone bridge from the west; previously the main entrance was in the south and could only be reached via a drawbridge .

East side of the main building on a drawing by Alexander Frans van Aefferden from 1840; You can also see the south wing, which was destroyed in World War II.

The main building is a two-storey brick building , the two wings of which with gable roofs abut at right angles and thus form a north and east wing . The masonry has a diamond pattern made of light-colored stones and artistically forged wall anchors as decoration . The oldest part is the southern part of the east wing from the first quarter of the 17th century, at the south-east corner of which there is a narrow round tower with an onion dome. Its miniature key notches made of stone already had no fortification properties at the time of the tower construction, but were only used for decoration. Until the renovation in the 1990s, the tower still had egress holes for pigeons. These were repeated in the southern tail gable of the east wing. This shows the forms typical of the Lower Rhine from the late 16th century. A coat of arms made of sandstone shows the heraldic animal of the von Baexen family with the lion striding to the left . The southern part was extended to the north in the 17th century. This northern part has a pavilion-like extension with an octagonal floor plan and a polygonal roof on the east side on the ground floor . It may have been used as a house chapel in the past , but so far there is no evidence of this. The entrance area of ​​the east wing presents itself in neo-Gothic forms from the 19th century. The main entrance is in the center of a three-axis section, which is formed by four pilaster strips and crowned by a crenellated wreath and a small stepped gable. The east wing of the main building is joined at a right angle by a north wing with colorfully patterned shutters , which was built in the last quarter of the 18th century. Its stepped gable, however, comes from renovation work that was not carried out until the 19th century. Originally, the north wing had a similar counterpart that joined the east wing at its south end, so that the mansion once had a U-shape. However, the south wing was destroyed in World War II and not rebuilt. Today only the foundations are left of him.

Coull's outer bailey consists of two former farm buildings, the northern one of which can be dated to 1798 thanks to wall anchors. This is covered with a half- hip. It used to be joined by another wing of the building at a right angle at the east end, but it was probably demolished in the course of the neo-Gothic remodeling in the 19th century.

House Coull is surrounded by an English-style landscaped garden from the 19th century. In addition to common oaks , copper beeches and rhododendron bushes , there are also more exotic plants such as sequoia , false cypresses , Douglas firs and Atlas cedars .

literature

Web links

Commons : Haus Coull  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jens Wroblewski, André Wemmers: Theiss-Burgenführer Niederrhein. 2001, p. 42.
  2. ^ Stefan Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, mansions mansions along the Niers. 2001, p. 340.
  3. ↑ Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the district of Geldern (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 1, section 2). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1891, p. 216 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Stefan Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, mansions mansions along the Niers. 2001, p. 341.
  5. ^ Stefan Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, mansions mansions along the Niers. 2001, p. 344.
  6. ↑ a b c Jens Wroblewski, André Wemmers: Theiss Castle Guide Niederrhein. 2001, p. 43.
  7. ↑ Paul Clemen states in Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Geldern that the chapel was on the ground floor of the round corner tower.
  8. ↑ Gregor Spohr: How nice to dream here. Castles on the Lower Rhine. 2001, p. 136.
  9. ^ Sights in Straelen ( Memento from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 28.9 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 41.6 ″  E