House Crange

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House Crange
North side of the ruin

North side of the ruin

Creation time : before 1441
Castle type : Moated castle
Conservation status: Wall remains
Place: Herne -Crange
Geographical location 51 ° 32 '46.5 "  N , 7 ° 9' 51.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '46.5 "  N , 7 ° 9' 51.5"  E

House Crange is a former moated castle in what is now the Herner district of Crange .

Duke Adolf II. Of Kleve let the provided with corner towers and only by a wooden drawbridge achievable Wasserburg in 1440 on an island in the valley of the Emscher build and belehnte probably the Laurentiustag (August 10) of the year 1441 Derick van Eykel, Drost of Brandenburg Office of Bochum, with the house "geheiten ten Krangh" . Krang meant river bend.

Information board near the ruin

To the north of the castle stood the chapel of the House of Crange, the Laurentius Chapel , which was consecrated in 1449. It was canceled in 1873. Your three-winged altar from the Soest School of Painting is now in Ahausen Castle .

After the von Eickel zu Crange family, the von Rump family inherited the property in 1637. In 1761 the building burned down and was renewed in the same year with a classicist interior design on the Gothic cellar vault . In 1812 the owners moved out and the castle was leased. The Counts of Landsberg-Velen acquired the property through succession . In 1884 it was sold to the Harpener Bergwerksgesellschaft, which in 1905 sold it to the Kanalbaugesellschaft. The house came to the industrialist Robert Heitkamp in 1962 through Essener Steinkohle AG .

The building fell into disrepair, and in 1991 the Friends' Association Haus Crange e. V. to save the building. Despite various plans and makeshift measures (monument protection 1984, acquisition of the building by the city of Herne in 1992, ideas competition for restoration / new buildings or extensions) the house fell into disrepair by the turn of the millennium.

After ten years of renovation work , the remains of the house were made accessible to the public again in September 2012 as a "well-kept ruin". Around the building, of which only the foundation walls are preserved, leads a newly laid out circular path with information boards that provide information about the history of the place.

A few meters from the ruins , the Cranger Kirmes takes place, which goes back to the horse market on Laurentius Day, where wild horses from the Emscherbruch have been sold since the 16th century .

literature

  • Jens Blome (Ed.): House Crange . Förderverein Haus Crange eV, Herne 2001, ISBN 3-00-008986-1 .
  • Manfred Hildebrandt: House Crange . In: Kai Niederhöfer (Red.): Burgen AufRuhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region . Klartext, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0234-3 , pp. 239–242.
  • Heinrich Lühring: Wanne-Eickel in old views . European Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands 1992, ISBN 90-288-5419-3 .

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