House Esselt

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Mansion of Haus Esselt, view from the south

Haus Esselt is a former manor in Drevenack , a district in the far north of the Lower Rhine community of Hünxe . Mentioned for the first time in the 14th century, Haus Esselt was for a long time an allod of the von der Capellen family. She sold it at the beginning of the 18th century to Christoph von Loeben , who probably had the current manor house built on the property. After that, it experienced changing owners, mostly aristocrats from the area or officers stationed in Wesel . From 1958 it served as a retreat for the painter and graphic artist Otto Pankok , who spent the last years of his life there. The Otto Pankok Museum has been set up in the artist's former studio since 1968 and shows his charcoal drawings, woodcuts , etchings and sculptures .

Today Haus Esselt is the seat of the Otto Pankok Foundation and the Otto Pankok Society. The manor house and the farm buildings have been protected as a historical monument since 1985 . The property's land is designated as a ground monument . Guided tours through the museum, the manor house and the gardens are possible.

history

Esselt was first mentioned in a document in 1330. Around 1381 it belonged to Henrick Snackard, whose descendant Johann Snackard around 1460 is passed down as the owner. In 1449 the estate at that time was owned by Johann von der Capellen, who was a feudal man of the Klevian Duchess Katharina . In 1482 Esselt was mentioned as a free aristocratic property owned by the brothers Johann and Jakob von der Capellen, and as early as 1491 it was particularly secured by a surrounding ditch system .

The family remained the owners of the complex until the early 18th century. From around 1520, Robert von der Capellen was the first noble owner to use Haus Esselt not only as a manor, from which he generated an income, but also as a residence. During this time he either had a new house built for it or moved into a building that was built in the 15th century. Alexander von der Capellen and his mother sold the property on November 29, 1709 for 14,5000 Karolsgulden to the Prussian major Georg Christoph von Loeben. It was presumably the new owner who had the existing late medieval building torn down to the foundation walls and built the present baroque building on its foundations . He was inherited by his son-in-law Johann Heinrich von Hülsen, who married Loeben's daughter Charlotte Sophie Anne. After his death in 1743, his widow married Freiherr Stephan Benjamin von Cordier for a second time and brought Haus Esselt to this French family. After the death of his parents, Ludwig Benjamin von Cordier paid off his three siblings to become the sole owner of the property around 1790. But he no longer lived in it himself, but leased it.

For the sum of 1900  Reichstalers , the estate changed hands again on March 25, 1808: Baron Alexander von Wylich , who had his residence at Diersfordt Castle , became the new master . He too had the property run by tenants. When he died in 1831, Haus Esselt - like the entire property of the family - was inherited by the youngest brother of Alexander's second wife Anna, Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . Bolko Graf von Stolberg-Wernigerode bequeathed Haus Esselt to his two daughters Elisabeth Charlotte and Luitgard von Kulmitz when he died in 1956. The latter took over the Esselter property and continued to run the restaurant that had previously been operated there for some time by the last tenants.

1958 sold the sisters Kulmitz ownership of Otto Pankok, who after retiring from his professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy was looking for a retirement home for himself and his family. Pankok set up his studio in the property's barn. When the artist died in October 1966, he left the property of his daughter Eva , who together with her mother Hulda not only founded the Otto Pankok Museum with archive in 1968, but also the Otto Pankok Society and the Otto Pankok Foundation Life called. The first restoration took place between 1987 and 1989 . Eva Pankok lived in Haus Esselt herself until her death in February 2016. Her estate went to the foundation she founded, which is now the owner of the house.

today

In autumn 2016, after six years of planning, urgently needed renovation work began on the manor house, for which a total of around 4.5 million euros was estimated. The focus of the first phase was on work to secure the substance of the house, for example the old lattice windows and the partially leaky roof of the building.

description

Haus Esselt is a two-part complex, consisting of a baroque mansion and former farm buildings to the south of it, which today serve museum and educational purposes. The listed buildings are directly on the Issel , formerly the moat fed the plant. The name of the property is probably derived from the name of the river. The moat no longer exists today. Some remains of it are still preserved south of the manor house.

Mansion

The simple, two-story mansion rises on a rectangular floor plan and has a pan-roofed hipped roof . In the middle of the roof ridge sits a wooden roof turret with a bell, which was renewed in 1988. The masonry of the building consists of gray- washed brick and is divided into four and five axes by rectangular lattice windows . The windows on the ground floor can be closed with shutters . In the north-western area the house has a partial basement. The basement there has late medieval vaults .

The main entrance is in the central axis on the east side. Above its skylight there is an alliance coat of arms made of sandstone , which can no longer be identified due to weathering and which is probably attributable to the couple who built it. The coats of arms are held by lions and crowned by a crown. On the north-west facade of the house, traces of construction that have been preserved show that an extension with a gable roof used to be attached there. It was demolished in 1844.

The interior of the mansion is axially symmetrical. On the ground floor there are four equally sized, square rooms that are accessed through a long, central hallway. In all rooms on this floor the flooring is made of sandstone slabs. The upper floor, which can be reached via a wooden staircase in the hallway, has an identical room layout, but two of the rooms were divided by inserted partition walls. The interiors are still as they were when the Pankoks furnished them. Otto Pankok's printing workshop is also still in its original condition. Even today prints are made there with his wooden sticks. Visits can be organized for groups on request.

museum

Otto Pankok Museum in the former barn

In a barn built in 1844 south of the manor house is Otto Pankok's former studio, which was converted into a museum about the life and work of the artist in the 1960s. It shows exhibitions that change every six months. An archive with works and documents from the life of Pankok is attached to the museum. About 8000 of his works of art are kept at Haus Esselt. These include over 5000 charcoal drawings, more than 600 woodcuts and around 550 etchings, which make up a large part of Pankok's legacy. After completion of the renovation, which began in 2016, a new exhibition concept is to be implemented by 2019 that also deals with Pankok's wife Hulda and his daughter Eva.

literature

  • Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (edit.): Handbook of German art monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .
  • Ludger Fischer : The most beautiful palaces and castles on the Lower Rhine. 1st edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2004, ISBN 3-8313-1326-1 , pp. 26-27.
  • Günter Heiligenpahl: On the history of the Esselt house. In: Historischer Arbeitskreis Wesel (Hrsg.): Messages from the Diersfordt castle archive and from the Lower Rhine. Issue 16. Historical Working Group Wesel, Wesel 2009, pp. 61–111.
  • Franz Josef Lensing: The building history of the Esselt house. In: Yearbook. Wesel district 1993. Mercator, Duisburg 1992, ISBN 3-89413-053-9 , pp. 40-43.
  • Walter Luyken: About castles and castle historical facilities in the Rees district. In: Kreisverwaltung Rees (ed.): Heimatkalender / Landkreis Rees 1967. Schiffer, Rheinberg 1966, pp. 8–9.
  • Gregor Spohr (ed.): Romantic Ruhr area. Castles, palaces, mansions. 2nd Edition. Pomp, Bottrop / Essen 1996, ISBN 3-89355-110-7 , p. 123.
  • Gregor Spohr, Ele Beuthner: How nice to dream away here. Castles on the Lower Rhine. Pomp, Bottrop / Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89355-228-6 , pp. 58-61.

Web links

Commons : Haus Esselt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Annex to an urgency decision in connection with the renovation of the Esselt house , 2014, p. 2 (PDF; 11 MB).
  2. ↑ a b c Ludger Fischer: The most beautiful palaces and castles on the Lower Rhine. 2004, p. 27.
  3. ^ A b Karl Emerich Krämer : From castle to castle on the Lower Rhine. Volume 2, 2nd edition. Mercator, Duisburg 1985, ISBN 3-87463-076-5 , p. 70.
  4. ↑ a b Attachment of an emergency resolution in connection with the renovation of the Esselt house , 2014, p. 3 (PDF; 11 MB.)
  5. ^ Ferdinand GB Fischer: Excursion destinations on the Lower Rhine. Beautiful castles, palaces and moths from the Alps to Zons. Pomp, Bottrop / Essen 1998, ISBN 3-89355-152-2 , p. 48.
  6. ^ Günter Heiligenpahl: On the history of the Esselt house. 2009, p. 73.
  7. ^ Günter Heiligenpahl: On the history of the Esselt house. 2009, pp. 75-76.
  8. ^ Günter Heiligenpahl: On the history of the Esselt house. 2009, p. 77.
  9. ^ Günter Heiligenpahl: On the history of the Esselt house. 2009, p. 80.
  10. ^ Günter Heiligenpahl: On the history of the Esselt house. 2009, p. 89.
  11. ↑ a b At home with painter Otto Pankok in the Esselt house in Hünxe. In: Neue Rhein Zeitung . Edition of December 9, 2016 ( online ).
  12. ↑ a b Entry by Elke Nieveler and Jens Friedhoff about Haus Esselt in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  13. ↑ a b Renovation of Haus Esselt in accordance with historical monuments started on pankok-museum-esselt.de ( Memento from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ a b Bettina Vaupel: House Esselt in Hünxe is reminiscent of Otto Pankok. Painter and pacifist. In: Monuments online. Magazine of the German Foundation for Monument Protection. October 2017 ( online ).
  15. ^ Hünxe: Memories of artist Otto Pankok in Haus Esselt . In: Local time from Duisburg. Broadcast on January 9, 2017, broadcast minute 1:14.
  16. ↑ Thomas Hesse: Otto Pankok's house is being renovated. In: Rheinische Post . Online edition of November 14, 2016 ( online ).
  17. ^ A b Gregor Spohr (Ed.): Romantic Ruhr Area. Castles, palaces, mansions. 1996, p. 123.
  18. ↑ Attachment of an emergency resolution in connection with the renovation of the Esselt house , 2014, p. 16 (PDF; 11 MB).
  19. ↑ a b Attachment of an emergency resolution in connection with the renovation of the Esselt house , 2014, p. 23 (PDF; 11 MB).
  20. ↑ Information about the manor on the Otto Pankok Museum website , accessed on January 18, 2020.
  21. ↑ Information on the printing workshop on the Otto Pankok Museum website , accessed on January 18, 2020.
  22. ^ House Esselt. The home of the painter Otto Pankok , accessed January 18, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 36 ″  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 59 ″  E