House Eyll (Kamp-Lintfort)

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House Eyll (Kamp-Lintfort)

Haus Eyll is a former moated castle and a former manor in Kamp-Lintfort .

description

The complex consists of an inner courtyard area, which is flanked by two parallel single-storey farm buildings with half-hipped roofs facing each other on the western and eastern sides.

On the southern side was the castle palace, which was later replaced by a castle-like mansion in the first half of the 19th century .

The mansion was a free-standing, two-story plastered brick building with a hipped roof and a towering basement. In the middle part there was a risalit , which ended with a pointed gable and with four pilasters , which ended over the capitals as round arches. The façade consisted of a total of nine window axes , three of which were arched windows in the risalit.

Not much is left of the old castle, which is now used as a farm . However, a boundary wall is still well preserved, today used as the outer wall of a stable. The loopholes of the former defensive system can still be seen here, with an adjoining round tower on the north-west corner.

The entire courtyard was surrounded by a moat that was fed by the Eyllsche Kendel .

history

Probably built in 1144, in the centuries of the Middle Ages, Haus Eyll offered protection not only to its own family, but also to the surrounding residents. The castle has been conquered and devastated repeatedly. The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), also the Thirty Years' War and also the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) left considerable damage to the building.

The noble family von Eerde, which we find wealthy in the old money district of Zutphen as early as the 17th century , came to the Lower Rhine around 1720 . Friedrich Heinrich Melchior inherited the Eyll house near Kamp (today Wesel district ).

A front of the Imperial Courts to Wetzlar guided process to that legacy prevented the Baron for the time being, from buying the house Eyll.

He bought the Erprath house near Tönisberg and moved into an apartment there. With this house the entitlement to the Geldern Landtag was connected.

The allodial house Eyll was originally awarded by the Eerde Castle near Ommen in the Dutch province of Overijssel to the Catholic family von Eerde only in 1757 after a protracted inheritance dispute before the Imperial Court of Justice.

In the course of the disputes in 1720, the Eyll house was owned by Johanna Catherina v. Pallant fell through a will to the von Eerde family.

The family, who are counted among the Dutch nobility , has held the title of baron since 1687 at the latest.

The castle suffered damage during the French occupation from 1794 to 1814. Abandoned by the residents, it was subjected to the arbitrariness of the roaming soldiers. The ruin of the castle could not be stopped. In the 1920s, the eastern part of the manor collapsed . The ruin was demolished in the 1980s. Today the family's new home stands on the foundations . On the initiative of the owners, an old corner tower was restored in 1986 with the help of monument preservation funds.

The castle chapel was probably built around 1430/32 and belonged to the free aristocratic Eyll house.

It was built by Tillmann von Eyll as a castle chapel in the Gothic style. For several centuries it served as a burial place for the lords of Eyll, who also entertained the clergy. Around 1796, the parish Eyll, which was probably established in the 17th century, was merged with the parish Kamp, but this merger did not last long.

literature

Web links

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

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 4 "  N , 6 ° 30 ′ 50"  E

Individual evidence

  1. kamp-lintfort.de, Eyll Castle and Chapel
  2. rheinruhronline.de, Kamp-Lintfort - House Eyll
  3. komoot.de, former moated castle Haus Eyll