Geinegge Castle
| Geinegge Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, built over | |
| Standing position : | Counts, nobles | |
| Place: | Bockum-Hövel | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| Height: | 65 m above sea level NN | |
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Geinegge Castle is a defunct Niederungsburg ( Inselburg ) in today's Hammer district of Hamm-Bockum-Hövel . The castle was the seat of the von Hövel family and burned down completely in 1840. There are no remains of it that could provide information about the type and structure of the facility.
location
Geinegge Castle is named after the Geinegge brook that crosses Bockum-Hövel. With the exception of Burg Hövel and Haus Laake , all of the noble houses in Bockum-Hövels were accessed through the Geinegge, the knight's seat Aquak , Haus Ermelinghof , Burg Geinegge and Burg Nienbrügge in the estuary, as well as the former cloister courtyard. The brook drove the water mills at Ermelinghof Castle (broken off: 1978) and Geinegge Castle (broken off: 1895). Only the Ermelinghof house and the cloister courtyard are preserved today. Nienbrügge was demolished in 1225 on the orders of the Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Westphalia , Heinrich von Molenark , because of the murder of his predecessor by Friedrich von Altena-Isenberg's allies , and the knight seat Aquack has also disappeared today. At the time Geinegge Castle was built, the brook must have carried more water than it does today, because springs show an extraordinary fish population that no longer exists there today.
Geinegge Castle was in Bockum-Hövel, northeast of today's gym, roughly where the smaller sports field at the Adolf-Brühl-Kampfbahn (today Adolf-Brühl-Stadion) is, possibly also in the area of today's Hammer Straße. The property was on an island that was enclosed on both sides of the Geinegge. The arable land and the mill must have stood where the swimming pool was until a few years ago. The miller's house was only demolished around 1959. It stood where the inn can be found at Römerstrasse 4 today.
According to old land maps, a road used to lead over the old castle through the Ruenfeld to the Kötterberg, where the Hohenhövel farm was located. Immediately south of the castle, a road from Hamm led up to Bockum. The Ruenfeld, which was north of the Geinegge house, was about 60 acres in size. It was a contiguous, very poor piece of land that needed quiet, so it was called Ruenfeld. Immediately to the right of the aristocratic house, the Hammerlandwehr walked along the Ruenfeld and landed in the south - bounded by the Geinegge stream - at Nienbrügge in the Lippe .
history
Like Haus Ermelinghof, Haus Geinegge, which is also located in the old parish of Hövel, was one of the knights' seats of the Munster country class. Earlier spellings of house and stream were “Gheneighe”, “Gynegge”, “Geneghe”, “Gyneghe”, “Genegge” or “Geinhegge”, which probably means “water (run) between the hedges” - Gein (h) egge.
The Knights of Gynegge (Geinegge) were first mentioned in 1170. In 1205 the noble house Geinegge was inhabited by the knight Henricus Gemenyce. At that time, a noble residence must have already existed at this place, but the exact time of its construction cannot be determined.
In a document in 1224 a knight Hermanus de Genegge was named as a witness when the knight Herbordus de Tremonia ( Dortmund ) exchanged countries . Probably the castle belonged to the fiefdom of Count von Hövel Arnold von Altena as early as 1190 - like Hövel Castle and the farms Westerwinkel and Heessen .
During the troubled times in the first half of the 13th century, the property is often mentioned in connection with Nienbrügge Castle. This permanent place was on both sides of the Lippe in the area of today's Hammer Hafen , near the Zur Krausen Linde inn . The lord of the castle Friedrich von Isenberg-Altena killed his uncle, Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne , in the Schwelmer Forest in 1225 , with whom he was in a violent dispute. Friedrich fled, but was caught and put on his bike at the gates of Cologne. Nienbrügge Castle and the surrounding settlements of craftsmen and merchants were razed to the ground. Count Adolf I von der Mark settled the now homeless residents further east in the corner between Lippe and Ahse, the tom Hamme , and founded the city of Hamm with them in 1226.
Friedrich von Isenberg's son, Dietrich von Altena-Isenberg , led a long and bitter feud with Count von der Mark for his father's possession, the Isenberg Wirren . In the years 1225 and 1243, the Geinegge house and farmers were often affected. Despite the hardship caused by the situation on the border between the Diocese of Münster and the County of Mark , the von Geinegge family stayed at the castle until the 14th century.
Around 1300 a Ritter zu Geeneke had to pay two shillings (two euros today) to the cathedral chapter of Münster . According to the pension register of the parish church of St. Pankratius in Hövel from 1311, the noble house in Geinegge had to give a mudee (bushel).
On August 5, 1325, the brothers Ecbertus and Wilhemus de Genegge were present as witnesses during a sale before the court in Sendenhaus. Wilhelmus de Genegge must have been employed as a deacon at the collegiate church in Horstmar around 1332. There is also documentary evidence of Richard von Geinegge who lived on the estate in 1332 . Around the same time, the Geinegge farm with the attached mill must have been sold to the priest Johann de Telgher (von Telgte), because in the church book of Hövel it is noted around 1344 that a Vicedominus Eybert von Bentheim for the salvation of the deceased priest Johannes de Telgher five Taler donated.
When the last offspring of the "to Genegge" clan died, the noble house of Geinegge was exchanged, according to a document from 1339, by Count Theodorius of Limburg for the properties of Albert de Hüvele in Amecke, which he had previously bought from Echolte (Eckholt) bought in Amecke. Geinegge Castle was previously owned by the Counts of Limburg , later descendants of the Counts of Hövel. Consequently, the noble house Geinegge was the second acquired noble house of the knights and lords de Hüvele , whose original seat was in the Hövel castle.
Albert de Hüvele's son, who was also called Albert, was the first of the de Hüvele family to move into Geinegge. According to a document from 1385, a son of Albert de Hüvele to Geinegge, Lambert von Hövel to Geinegge, the pastor of Sankt Pankratius in Hövel, Ennich von Heydenreich, donated a chapel and a cemetery in the immediate vicinity of the noble house of Geinegge. The pastor in Heessen, von Vollenspit , had to give his consent, as the area east of Geinegge belongs to the parish of Heessen. Around 1420, a son of Albert de Hüvele to Geinegge, Hermann von Hüvele to Geinegge, acquired the noble house of Laake.
A Johann von Hövel zu Geinegge ( Johan van Hovele to Geynetge ) appears as a witness in a document in 1441.
Henrich von Hüvele to Geinegge is listed in a document about the regional unification of Münster from 1466, and Henrich von Hüvele to Genegge - a long-time free bishop - bequeathed several pensions to the Church of Sankt Pankratius in the parish book of Hövel from 1467. Around 1477 Gosen von Hövele to Genegge was Kirchmeister in Hövel. In 1480 Henrich von Hüvele to Genegge sold a farm near the noble house in Beckedorf in Nordik for 20 gold thalers to the provost Bernhard zu Cappenberg . In 1494 Johann von Hüvele to Geinegge exchanged a piece of land on the Geist in front of the gates of Hamm with the Abbess of the Kentrop Monastery , Katharina von Westhoven, for other properties in the Ruenfelde parcel on his doorstep, which had previously belonged to the Kentrop Monastery.
From 1500 the von Frydag (Friday) and later until 1604 the von Laer appear as lords of the castle. After 1500, Burg Geinegge was married to Rötger von Frydag.
The line de Hüvele to Geinegge became so indebted in the course of time that it took out 42 Rhenish gold guilders as a loan from the Kentrop monastery in 1513 . Dirk von Hüvele used the Hülshof near the Geinegge house opposite Abbess Card Knipping (demolished in 1977). In 1515, at the request of the Kentrop monastery, the farm in Ascheberg , which belonged to Gerd von Hüvele to Genegge, was attached to the noble house of Genegge .
In 1538 the daughter of Gert de Hüvele to Geinegge, Petronella, married the nobleman Anton von Laer . In 1558, the also highly indebted descendant of the two, Fridhag von Laer, sold the Schlottmann-Kotten near the Geinegge house to the Gert von der Recke at Heessen house. In the same year Fridag von Laer married Margarete von dem Berge. Fridag von Laer had been in dispute with the citizens of Herbern for years. He had wounded various Herbern citizens. They reported him to the Prince-Bishop of Münster, Bernhard von Raesfeld , in 1556 for violent bodily harm. Fridag von Laer was sentenced by the bishop in 1558 to replace the damage. He did not comply with this requirement. Therefore, in 1560, all of his goods were seized. Theodor Hermann von Merveldt zu Westerwinkel acted as buyer in 1589 . He acquired about three quarters of the goods, including the Geinegge house, which he leased out as arable land. Until 1604 the estate was jointly administered by the Laer and Merveldt families. In 1604 it was judged to Dietrich Hermann von Merveldt zu Westerwinkel for a claim of over 9,000 thalers.
When pastor Theodor Baggel partially burned down his castle in Hövel and he became vicar of the north pen in Hamm, he moved into the noble house of Genegge, which experienced a new heyday.
In 1625, Wilbrand Plönnies was another major believer. After that, Geinegge remained in Mervelder ownership until the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1704 the Geinegge house was still fit for parliament . Theodor Burchard von Merveldt went to the state parliament as a representative of this noble house.
Around 1840 the buildings of Haus Geinegge burned down completely. The mill and the miller's house were initially preserved. A farm building was built for the tenant, the house at Hammer Straße No. 247, which was converted into a residential building in the 20th century. The mill was located where the swimming pool of the now closed bathing establishment was later located. Their remains could still be seen until the construction of the sports field in 1925. The inhabited house next to the entrance to the stadium is the former miller's house. Bernhard Frye (Frey) is known as the last miller at the Geineggemühle, and Bernhard Niesmann is known as the last miller at Ermelinghof. The last remnant of the mill bridge with the waterfall was demolished in 1925 when the stadium was being built. The water of the swimming pool was cleaned by hundreds of tons of coke in the flow of the Geineggebach using a process that was new at the time.
During the construction of the lower sports field, remnants of the old castle complex came to light. The finds made in the process, such as drinking vessels, daggers, etc., were placed in a collection of the monastery mill, which was transferred to the municipal Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm in 1975 with the second municipal reform .
A resident of the house at Bockumer Weg 229 walled in the coat of arms of the castle in the foundation of his house. Some sculptures by Haus Geinegge can still be seen in the barn of the same house (as of 1980).
literature
- Helmut Richtering: Noble seats and manors in the area of the city of Hamm . In: Herbert Zink: 750 Years of the City of Hamm , Hamm 1976.
- Willi Schroeder: A home book. Two districts introduce themselves. Bockum and Hövel . 1980.
- Fritz Schumacher, Hartmut Greilich: Bockum-Hövel. From history and local history . Hamm 1956, new edition 2002.
Web links
- Entry on Geinegge Castle in the private database "All Castles".
Individual evidence
- ^ Höllinghofen - Heessen certificate HV 2