Haus Geist (Oelde)

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Haus Geist bei Oelde in the Ahmenhorst peasantry is a moated castle in the style of the Lipperenaissance and the Baroque, and at times served as a residence for the Jesuits .

Haus Geist, Oelde, 2019

history

Possibly the construction goes back to a medieval castle of the Lords of Geist . Its best-known representative was the canon and poet Bernhard von Geist in the 13th century. Before 1427 the property was owned by a branch of the Wolff von Lüdinghausen family . It was later owned by the von Oer family . Via the daughter of the landdrosten Jaspar von Oer , the house temporarily fell to the von Nesselrode family . In the 16th century it fell to the von Loë family . Between 1560 and 1568 master builder Laurenz von Brachum the Elder built a new building in the style of the Lippe Renaissance with his sons Rotger and Johannes. In 1593 the castle came to Joachim von Büren by marriage . Moritz von Büren transferred Haus Geist - like his other property - to the Jesuit order in a will in 1640.

After the death of Bürens from 1661 the order established a branch there. Heinrich Turck became vice rector of the branch in 1664. The missionary Bernhard Havestadt lived there, as did Johann Bernhard Zumziel . After a fire, the north wing was rebuilt in the Baroque style between 1750 and 1755 according to plans by Franz Christoph Nagel . The actual construction management lay with the Jesuit Franz Pfisterer .

After the dissolution of the order, the house fell to the Duchy of Münster in 1773 . The income from Gut Haus Geist went to the so-called study fund for the maintenance of the University of Münster . The legal successor to the prince-bishopric was the Prussian state after 1803, which continued the study fund. The state leased Haus Geist in 1884.

In the first decades of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Presidents organized hunts for the diplomatic corps in the woods of Haus Geist (" Geisterholz "). A nature reserve has now been designated therein.

Buildings

The entire complex consisting of the outer bailey and the main building lay on two islands surrounded by a moat system . Parts of the trenches were filled in in the 19th century. Substantial parts of the buildings were also demolished. The east wing of the commercial buildings in the area of ​​the outer bailey has been preserved from the Renaissance building. Of these, the former brewery was restored in 1982. The western and northern wings of the farm buildings are made of brick and provided with sandstone spoilers in the Renaissance style. The baroque north wing of the actual palace on the main island has been preserved. It comprises two full floors and a mansard roof . The existing buildings from the Renaissance period were demolished in the 19th century. The portal at the entrance to the gatehouse and similar structural elements have been preserved from this period.

The castle and monastery had a garden, of which only remnants can be seen.

literature

  • Handbook of the historical sites of Germany , Vol. 3: North Rhine-Westphalia . Stuttgart, 1970, p. 245.
  • Joseph Tewes, Ulrich Kaplan, Heinz Lienenbecker: Explorations about Haus Geist. On the history and natural history of a moated castle in the Münsterland . In: Dortmund contributions to regional studies , vol. 33 (1999), pp. 157–199.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. Vol. 1 Berlin, 1978 p. 761
  2. ↑ Michael Bönte: Order history on bog oaks. To the west of Oelde is Haus Geist - a moated castle with an eventful past. In: Kirche + Leben , July 5, 2020, p. 5.

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 10.7 "  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 4.5"  E