House Germenseel
| House Germenseel | ||
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 Today's House Germenseel |
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| Creation time : | around 1500 to 1600 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Zyfflich | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 48 ′ 36 " N , 6 ° 0 ′ 3" E | |
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House Germenseel was a noble residence near Zyfflich in the municipality of Kranenburg in the Kleve district in North Rhine-Westphalia and was demolished in the 19th century.
history
In the High Middle Ages there was a court in Germenseel that the Archbishop of Cologne had given to the Zyfflich Monastery in Anno II . Cultivation measures in the Germenseel area are documented for the 12th century, which formed the prelude to extensive inland colonization in the Kranenburg area.
After the Klevian offices of Kranenburg and Düffel had been administratively united in 1486 , the von Wachtendonck family, who had been the drosten of the dual office for many generations, acquired the Germenseel court and moved their official seat there, as Germenseel was conveniently located on the border between the two offices.
House Germenseel, built here in the 16th century, consisted of a four-winged main house surrounded by water with round towers at the four corners and an outer bailey. In the second half of the 17th century, the complex began to decline. According to a view by Cornelis Pronk from 1731, the main house still consists of three wings and two towers. In the 18th century, Haus Germenseel changed hands several times.
In addition to Germenseel Castle, there was the Hoch Germenseel manor with 113 acres of land. These included the Ackerhof Schwarzwasser with 35 acres of arable land and 4 acres of meadow, the Schottheide, the Katzstelle in Nütterden with house, yard and garden as well as arable land, the Wessels-Heide on Wolfsberg, the Heide in Nütterden, Schneidemann's Kathen in Zyfflich , arable land in Schottheide , the colony on Wolfsberg with house, yard and garden as well as arable land, the entire Wolfsberg for pine and oak wood, the long yard at Ray in Nütterden, the Veense Hof in Nütterden with house, yard and garden as well as arable land, the Ricken Hof at the chapel in Nütterden with house, yard and garden as well as arable land, the Raysche Hof in Nütterden with house, yard and garden and arable land.
In 1744, after the bankruptcy of the Wachtendonck family, the public auction took place. It was acquired by Abraham von Koenen on March 29, 1745 (around 1680–1763 Haus Moyland near Kleve), then on July 29, 1772 by Carl Anton von Rodenberg (1736–1789), lord of Germenseel and Haus Klarenbeck , son of the Kleve-Märkischen Geh . Government, court and judicial councilor Wilhelm von Rodenberg (1684–1738). It remained as a manor (raised March 8, 1846) of 56 hectares in the family until around 1892, but was always leased. At the end of the century only the outer bailey was inhabited, which burned down and was laid down in the 1820s. Remnants of foundations and walls were leveled in 1963/64. The name Germenseel has been transferred to the courtyard built on the site of the earlier house in the 19th century.
literature
- Hans-Peter Hilger: Kleve district , vol. 5: Kranenburg - Zyfflich (= The monuments of the Rhineland, vol. 7). Rheinland-Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1970.
- Robert Scholten : Some things about the Düffel and the localities in the same , Kleve 1903.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Weekly Duisburg to the interest of the Commercien, the clever, Geldrischen, Moers- and Märckischen, also surrounding country places, furnished address and intelligence slips. (= Weekly Duisburg based on the interest of the Commercien, the clever, Geldrian, Moers- and Märckischen, also surrounding country places, arranged address- and Intelligentz-slips. Volume 28). Duisburg 1744. ( digitized version )