House Hall (Ratheim)

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House Hall, view of the manor house from the north

The house Hall is a castle-like mansion on the southern edge of Hückelhoven district Ratheim . The former manor was one of a total of ten manors in and around Ratheim, only two of which have survived.

The roots of the property lie in a medieval moated castle , which was a Heinsberg fief from the 15th century at the latest . The Olmissen family had been the sole owners of the castle since the beginning of the 16th century and remained so for around three centuries. The plant came to the Spies von Büllesheim family , who are still the owners today, through an heir .

The entire building complex has been a listed building since November 11, 1982 .

description

Site plan of the facility

House Hall is a two-part, water-protected complex, consisting of a manor house and a bailey , which is surrounded by a large park in the English style .

The mansion is a simple, two-story plastered building with a high basement. It is surrounded on three sides by a pond that is fed by the silver spring. Its central building is divided into five axes by arched windows with stone walls and the core dates from 1785. Two short pavilion-like side wings on an almost square floor plan adjoin the central part to the east and west . They are buildings from the beginning of the 20th century. The two storeys of the building, with two axles on all sides, are closed off by a mansard tent roof, while the central building has a mansard roof covered with slate shingles . In the central axis of the manor is found in the aligned to the bailey side the simple portal of the house, to which a staircase from Blaustein leads. Above it is the coat of arms of the Olmissen family. Inside, rebuilt for the first time in the 19th century, the main house has little of the original furnishings. These include some carved wooden doors from the 18th century.

East wing of the outer bailey

To the north of the manor house is the three-winged outer bailey in the shape of a horseshoe, the wings of which with gable roofs date from the 18th and 19th centuries and frame an inner courtyard. It used to be surrounded by its own moat and separated from the manor by another moat, but these are now filled in. The north-facing central wing is a barn that replaced an older half-timbered building in 1828 . The two-storey east and west wings made of brick each have a similarly designed, elevated gate with arched gate passages. Their high hipped roofs are crowned by high knobs with weather vanes . On the courtyard side there are iron wall anchors on both side wings in the form of the dates 1769 and 1782. In the eastern service wing there is also a small house chapel .

history

The term “Hall” is likely to go back to the Old High German word “hala” for “ceiling, roof, protection and screen” and possibly describe a solid building. In the Middle Ages, House Hall was the seat of a noble family of the same name , whose members first mentioned a Gottfried von Hall in a document in 1248 . From 1262 to 1269 it was owned by Wilhelm von Hall, known as Schilling. This knightly family remained the owner until the 14th century. After their extinction, the property came to Johann von Loen, Mr. zu Heinsberg and Löwenburg. In 1402, Contze and Adam von Fischenich were sitters who had received the house as a Heinsberg fief. The property came by inheritance to the Beissel von Gymnich and Olmissen families, known as Mülstroe. In 1505 Johann, son of Ludwig von Olmissen and his wife Elisabeth von Kinzweiler, received the loan for his family's share in the Hall house. Two years later he acquired the other half of the property from the Beissel von Gymnich and in 1510 received the entire lease from Werner von Palant, the bailiff of Wassenberg . The house remained in his family's possession - with small interruptions due to marriage and division - until the end of the 18th century. Because Johann was attached to the Protestant religion, he gave shelter to the most important preacher of the Anabaptists , Johann Campanus , in Hall for a long time and converted to Protestantism himself shortly before his death. After his death in 1541, his three sons, who had emerged from Johann's marriage to Agnes von Buschfeld , shared the inheritance among themselves. The eldest, Heinrich, received the ter Hallen house . He was later followed by his second son of the same name. Henry the Younger left only two daughters from his marriage to Elisabeth von Byren, so that with him the male line of the family at Haus Hall died out.

Illustration of the House of Hall on a map from 1702

The manor was sold to Johann von Mülstroe in 1631 and, after his death in 1634, to his brother Wilhelm, who was succeeded by his son Gerhard in 1644. In 1760 Karl Johann Ludwig von Mülstroe received the loan. However, since he was in French service and therefore mostly stayed in France, his brother Gerhard Kaspar Edmund lived in his place at House Hall. He became a tenant in 1770 and had the existing Gothic house replaced in 1785 by a new classical building. Kaspar's only child from his marriage to Maria Anna von Groß was his daughter Franziska Maria Anna Sybilla Charlotte. When her father died in 1794, she inherited the entire property and brought it to her husband Emmerich Joseph Bruno Anton Raitz von Frentz zu Kellenberg , whom she had married in 1788. Via the couple's daughter, Karoline Anna Hubertine, Hall came to her husband, the royal chamberlain and district administrator of the Mülheim am Rhein district , Ludwig Joseph Fortunatus Ignatius Spies von Büllesheim , whose descendants are still owners. Ludwig Joseph's grandson Adolf had the manor house expanded in 1904 with two short wing buildings in the neo-baroque style, giving it its current appearance.

During the Second World War , a staff of the German Wehrmacht used Haus Hall as their quarters, before the property was confiscated by American troops after the end of the war, who gave it to the British occupying forces a short time later. This set up the central administration for the districts of Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg , before the building was used as a home for socially endangered girls after the foreign soldiers had left. House Hall then housed a staff of the Bundeswehr. After he moved out of the manor house, the owners had it renovated between 1978 and 1981 in order to use it again as a family residence after the work was completed. The outer bailey has been partially converted into apartments. The remaining parts of the outer bailey are still used for agriculture.

literature

  • Paul Clemen (Ed.): The art monuments of the district of Heinsberg (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 8, section 3). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1906, pp. 96-99.
  • Hans-Henning Herzberg: House Hall . In: District of Heinsberg (Hrsg.): Home calendar of the district of Heinsberg . Kreisdirekt, Heinsberg 1977, ISSN  1615-7761 , pp. 74-75.
  • Hans-Henning Herzberg: City of Hückelhoven (= Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 315). 1st edition. Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1987, ISBN 3-88094-5330 , pp. 25-26.
  • Gregor Spohr: How nice to dream away here. Castles on the Lower Rhine . Pomp, Bottrop / Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89355-228-6 , pp. 54-55.
  • Johannes Heinrich Terboven: Local history, sagas and legends from the area of ​​the large community Hückelhoven-Ratheim . Gillessen, Hückelhoven 1949.

Web links

Commons : House Hall  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument description of the House of Hall , accessed on May 6, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c d e House Hall and its owners , accessed May 6, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c P. Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Heinsberg , p. 98.
  4. ↑ a b H.-H. Herzberg: City of Hückelhoven , p. 26.
  5. ↑ a b c d P. Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Heinsberg , p. 97.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '46.5 "  N , 6 ° 11' 8.7"  E