House Heck (Essen-Vogelheim)

House Heck (Essen-Vogelheim)
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Essen - Vogelheim
Geographical location	51 ° 29 '30.1 "  N , 6 ° 57' 45.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '30.1 "  N , 6 ° 57' 45.9"  E

Haus Heck is a lost, medieval moated castle in what is now Essen 's Vogelheim district . It was on Bottroper Strasse. The name of the castle is derived from heck for thorn bushes or undergrowth.

history

Haus Heck lay on the Berne in its original course. It was only later (1907) that the Berne was diverted into the bed of the Borbeck Mühlenbach stream , so that it flowed past the neighboring Horl House , which was also submerged . Haus Heck was first mentioned in a document around 1300. The Honigmann’s map from 1804/1806 shows a complex with three buildings and a moat. The interim owner was Freiherr von Schell ( Vittinghoff gt. Schell ), owner of the Erb-Oberstrickeramt and breeder of wild horses. In 1886 the entire complex fell victim to a fire. Today nothing is left of Haus Heck above ground. There are several production halls for an aluminum smelter on the site.

The site is not open to the public.

literature

• Elke Schneider: House Heck - Vogelheim. In: Detlef Hopp , Bianca Khil, Elke Schneider (eds.): Burgenland Essen. Castles, palaces and permanent houses in Essen . Klartext Verlag , Essen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8375-1739-2 , pp. 114–115.

Web links

• Section of the historical map based on Honigmann and Vogelsang (1803/6) (JPEG) at www.ruhrzeiten.de, visited on August 12, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Theodor Imme: The place names of the Essen district and the adjacent areas . Essen 1905, page 39.
2. ^ Wilhelm Wirtz: The brands in the donors Essen and Rellinghausen. A constitutional and economic historical investigation . In: Contributions to the history of the city and monastery of Essen, volumes 43, Essen 1926, page 77.