House Heidhorn

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Coat of arms of "Schulte Heidhorn" from 1716

Haus Heidhorn is a former estate on the southern city limits of the independent city of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia , between the forest areas Davert and Hohe Ward .

Estate

Gatehouse of Haus Heidhorn, built in 1904

The site of house Heidhorn presents itself as about three hectares large park is defined by a Arboretum is marked in the north and meadows with a pond in the south. From the original manor in the north, some of the late medieval moats , a barn, a coach house , a Spieker , the half-timbered structure of which dates from 1667, and two clearly visible baroque gate pillars on the eastern side of the federal road 54 are still preserved. They mark the entrance to what is now the Hohe Ward wooded area. Another couple is directly opposite on the west side of the main road. It was completely shrouded in ivy for many years and was only recently exposed. Another of these sandstone pillars, which today seem incoherent, is also located on the main road a few meters southeast of the gatehouse. The barn and coach house date from the second half of the 19th century. The gatehouse was only built in 1904 above the graves directly on the main road, which was partially filled in for this purpose. It is the "youngest" of the historical buildings in the ensemble. Its natural stones are said to come at least partly from the city fortifications of Münster. In the south of the complex, a chapel, the nurses' house with a cloister, a small swimming pool and the retirement home were newly built in the 1960s and 1970s. The donor couple - whose tombstone is in the neighboring arboretum - as well as the tutor and later Eberswalde forest zoologist Bernard Altum are buried in the crypt of the chapel, which was built as an oval church.

history

The first documented references to the Heidhorn house come from the year 1235, when the knight Themo de Berle sold a piece of forest belonging to the estate to the St. Aegidii monastery . A short time later, Haus Heidhorn finally became the property of this monastery. Up to the year 1795 there is at least evidence of landlord taxes from Sankt Aegidii. In the following years the residents of Haus Heidhorn apparently suffered repeatedly from marauding mercenaries from Spanish, Dutch and Prussian troops. In 1812 the estate became French after the occupation by Napoleonic troops.

In 1844 the Münster merchant Josef Hötte bought the Heidhorn estate. He later passed it on to his nephew Josef Hötte , son of the wealthy fur merchant Franz Hötte. Josef Hötte jun. Heidhorn ran Haus Heidhorn relatively unselfishly, rather he set up a rest and retirement home for religious sisters of the Sisters of Divine Providence . In addition, he gradually enlarged the property in the following decades not only in Hiltrup , but also in the parishes of Rinkerode and Amelsbüren . As early as 1898, 294 hectares of forest, heather and farmland belonged to Haus Heidhorn. After Josef Hötte jun. In 1919 he died without an heir, the Heidhorn Foundation took over the management of the property, which continued to operate as a “rest home for the cooperative of the Sisters of Divine Providence”.

Current usage

House Heidhorn, old people's home - new building from 2010
Chapel of Haus Heidhorn

In the meantime, a home for the elderly has been accommodated at Haus Heidhorn, which has mainly housed non-religious since the 1970s. The administration is held by the Catholic Brotherhood of the Alexians . In 2010, a new building was moved to the east of the nurses' house on Bundesstrasse, which initially serves as a replacement for the existing retirement home from the 1960s.

The NABU nature conservation station Münsterland has been based in the former sister house of Haus Heidhorn since spring 2008 . In the course of their development work, the sisters' former kitchen garden was reactivated for nature and environmental education work . This garden is now also used for garden therapy work with people with dementia, but Hiltrup pupils from open all-day schools also work here.

literature

  • Elisabeth Egger: House Heidhorn - Festschrift, ed. v. Heidhorn Foundation based on Elisabeth Egger: Hiltrup - citizens, farmers, colorful parrots. Past and present . Warendorf 1998.
  • Literature circle 13 Kardinal-von-Galen-Gymnasium Münster-Hiltrup (Ed.): I think of Hiltrup. Between peasantry, industrial community and “dormitory town”. Impressions and information about a district of Münster . 1st edition, 1986.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 39.7 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 0.5 ″  E