House Heithoff

House Heithoff with a view of the main entrance around 1922.

Haus Heithoff (also called Haus Heidhoff ) was a small moated castle in the Emschertal . It was located in what is now the Dortmund district of Schüren and was a former manor . The name derives from the location of the house overgrown with heather, the Schürener Heide. House Heithoff served to fortify the border between Dortmund and the Grafschaft Mark .

history

In 1302 the moated castle was first mentioned under the name Haus zu Schüren , later Haus Heithoff. At that time, the property was owned by the knight Heinrich von Apelderbecke. The owners of the moated castle changed constantly. So the next owner was Mr. von Altena and until 1430 the knight family Voss, who also lived in the neighboring moated castle Haus Rodenberg in Aplerbeck . From 1430 to 1643 the knight family Werminkhusen owned the moated castle and from 1643 to 1725 the von Ascheberg family . Until 1784 Karl von Kotze and his wife, born von Ascheberg, were the next residents. They then sold it to von Plettenberg , who owned it until 1805. Next, the farmer Johann Heinrich Petersmann bought the property. The Wasserburg was inherited by Paul Linnigmann. After his death, his widow Gertrud Linnigmann married the farmer Wilhelm Pälcken for the second time. The Pälcken family owned the property until 1958. Then the property was sold to the city of Dortmund.

Construction

The Heithoff's two-wheeled watermill was demolished in 1972.

The moated castle was a massive structure made of thick sandstone walls. The stones came from the nearby Schüren quarry . Only a rectangular building, the so-called Vorburg, was left of the former moated castle . The moated castle Heithoff has been rebuilt and changed again and again over the centuries. Originally there was even a chapel dedicated to St. Anthony, which later fell into disrepair. In the Hörder Burg there are four broken stones that can be put together to form a rosette and come from the former chapel. In the 17th century the moated castle was built in its last form, a building with massive sandstone walls and surrounded moats , which was fed by the Emscher. The building could only be reached by a flight of stairs and a drawbridge. The moated castle also had several farm buildings made of fired bricks and a water mill powered by the Emscher. Since Haus Heithoff owned only about 7 hectares of arable land around 1800 and some dependent kötter, the income from the grain and oil mill operated by the water mill was important for the lords of Haus Heithoff. In 1958 the city of Dortmund became the owner of Haus Heithoff. At this point in time the manor house as well as a barn and the water mill stood. During an inspection, it was found that the cellar was not usable because water from the Emscher was about 15 cm high in the cellar. The walls on the first floor were also very damp. Four families lived in the manor house. Two each on the ground floor and two on the upper floor. The only access was through the moat of the house. In 1972 the water mill and the farm buildings were demolished and in 1973 the water castle as well. During the demolition work, the remains of rosettes, pillars and cornices were recovered and taken to the Hörder Phönix-Gymnasium. Today the second Schürener sports field is located on the site of the former moated castle.

literature

• Siegfried Niehaus: A short history of the Aplerbeck Stadtsparkasse Dortmund office in 1980
• Hans Georg Kirchhoff and Siegfried Liesenberg (eds.): 1100 years of Aplerbeck: Festschrift on behalf of the Association for Home Care Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-735-5

Individual evidence

1. ^ Siegfried Niehaus: Brief history of the Aplerbeck office, 1977, p. 28.
2. ↑ Henriette Brink-Kloke in Hans Georg Kirchhoff and Siegfried Liesenberg (eds.): 1100 years of Aplerbeck: Festschrift in the order of the Verein für Heimatpflege Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-735-5

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 39.3 "  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 12.8"  E