Ingenray House

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House Ingenray on the map of the county of Moers by Arnold von Heurdt from the 17th century

Haus Ingenray is a former knight's seat on the Lower Rhine in the area of the Geldern district of Pont . The listed building stands on the right bank of the Niers in the vicinity of the house Diesdonk to the north .

The current property was in 1461 by Elbert III. built by Eyll and expanded and supplemented by the subsequent owners. It was vacant during the Second World War and was devastated in 1944/45 before the entrepreneur Hans Stratmans from Geldern acquired it in 1962 and then restored it . Haus Ingenray is owned by the Emilie and Hans Stratmans Foundation and cannot be visited.

history

The name of the facility suggests that Haus Ingenray is a medieval foundation in the area of clearing , because "Ingenray" developed from "op gen rade", which means "in the clearing". The house is dated 1387 on a map by geometer Michael Buyx , but it is still unclear why. A first secure written mention was made in 1394 as "guet oppen Raede". At that time the complex was owned by Elbert I von Eyll, who leased it to Jakob von Holtappel and his wife Aleit. However, the property was owned by Hermann von Lievendal, whose family came from the castle of the same name in the glory of Lievendal near Grevenbroich . He sold the property in 1397 to Elbert I von Eyll, who came from Haus Eyl in Klevischen near Huisberden .

House Ingenray on the Tranchot map

After the estate was first named "ijngen Rade" in a document dated April 29, 1420, Elbert III. von Eyll, grandson of Elbert I, his "erve en goet met name den hoff op gen Rade" according to a marriage contract dated April 28, 1457, into his marriage to Margareta von Titz. Elbert III. was councilor and kitchen master of the Geldrian Duke Wilhelm I and was able to afford to rebuild today's Ingenray house in 1461. The wall anchors announce the year of construction in the form of the corresponding year. A chalk drawing from the 15th century, which has now disappeared, showed the property with a tournament area in front of it and sailing boats on the moat . 1468 Elbert III. for the Guelders duke Knights defeated and thus into the nobility raised. After his death in 1499, the plant came through his daughter Adriana to her husband, the Geldrischen Hereditary Marshal Adrian von Boedberg. However, the couple did not live in Haus Ingenray themselves, but resided on the Boedberg property, Schloss Haag . The two sons Corneli (u) s and Elbert emerged from the marriage. They divided the inheritance among themselves after the death of their parents. While the elder Corneli (u) s inherited Haag Castle and the office of Hereditary Marshal, Elbert received the Ingenray house. From his marriage to Anna von Balveren in 1534, their son Seger emerged, who inherited the property. After his death (1578 at the latest) an inventory of the Ingenray house was made, which shows how many rooms the property had in the 16th century. At that time, the property included a flax chamber, a malt chamber, a brewery and a hall with a niche that probably housed the house chapel .

Ingenray remained in the possession of the Boedberg family until the 17th century. Then it came in 1699 through the marriage of the daughter Adriana to the family of her husband Johann von Rhoe d'Obsinnich. Because he could not show eight noble great-grandparents, House Ingenray lost his vote in the state parliament of the Geldrian upper quarter , but retained the status of a manor. After Johann's death, it was inherited by his only daughter, Eva Theresia, who married Baron Wilhelm Philip von d'Olme on January 17, 1707 . Because the couple lived at Schloss de Berckt , Ingenray leased it from 1708. Their daughter Maria Johanna inherited the property and, through her marriage to Baron Werner von Francken in 1735, passed it on to his family.

Draft for the redesign of the gardens, 1908

Julius Theodorus Hubertus von Francken was the last member of this family to die on Ingenray in 1907. The property then passed to the Effertz family by inheritance, because Julius' sister Caroline Josepha Maria Hubertine had married Peter Effertz in May 1857. One of his descendants, Friedrich Effertz, commissioned the garden to be redesigned into a landscape park in 1908 .

Towards the end of World War II, the interior of the building, which was uninhabited at the time, was looted and destroyed. In the post-war years, the Ingenray house housed a poultry farm for a while. This type of use and the vacancy time were not conducive to the building fabric. When Hans Stratmans bought the property together with his father in 1962, it was dilapidated. Together with his wife Emilie, he began restoring the building. In 2008 the couple set up a foundation and brought in not only a large collection of items on Geldrian history, but also the Ingenray house, which is to become a museum, archive, research and meeting place after the couple's death.

description

Haus Ingenray is a three-winged system with a horseshoe shape, which stands in the Niers lowland between the large and small Niers. The property used to be much closer to the river, but the straightening of the river in the 20th century changed the situation. The Niers still feeds the moat that surrounds Haus Ingenray on three sides. A modern concrete bridge, flanked by neo-Gothic pillars , replaces the former wooden bridge.

The building consists of a two-storey central wing with a hipped roof , at the north and south ends of which there are single-storey side wings with a gable roof to the east . The core of the central structure dates back to the 15th century. The founding year is not only documented by the wall anchors in the form of the number 1461, but also by a slate that was found in a walled cavity in the 1960s. It has the incised inscription "In den jaer ons heren dusent iiii hondert lxi anno dominy" (In the year of our Lord 1461) and represents a kind of foundation stone certificate. The central building made of brick was probably replaced by a two-storey extension in the 18th century South extended and thus designed more symmetrically. This southern extension was damaged in a fire at an unknown time and lost its upper floor, so that the middle part of the house only shows a single-storey extension in photographs from the first half of the 20th century. The two right-angled side wings were also added to the present central building in the 18th century.

It was probably in the second half of the 18th century that the house was redesigned, with the main wing and the side wings receiving curved gables in the Baroque style . At the same time, today's double-leaf entrance door made of oak was installed, which already shows the first classicist elements. On the north side of the main building there is also a neo-Gothic stepped gable , which is flanked by two tourelles with battlements . It is an ingredient of the 19th century and dates from the same period as the pillars on the driveway.

There are two chimneys that are interesting from an art history point of view. One of them is located in the former hall of the house and has stucco decorations from the Rococo period . The second fireplace has been redesigned in a modern way, but still has two blue stone cheeks . They date from around 1650 and have reliefs that show a lion holding a shield and a man's head on one side and a woman's head on the other. It is therefore called the wedding fireplace. In 1962, the low south wing housed a coach house , a horse stable, a coachman's apartment and servants' rooms. Today a small chapel has been set up there, the windows of which were designed by the Dutch artist Harry op de Laak .

Only a few old plane trees and beeches tell of the former landscape garden that once surrounded Haus Ingenray . In today's garden there are six sandstone figures that were found during the reconstruction of the heavily damaged Church of St. Maria Magdalena in Geldern in 1945 .

A water mill used to belong to the property, but nothing has survived. Only the street called Möhlendyck reminds of them.

literature

  • Stefan Frankewitz : The Lower Rhine and its castles, palaces, mansions on the Niers (= Rheinischer Burggenatlas . Volume 2). 1st edition. Boss, Geldern 2011, ISBN 978-3-941559-13-4 , pp. 401-410.
  • Stefan Frankewitz: The monuments of the city of Geldern (= Geldrisches Archive . Volume 6). Boss, Geldern 2011, ISBN 978-3-933969-12-5 , pp. 282–285.
  • Adolf Kaul: Geldrische castles, palaces and mansions (= publications of the historical association for Geldern and the surrounding area . Volume 76). Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1976, ISBN 3-7666-8952-5 , pp. 76-79.
  • Hans Stratmans, Marinus Flokstra, Johan Belonje: Ingenray House. The checkered history of the house and its owners . Stratmans, Geldern-Pont 2003.

Web links

Commons : Haus Ingenray  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions an der Niers , 2011, p. 401.
  2. ↑ Marinus Flokstra: Ingenray house at Pont . In: J. Stratmans (et al.): Ingenray House. The checkered history of the house and its owners , 2003, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Marinus Flokstra: Ingenray house at Pont . In: J. Stratmans (et al.): Ingenray House. The checkered history of the house and its owners , 2003, p. 13.
  4. ↑ a b A. Kaul: Geldrische Burgen, Schlösser und Herrenssitz , 1976, p. 78.
  5. ↑ Hermann Joseph Lingen: Lost cultural property. The Second World War in the Geldern district. Damage and loss to historical, art, architectural and natural monuments . [Wankum 1948], p. 2.
  6. ^ S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions an der Niers , 2011, p. 403.
  7. ↑ S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions an der Niers , 2011, p. 404.
  8. ↑ Marinus Flokstra: Ingenray house at Pont . In: J. Stratmans (et al.): Ingenray House. The checkered history of the house and its owners , 2003, p. 35.
  9. ↑ Marinus Flokstra: Ingenray house at Pont . In: J. Stratmans (et al.): Ingenray House. The checkered history of the house and its owners , 2003, p. 38.
  10. ↑ Marinus Flokstra: Ingenray house at Pont . In: J. Stratmans (et al.): Ingenray House. The checkered history of the house and its owners , 2003, p. 50.
  11. ^ H. Stratmans: Notes on the building history of Haus Ingenray. Findings gained during the restoration and reports of some finds . In: J. Stratmans (et al.): Ingenray House. The checkered history of the house and its owners , 2003, p. 113.
  12. ^ Stefan Frankewitz: Castles, palaces, mansions on the banks of the Niers . 1st edition. Boss, Kleve 1997, ISBN 978-3-9805931-0-6 , p. 187.
  13. ^ H. Stratmans: Notes on the building history of Haus Ingenray. Findings gained during the restoration and reports of some finds . In: J. Stratmans (et al.): Ingenray House. The checkered history of the house and its owners , 2003, p. 115.
  14. ↑ Information according to S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions an der Niers , 2011, p. 407. Hans Stratmans dates both the tail gable and the stepped gable of the house to the beginning of the 20th century. See H. Stratmans: Notes on the building history of Haus Ingenray. Findings gained during the restoration and reports of some finds . In: J. Stratmans (et al.): Ingenray House. The checkered history of the house and its owners , 2003, p. 118.
  15. ↑ a b S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions on the Niers , 2011, p. 407.
  16. ^ S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions an der Niers , 2011, p. 408.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 12.1 "  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 14.8"  E