House Kaldenhausen
Haus Kaldenhausen (also called " Rittergut Preut") is a mansion in the Duisburg district of Rumeln-Kaldenhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany.
It is privately owned and consists of the detached manor house and the farm buildings on the south side (no longer in existence since 2004) ( coach house and stables) and the surrounding ditch system . The traditional form of the Lower Rhine nobility seat emerged from a two-part moated castle .
history
The castle was first mentioned in the history of sources in 1454 in connection with the Preut family, a Cologne dynasty that was documented as the owner of the complex until the middle of the 17th century.
No clear statements can be made today about the medieval condition of the castle complex, as the extent of the original structure is only visible in some areas of the cellar. The current investigations in the basement, however, indicate an original square corner tower, which was followed by an elongated angular structure.
With the extinction of the Preut line, the castle complex became a fiefdom of the von Wardt family from 1659 to 1703, albeit only temporarily . In 1703, the sources recorded the transfer of ownership from Kaldenhausen House to the Nyvenheim family, who owned the property until 1870.
After the French under Napoléon Bonaparte occupied the entire left bank of the Rhine in 1794 and were officially awarded by Prussia in the following years , Haus Kaldenhausen became the first mayor's office ( Mairie ) of Friemersheim built by the French , whose official was Baron Karl Christian Friedrich von Nyvenheim. At that time, the estate served as both a residence and a mayor's seat. In 1803, Mairie Friemersheim belonged to the Arrondissement of Krefeld and the Canton of Urdingen (today Uerdingen ).
In the original cadastre from 1830 the mansion is shown as a horseshoe-shaped complex. The typical baroque standard floor plan is probably the result of a building project related to the change of ownership in 1703. Further construction measures, which gave the house its present appearance, took place in the period 1836 and 1838. The biggest change was the insertion of a rectangular part of the building into the horseshoe-shaped structure, so that the mansion got an almost square floor plan. When the building was expanded to include the entrance hall, the avenue accessible from Düsseldorfer Strasse was laid out.
On December 24th, 1837, the manor quality of the manor and its inclusion in the Rhenish manor register was approved by the Prussian king . Since December 26, 1843, the estate has been officially known as "Haus Kaldenhausen".
House Kaldenhausen is privately owned and has been extensively restored since January 1st, 2005.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '26.9 " N , 6 ° 39' 12.9" E