House cliff
| House cliff | ||
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 Kliff House, 1659, Hattingen |
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| Alternative name (s): | Klyff, Cleef, Clyff | |
| Creation time : | before 1225 | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Place: | Hattingen | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 24 '7 " N , 7 ° 10' 26" E | |
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Haus Kliff , in other spellings also Haus Klyff , Haus Cleef or Haus Clyff , was a manor near Hattingen . It watched over the Ruhr crossing (initially as a ford , later as a bridge) on the small Hellweg ( Hilinciweg ) from Cologne to Münster . The lords of Haus Kliff (Klyft) were the mayors of the Hatneggen court for many centuries .
history
During construction work in 1958, traces of a mill were discovered in the area of Haus Kliff, which Count Adolf II von der Mark had built on this spot in 1335. It was a duty for the farmers to have their grain milled there ( mill compulsion ). The miller received a twentieth of the ground grain as wages.
This mill was destroyed by ice on the Ruhr one winter. Therefore, the Count signed a contract with Johannes Weite as the owner of Haus Kliff to merge those who were obliged to grind, who now all had to go to Weiten Mühlen in Haus Kliff for grinding.
Johann Diedrich von Syberg bought Haus Kliff in the middle of the 17th century. Later the barons of Heiden inherited the property to Bruch .
From later times there are reports of how the gentlemen levied tolls for the coal transports along the streets, and whoever wanted to evade this was often forced to do so using physical force.
In 1820 the owner of the Kliff house built the Hattinger lock on the Ruhr from stone. It was 39 meters long and 5.5 meters wide.
The last owners became impoverished and the castle fell into disrepair. In 1877 Haus Kliff was deleted from the row of knight seats. The property belonging to it went bankrupt at the end of the 19th century and was auctioned off.
The castle grounds went to the Birschel family in 1880, who built an industrial mill with a castle-style facade there. In the meantime, the Birschel mill has been renovated and converted into a senior citizens' home.
Only a few remains of the wall have survived from the old castle to this day; a gable beam of the house with inscriptions is in the Hattinger Heimatmuseum. When excavation work in August 2006, remains of walls were exposed, showing that there is also a so-called next to the actual well-known castle building Vorburg have given must, which has probably already lost the end of the Middle Ages in importance.
There were and still are numerous legends in the Hattingen area about the medieval manor. One says that the decline of the house is due to the arrogance of a mistress at Kliff; another reports of ghostly processes in the old mill.