House Knipp
| House Knipp | ||
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | No longer received | |
| Place: | Beeckerwerth | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 28 '22.2 " N , 6 ° 42' 5.4" E | |
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Haus Knipp was a medieval house and castle that was initially located on a sandbank near the submerged village of Halen . After several severe floods and a relocation of the Rhine in the 16th century, only a ruin on the right bank of the Rhine remained of the original house. In 1620 it was rebuilt at Haus-Knipp-Straße 2, named after the house, in the Duisburg district of Beeckerwerth , district of Meiderich / Beeck , but demolished again in 1939 in the course of raising the Rhine dike.
history
House Knipp was built in the 13th century by the Stecke family, who were wealthy in Halen on the left bank of the Rhine, which was later completely submerged by the Rhine. It was first mentioned in documents in 1292. In 1405 Johann Stecke tried to cede the house to Duke Rainald von Jülich and Geldern , but Count Adolf von Kleve successfully insisted on his old feudal rights. In 1428 Adolf, who had meanwhile risen to become Duke, made Knipp's house a sovereign property. From this point on, officials sat as owners and administrators on the house. Including Johann II. Pise (documented 1448–1482), Burgrave von Knipp, judge von Beeck and Sterkrade , as well as members of the von Diepenbruch family in the 15th and again from around 1620 for around 100 years and from 1460 to 1561 the noble family von Hanx leather ; At the end of the 15th century Elbert von Hanxleden, who also sat at Haus Temminghoven . When the lands belonging to the house were listed on October 12, 1563, they included a cabbage and orchard as well as a vineyard.
In 1571 the house was completely destroyed by a flood of the Rhine. It was not until 1613 that the Klevian government symbolically took possession of the remains of the house again by cutting out a number of living sticks . In 1620, Knipp was then rebuilt several hundred meters inland by the landlord tenant Eberhard von Kappel. The heirs of Eberhard von Kappen, who died childless on September 23, 1658, were his brothers, a sister and several nephews.
In 1727 576 Prussian acres belonged to the house. A Klevian land map from around 1730 shows a large square system at a crossroads. Several large buildings lined the streets.
Approx. In 1797 the castle chapel was partially demolished and repaired. Under French rule Joachim Murat , brother-in-law of Napoleon and Grand Duke von Berg , gave the Knipp house to his niece Antoinette von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen on June 11, 1808 in a certificate issued in Madrid . After other owners, the farmer Johann Wilhelm Bernsau bought the estate on February 11, 1841. Another four years later it came to Prosper Ludwig von Arenberg . In 1914 Haus Knipp, including 176.48 hectares of land and together with other lands in Beeckerwerth, was acquired by the German Emperors ' union , d. H. the industrialist August Thyssen . He had a workers' settlement built on the surrounding land. The house itself fell victim to an elevation of the Rhine dike in September 1939.
A Haus Knipp railway bridge was built in 1912, blown up in 1945 during World War II and rebuilt in 1946. It crosses the Rhine 2 kilometers north of the original Knipp site.
Web links
- Article by Friedhelm Maaßen about Knipp Castle on the website of the Freundeskreis Lebendige Grafschaft
- Historical picture of Haus Knipp from the Duisburg city archive
- Drawing by Haus Knipp in 1583 (JPEG, photo Duisburg city archive)
- House Knipp on map around 1730 (JPEG, photo Duisburg city archive)
- GenWiki website for Haus Knipp
- Burgenland Duisburg at RuhrZeiten.de (see Google Earth presentation)
literature
- Günter von Roden: History of the city of Duisburg - The districts from the beginning / The entire city since 1905 . Duisburg 1974, pages 19-20 (see also Figure 6 with a photo of Haus Knipp around 1925).