House Lützinghausen

House Lützinghausen, view from the south

The house Lützinghausen is a mansion in the district of the same name in the municipality of Gummersbach in the Oberbergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . The building was erected from 1733 by Johann Theodor Caspar von Omphal and his wife Anna Klara von Neuhoff next to an older predecessor. It is a listed building as a monument .

description

Ground floor plan

The two-story, massive quarry stone building has seven window axes on its long sides and four window axes on the narrow sides and is covered by a two-story mansard roof. In addition to the structured roof (5 to 2 and 3 to 1 window axes), the strong fluted corner pilaster strips are particularly noticeable. The entrance on the western long side is located in a single-axis central risalit crowned with a pointed gable . The stone alliance coat of arms of the Omphal and Neuhoff families can be found above the simple front door . This motif is repeated on the roof in two weather vanes with the same coat of arms and the year 1733. The main and auxiliary buildings are unplastered.

history

The place "Lucinchusen", mentioned in a document as the place of jurisdiction as early as 1287, has been the seat of a free manor and noble family since then .

In the 16th century, the von Mollenbeck ( Müllenbach ) family owned this estate alongside the one at Steinenbrück . Caspar Adolf Moellenbeck bequeathed both goods to his daughter Anna, and through Anna's marriage to Caspar von Omphal they fell to this Rhenish family of lawyers, who had moved from Bergisches to the Gummersbach area in 1587 . She enlarged the property in Lützinghausen in the 16./17. Century through land acquisitions.

In 1733, Johann Theodor Caspar von Omphal and his wife began building a representative new building right next to the medieval Vogt eihaus. He had married Anna Klara Johanetta von Neuhoff, called Ley, on August 8, 1725. Apparently, however, the economic decline of the Omphals began around the same time. The new building project dragged on for many years. In 1753 the new house was not yet completed, and in 1763 the old building, which was falling into disrepair, still exists.

The von Omphal / von Neuhoff couple could not have lived in Lützinghausen for a long time, because the Merten family from Windhagen were already sold in 1763 . However, the new owner Johann Heinrich Merten died 13 years later, leaving behind his wife Anna Gertrud with eight underage children. The widow could not hold the property and sold it to Johann Peter König, a Gummersbach merchant who had already acquired the Steinenbrücker part of the Omphal property.

It was probably only after 1800 that Ms. Merten bought the property back for her now adult son Peter Joseph, a land surveyor by profession. Descendants of the same family still own and live in the manor house (which has been divided into two for some time now). It can therefore only be viewed from the outside.

literature

• Dietrich Rentsch: Oberbergischer Kreis. Volume 1: Bergneustadt-Marienberghausen (= The monuments of the Rhineland . Volume 10). 1st edition. Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1967.
• Alfred Lauer: Bergische castles and palaces . RGA-Buchverlag, Remscheid 1998, ISBN 3-923495-37-4 , p. 50.
• Edmund Renard: The art monuments of the districts of Gummersbach, Waldbroel and Wipperfürth (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 5, Section 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1900, p. 35 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Haus Lützinghausen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} E. Renard: The art monuments of the districts Gummersbach, Waldbroel and Wipperfürth , p. 35.

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 41.2 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 57.6 ″  E