House Langen

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Haus Langen is a former manor with a watermill in Westbevern . It is located southwest of the Telgter district of Westbevern at a weir in the Bever just before its confluence with the Ems and borders the 31  hectare “ Haus Langen nature reserve ” (WAF-010) named after the house .

House Langen owes its name to the Knights of Langen (one of two Westphalian prehistoric nobility families of the same name, namely the one "with the diamonds" in the coat of arms). The oldest document attests to the feudal lordship of the Bishop of Münster in 1150. Owned by a family of the same name until 1378, it then came to Letmathe via an heir. In 1702 the property fell to Bernhard Engelbert Christian von Beverförde-Werries due to a will . His son Friedrich Christian adopted the son of his friend Friedrich Clemens von Elverfeldt zu Dahlhausen and Steinhausen and made him his heir. So the property came to the familyElverfeldt called from Beverfoerde zu Werries .

At first the watermill belonging to the ensemble was operated as an oil mill , but at the end of the 19th century only grain was ground. The mill was in operation until the 1960s.

Haus Langen, often mistakenly equated with the water mill, is now a popular destination for cyclists and walkers, as the adjacent forest area and the Emsaue between the Klatenberg mountains north of Telgte to Haskenau and the mouth of the Werder near Fuestrup are closed to car traffic. Haus Langen is among other things a stop on the EmsAuenWeg .

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  • The Renaissance outer bailey of Haus Langen - the actual knight's castle has long been destroyed

  • Double mill from Haus Langen

  • Wappenstein of Letmathe

  • The outer bailey in 1914

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  1. ↑ "Haus Langen" nature reserve (WAF-010) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on March 7, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 1.4 ″  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 43 ″  E