House Latum
| House Lat (h) around | ||
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 Left the house, right in the foreground the north wing of the barn |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1186. Completely destroyed in 1642. Rebuilt in 1686 |
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| Castle type : | Formerly Motte with a moat (moated castle), after the new building a 4-wing courtyard | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Lank-Latum | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 18 '46.2 " N , 6 ° 40' 12.3" E | |
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The Latum house (formerly also Lathum ) is a mansion in the Latum district, which is now part of Meerbusch . The house is located at the north-western exit of the village, on the road towards Ossum-Bösinghoven and Linn .
history
Origins as a castle
Originally the house, which is already mentioned in a document from 1186, was probably a tower hill castle (Motte) , which was secured by a surrounding ditch ( water castle ), which was connected to the Buersbach flowing past (named after the gentlemen von Buer mentioned below ) .
The castle probably also had a castle chapel , as a house chaplain is mentioned in old sources .
Extensive estates belonged to the house of Latum; in the 17th century this was 205 acres of land, 70 acres of woodland and 6 forests near Linn.
From the Klevian to the Electorate of Cologne fiefdom (14th century)
Latum belonged in the Middle Ages parish Lank in the Honnschaft Lank in the country Linn . The land of Linn again belonged to the County of Kleve and was administered by the drosten of the Counts of Linn Castle . Also the house Latum was owned by the Count of Cleves and was by them as fief given to his followers from the lower nobility.
At the end of the 13th century, the land of Linn was split off from Kleve with the county of Hülchrath, which was created through the division of inheritance . When the counts of Hülchrath got into financial difficulties, the county of Hülchrath was in 1314 by his count Dietrich Luf III. sold to the Cologne Archdiocese ; Linn, however, was removed from the county of Hülchrath and acquired separately by Count Dietrich von Kleve . Linn with Lank and Latum temporarily became Klevian again. In 1366 the Latum house belonged to Heinrich Romblian von Vossem, bailiff of Linn, who was married to Agnes von Ütgenbach and bequeathed the house to his children. At this time there was a series of - sometimes armed - disputes between Kurköln and Kleve / Geldern for supremacy over the Land of Linn. These ended in 1388/92 with a trade between Count Adolf I and Cologne Archbishop Friedrich III. from Saar Werden . In return, Adolf renounced the land of Linn in exchange for other areas and for a cash payment. So Linn went with Lank and Latum to Kurköln and the Latum family became a fiefdom of the Electorate of Cologne. Almost at the same time, also in 1392, the children of Heinrich Romblian von Vossem renounced their inheritance, Haus Latum, in favor of their stepfather Emmerich von Druten, Agnes' third husband. His son of the same name sold the house in 1434 to Friedrich von Husen to house Coull near Straelen .
House owners von Husen (15th / 16th century) and von Bawir (from 1602)
Until the 16th century, the house was under the teachings of the von Husen (Huyssen) family . In a marriage contract of 1484 it is mentioned that the bride Beatrix Stael von Holstein received the Latum house from her husband Vincenz von Huyssen , son of Friedrich von Husen, as Wittum , but this marriage was childless and the Latum house passed to Vincent's younger brother Arnd von Husen and his wife Elisabeth Prick. Latum bequeathed these to their eldest son Friedrich von Husen and his wife Anna von Hammerstein, who declared their younger son Franz von Husen, married to Friederike von Bawir, the sole heir.
In the Truchsessian War (1583/84) the castle was besieged and damaged, but rebuilt.
At the beginning of the 17th century the house came to the noble family of the Lords of Bawir (spelling also: Baur, Bawyr, Bavier ): After the line from Husen to Latum with the childless Franz von Husen in the male line had expired, the inheritance fell in 1602 Franz von Bawir , whose father Wilhelm (the Elder) von Bawir zu Caspersbroich and Kastein married Elisabeth von Husen , a sister of Franz von Husen , in 1561 . As a result, a branch from Bawir to Latum developed within the Bawir family .
After the death of Franz von Bawir zu Lathum in 1611, the Latum house fell to his second son Bertram and, after his childless death in 1638, again to his younger brother Wilhelm , the third son of Franz von Bawir .
Destruction in the Thirty Years War (1642)
Wilhelm von Bawir only enjoyed Haus Latum for a short time, because four years later, in 1642, in the final phase of the Thirty Years' War (the so-called " Hessian Wars "), the castle was completely robbed and burned down. This came about after the Imperial and Electoral Cologne General Feldzeugmeister Guillaume de Lamboy led an army from the Maas against a Hessian-Weimar army under the French Count Jean Baptiste Budes de Guébriant . De Lamboy's troops temporarily quartered themselves in "des Bawyr's house", i. H. House Latum, a, but was surprised by his opponent at dawn on January 17, 1642 and defeated in the battle on the Kempen Heide . Then the Hessian troops raided many places in the region, including Latum and Lank.
Wilhelm , who was completely destitute due to the destruction of his house , transferred the burned down Latum house to his younger brother Heinrich, called "Fendrich" , the fourth son of Franz von Bawir . Since the latter renounced, Elector Maximilian Heinrich enfeoffed his son Laurenz Betram von Bawir in 1664 . Laurenz Betram entrusted his procurator Philipp Mandt with the administration of the ruin and the associated lands.
Reconstruction (1686) and the owners of Backum and Schweppenburg
Since Laurenz Betram von Bawir also did not have the necessary means to rebuild the house, he gave the ruins to the husband of his aunt Angela ("Engeline") , the electoral captain Johann Wilhelm von Backum , landlord of Haus Hamm near Strümp . In the same year, von Backum finally had the house rebuilt in a greatly modified form. The nobility line from Backum to Latum arose .
Until his death in 1746, Johannes Christoph Freiherr von Backum was the host of the Latum family. In the second half of the 18th century, when his daughter and heir Isabella von Backum zu Latum married Baron Rudolf Adolf von Geyer zu Schweppenburg, the house came under the rule of von Geyr zu Schweppenburg . The line from Schweppenburg and Latum was created , and from 1830 it also owned the nearby Pesch Castle .
After the secularization as a result of the Napoleonic occupation of the Left Lower Rhine and the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the Latum house became a secular farm in the 19th century.
Current condition
In its current form, the Latum house is a 4-wing open brick courtyard complex, consisting of a 2-story residential building, built in four axes with a hipped roof and a 2-story brick tower extension with neo-Gothic windows, as well as a 3-wing farm building.
The house probably goes back to the new building from the 17th century, the barns are from the 19th century.
The moat around the moated castle, which can still be seen clearly in the map from 1808 (see picture) , was filled in on the west side and built over. To the east of the house there is still a large hollow as a remnant of the moat, but it only carries water after heavy rainfall.
The front (west side) of the residential building
The back (east side) of the house with the tower extension
Left the house, right in the foreground the north wing of the barn
The house
literature
- Kurt Niederau : The gentlemen v. Bawir on Latum. In: Meerbuscher Geschichtshefte - contributions to the history and folklore of the city of Meerbusch and its formerly independent communities. Issue 14, 1997, ISSN 0930-3391 , pp. 4-30.
- Archive Haus Latum (City of Meerbusch) 1567–1848 in the Krefeld City Archive, Vielhauer Collection, Finding aid: Tradition on Maria Isabella von Backum († 1811), wife of Rudolf Adolf Constanz Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg
- Krefeld district (ed.): Kunstdenkmäler III , 4/1896, page 132f.
- House Latum . In: Die Heimat , Krefeld, 9/1930.
- Rembert: On the history of the Latum house and the compulsory meal of the Geismühle . In: Die Heimat , Krefeld, 22, 1951, 124ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d German Foundation for Monument Protection - Local Board of Trustees Meerbusch Monument Gallery Meerbusch: House Latum , online at denkmalgalerie.meerbuscher-kulturkreis.de
- ↑ Lank-Latum on www.tobien.de
- ↑ a b c Castles and palaces in the Rhein-Kreis-Neuss on www.burgeninventar.de (archive version from March 22, 2010) ( Memento from March 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) → again indicates the source: Norbert Schöndeling: City of Meerbusch , in: Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 389, Cologne 1993
- ↑ a b c d Application of the CDU parliamentary group for the signage of monuments and memorials in Meerbusch , application of April 19, 2004 to the cultural committee of the city of Meerbusch, online at www.meerbusch.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Peter Dohms (Ed.): Meerbusch. The history of the city and the old communities . Meerbusch 1991, p. 524
- ↑ Figures from the Linner Round Table at www.linnerritterrunde.de ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dieter Kastner: The Counts of Kleve and the emergence of their territory from the 11th to the 14th century , catalog of the exhibition “Land in the Center of Powers. The Duchies of Jülich - Kleve - Berg ”of the Municipal Museum Haus Koekkoek Kleve, Kleve 1984, p. 52 ff .. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Society for Rhenish History: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the old Archdiocese of Cologne , Publisher: Cologne: J. & W. Boisserée, 1896-1916, online at www.archive.org
- ↑ Niederau (see literature)
- ^ Flag, Anton: History of the Cologne, Jülich and Bergisch families in family tables, coats of arms, seals and documents. 2 volumes, 1848 and 1853 (page 20)
- ^ Oligschläger, Franz Wilhelm: Small contributions to the history of the nobility of the Lower Rhine. In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein. Volume 12 (year 1876), Bonn 1877, page 101 ( PDF 6.3 MB , accessed on July 27, 2009).
- ↑ a b Wilhelm Gielen: Strümp and his shooters. In: 1865-1965. Festival book for the 100th anniversary of the Heimat- und Schützenverein Strümp, Walter Rau Verlag, Düsseldorf (PDF; 1.5 MB)
- ↑ Stadtarchiv Krefeld, holdings 40/16, Sammlg. Much lover
