Leythe house
| Leythe house | ||
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 Leythe house around 1723 |
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Gelsenkirchen alder | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 34 '7.6 " N , 7 ° 5' 40.7" E | |
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Haus Leythe is a lost moated castle on Leither Mühlenbach in Middelicher Strasse 72 in Gelsenkirchen-Erle .
history
The medieval Leythe Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1371. On it sat as a feudal man of the Archbishop of Cologne Winmar de Leyten (also: Wenemar van der Letene ), judge of Recklinghausen , and with his knights shielded Vest Recklinghausen from the Electorate of Cologne against the raids of the Märkische troops on Grimberg Castle .
By marrying his heir Jutta von Leythen, House Leythen fell to Dietrich von Backum zu Haus Backum in 1377 . Afterwards, Leythe remained in the hands of the Backum family for around 150 years. Around 1530, hereditary daughter Anna von Backum brought the house into her marriage with Rötger von Ovelacker to the Lords of Ovelacker , in whose hands Leythe remained for almost another 200 years. In 1707 the then owner of Haus Leythe, Bernd Dietrich von Ovelacker, drew up his will and gave all his possessions to Bertram Carl Graf von Nesselrode-Reichenstein at Schloss Herten , son of the vestic governor Franz von Nesselrode-Reichenstein . However, the succession did not occur until 1723.
The manor house shown in pictures from that time, which was built in the last quarter of the 17th century, had the typical Renaissance features of a Munsterland moated castle. The barn was built around 1600. It has a frame framework that is very rare in this region. a. was restored very elaborately with state funds in 1992.
From around 1800 the von Nesselrode-Reichenstein family no longer resided in Haus Leythe, but in Herten. Leythe was given as a lease. This resulted in the decline, the end point of which was complete demolition around 1860. A two-story brick manor house was built on the foundation walls.
The Graf Bismarck colliery later acquired large parts of the property and began mining coal there in 1894 with shaft 3 in the immediate vicinity of the estate. In 1955 a fire destroyed the old pigsty, which was still in existence until then, and was finally completely demolished in the early 1990s. In 2002 the Golf Club Haus Leythe built a new club house. When building the new club house, the condition of the city of Gelsenkirchen had to be met that the buildings were erected in the same places and in the same dimensions. The overall impression of the complete three-person ensemble of house, barn and stable was to be retained in the old dimensions.
Haus Leythe has been on the list of architectural monuments in Gelsenkirchen since October 28, 1983 . It has been registered as a ground monument since October 17, 1984.
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literature
- Matthias Koopmann: A manor that is doomed? Leythe House , in: Contributions to City History, Vol. X, 1980, pp. 219–228.