House Lorsbeck

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Tower of the House of Lorsbeck

The Lorsbeck house was a manor suitable for the Landtag on the southern edge of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Jülich in the Düren district . Today only a tower and parts of the moat are left of the water-protected system . The remains have been under monument protection since June 17, 1993 .

history

House Lorsbeck on the Tranchot card

Already in the 14th century there was a fortified complex at this point , which was mentioned in a document together with a village as Loirspeck . At that time, the Lorsbeck family belonged to a family of the same name. By 1473 at the latest, the complex had been owned by the von Harff family , who then sat on the house for around 200 years. Johann von Harff left it to his nephew of the same name in 1524. His descendant Wilhelm was inherited by his son Johann von Harff in 1579. The house - like the village - was probably destroyed or at least badly damaged in the Third War of the Geldr Succession in 1542, but was then rebuilt. A Wilhelm Karl von Harff is recorded as the owner for 1628 and 1636.

After the Thirty Years' War , von Harff sold the house to Johann and Wilhelm von Blittersdorf zu Oberembt , from whom Johann received the complex in 1669 as a Jülich fief . Lorsbeck passed through his daughter in 1707 to Johann's son-in-law Hermann Friedrich von Rossum. At his death, the heirs were still minors and were under the tutelage of their uncle Martin Sigmund von Rossum. He sold the Lorsbeck house to Adolf Winand von Wassenberg , who left it to his son Theodor Joseph. The new owner and his wife Maria Anna von Locquenghien zu Laach had the old building abandoned and replaced in 1775 by a new building in the Baroque style . After the owner's death, the inventory of the house was auctioned in 1793 and the facility was sold to commoners in 1797. Mr. Ernst became the new owner. In 1817 the house was auctioned off to Wilhelm Schneiders, post office owner in Jülich.

Haus Lorsbeck on the Prussian premiere from 1836–1850

In 1887 Messrs. Bodifié and Perkuhn sold the facility, which in the 1850s was no longer a knight's seat suitable for the state assembly, to the Bruges WH Schopen. During the Second World War , most of the mansion was destroyed in 1944/1945. Only the gate tower of the building remained. After the end of the war, it was rebuilt in 1956 using the existing outer walls, but without any architectural decoration. At the beginning of the 1980s, the nearby Jülich sugar factory acquired Haus Lorsbeck as a possible expansion area for its polders , but leased the facility until the end of the 1980s. The tenant lived in the manor house and used the associated outer bailey for agricultural purposes.

After the lease came to an end, the Lorsbeck house stood empty for a long time, and the stables and coach house only served as machine shelters. The buildings soaked in water from the mill pond gradually fell into disrepair and were finally demolished in February 2011, except for the listed tower, because further use was no longer possible. The remaining parts of the moat and the tower were secured in coordination with the monument authority, and doors and window openings were walled up.

description

House Lorsbeck was a two-part complex consisting of a bailey and the manor house to the west of it. The entire complex was originally surrounded by a moat fed by the Krauthausen-Jülich mill pond, with an intermediate moat also separating the main house and farm buildings. The moat was leveled in the 1990s and the intermediate moat silted up.

The stately, three-winged brick bailey had a U-shaped floor plan and was open to the west towards the manor house. Its buildings were renovated at the end of the 19th century and survived the Second World War largely unscathed. They were heavily rebuilt after the end of the war. A simple brick bridge led from the outer bailey over the moat to the manor island.

The main house was originally a simple brick building from the 18th century, which was built on the foundations of an older predecessor. Regular rows of windows alternated with brick pilasters . A gate tower was in front of its symmetrically designed east facade. During the reconstruction after the Second World War, the building was restored in a simplified form. The high hipped roof was replaced by a lower hipped roof and the house was provided with much smaller windows.

After the demolition in 2011, only the square tower with three storeys remains of the baroque structure. He has a slate Welsche hood with a lantern and a weather vane . Above the walled-in arched entrance, the stone alliance coat of arms of the von Wassenberg and von Locquenghien families reminds of the building owners of the house. On the north side of the former manor island there are still foundation walls and vaulted cellars of the medieval fortifications.

literature

  • Wilhelm Consten: Manor Lorsbeck. In: Rur flowers. Vol. 14, No. 29, 1934, pp. 225-227.
  • Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 97-98 .
  • Friedrich Everhard von Mering : History of the castles, manors, abbeys and monasteries in the Rhineland and the provinces of Jülich, Cleve, Berg and Westphalen. Volume 10. Heberle, Cologne 1855, pp. 39-41 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Franck-Oberaspach, Edmund Renard : The art monuments of the Jülich district (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 8, Section 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 209 ( digitized version ).
  • Theodor Wildeman : Rhenish moated castles and water-protected palace buildings. Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz, Bonn 1954, p. 111.
  • Octavia Zanger: Monuments in the city of Jülich. Stadt Jülich, Jülich 1989, ISBN 3-921869-02-1 , pp. 40–41.

Web links

Commons : Haus Lorsbeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Description of the house by the monument authority , accessed on April 19, 2017.
  2. ^ A b F. E. von Mering: History of the castles, manors, abbeys and monasteries in the Rhineland and the provinces of Jülich, Cleve, Berg and Westphalen. Volume 10, 1855, p. 39.
  3. ↑ a b Entry by Hans-Jürgen Greggersen on Lorsbeck House in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  4. ^ FE von Mering: History of the castles, manors, abbeys and monasteries in the Rhineland and the provinces of Jülich, Cleve, Berg and Westphalen. Volume 10, 1855, pp. 39-40.
  5. ^ A b F. E. von Mering: History of the castles, manors, abbeys and monasteries in the Rhineland and the provinces of Jülich, Cleve, Berg and Westphalen. Volume 10, 1855, p. 40.
  6. ↑ a b c K. Franck-Oberaspach, E. Renard: The art monuments of the Jülich district. 1902, p. 209.
  7. ↑ Information according to the description of the house from the monument authority , accessed on April 19, 2017. According to other information, the new building took place around 1750. Cf. for example Karl Emerich Krämer: From castle to castle between Cologne and Aachen. 2nd Edition. Mercator, Duisburg 1984, ISBN 3-87463-117-6 , p. 36.
  8. ^ Karl Emerich Krämer : From castle to castle between Cologne and Aachen. 2nd Edition. Mercator, Duisburg 1984, ISBN 3-87463-117-6 , p. 36.
  9. ^ FE von Mering: History of the castles, manors, abbeys and monasteries in the Rhineland and the provinces of Jülich, Cleve, Berg and Westphalen. Volume 10, 1855, p. 41.
  10. ^ House Lorsbeck. In: District administration Jülich (Ed.): Home calendar of the district Jülich 1972. Fischer, Jülich 1971, p. 176.
  11. ↑ a b House Lorsbeck in the castle archive of the Rhenish Bay , accessed on April 19, 2017.
  12. ↑ a b Gut Lorsbeck demolished. In: Aachener Zeitung , local section Jülich. Edition of February 16, 2010 ( online ).
  13. ↑ Dorothée Schenk: Sleeping Beauty between polders. In: Das Jülicht , accessed on April 19, 2017.
  14. ↑ O. Zanger: Monuments in the city of Jülich. 1989, pp. 40-41.
  15. ↑ a b O. Zanger: Architectural monuments in the city of Jülich. 1989, p. 40.

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 11.7 "  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 28.7"  E