House Mehrum

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Haus Mehrum on a color lithograph from 1865

The Mehrum house is the ruin of a permanent house in the Mehrum district of the city of Voerde in the Wesel district of North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The beginnings (1598 to 1688)

House Mehrum was probably built in the 15th century. It belonged to a von Lützelrath or Lützenrod family in the 16th and 17th centuries and was looted twice by the Spaniards in 1598 and probably partly burned down. Janna, the daughter of Bertram von Lützenrod and his wife Ursulas von Marnix, was the heir to the third part of the Mehrum family. She married Baron Conrad von Strünkede in 1625 and took the property to his family. From him his son Gottfried von und zu Strünkede inherited , who sold the house to Wilm Salentin von Katzgen zu Geretzhofen . With his wife Almuth von Vietinghoff, he had a daughter and heiress called Schell zum Schellenberg : Almuth Louisa.

Families from Bodelschwingh and Plettenberg

Almuth Louisa married Wessel Wirich von Bodelschwingh on Bodelschwingh in 1688 . At this time the house seems to have been renovated for the first time after the devastation by the Spaniards , as the year 1695 was on the gable front above a "BL" (probably for Bertram Lützenrod). Wessel Wirich's only granddaughter Gisbertina Anna Louisa married Albert von Bodelschwingh-Velmede and had two daughters: Luise (1766–1833) and Caroline (1771–1818).

With the latter, the inherited, among other things Mehrum, is married 1795 Friedrich Wilhelm Christopher Freiherr von Plettenberg (1769-1820) on armies . The marriage resulted in seven children, of which the third, Karl Ludwig Adolf (1801–1861) took over Haus Mehrum, restored the house and farm building and rounded off the estate .

Married to Wilhelmine von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg from the Bodelschwingh house in 1831 , he left two sons, Gustav (1835–1910) and Udo (1848–1885), when he died in 1857 . Gustav, the elder of the two, became heir. He was Premier-Lieutenant in the Guard Landwehr Cavalry and in 1862 married Elisabeth von Rosenberg from the house of Klötzen . They had four children, of which the second, Karl Anton (1871–1942) inherited the property. He was married twice, but died childless in Cologne. He therefore sold the estate in 1929 to the Hülskens & Co. company in Wesel , which continued the gravel mining he had begun.

Destruction in World War II

On the night of March 23-24, 1945, the 9th US Army crossed the Rhine as part of Operation Flashpoint near Mehrum . House Mehrum was so badly damaged that it was demolished in 1965. Today only a few remains of the wall remain.

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  1. ↑ a b A. Duncker: The rural residences, castles and residences of the knightly landowners in the Prussian monarchy… .

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 33 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 8 ″  E