Neuenhoven House

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Neuenhoven House

Haus Neuenhoven is a moated castle in the Neuenhoven town of Jüchen in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The former manor is located on the edge of the valley of the Kommerbach and is mentioned in a document about the family of donkeys in the 14th century. In the 16th century, the donkey line at Haus Neuenhoven died out and the von Hundt's took over the property. During the von Hundt family's time, the house became part of the region's Reformation movement. After it was temporarily owned by the von Bonnen and von Wedding families in the 17th century, the Essers family acquired Haus Neuenhoven in the middle of the 19th century, and they still own it today.

House Neuenhoven was a Geldrisches fiefdom until the occupation of French troops on the Lower Rhine in 1794 and lay on the border with the imperial rule of Dyck . Under the von Hundt family, from the second half of the 16th century, Haus Neuenhoven was the center of the Calvinist district of Neuenhoven - a first ecclesiastical community association composed of Reformed families from the surrounding villages. The reformed feudal lords of Hundt owned a chapel, which they made available to the Neuenhover quarter. Thomas Merkelbach (approx. 1537 - 1587) court preacher , reformer and head of the economic and financial administration of the imperial county of Dyck was one of the leading preachers and supporters of the Neuenhover Quartier.

architecture

House Neuenhoven consists of a three-axle mansion from the 18th century with an attached residential tower from the 15th / 16th. Century. The courtyard that is connected to the manor consists of building parts from the 18th and 19th centuries.

literature

  • Heinrich Hubert Giersberg: History of the parishes of the dean Grevenbroich. JP Bachem publisher, Cologne 1883.
  • Olaf Richter: Lower Rhine lifeworlds in the early modern period: Petrus Simonius Ritz (1562–1622) and his family between the bourgeoisie and the nobility. Böhlau Verlag GmbH, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22438-7 .
  • Ekkehard Krumme: Thomas Merkelbach as a reformer in the imperial rule of Dyck. In: Monthly booklets for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland on behalf of the Association for Rhenish Church History. Volume 44, Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1995, pp. 95–116.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Heinrich Hubert Giersberg: History of the parishes of the dean Grevenbroich , p. 275.
  2. ^ Heinrich Hubert Giersberg: History of the parishes of the dean Grevenbroich , p. 276.
  3. ^ Heinrich Hubert Giersberg: History of the parishes of the dean Grevenbroich , p. 276.
  4. ^ Krumme: Thomas Merkelbach as a reformer in the imperial rule of Dyck. In: Monthly booklets for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland on behalf of the Association for Rhenish Church History. , P. 111.
  5. ^ Krumme: Thomas Merkelbach as a reformer in the imperial rule of Dyck. In: Monthly booklets for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland on behalf of the Association for Rhenish Church History. , P. 108.
  6. ^ Krumme: Thomas Merkelbach as a reformer in the imperial rule of Dyck. In: Monthly booklets for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland on behalf of the Association for Rhenish Church History. , P. 96.

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 4.6 ″  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 31.9 ″  E