House Orr

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The house Orr was a manor in today Pulheim in Rhein-Erft-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . The building and the associated former war yard are still there today.

location

Haus Orr and its former war yard are set back on the road between Pulheim and Esch in the Pulheim district of Orr .

history

House Orr 2012, before the renovation started
Gut Kriegshof, seen from the east.

The grounds of Haus Orr included a park with a pond, which had two islands of different sizes. The smaller island probably once contained a castle complex.

In the first documentary mention in 1264 Orr was referred to as "Urre". In the 13th century Friedrich von Gyltling was lord of Orr. In 1342 Gobelinus von Udenkoven donated land from the town to the convent of St. Severin.

The Archbishop of Cologne and the Duke of Jülich-Berg fought over sovereignty from 1576. Since they shared the high and low jurisdiction, the Orr country people could not be taxed for a time.

The two-storey mansion was built around 1838 by the banker Peter Daniel Koch according to plans by the Cologne cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner . Koch's heirs sold the system to Werner Pagenstecher.

After the war, the mansion was still inhabited, but was later abandoned and partly fell into disrepair, so that an emergency security had to be made to preserve the building. The landscape park became overgrown and the ponds dried up.

The Orr manor has been carefully revitalized by the new owner since 2010. The Orr mansion is being renovated and in 2013 received a new hipped roof and windows, so that it can be used again at events organized by the Förderverein Rittergut Orr eV.

investment

The neo-Gothic secular building of the two-storey manor house had tower-like corner buildings that were supposed to give the building the appearance of a mighty Gothic castle architecture. The three-axis, south-facing porch was part of the main living area of ​​the building. The servants' rooms behind a crenellated wreath were formerly covered by a hipped roof.

The construction of the building was first followed by the creation of a small park, which extended to the ponds to the east. Werner Pagenstecher had the small park expanded into a landscape park from 1887, the center of which was the smaller island in the pond.

literature

  • Frank Kretzschmar: Pulheim, House Orr . In: Oberkreisdirektor des Erftkreises (Hrsg.): Kulturregion Erftkreis - Loss of a monument landscape . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1228-8 , p. 70 .

Web links

Commons : Haus Orr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Frank Kretzschmar: Pulheim, Haus Orr . In: Oberkreisdirektor des Erftkreises (Hrsg.): Kulturregion Erftkreis - Loss of a monument landscape . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1228-8 , p. 70 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Frank Kretzschmar: Pulheim, Haus Orr . In: Oberkreisdirektor des Erftkreises (Hrsg.): Kulturregion Erftkreis - Loss of a monument landscape . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1228-8 , p. 71 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 25.2 "  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 41.4"  E