House Overbach

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The manor house of Haus Overbach

Haus Overbach is a Rhenish moated castle in the Jülich district of Barmen . The building complex is now owned by the Order of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales . The buildings are partly used as an administrative building for the order, as a monastery and also for a school facility ( Gymnasium Haus Overbach ).

history

House Overbach was first mentioned as a knight's seat in 1341 in a document from Johannes de Overbach. As early as 1334 a Heinrich von Overbach was mentioned in a document as court master of Count Wilhelm von Jülich. In 1415 the Overbach estate owned a total of 61 acres . Around 1450, the Grein von Aldenhoven family owned the estate. The cellar vaults in the manor house date from this time. At the end of the 15th century, Maria von Reuschenberg, b. Grein the house and brought it into the possession of the Reuschenberg family . It was not until 1630 that the aristocratic residence came to Johanna Adolpha von Cortenbach as part of an inheritance. However, since Johanna Adolpha was married to Wilhelm Heinrich von Hatzfeld-Wildenburg, Overbach initially came into the possession of the von Hatzfeld-Wildenburg family. The Hatzfeld family moved their possessions more to the south of Germany and used the old knight's seat as a pledge. In the end, Overbach was sold to the tenant Franz Josef Hons, who in 1792 sold the property to Baron Reiner von Overschie-Wisbecq for a profit. The old buildings were immediately demolished and replaced by a new building complex.

From his marriage to the Countess von Hochsteden came from an heir, Jeanette Francoise. In 1828 she married Count Theophil von Hompesch-Rurich. The marriage ended childless and almost tragically. Theophile's godchild, the daughter of his brother, Countess Maria Luise von Hompesch, married Major Ludolf von Wenge-Wulfen. This is how the house came to this family. When this marriage also ended childless, the estate came into the possession of Paul Wolff-Metternich. He sold Overbach to the Imperial Count von und zu Hoensbroech, who in turn sold the property in November 1918 to the Salesians, who transformed it into a monastery and mission school.

House Overbach is already recorded on a map from the 16th century. However, the seat of the nobility is only shown in the Codex Welser around 1720 in the form of a sketch.

literature

  • Holz, Alexander: Departure into the modern age. The history of the Rhenish mayor's office Barmen between revolution and tradition (1789 - 1848). Alsdorf: AWD 2018
  • Kisky, Hans: Castles and mansions in the Rhineland: after old engravings and templates, Weidlich 1960, p. 29 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State archive Pilsen / Czech Republic, Coudenhove family archive, L 65.
  2. ↑ Inventories of non-governmental archives: Inventory of the document archive of the princes of Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg zu Schönstein / Sieg, Vol. 5, Regesten No. 2251 to 3507, 1607-1852, revised. v. Jobst Kloft, Koblenz 1988, p. 115.
  3. ↑ Peter H. Meurer : The manuscript atlases Christian Sgrootens - map folder; Alphen aan den Rijn 2007.

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 35.9 ″  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 29.9 ″  E