House Pröbsting

House Pröbsting with outbuildings and graves

Main house

Moat

The Pröbsting house is a listed building in Hoxfeld , a district of Borken in the Borken district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The house was first mentioned as a manor in 1221 . In 1345 Goswin von Gemen received the episcopal permission to build a stone factory. A small moated castle surrounded by walls was created . The medieval core of the manor house is a two-room house with a cellar. Consisting of brick masonry and in stone provided running Eckquaderungen house is the oldest secular brick building of Munster country . In the 19th century the building was extended and rebuilt. More recently, the building was left to decay for decades, it was returned to its original state in 1988 and extensively renovated.

The outer bailey with a gatehouse and a corner pavilion dates from the 18th century.

In 1879, the writer Ilse von Stach was born at Haus Pröbsting . She processed her memories of her time in Pröbsting in her novel Haus Elderfing .

The facility now houses a clinic and is privately owned .

literature

• Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler . North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
• Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969

Web links

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

• Document registers from the general archive of Landsberg-Velen with holdings on the Pröbsting house / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
• history
• Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Leisure park and Haus Pröbsting in LWL geodata culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Palaces and castles. (pdf) Münsterland eV, p. 22 , accessed on August 21, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 257 .
3. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Leisure park and house Pröbsting, Borken-Hoxfeld in LWL-GeodatenKultur

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 23 "  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 25"  E