House Rüschhaus

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House Rüschhaus, courtyard side
Building ensemble
House Rüschhaus, garden side
House Rüschhaus, contemporary representation

Haus Rüschhaus is a country estate in the Nienberge district of Münster in Westphalia . The fiefdom was acquired by Friedrich Bernhard Wilhelm von Plettenberg in 1729 and sold by his widow to Johann Conrad Schlaun in 1743 , who built it into a country estate from 1745 to 1748 according to his own designs and initially lived in as a summer residence.

The property, surrounded by a moat , whose architecture meets the demands of a feudal aristocratic residence, is designed like a rural courtyard. Schlaun succeeded in synthesizing a Westphalian farm and a sophisticated country estate in French style. The sculptor Johann Christoph Manskirch was also involved in the design.

In 1825 the landlord of Burg Hülshoff , Baron Clemens-August II. Von Droste zu Hülshoff , the father of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , bought the elegant country house. After the death of her father in 1826, the poet moved in with her mother and sister Jenny and lived here - interrupted from 1838 by her stays at Eppishausen and Meersburg Castle - until 1846.

The ballads and verse epics, Die Judenbuche and parts of the cycle of poems, The Spiritual Year , were written in the Rüschhaus house .

Until 1853 the house was taken over by the mother of the poetess, Therese Louise, b. Freiin von Haxthausen , inhabited, then by two nephews of the poet who remained unmarried, first the officer Moritz von Droste zu Hülshoff, who built a neo-Gothic wayside shrine with a Madonna figure in 1883, which is still preserved today. His brother, the royal Prussian government councilor Friedrich von Droste zu Hülshoff (1833–1905), also lived in the house from 1890; he published - like his brother Ferdinand von Droste zu Hülshoff - as a zoologist, renovated the house and brought back the memorabilia that were still within reach because he expected visitors. After that the house was lived in for two generations by the tenant family Pöppmann, but could be visited by admirers of the poetess. Particularly valuable items were relocated during the Second World War. After the war damage had been repaired, the family opened the house as a museum in 1949 and leased it to the Droste Society. Jutta Freifrau von Droste zu Hülshoff sold the house to the city of Münster in 1979; it can be viewed via the Münster City Museum . Most recently, the property was given to the Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff Foundation, established in 2012 .

Behind the main building is the Rüschhaus park with strict geometric shapes. The beds and lawns bordered with boxwood are typical.

literature

  • Wilderich from Droste to Hülshoff : 900 years of Droste to Hülshoff . Verlag LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2018, ISBN 978-3-936509-16-8
  • Liselotte Folkerts: "Nothing better than here - here - only here ...". Haus Rüschhaus, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's hermitage in literature and art then and now . Aschendorff, ISBN 3-402-03245-7 , Münster 1986.
  • Werner Friedrich: House Rüschhaus. Schlaun's refuge, Annette's "India" . Tecklenborg Publishing House. Steinfurt 2007. ISBN 3-934427-96-0 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Eugen Mummenhoff / Gerd Dethlefs: Nordkirchen Castle, Berlin / Munich 2012
  2. ↑ Liselotte Folkerts: "Nothing better than here - here - only here ...". Haus Rüschhaus, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's hermitage in literature and art then and now . Aschendorff, Münster 1986, p. 93.
  3. ↑ Press release of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe from May 27, 2013

Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 8 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 4 ″  E