Rath House (Düren)

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Rath house around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
The mansion

The household furniture is a manor house in Arnoldsweiler , a district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

It is located northeast of the town of Arnoldsweiler near the Ellebach . The history of the manor goes back to the 16th century. The Franconian Rode name suggests an earlier settlement.

The noble seat was owned by the Barons Spies von Büllesheim . From 1813 to 2007 the complex, surrounded by moats, was owned by the Barons von Bourscheidt .

The history of this house can be traced back to the middle of the 16th century. During this time, a Johann von Raedt is named as the owner of the House of Rath. His heirs, his daughter Katharina and her husband Peter Iven, sold the property to the guardians of Sofia von Stepprath around 1583. The Jewish chancellor Niclas von der Broel († 1598), from the Print von Horchheim family , must have acquired the estate from these guardians . His son Reinhard, married to an Overlacker, died childless in 1638. According to the dates 1616 and 1637 on it, he essentially gave the manor house its current shape. With the marriage of his two sisters to Wilhelm Spies von Büllesheim and Edmund von Metternich zu Sommersberg, the latter became joint owners. But Wilhelm Spies' children already seem to have bought back the Metternich half. Thus Haus Rath remained in family ownership for over 170 years. Baron Karl Johann Hugo von Spies, married to Maria Josefine von Vlatten , had the manor house and farmhouse thoroughly renovated between 1725 and 1740.

In 1813, House Rath came into the possession of Baron Franz Nikolaus von Bourscheidt through the purchase . Goswin Richrath, owner of a fruit farm in Birkesdorf , had been the owner since 2007 . The site has been sold to a new owner since October 1st, 2019.

The mansion with bailey and farmyard belongs with its brick buildings and the largely Baroque features the most impressive secular Bauzeugnissen in Düren .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/lokales/dueren/wasserburg-laeuft-trocken-sorge-um-altes-gemaeuer-1.360449
  2. Lit. Kunstdenkmäler, pp. 23–25, Myer, pp. 87–92, Nelissen, Rath, pp. 132–139, castles and mansions; p. 24–25, Holger A.Dux, building historian

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 37 "  N , 6 ° 30 ′ 34.5"  E