House Remberg
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Duisburg - Huckingen | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 21 '50.4 " N , 6 ° 45' 51.6" E | |
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The house of Remberg (in old sources also Rimberg , Rheinberg or Remmerich ) was a medieval knight seat . The moated castle was located in the Duisburg district of Huckingen on the old Angerbach .
Naming
The name of the castle was originally Renbruggen (also Rintbruggen and Ringbruggen ), meaning “cattle bridge ”. This is evident from the earliest documented mentions in the 14th century. The castle was named after a bridge over the Anger river that existed at this point in the Middle Ages and was used to bring cattle to the surrounding pastures on the Angerbach. In fact, a piece of land in the immediate vicinity was called Kuhbruch . This cattle bridge was the counterpart to the Schafsbrücke ( Schobbesbröck ) in the Huckingen town center, which apparently used to lead herds of sheep across the Bruchgraben.
history
House Remberg belonged to the Huckingen community and was located in a swampy area. It was a fiefdom of the Counts of Berg . The document with the first written mention of Remberg from 1310 also names the first known owner of Remberg, Knight Adolph von Kalkum - Lohausen from the noble family of the Lords of Kalkum . His grandson Peter von Kalkum, also owner of Rembergs, was the bailiff for Mettmann , Hardenberg and Beyenburg . Peter's son Arnold von Kalkum, bailiff at Angermund , received Remberg in 1390 from the Duke of Berg as a free manor as a fief.
Remberg also went down in contemporary chronicles as the former Arnols huyss , because Arnold's family, the Lords of Kalkum, were regularly involved in robberies on Cologne's trade routes. Several family members were caught red-handed and executed by the City of Cologne , including a. also Arnold's son Ludolph. From this developed the Kalkum feuds between the Lords of Kalkum and their supporters, mainly Bergische Ritter, on the one hand and the city of Cologne on the other. In 1405 the city of Cologne and the Cologne Archbishop Friedrich III joined. von Saarbaren together, a mercenary lord recruited, crossed the Rhine near Uerdingen and then robbed and pillaged through the Bergisches Land. They destroyed Haus Remberg, but also the neighboring Haus Böckum , Rahm, Heltorf , the suburbs of Ratingen and Solingen were destroyed or badly damaged by the mercenaries.
Remberg was then rebuilt and remained in the family for another three generations. Then it came to the Galen , Stecke and Nesselrode families one after the other through marriage and inheritance . In 1654 the relatives of the von Winkelhausen family had success with an objection against a sale to the Spee family . The von Wachtendonk family inherited the house from the von Winkelhausen family . Remberg later fell back to the Lords of Winkelhausen and, when they died out, to the Counts of Hatzfeld-Wildenburg-Weisweiler .
In the 17th century, Remberg was one of the twelve noble houses in the main court in Kreuzberg (Kaiserswerth) . In 1612 a brewery was even built.
The recent history of Remberg is very similar to that of the neighboring Böckum house: in 1804 Remberg went to Johann Gottfried Brügelmann (junior), son of the industrialist Johann Gottfried Brügelmann . Charlotte Brügelmann, widow of Karl Heinrich Engelbert von Oven, then sold the estate in 1856 to Count von Spee zu Heltorf, whose family still owns it today.
The Gerlings family (formerly Gelling ), who are now the fifth generation to live on the farm, have been tenants since November 11, 1832 .
Current condition
While the Angerbach used to flow to the right of the castle, the renatured Alte Angerbach now flows past Gut Remberg to the left. Nothing is left of the castle complex ( Burgstall ) today. A map from 1869 still shows the moat ring and the parcel division of the castle. Remnants of the complex were still visible until the end of the 20th century.
It is believed that the castle complex was abandoned due to the recurring damage caused by the floods of the Angerbach and the Rhine . In particular, the floods of 1566, 1784 and 1799 caused severe damage. In January 1799 the flood rose over the roof of the barn at that time.
Today there is only the estate, the Remberger Hof , which is used as a riding stables among other things. The yard's barn is used for the machines on the neighboring golf course.
literature
- Dietmar Ahlemann: House Remberg . In: Bürgererverein Duisburg-Huckingen e. V. (Ed.): Huckinger Heimatbuch , Volume III. Duisburg 2015, pp. 175–196.
- Dietmar Ahlemann: House Remberg. In: Bürgererverein Duisburg-Huckingen e. V. (Hrsg.): Historical hiking trail in the Angerland - Huckingen and the surrounding area. Completely revised new edition. Gladbeck 2012, pp. 23–26, huckingen.de (PDF; 7.3 MB).
- Citizens' association Duisburg-Huckingen (ed.): On the history of Huckingen. Festschrift for the 30th anniversary of the Duisburg-Huckingen Citizens' Association . Duisburg 2002.
- Sabine Merz: Remberg Castle - Mr. Arnold's house and the Kalkum feud . In: Nordbote . Vol. 27, No. 7, April 25, 2014, p. 14, nordbote.info (PDF; 12.2 MB).
- Josef Schmitz: The Remberger Hof . In: Christmas greetings from the Duisburg-Huckingen citizens' association. V. Duisburg December 1994.
- Theo Volmert: Knight seats and castles on the Anger. In: Die Quecke - Angerländer Heimatblätter , No. 45, September 1975, pp. 1–34.
