House Ripshorst

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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 34.5 "  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 5.3"  E

House Ripshorst (2020)
Information center Haus Ripshorst (2020)

Haus Ripshorst is a historic manor in Oberhausen that is used as an information center.

history

The Lehngut Haus Ripshorst was first mentioned at the beginning of the 14th century. At that time, the knight's seat was on the territory of the Borbeck community (which at that time did not belong to Essen ) in the Dellwig district. During the territorial reform of 1915, most of the Borbeck area was added to the city of Essen. Smaller parts went to the cities of Bottrop and, including the house of Ripshorst, to Oberhausen . The former manor is located south of the Rhine-Herne Canal and the Emscher. To the west of Haus Ripshorst, the Läppkes Mühlenbach flows into the Emscher in a culvert after crossing under the canal .

Around Essen, in the so-called Borbecker Mark , knight seats were built in the 13th and 14th centuries; with these vassals of the Essen monastery were enfeoffed. House Ripshorst is the only one of these knight seats that has survived to this day (see also: House Bermen ). In 1483 the Lords of Berge resided here. In 1617 the knight's seat went to the Vittinghoff family. The last known lord of the Ripshorst estate, who was appointed by the abbesses around 1768, was Clemens August von Vittinghoff-Schell zu Schellenberg (Royal Chamberlain and Droste). The Ripshorst estate comprised 322 acres of land.

Todays use

Today the Ripshorst house has a new use. As part of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park was Emscher Landscape Park created. Haus Ripshorst serves as an information center and is also the seat of the state office of the German Forest Protection Association , the state office of the nature conservation associations in North Rhine-Westphalia and the Biological Station Western Ruhr Area (BSWR). The RVR Ruhr Grün has its parking station at Haus Ripshorst here . The RevierRad bike station rents out bikes for excursions in the area.

In the house, the landscape park is presented as a walk-in floor installation with several media stations, the information station is manned from Tuesday to Sunday, and a small catering area offers coffee and cake as well as refreshments. Natural history information events take place regularly in the barn of the former farmhouse. A cottage garden and the apiary of the Oberhausen beekeeping association are available for visits or educational excursions. The almost two-kilometer-long Ripshorst wooded garden laid out by Haus Ripshorst along the Rhine-Herne Canal shows rare species such as the tulip tree or sweetgum tree in a geological context.

Throughout the year, Haus Ripshorst offers a number of events, excursions, campaigns and lectures in cooperation with the Biological Station Western Ruhr Area, forest stations, nature conservation associations, the Route of Industrial Nature and other institutions. The Vondern wasteland can be quickly reached in the north via the pedestrian and cyclist bridge on the Rhine-Herne Canal, while the next destination is the Frintrop Gleispark in the south . There are also special events for schools (in cooperation with Geoscopia Umweltbildung), people with disabilities or as company events. During the extra shift , the house is one of the venues.

In 2010 a special exhibition of the Ruhrmuseum took place in Haus Ripshorst: Exotic Worlds. Traveling naturalist (June 19 to August 15, 2010).

  • gallery

  • General overview (2012)

  • RevierRad service station (2012)

  • Cottage garden (2012)

  • Bee training stand (2012)

  • 35 meter high steel sculpture Sorcerer's Apprentice on the edge of the woody garden, created as part of Emscherkunst (2014)

  • Information board for the Emscher Landscape Park (2012)

Web links

Commons : Haus Ripshorst  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files