Good Schede

The Harkort manor on Gut Schede

Farmhouse on Gut Schede

The Schede estate in Herdecke , Westphalia, is a noble residence and today's farm that dates back to the 9th century and is also called the Schede house .

history

The oldest preserved part of the estate, located on a hill in the Ardey Mountains above the Ruhr , is a farmhouse from the 17th century, in which the judge Reinermann zu Wetter lived as the owner from 1640 .

From 1748, the family of industrialists lived here Peter Harkort , the weather in the context of the construction of a crude steel hammer in the neighboring town of industrialization the beginning of the iron and steel production in the Ruhr co. Friedrich Harkort , who died in 1880, was buried in the forest of Gut Schede in the nearby Harkort hereditary burial site .

The mansion was built in 1810 from Ruhr sandstone and redesigned inside at the beginning of the 20th century by the architects and designers Henry van de Velde and Peter Behrens on the mediation of the patron Karl Ernst Osthaus .

Schede manor is still owned by the Harkort family today and is only accessible to a limited extent as a private property; It is only accessible to the public on foot. In the main barn (built in 1805), which has an almost unique self-supporting roof structure and is considered a test for the construction of the manor house with the same roof, according to the tradition of the Harkort family, between 1995 and 2015 there were regularly three days of art exhibitions once a year for talented artists and related concerts. There are now some sculptures from recent years on the avenue. The privately used Art Nouveau rooms are also very rarely accessible to the general public.

See also

• List of castles, palaces and fortresses in North Rhine-Westphalia

literature

• Gisbert Strotdrees : Court stories. Westphalian farms in historical portrait. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-7843-3226-9 .

Web links

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

• Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture

Individual evidence

1. ^ Art exhibition in the "Wetter Hills" at Gut Schede - Wetter Magazin . In: Wetter Magazin . August 8, 2015 ( wetter-ruhr.info [accessed October 29, 2017]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 41.3 "  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 59.9"  E