House Scheppen

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Inner courtyard with entrance to the restaurant

The Scheppen house is a former, aristocratic fief of the Werden Abbey in the Fischlaken district of Essen . With up to 23 lower courtyards , the fortified courtyard was one of the largest feudal estates in Werden in the Middle Ages . It was named after the lords of Scheppen, who were tenants of the house in the 14th century.

The facility is on the southern bank of Lake Baldeney at the mouth of the Hesperbach in the Ruhr . Today it is owned by the city of Essen and is freely accessible. In February 1985 Haus Scheppen was included in the Essen list of architectural monuments , and in 1994 also in the list of ground monuments .

description

The former fiefdom is now a partial ruin with a rectangular floor plan, which is surrounded on all sides by moats . These are fed by the Baldeneysee, are provided with wooden walkways and are used as jetties.

Parts of the north-west and south-east wing as well as the north-east wing used for gastronomy still exist from the formerly closed four-wing complex made of Ruhr sandstone . The north-west front with the round arched main portal is flanked by the remains of two mighty, square corner towers, of which the western one still has its three floors, while of the eastern tower only the ground floor remains. All of the existing structures date from the 17th century. At the eastern ends of the north-west and south-east wings, the eruptions of the wall of the abandoned south-west wing are visible.

history

House Scheppen can be traced back to the 13th century. In 1344, Gillburg von Scheppen was mentioned in a document as a tenant of the complex. The lords of Scheppen held the office of hereditary death of the Werden Abbey and the office of hereditary treasurer of the Essen monastery . The lords of Scheppen followed in the 15th century as a tenant of the estate of the knight Kracht Stecke (also known as Kracht von Stecks), who was already the owner of the neighboring house Baldeney . As another Ride in the 18th century followed by the barons of Bottlenberg gen. Schirp and the baronial family of Ritz.

In 1930 Haus Scheppen served as accommodation for miners from the nearby Pörtingsiepen colliery and was surrounded by a moat in 1935 when the Baldeneysee was dammed.

During the Second World War , the southwest wing of the complex was badly damaged by bombs in an air raid in 1944. All the roofs of the house burned down in the resulting fire. The destroyed wing was then laid down.

Since the 1960s, the city of Essen has been looking for an investor who is willing to rebuild Haus Scheppen and put it into meaningful use. So far, however, all plans have failed due to the expected enormous financial outlay, which the city estimates at around 20 million euros. The problem today is that the facility was surrounded by moats at the time, for which it was not architecturally designed. Due to the constant exposure to water, the historical building fabric is now very dilapidated. In March 2000, a 20-meter-long section of the approximately seven-meter-high outer facade of the northwest wing collapsed. Since the western corner tower, among other things, was in acute danger of collapsing, it then had to be removed up to the level of the ground floor.

Todays use

A restaurant is located in the restored northeast wing, while the moat is used as a boat launch. The ships of the White Fleet have a mooring at Haus Scheppen and the terminus of the historic Hespertal Railway , which comes from the old station Kupferdreh, is nearby .

A colony of Canada geese can often be seen in the vicinity of the buildings , and there is a parking lot directly in front of the facility, which is used seasonally as a nationally known motorcycle meeting point.

literature

  • Klaus Gorzny: Ruhr castles. Piccolo, Marl 2002, ISBN 3-9801776-7-X , p. 132.
  • Bianca Khil: House Scheppen. In: Detlef Hopp , Bianca Khil, Elke Schneider (eds.): Burgenland Essen. Castles, palaces and permanent houses in Essen . Klartext Verlag , Essen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8375-1739-2 , pp. 90–93.
  • Sandra Schürmann: With your feet in the water - Haus Scheppen in Essen-Fischlaken becomes a moated castle. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. No. 2, 2008, ISSN  0177-2619 , pp. 68-73.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nina Grontzki: Faces of the City: Fischlaken ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed: March 19, 2007.
  2. ↑ Entry of the house in the list of monuments of the city of Essen (PDF; 632 kB); accessed on November 12, 2016
  3. ↑ Peter Koschmieder from the city of Essen in an article about Haus Scheppen on WDR2 in 2001


Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '51.7 "  N , 7 ° 2' 54.3"  E