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House stack

Haus Stapel near Havixbeck , North Rhine-Westphalia , is one of the largest moated castles in Westphalia . The 1827 completed the main house built in the style of Classicism by Ernst Konstantin von Droste-Hulshoff built, the older outer ward comes from baroque time, the plant was for centuries the seat of Erbmännerfamilie of Kerckerinck .

The name stacks

Extensive dams have existed at Haus Stapel since the early Middle Ages , of which deep and wide trenches have been preserved in the castle park to the present day. In these trenches, the water of the Munster Aa was dammed in order to operate a large fishing facility. This is how the earliest known residents of the tower hill castle of Stave (= traffic jam) called themselves , from which the current name Stapel is derived. In the Middle Ages and early modern times, numerous days of abstinence were common, so that pond management was of great importance. Another weir was used to operate the forklift watermill belonging to the castle, only a few downstream , whose technology has since been dismantled. Today the building is a private museum that was set up by the last miller, Heinz Seesing.

Building history

Originally there was a tower hill castle next to the site of today's moated castle . As an aristocratic residence, the Stapel building was probably built in the 16th century on the site of a previous building that was attested in the 13th century and was also protected by a surrounding water system. It is recorded that in 1587 the then owner, Matthias von Kerckerinck, was able to repel an attack by the Spaniards who had invaded from the Netherlands, killing three soldiers. But he could not prevent arson and cattle robbery in front of the gate.

Outer bailey
Main house

Most of the current buildings in the outer bailey were built in 1607 and 1608 (the flanking towers and utility buildings with the exception of the central gate tower). Over time, they have been adapted to changing agricultural requirements. The entire complex was fortified in such a way that in 1636, during the Thirty Years' War , the owner at the time, another Matthias von Kerckerinck zu Stapel , with his 30 men, was able to repel an attack by the Hessian troops of sixty horsemen and five hundred foot soldiers. The high baroque , richly decorated gate tower was added to the building ensemble in 1719 by Johann Ludwig von Kerckerinck . Its builder can no longer be determined with certainty today. Possible architects are Lambert Friedrich Corfey , Johann Conrad Schlaun , Maximilian von Welsch , Gottfried Laurenz Pictorius and his brother Peter Pictorius the Younger , although there are some arguments in favor of the latter.

Today's castle with 55 rooms was built in the years 1819–1827 according to plans by the Rheine builder August Reinking , who died in September 1819 when the foundation stone was laid. The Tyrolean masters Ludwig Falger and Josef Rief stuccoed the rooms of the manor house.

Haus Stapel was entered on August 9, 1989 in Havixbeck's list of monuments. In addition to the main house and the outer bailey, the monument inventory includes the two bridges to the street and to the garden, the old orangery in the park, a half-timbered building to the left of the access road, the burial place in the park with a high cross, a walled-up water basin south of the manor house, three road bridges over grave arms or The Aa, a crucifixion group on the access road, two statues on the main bridge ( depicting Saint Anthony and a monk), the tombs and the park, a bleaching hut and the Stapels mill.

The park was selected in May 2019 by the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia as Monument of the Month in Westphalia-Lippe .

Owner story

In 1211, the forklift estate was first mentioned in a document from the Werden monastery . The property has always belonged to noble families. It was never sold in its entire history, but only got into other families through female inheritance. Since the 13th century it was owned by the widespread Münsterland Erbmänner family of Kerckerinck . This branch of the family then called itself von Kerckerinck zu Stapel and was raised to the status of hereditary imperial baron in the first half of the 18th century .

Around 100 years later, this male line died out. The heiress Maria Theresa Reichsfreiin von Kerckerinck zu Stapel (1786–1870) married Ernst Konstantin von Droste zu Hülshoff , an uncle of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , in 1801 at the age of 15 . This marriage gave birth to 22 children, of which only around half reached adulthood. Today's castle was built for this large family. The poet is said to have called the Droste-Stapels "limestone" because the house was built from the unstable Baumberger sand-lime brick . Otherwise she was not very friendly about this part of the family either. To her chagrin, Droste had to give her allegedly only moderately gifted cousins ​​private lessons because of her willingness to help. None of the original 22 children had legitimate offspring. When the last of these children of the locksmith died in 1880, she bequeathed Haus Stapel with Haus Giesking to Klemens Friedrich Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff , a later son from the neighboring castle Hülshoff . He was a nephew of the aforementioned poet, formerly District Administrator of Büren and is the great-grandfather of the current owner.

He made his son Fritz the heir, who was seriously wounded at the beginning of the First World War, did not marry and, in the early thirties, adopted Ermengard - the daughter of his brother Clemens von Droste zu Hülshoff , district administrator in the Höxter district - who he adopted after his death followed in 1936 as heir and is married to Hermann Josef Freiherr Raitz von Frentz . The Raitz von Frentz couple have five daughters and one son.

The Raitz von Frentz family moved out of the castle in 1967 and moved into a new building in the neighborhood. The palace complex was gradually re-let, including to various artists. The facility can only be viewed from the outside. Only on two weekends in May and September, when concerts take place at Haus Stapel, the courtyard, garden, park, stairwell and ballroom can be viewed before the concert begins.

House pile and the hereditary dispute

Baron Johann Ludwig von Kerckerinck zu Stapel (1671–1750) was one of the most ardent advocates of the " Munster Hereditary Men Controversy ", which became famous due to the lengthy process that lasted more than two centuries . After the legal victory of the hereditary men over the cathedral chapter of Münster , the baron had the above-mentioned magnificent gate tower built. Some of the trial files and diaries from that time are still available today in Haus Stapel's archive.

House stacks in the movie

The film by Angelika Schlüter and Julian Isfort tells the story of the neighbors Heinz Seesing and Hermann-Josef Freiherr Raitz von Frentz. The two live a few hundred meters apart at Haus Stapel. Against the backdrop of the moated castle, they tell of their lives, but also of the history of the castle and its inhabitants.

Concerts on house stacks

Grand piano of the Münster company Knake in the ballroom with historical wallpaper

Since 2011, romantic recitals have been held in the historic ballroom on a May weekend and on the Open Monument Day in September on Saturdays and Sundays. The Raitz von Frentz family has hired the soprano Heike Hallaschka as protagonist and artistic director . She is accompanied by the pianist Clemens Rave , who gives an additional piano evening by candlelight on the Knakeflügel from 1873, which has been in the ballroom for 140 years and was restored in 2012. Each concert begins with a song composed by the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.

literature

  • Wilderich from Droste to Hülshoff : 900 years of Droste to Hülshoff . Verlag LPV Hortense von Gelmini, Horben 2018, ISBN 978-3-936509-16-8
  • Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff : Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in the field of tension of her family, Limburg adLahn 1998
  • Reinhold Holtstiege: Havixbeck and his past, Dülmen 1991.
  • Fabian Schäfer, Markus Köster: House stack and its residents. A historical review in: LWL-Medienzentrum für Westfalen (Ed.): Bauer Seesing and Herr Baron. A portrait of two neighbors. Booklet accompanying the DVD, Münster 2008.

Web links

Commons : house stacks  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Park am Haus Stapel, Havixbeck in LWL GeodatenKultur
  2. ↑ a b story. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
  3. ^ Bernd Fischer: Moated castles in the Münsterland . DuMont, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7701-1195-8 , p. 48.
  4. ↑ J. Holsenbürger: The Lords of Deckbrock (v. Droste-Hülshoff) and their possessions. Münster iW 1869, p. 142.
  5. ↑ J. Holsenbürger: The Lords of Deckbrock (v. Droste-Hülshoff) and their possessions. Münster iW 1869, p. 171.
  6. ↑ a b c d Johannes Loy: Imposing building of classicism , in: "Auf Roter Erde, Heimatblätter für Münster und das Münsterland", August 2017, (supplement to the Westfälische Nachrichten )
  7. ^ House Stapel on the website of the German Foundation for Monument Protection
  8. ^ Bernd Fischer: Moated castles in the Münsterland . DuMont, Cologne 1980, p. 184.
  9. ^ Bernd Fischer: Moated castles in the Münsterland . DuMont, Cologne 1980, p. 186.
  10. ↑ Uwe Siekmann: Monument of the month: Park of the house Stapel in Havixbeck (Coesfeld district). LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia, accessed on June 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ruhrnachrichten from October 24th, 2012: Film shooting on Haus Stapel - Friedrich Schiller's dangerous love affairs ( Memento of the original from September 17th, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhrnachrichten.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 33.5 ″  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 16.5 ″  E