House Steinfunder

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House Steinfunder, view from the northeast

The Steinfunder is a former noble residence in the Kempen district narrow Broich and is one of about 400 small manors and stately homes in the Lower Rhine . The listed complex is located on the eastern edge of the broad Niers lowland and was added to the list of architectural monuments in Kempen on September 26, 1983 . Its name is derived from a stone bridge (fondern).

First mentioned in a document in the 14th century and at that time belonging to the Electoral Cologne Office of Kempen, today's manor house probably dates from around 1600 and was expanded by the Hoff family at the end of the 17th century. Today the house is privately owned and cannot be visited. From the street, however, a visitor has a good view of the complex, whose manor house is used for residential purposes and the outer bailey is used for agriculture. Sometimes Haus Steinfunder also serves as a location for filming and taking photos.

description

Steinfunder is a two-part system consisting of a mansion on a grabenumwehrten island and a north east thereof lying Vorburg . Their buildings are modern and are still used for agriculture today.

Ground floor plan

The mansion has an angular floor plan and consists of two parts of the building, which come from different construction phases. The older northwestern part is a two-storey timber-framed building with a high gable roof and stepped gables of brick . The half-timbering is still visible in its northern part, while its southern part was clad with a brick wall in the second half of the 20th century. Its façade is located on the northeast side and has stone- framed cross- frame windows with relief arches and profiled sandstone bands that structure the facade in a horizontal direction. Further decorative elements on the front are three head sculptures - one of them executed as a medallion - in the shapes of the Lower Rhine Renaissance of the late 16th century. Two of them represent the couple who owned it at the time. Similar medallions can also be found on Haus Zelem and Schloss Rheydt . A stone relief restored in the 1990s shows the alliance coat of arms Theoderich van der Parts and his wife Anna van Neerhave with the inscription: THE (O) DERICH VA (N) DER PART / ANN (N) A VAN NEERHAVE (N) SI (N ) H (UIS) F (ROUWE) 1566. The ornamental gable has brick, angular pinnacles on mask consoles made of sandstone. A small bay window completes the architectural decoration of the facade. On this side of the house there is also the main entrance, to which a wooden bridge leads over the moat . Another bridge leads from the southwest to the manor island. The gable side there is kept simpler. It has transverse floor windows and three brick lavatory oriels . In the gable area there are exit holes for the former dovecote . The older north-west building is joined to the south by a square extension from the Baroque period . Its two storeys are crowned by a pyramid roof that is bent several times with a tower-like roof turret. At first glance, the component gives the impression of being much older than it actually is, because it imitates late medieval architectural elements and is thus reminiscent of a residential tower from that era. These elements include, for example, two polygonal corner control rooms on the two south corners. However, the much thinner walls of this part of the building show that it is much younger than the north-western building. Its construction time can be dated to the 1690s, because an inscription on a corner stone reads A 1691 JBH (A (nno) 1691 J (ohann) B (ertram) H (off)), and on a roof beam inside the building you can find the with The year 1693 is painted in red. The interior of this extension building is occupied by a single large hall on both floors . In the one on the upper floor there used to be four paintings from the 18th century with depictions of the then known continents Africa, Asia, America and Europe. Today you are in the council chamber of Oedt .

history

As "Gut op den Steinvondern", which had previously been called "Loefsittart" and which then included around 100  acres of land, the facility was first mentioned in a document around 1360, owned by a Wilhelm von Hüls. It stood on the Schlecke, a brook that at that time formed the border between the Electoral Cologne offices of Oedt and Kempen. On January 10, 1389 Lewe von Hüls carried his "huyss called Funderen, located by der Gassendunck" to the Archbishop of Cologne, Friedrich III. von Saarbaren to fiefdom and at the same time granted him the right to open . However, it is not entirely certain that Lewes's property was actually Steinfunder House. The only thing that is certain is that it was a permanent house in the Kempen office, because the then Kempen magistrate was named as a witness. Perhaps Lewe von Hüls had decided on this feudal commission in order to prevent Kurköln from having his newly built, well-fortified house pulled down straight away.

House Steinfunder, depiction on a map from 1801

In the second half of the 16th century the facility was owned by Theoderich van der Part (von der Portzen) and his wife Anna van Neerhave (von Nierhoven). Their grandsons Gebhard and Dederich shared the property, and Gebhard sold his share in 1672 to Christian Hoff, the cologne waiter and bailiff of Kempen and Oedt. Only two years later, he also bought the other half of Steinfunder from Gebhard's brother. It was probably Christian's son Johann who added today's south-facing building to the house. In 1682, the complex was given the status of a nobility residence and the associated tax exemption when its owners were included in the nobility register. Johanna Catharina, widow of the mayor Johann Bertram Hoff, sold the property in 1729 to the Vogt of Neuss , Johann Hermann Josef Sybenius and his wife Maria Anna Eva Daniels. In 1802 Franz Anton Sybenius, son of the Kempen Mayor Johann Wilhelm Sybenius, sold the Steinfunder house to the married couple Johann Joseph Horten and Sybilla Catharina Hüttmann. On the occasion of this business, a map of the property belonging to the "Steinforther Hof" was created, on which a drawing of the house at that time can also be seen. The Tranchot map from 1802 shows that the outer bailey of the complex still had its own moat at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, which has now completely disappeared. There was also a second island surrounded by moats to the south of the main house at that time.

In the 1990s, the Düsseldorf art dealer Karl-Ernst Becker acquired the now ailing facility and had it restored . He also created a small, symmetrically designed baroque garden southwest of the moat. House Steinfunder has been owned by Doris Zehr since 2005.

literature

Web links

Commons : Haus Steinfunder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief description from the monument authority on limburg-bernd.de , accessed on May 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions on the Niers , 2011, p. 221.
  3. ↑ a b c S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions on the Niers , 2011, p. 230.
  4. ^ Entry by Jens Friedhof and Jens Wroblewski on Steinfunder House in the " EBIDAT " scientific database of the European Castle Institute, accessed on May 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions on the Niers , 2011, p. 228.
  6. ↑ KE Krämer: Burgen in and around Krefeld , 1981, p. 40.
  7. ↑ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cöln, the principalities of Jülich and Berg, Geldern, Meurs, Kleve and Mark, and the imperial monasteries of Elten, Essen and Werden . Volume 3. Wolf, Düsseldorf 1853, p. 825, no. 935 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions an der Niers , 2011, p. 224.
  9. ↑ a b Carsten Sternberg: The portrait of Anna van der Portzen. In: Home book of the district of Viersen . 36th Series, 1985, pp. 158-163.
  10. ↑ S. Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, castles, mansions an der Niers , 2011, pp. 224–225.
  11. ↑ Gerhard Terwelp: The Steinfunder House near Kempen. In: Niederrheinischer Kalender, 1913, p. 44.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 20.6 "  N , 6 ° 23 ′ 11.9"  E