Steinfurt House

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Steinfurt House

Haus Steinfurt , also called Schloss Steinfurt or Haus Drensteinfurt , is a moated castle in Drensteinfurt in the Münsterland .

The attachment

The castle is a münsterländisches moated castle, set by moats surrounded in which the Werse was included. From the park you can go over the Gräftbrücke to the large gate, which is flanked by gatehouses . There is a water mill in front of the bridge .

building

Between 1707 and 1709 the manor house was built by Lambert Friedrich Corfey on behalf of Johann Matthias Freiherr von der Recke in place of the permanent house and castle from the Middle Ages to secure the ford through the Werse.

The oldest part of the complex is the gatehouse in the right side wing from the years 1583 to 1591. The two gatehouses were built in 1829/1830 by the Schinkel student Heinrich Johann Freyse , city architect in Krefeld .

owner

The first owner mentioned in 1177 was Lubbert von Steinfurt (von Stenvorde) as the fief of the main courtyard. Around 1200 the lords of Rinkerode (von Rynkerothe) were enfeoffed. The nobles of Volmestein came into possession of the complex through marriage in 1324. With the marriage of the heir's daughter Neyse (Agnes) von Volmestein in 1429 the property passed to the noble family von der Recke zu Heeren , who came from the county of Mark . The manor suitable for the Landtag was released from the Osnabrück feudal sovereignty in 1480 by Johann von der Recke and transferred to him as an allodial property. In 1468, the Recke split into a Steinfurt and a Heessen line. After converting to the Protestant faith in 1533 , the Steinfurt Line converted to the Catholic faith in 1651, which created the prerequisites for becoming one of the most important families of the local nobility in the Prince Diocese of Münster . Johann Matthias, the owner of the palace, had a son from his first marriage to Anna Magdalena Bernhardine Maria Countess von Plettenberg , Ferdinand Wilhelm Joseph, a member of the Münster government, whom he initially appointed as the sole heir. Married again to Maria Franziska Theresia Gudula Freiin von Wolff-Metternich , he had a second son, Franz Arnold, whom he now appointed as a universal heir and who in fact became the sole owner of the goods, while Ferdinand Wilhelm was put on the compulsory share. This resulted in a bitter legal battle between the two, in which the inheritance was divided. Franz Arnold had no offspring; so his youngest sister, Anna Maria Theresia von der Recke , became the heiress of his share and, through her marriage to Franz Kaspar Ferdinand von Landsberg zu Erwitte , brought Haus Steinfurt into the likewise baronial family of Landsberg zu Erwitte . The sole heir of Ferdinand Wilhelm Joseph's share, who had no sons, was his eldest daughter Maria Berhardine, married to Clemens August I von Droste zu Hülshoff . However, she, the musically gifted grandmother of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , failed to register her claims in further legal disputes in good time and so this inheritance escaped the Droste-Hülshoffs. Because then there followed inheritance disputes with von der Recke zu Stockhausen , to whom the Volmarstein feudal chamber would have been granted under feudal law and which were finally ended in 1810 by a settlement . The heir son Engelbert von Landsberg-Erwitte died in 1810 without leaving any children. As a result, the grandson of his brother Clemens August inherited the house. In 1757 he married the heiress Anna Theresia von Velen . Ignatz-Wessel Freiherr von Landsberg-Velen died in October 2009 and bequeathed the castle to his daughter Marie-Antoinette, who lived in it with her husband, Count Adolf von Meran . The outer bailey buildings are rented for residential purposes.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the notice board on the house
  2. ↑ History of the Lords of the Recke, Ed. Constantin von der Recke-Volmerstein, Breslau 1878, p. 172 ff.
  3. ↑ Death news in the Allgemeine Anzeiger September 27, 2009

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 54.9 "  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 33.7"  E