Steinkuhl House

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Image of the Steinkuhl house in the Rhenish-Westphalian original cadastre

The Steinkuhl house was a free aristocratic manor in what is now the Bochum district of Altenbochum . It belonged to a whole belt of knight seats that had formed around Bochum in the Middle Ages . Erected by a family who named themselves after the house, the property was in their possession until the middle of the 17th century, when it came into the hands of other Westphalian noble families.

history

The estate was probably laid out in the 13th century as a successor to an old farm and was allodial of a family who named themselves after the property. This was first mentioned in 1308 with Segebodo. Through his son Hermann, Haus Steinkuhl first came to Segebodo's grandson Segebold and finally to his son Hermann. When Hermann died in the 15th century, he left behind only his daughter Anna from his connection with Imma, and so the male line died out.

In 1513 the manor was owned by Franz, a son of Elbert von Holte zu Haus Heven and his wife Katharina. At that time Franz had already taken over the name of his property and called himself "in the Steinkuhlen". He was inherited by his brother Goswin, who was finally succeeded by his son Johann in 1576. When he died in 1605, he left his children a heavily indebted property. First Johann's eldest son Dietrich took over the estate in 1607, but in 1613 passed it on to his younger stepbrother Christoph. This was an uncomfortable fellow. He not only kidnapped his bride, but also committed multiple breaches of the peace until the Brandenburg government finally brought a lawsuit against him. However, this had no noticeable consequences for him. But when the repayment of the debts left by the father was slow and finally stopped, the creditors of Christopher stepped on the scene. They made their demands before the court court in Kleve and were represented by the electoral councilor Johann Friedrich von Omphal. The trials lasted for several years. Finally, around 1650, Christoph von Steinkuhlen ceded the estate to Herr von Neheim , who in turn passed it on to Hildesheim Canon Rogier Heiderich von Delwig.

In 1652 Johann Friedrich von Omphal bought all rights and lands of the manor for himself and his wife Anna von Schell. He leased the house and shortly after buying it, he started building a new mansion near the previous building , which he moved into in 1665. When he died in 1671, he left the property to Konrad Jakob von Omphal, who was still the owner in 1690. At that time the property was divided into Unter (st) es Haus Steinkuhl, also called Hinter (st) es Haus, and Ober (st) es Haus Steinkuhl, also called Vorder (st) es Haus. In 1798 the front house was owned by the von Vaerst family, while the rear house belonged to the von der Leithen family, who lived on Haus Laer . Both parties did not live in the houses themselves, but instead employed tenants there. The von der Leithen sold their part including the associated Siepen house (also written as Sypen) in 1801. In 1813 Steinkuhl belonged to the von Schwachenberg family. In 1877 the house was demolished due to mountain damage .

description

Haus Steinkuhl was located on what is now the “Auf der Heide” sports field. The building, rebuilt by Johann Friedrich von Omphal in the 17th century, was flanked by two towers and had connections to the commercial buildings, which included a Bauhaus. A high curtain wall and a moat that still existed in the 19th century protected the property. A bridge led across the moat to a thatched gatehouse .

literature

  • Otto Hülsebusch: On the oldest history of the Steinkuhl family. In: Vereinigung für Heimatkunde Bochum (Hrsg.): Bochum. Homeland book. Schürmann & Klagges, Bochum 1958, p. 48 ff ( online ).
  • Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of the district of Bochum-Stadt (= The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia. Volume 16). Schöningh, Münster 1906, pp. 23–24 ( digitized version ).

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Footnotes

  1. ^ O. Hülsebusch: On the oldest history of the Steinkuhl house. 1958. Stefan Pätzold dates the creation only vaguely before 1308. Cf. S. Pätzold: Knights' seats north of the Ruhr. Fortified houses in the Bochum district of Brandenburg during the late Middle Ages. In: Werner Freitag (Ed.): Castles in Westphalia. Defense systems, mansions, economic centers (12th-14th centuries) . Aschendorff, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-15052-8 , p. 172.
  2. ^ Karl Rübel : Dortmund document book. Volume 1. Köppen'sche Buchhandlung, Dortmund 1881, No. 313, p. 216 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Information on Haus Steinkuhl in GenWiki , accessed on June 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f O. Hülsebusch: On the oldest history of the Steinkuhl house. 1958.
  5. ↑ A. Ludorff: The architectural and art monuments of the Bochum city district. 1906, p. 23.
  6. ^ Gertrud Hahn: House Laer. In: Vereinigung für Heimatkunde Bochum (Hrsg.): Bochum. Homeland book. Schürmann & Klagges, Bochum 1958 ( online ).
  7. ↑ A. Ludorff: The architectural and art monuments of the Bochum city district. 1906, p. 24.
  8. ↑ Volker Frielinghaus: The knight's seat Haus Laer and the village of Laer in Bochum. An example of the historical development of the central Ruhr area (= series of publications from the Haus Laer archive in Bochum. Volume 1). 2nd Edition. Laupenmühlen & Dierichs, Bochum 1971, p. 44, note 16.

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '49.4 "  N , 7 ° 15' 0.2"  E