House Thorr
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 House Thorr |
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| Alternative name (s): | Thorr Castle | |
| Creation time : | 11th to 12th centuries | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Construction: | Brick | |
| Place: | Bergheim - Thorr | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 56 '17 " N , 6 ° 37' 41.7" E | |
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House Thorr is one of the smaller country estates on the Erft . The manor house belongs to the district of the same name in the town of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft district .
location
The castle and the village, which derives its name from the castle, are located at the first crossing of the important Roman road from Cologne ( Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium ) to Tongeren , the ancient Aduatuca Tungrorum , which is now called Via Belgica . Today's road, Bundesstraße 55 , bypasses the place due to the mining of lignite in the central part of the Rhenish lignite mining area . Here it crosses the Roman district road from Zülpich ( Tolbiacum ) to Neuss ( Novaesium ), today federal road 477 . The road from Lechenich that accompanies the Erft also joins here. Today the Erft cycle path runs across the Erft . The southern circuit of the Bergheimer Eight cycle path leads past four castles. One of the sections of the moated castle route is also shown here.
history
The name Thorr suggests that it derives from a Roman fortification tower turris . The place is first mentioned as Ture 997 (doubtful also Düren near Witten ), see Thorr, a bridge Thurre over the river Arnefe 1051 and a knight Rudolf von Turre 1140 mentioned. The respective lords of the castle were enfeoffed by the Counts of Jülich. A Gisilbrecht von Thurre was in 1335 Vogt in Bergheim. The castle was one of the 238 jülischen Ritter seats. In 1506, through the marriage of Fritza von Thorre to Bernhard von Weworden, called Bulver, the property passed to the family who were then based in Drove Castle . One of the descendants, Adam (von) Drove (* around 1575/1580) bought the property for sole ownership. His eldest son, Adam Bertram Droeff, Lic.jur, inherited the knight's seat, but died in Merode in 1679, unmarried and childless. It was inherited by two nieces, daughters of Sybilla Christina (von) Drove, († 1662/1663) and Bernhard Kox, the husband of his sister Sybilla Catharina van Wevorden called Droff. Sybilla Catharina had already died in the winter of 1666 during a plague epidemic at Merode Castle . The nieces sold the shares inherited from their uncle Bertram to Bernardus Kox, who was now the sole owner. This next change through marriage can also be seen on the alliance coat of arms above the entrance portal of the manor house: Bernhard Kox, Drossard of the Freyban rule Merode and Sybilla Catharina van Wevorden called Droff, former married couple, in 1680. The new manor house was built by him in 1680. In a picture from 1723, the courtyard still shows itself as a regular, three-winged complex with three towers. In 1796, at the beginning of the French era , the property came into civil hands through marriage, and Johann Anton Türk became lord of the castle. One of his descendants had it renovated and partially rebuilt in 1860. The date is in the iron grille of the fixed bridge.
Building description
The simple two-storey mansion from 1680 standing at right angles to the street , a brick building with six axes and a hipped roof with small dormers and two weather vanes attached to the ridge ends is significant. Decoration is the portal made of stone with a triangular gable with the coat of arms. You can still see the holes for the chain of the former drawbridge. The elongated east wing of the outer bailey , parallel to the street, was renewed in 1884. The second wing no longer exists. The moats are now dry.
Individual evidence
- ^ Lothar Müller-Westphal: Wappen und Genealogien Dürener Familien , in: Contributions to the history of the Dürener country , Volume 20, Dürener Geschichtsverein, Düren 1989
- ↑ Note: Freibann = judicial district with free farmers who were not subordinate to any rule
- ↑ Meynen quoted from a description of the County of Jülich
- ↑ The article is largely based on the statements by Henriette Meynen (without references), see also discussion
literature
- Henriette Meynen: moated castles, palaces and country estates in the Erftkreis , published by the Erftkreis, Cologne, Rheinland Verlag 1980, p. 70 f, ISBN 3-7927-0556-7
- For further literature see Thorr