House Velbrück
| House Velbrück | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1325 | |
| Castle type : | Moated castle | |
| Conservation status: | Leftovers | |
| Construction: | Brick | |
| Place: | Metternich | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 44 '6.9 " N , 6 ° 53' 27.2" E | |
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Haus Velbrück was a castle in Metternich , a district of Weilerswist in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Today's Gut Velbrück is generally regarded as the ancestral seat of the Princes von Metternich-Winneburg , who owned the water-fenced court as early as 1325.
The family seat of the Metternich an der Swist family was Anna von Metternich's parental home and was brought into the marriage in 1545 by marrying Gerhard von Velbrüggen. To distinguish it from the other castle in Metternich, this property was then called Haus Velbrück. The last Velbrüggen zu Metternich sold the house in 1692 to Franz Wilhelm von Schönheim, who also bought the neighboring Metternich Castle in the same year . Haus Velbrück then inherited his daughter Anna Maria and her husband Kaspar von Francken-Sierstorpff. In 1720 they rebuilt the manor house in the baroque style . In 1800 the castle was sold to a new owner named Schäfer. Through other owners, the house came to the current owner, the von Barton family called von Stedman, an old Scottish noble family.
Velbrück was originally a two-part moated castle whose trenches were fed by the Swist. There was a three-winged outer bailey between the building and the stream . The buildings standing here today were built in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The manor house from 1720 was a two-storey plastered brick building with seven axes. The building can be compared to the manor house of Müddersheim Castle . The house was destroyed in World War II and later demolished. It was replaced by a new single-storey residential building.
The seat of the mail order bookshop "Velbrück Bücher und Medien" and the publishers Velbrück Wissenschaft and Dittrich Verlag are located in the courtyard .
literature
- Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1226-1 , p. 389.
