Vogelsang House

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Baroque outer bailey building of the Vogelsang family

Haus Vogelsang is a former aristocratic residence south of the Lippe in the Datteln district of Ahsen . The house was eponymous for the lip upwards built near lock Vogelsang and stands as a monument under monument protection . The island on which the Rauschenburg House used to stand is located near the complex .

Today the property is the seat of a company for green space management and houses offices and technical facilities. It can only be viewed from the outside.

history

Haus Vogelsang was a medieval permanent house that was erected on an artificial island in an initial construction phase. Presumably, in the second phase of the house together with the pond south of it lying was Vorburg by a moat surrounded by an oval shape. The complex was owned by Konrad von Rechede, first mentioned in 1331, who had received Vogelsang as a fief from Ludwig II of Hesse , the Prince-Bishop of Münster . Konrad was hereditary marshal of the prince-bishopric of Münster and was thus the head of the knighthood of the prince-bishopric. Around 1350 he sold the hereditary marshal dignity to John II of Morrien. In 1366 the fiefdom was transferred to Johann Sobbe called Coelre and his three sons. This family remained the owner for around 150 years before Gerhard Dobbe was enfeoffed with the property in 1514.

Vogelsang House on the Prussian first recording from 1842 (today's sheet 4309 Recklinghausen)

Adelheid Katharina, the heiress from the marriage of Wilhelm Dobbes and his wife Anna Maria von Velen , brought the property to the family of her husband, Dietrich von Brabeck zu Hackfurt and Lohaus, through their marriage in 1650 . In 1718 the property was auctioned and a member of the von Westerholt family became the new owner, who sold the complex to Ferdinand von Plettenberg , the owner of Nordkirchen Castle , that same year . The appearance of the eastern outer bailey dates from around that time. But the house did not remain in the possession of Plettenberg for long, because it was sold to the Hildesheim Cathedral scholaster Jobst Edmund von Brabeck at the latest in 1723 and thus came back to this family. Jobst Edmund brought the house together with several other possessions in Westphalia to a family fideikommiss , which provided that the Brabeck property should go to the von Twickel zu Havixbeck family if the male von Brabeck family were to die out. The von Brabeck managed the facility as a large agricultural enterprise in the 18th century, and Haus Vogelsang also had customs and fishing rights on the Lippe as well as a ferry license and hunting rights. In 1783 the von Brabeck also acquired the Rauschenburg house, less than three kilometers away, from the Hildesheim cathedral chapter .

The provisions of the Fideikommiss came into effect in 1817 with the death of the single and childless Count Clemens von Brabeck, with whom the male family died out. However, there was a dispute over the inheritance, because Clemens' sister Philippine and her husband Andreas Otto Henning zu Stolberg-Stolberg claimed the Vogelsang house for their son Botho Felix. In the end there was a settlement between the parties to the dispute, and Vogelsang came to Clemens August von Twickel, while Haus Rauschenburg went to Andreas zu Stolberg-Stolberg, who sold it to Clemens August von Twickel on July 12, 1827 for 20,000  Reichstaler .

In 1941 the last lease ended and Rudolf von Twickel appointed an agricultural manager. In the northern part of the farm building, a large apartment was built, on the one hand for the estate household and on the other hand for the manager and his family. A relative of those von Twickel and his family, who lived there until 1956, moved into the manor house. After a short period of vacancy, a Catholic organization from Bochum-Gerthe rented the house and ran a mountain apprentice rest home there. During this time a small chapel was set up in the upper tower room. In 1989 the von Twickel family sold the property to Ruhrkohle AG , which converted the old manor house and the stables into apartments and still uses the manor house as an office building today.

description

Site plan of the Vogelsang house

The heart of the Vogelsang house was a small, solid house that stood on a square island measuring about 22 × 22 meters in the middle of a large house pond. Its appearance has not been passed down, and it no longer existed as early as 1842, because the Prussian premiere from that year shows the island already without any buildings. Today it is surrounded by trees and can be reached via a long wooden bridge. The former development could be proven on the basis of a few remains of the foundations on the island. It is noteworthy that although the existence of Vogelsang House can be traced back to the 14th century through deeds of loan, the complex was only shown for the first time on a map from 1796.

To the south and west of the main island were the farm buildings of the inner outer bailey , which - together with the house pond - were surrounded all around by a moat fed by the Klosterner Mühlenbach . The moat is still preserved today - with the exception of the south-eastern section. Of the inner outer bailey, only a two-storey baroque building from the 18th century has not yet been overbuilt. The elongated building is plastered and painted yellow. Its two floors are covered by a hipped roof. The long sides of the building are divided into eleven axes by windows, with the ground floor on the side facing the island having entrance doors with skylights instead of two windows . There are large coat of arms stones above. On the south corner of the house is a two-storey, square corner tower with a curved, slate-covered hood .

Outside the moats, in the southwest at the entrance to the complex, there is an outer bailey with further utility buildings, of which a half-timbered barn from the 18th century is the oldest. Parts from even older buildings are built into their roof structure . At right angles to the barn is a brick residential and farm building with a half-hipped roof .

The Vogelsang house also has an old water mill with a small garden area to the north, which is outside the moat in the east of the complex. The mill wheel was operated by damming the Klosterner Mühlenbach. The two-storey mill building consists of half-timbering and has a high, tiled hipped roof. Its compartments are lined with brick.

literature

  • Ulrich Barth: Vogelsang House. In: Kai Niederhöfer (Red.): Burgen AufRuhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region. Klartext, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0234-3 , pp. 331–334.
  • Klaus Gorzny: Castles, palaces and aristocratic residences along the Lippe. A companion. Piccolo, Marl 2004, ISBN 3-9801776-8-8 , pp. 140-142.
  • Adolf Hunke: Vogelsang House. In: Vestisches Jahrbuch. Journal of the associations for local and local history in Vest Recklinghausen. Volume 49. Post, Gelsenkirchen-Buer 1942/47, pp. 53-57.
  • Johannes Körner (arrangement): District of Recklinghausen and city districts of Recklinghausen, Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck and Osterfeld (= The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 39). Stenderhoff, Münster 1929, pp. 175-176.
  • Gregor Spohr (ed.): Romantic Ruhr area. Castles, palaces, mansions. 2nd Edition. Pomp , Bottrop / Essen 1996, ISBN 3-89355-110-7 , p. 23.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Information from the Ruhr Regional Association on Vogelsang House , accessed on November 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c U. Barth: Vogelsang House. 2010, p. 332.
  3. ↑ a b c Haus Vogelsang in GenWiki , accessed on November 19, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c K. Gorzny: Castles, palaces and noble residences along the Lippe. A companion. 2004, p. 140.
  5. ↑ www.archive.nrw.de , accessed on November 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b c d U. Barth: Vogelsang House. 2010, p. 334.
  7. ^ A b Information on the von Twickel family at Havixbeck in the Westfälische Geschichte Internet portal , accessed on November 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ K. Gorzny: Castles, palaces and noble residences along the Lippe. A companion. 2004, pp. 140-141.
  9. ^ Karl Emerich Krämer : From castle to castle through the Ruhr area. Volume 2.2 edition. Mercator, Duisburg 1986, ISBN 3-87463-098-6 , p. 34.

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 34.2 ″  E