House Wilbring

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House Wilbring around 1977

The house Wilbring , also home WILBRINGEN called, is located in Waltrop in Recklinghausen . The buildings on the outer ward are inhabited, the main house has been the First World War a ruin .

owner

Ferdinand von Papen-Wilbring , Lord of the Wilbring House with his wife Antoinette, born von Papen-Koeningen, sister of Franz-Joseph von Papen-Koeningen, lord of the house Koeningen, (they are the first parents of the line Wilbring 1) with daughter Thekla, later married to government councilor Custodis, Werne

Wilbring (1321 Wilbrachtink, 1469 Wilbrenynck) was temporarily a state castle in the Electorate of Cologne . The property originally belonged to the Lords of Kunsberg resp. Koenigsberg. From these it came into the possession of the Goye family. In 1469 Diederich von der Goye sold his Wilbring estate to the two Dortmund mayors, Hengstenberg and Clepping. They probably leased the property.

From about 1535 to 1608 Wilbring was owned by the von Westrum family . On October 29, 1608, the married couple Winold von Westrum and Elisabeth von Overlacker sold the estate to the married couple Vincenz Rensing , Chur- and Princely Cölnischer Rath and administrative administrator of Horneburg, and Elisabeth Knippings for 10,400 Reichsthaler. The Rensings were a patrician family from Dortmund who belonged to the landed gentry through offices and extensive land holdings. Vincenz Rensing later became governor of Vests Recklinghausen . In 1609 Wilbring von Rensing was rebuilt. In 1624 the estate passed to the eldest daughter from his second marriage, Christina Agatha Rensing, who married Bernhard von Westerholt . Wilbring was owned by von Westerholt from 1626 to 1695.

In 1695 Wilbring was bought by the von Horst family. Franz Gaudenz von Horst († 1751), Herr auf Wilbring, married Maria Christina von Papen (* October 27, 1710, † February 2, 1773) on January 23, 1748 . She was the daughter of the electoral Cologne captain Kaspar von Papen and Antonie von Dücker and bequeathed Haus Wilbring - since the marriage remained childless - to her brother Josef Gaudenz von Papen (* December 27, 1712 in Andernach , † before 1780), a royal Sardinian- Piedmontese major. Since he also remained childless and lived in Italy, he transferred the estate to his brother Ernst Adolf von Papen, Imperial Rittmeister (* March 21, 1715 in Andernach, † February 21, 1780), married to Antonie von Kückelsheim (* 5. January 1738 in Rhynern , † August 25, 1814 in Waltrop).

The von Papen family owned the Wilbring house from 1773 to 1856. The last owner from this family, Ferdinand von Papen (born August 30, 1805, † January 25, 1881 in Werne , married August 26, 1834 to Antonie von Papen-Köningen in Werl ), sold the extensive oak forests to the coal mines that were being built everywhere . The oak logs were urgently needed to support the tunnels underground . The consequence was the rise in the groundwater level. The walls of the house sucked in water and showed signs of age such as damp walls that made life very difficult. Since he had ten children, he decided to sell Haus Wilbring and bought a house in Dülmen .

Wilbring remained in the possession of the von Frydag zu Buddenburg family until 1902 and was inherited by the von Rüxleben family, who sold it to the Prussian canal administration before the First World War because of the construction of the Datteln-Hamm Canal .

buildings

House Wilbring, site plan

The outer bailey and main house stand on two islands connected by bridges.

The main house was rebuilt from 1609 by Vincenz Rensing, and in 1718 a renovation should have taken place. Another renovation began in 1866; the main house was given a facade in the form of neo-Gothic . But it has remained uninhabited since then. After the acquisition by the Prussian Canal Construction Administration, the demolition began, which was stopped in March 1918. At this point, however, the roof had already been removed and in 1916 the south gable had collapsed. In May 1940 the north-west corner of the building collapsed and the brickwork collapsed into the moat . In the 1980s and 1990s, the remains of the main house were overgrown by ivy.

The core of the buildings in the outer bailey dates from the 18th century.

A garden house from the first half of the 18th century was located north of the castle until the early 1970s. A mighty sweet chestnut stood next to the garden house until around 1980.

Pictures from different decades

  • Wilbring House, mid-20th century

  • Wilbring house, driveway, 1967

  • Wilbring House, outer bailey, 1967

  • Wilbring House from the West, 1978

  • House Wilbring from the southeast, 1978

sightseeing

The outer bailey is privately owned and used for agriculture. A riding stable is also housed there today. Access to the ruins of the main building is neither recommended nor permitted due to the advanced deterioration of the building structure, but guided tours outside are regularly offered during the Open Monument Day.

After the Second World War , the Kolping Family Lünen-Brambauer held their May devotions every Tuesday in May at the Marien-wayside shrine of the Wilbring castle ruins. In 1969 the Kolping District Association of Lünen also joined this custom.

literature

  • Norbert Frey: Dorfmüller, vicar in Waltrop. The origin of Waltrop's local history, with the biography of vicar Heinrich Dorfmüller (1839–1909) . Self-published, Waltrop 2009, p. 316 ff.
  • Michael Gondermann: The moated castle Wilhaben. Shrouded in legend and in ruins. The "Dog of Baskerville" . In: Heimatbuch Kreis Unna , vol. 17 (1996), pp. 5–7.
  • Johannes Körner (edit.): District of Recklinghausen and urban districts of Recklinghausen, Bottrop, Buer, Gladbeck and Osterfeld (= The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia , vol. 39). Kommissions-Verlag by Heinrich Stenderhoff, Münster 1928, pp. 444 f., 453 ff. (Photomechanical reprint 1995, ISBN 3-922032-79-6 ).
  • Manfred Kreibich, Jürgen Schötteldreier: The moated castle Haus Wilbring: History and legend of a Lippe castle in the east of the Recklinghausen vestibule . In: Vestischer Kalender, vol. 84 (2013), pp. 178–182.
  • Hermann Wember: The history of the Wilbring moated castle . In: Vestischer Kalender , vol. 40 (1968), pp. 75–81.
  • Home book of the Waltrop office . Waltrop 1974.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Diederich von Steinen: Westphalian history with many coppers, first part . Lemgo 1755, p. 1311 f .

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '56.7 "  N , 7 ° 27' 7.2"  E