House Zoppenbroich

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Entrance gate to Villa Bresges

Haus Zoppenbroich is a moated castle complex on the Niers in Mönchengladbach 's Rheydt district .

history

House Zoppenbroich, which emerged from a simple courtyard , is one of the younger mansions of the 16th century. At the beginning, the complex was a courtyard and castle lair of the Liedberg family, and later it was an electoral cologne man fief .

In the 14th century Rabodo von Zoppenbroich and the von Schlickum family are mentioned as owners of the farm. In 1405, the Zoppenbroich house with the subordinate Zoppenbroich of the same name came into the possession of Baron Arnold von Honselaer. The last owner of the family was the childless Eva von Honselaer. She divided her property into four parts and bequeathed it to the poor in Giesenkirchen , Gladbach, Willich and Morenscheid. These shares were administered by the respective parishes.

The Quadt family took over the property with its large estates for more than 100 years in 1566. After the destruction in the Thirty Years War by Hessian and Weimar troops, the complex was rebuilt as a four-winged manor house.

In the 18th century, after the death of the last tenant Ambrosius Franz von Virmont , the property reverted to Elector Maximilian Friedrich of Cologne . The Lenssen industrialist family from Rheydt acquired the Zoppenbroich house in 1807. The Lenssen owners set up a cotton spinning mill in the associated mill . Already 20 years later the property passed to the Adam Bresges family. In 1880 the owner Ernst Bresges replaced parts of the Zoppenbroich house with a historicizing new building by the architect Wilhelm Weigelt. In the years that followed, the family that owned the Bresges expanded the spinning mill into a large family business that lasted until 1977.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stefan Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, palaces, mansions on the Niers , p. 129.
  2. ^ Paul Wietzorek: Rheydt. Shape and change of a previously independent city on the Lower Rhine , p. 108.
  3. ↑ Robert Lünendonk: The Niers and their mills from the source to Neuwerk , p. 54.
  4. ^ Paul Wietzorek: Rheydt. Shape and change of a formerly independent city on the Lower Rhine , p. 109.

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 59.7 "  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 12.8"  E