Himmeroder Hof (Rheinbach)

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The courtyard from the north, Polligstrasse

The Himmeroder Hof is a historical court ensemble in Rheinbach . The one in Polligsstr. 3 courtyard has been a listed building since January 24, 1986. The ensemble designed in the form of a Franconian courtyard with a main house for the farmer and servants , stables and barn in half-timbered construction is part of the medieval core town.

history

Located in the Eifel lying Himmerod Abbey had become in the 13th century one of the largest landowners in the Rhineland. The abbey goods were widely scattered. In the Rheinbach area, three farms belonged to the Himmeroder estate: in Kleinaltendorf, Wormersdorf and Rheinbachweiler . Himmerod acquired the latter in the middle of the 13th century, and the surrounding estates were administered from here.

After the Himmeroder Hof was built within the emerging Rheinbach city fortifications in 1317 , the farm in Rheinbachweiler lost its importance. In 1323 the monks of the Himmeroder Hof in Rheinbachweiler were accepted as citizens of the city of Rheinbach. The Himmeroder Hof financed the construction of a section (16 rods ) of the Rheinbach city wall . On June 15, 1344, the Archbishop of Cologne, Walram von Jülich , announced that the Himmeroder monks had contributed to the fortification of the city of Rheinbach and were therefore exempt from taxes and haulage services to maintain the fortification "for all times". The Himmeroder Hof in Rheinbach became the central lifting and administrative center for the Himmeroder estates in Kleinaltendorf , Wormersdorf , Ersdorf , Ipplendorf , Todenfeld , Flerzheim and Rheinbachweiler. Rheinbachweiler fell desolate in the following decades.

Until the middle of the 15th century, the Himmeroder Hof was run in-house, from then on it was leased by the monks. The tenants had to collect all lease fees for the associated farms in and around Rheinbach and deliver them to the Bonn warehouse of the monastery. After one of the tenants, Dederich (also: Dietrich) Polch, the street running through the farm was named Polchsgasse (today: Polligsstraße ). Polch leased the farm (contract extension), which was given as 98 acres of arable land and 10 acres of meadows, on August 6, 1602. In addition to the farm with its most important arable land, individual parcels were given to smaller tenants. In 1770, 280 individual pieces of 115 acres of farmland were leased to 150 people - presumably for self-sufficiency.

The parts of the courtyard that are still preserved today date from the first half of the 18th century. After the French occupation of the Rhineland as a result of the Revolutionary Wars , the monasteries on the left bank of the Rhine in the newly founded Département de Rhin-et-Moselle were confiscated and sold by the state. The property of the Himmeroder Hof was also smashed and the farm itself was sold to a private person in 1806. From now on the farm was called "Pfeifferhof". Further owners of the facility were Martin Kann, Heinrich Thomas and in the 20th century the Scheben family: Ernst Scheben, his widow and Peter Scheben. The family sold the farm in 1966 to the city of Rheinbach.

Todays use

In the 1980s, the Himmeroder Hof was converted and expanded into a citizen and cultural center of the city. The heart of the facility is the Rheinbach Glass Museum , which specializes in the exhibition of Bohemian glass and studio glass . The museum building can be used multifunctionally; Exhibition rooms are also used as the council chamber of the city of Rheinbach, and conference rooms are available to organizations. The Rhineland Nature Park Center is also located in the complex .

"Culture in the yard"

The annual open-air festival "Kultur im Hof" is also held in the Himmeroder Hof . Music of different styles (rock, pop, country, jazz, folk and oldies) is offered. Events under the title "Literatur im Takt" and "Ope (r) n Air am Hexenturm" are part of the program of "Kultur im Hof". The festival is part of the “Rhenish Cultural Summer” coordinated by the Cologne / Bonn Region .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments according to § 3 Paragraph 6 DSchG , list no. 27
  2. ↑ Ingeborg Flagge (Ed.), An architecture for the senses: Busmann + Haberer , Peter Busmann, Godfrid Haberer, Ernst & Sohn, 1996, p. 120
  3. ^ Website of the city of Rheinbach
  4. ^ Rheinisches Archiv , issues 59–61, University of Bonn, Institute for historical regional studies of the Rhineland, Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag, 1965, p. 109
  5. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Oedigern and Richard Knipping, The Regesten the archbishops of Cologne in the Middle Ages , Volume 5: Publications of the Society for Rheinische history lesson , Society of Rhenish history lesson, P. Hanstein, 1973, p 303
  6. ↑ Volker Jost, Wachtberg author Töpner visits places of pilgrimage in the Eifel , January 8, 2016, Bonner Rundschau
  7. ^ Rheinisches Archiv, Volumes 59–61, University of Bonn, Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland (Ed.), Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag, 1965, p. 272
  8. ^ Yearbook , Volumes 49-50, Kölnischer Geschichtsverein (Ed.), SH-Verlag, 1978, p. 229
  9. ↑ A look at history: The Cistercian monastery Himmerod and its homonymous courtyard in Rheinbach , website of the city of Rheinbach
  10. ↑ Petra Juling and Ulrich Berger, DuMont Reise-Taschenbuch - Eifel travel guide, Aachen, Trier , ISBN 978-3-77018-839-0 , MairDumont , 2015, p. 122
  11. ^ Festival website
  12. ^ Website of the "Rheinischen Kultursommers", Region Cologne / Bonn eV

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Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 27.9 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 57.1 ″  E