Hof Echtz

The Echtz farm was located in the Düren district of Echtz in the Düren district .

Shortly before April 1174, Werner von Merode was entrusted with the administration of the Echtz court, which was part of the estate . From here he had a seat built on a clearing in the neighborhood , after which he and his successors named themselves van deme Rode . In 1292, the German King Adolf der Sophie, widow of another Werner von Merode , confirmed that she would enjoy the income from her court at Echtz for the rest of her life .

At that time the court was an imperial fiefdom and had been signed over to Sophie by her deceased husband as a marriage property. In 1335 the Hof zu Echtz was named as an imperial fiefdom owned by the knight Werner von Merode. The realz farm with dependent farms in Geich , Obergeich and Schlich , perhaps also in Konzendorf and D'horn , formed the core of the Merode reign. From and next to these farms, the villages of the same name developed since the High Middle Ages .

The Echtz farm had extensive rights of use in the surrounding forest management and fishing rights in the Rur . Around 1600 a Thöniss Brewer is mentioned as a half of the free aristocratic Hof zu Echtz. The farm is mentioned as Feodalhof in 1781 and 1797 owned by the Counts of Merode .

The former location is no longer known.

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• Körfer, pp. 28, 36, 41, 42,
• Domsta, Merode, BD II., Pp. 267–300, castles and palaces in Düren