Kaldenberg farm

Hof Kaldenberg - gate with former servants' house

Hof Kaldenberg - main building

Hof Kaldenberg - alliance coat of arms and year on the gatehouse

The Kaldenberg courtyard is one of the most important baroque courtyards in the north of Düsseldorf . The farm is located at Einbrunger Straße 12 (new address: Am Rittergut 1) in the Wittlaer district, Einbrungen district .

history

The farm is mentioned in a document as early as the 15th century. At this time it appears as one of the three free courts of incorporation. Most of the buildings that make up today's courtyard were erected in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The main house and the gatehouse, on the other hand, date from the Baroque period. The gatehouse is dated to 1715.

The first owner mentioned is Ritter Godert von Hanxlede. The lords of Hanxleden were the owners of Kaldenberg from the 15th to the end of the 17th century. After the death of the last von Hanxleden on Kaldenberg, the childless Johann Friedrich von Hanxleden, Kaldenberg fell to Johann Friedrich's niece Catharina Angela von Himmelberg, who was married to Herman Gottfried von Schwartz. The latter sold the estate in 1710 to Johann Bernhard von Francken , who later became envoy and minister to the Electoral Palatinate, to whom, for example, Gut Düsselstein in Flinger Strasse in Düsseldorf or the Kastein house in Neandertal also belonged. Von Francken renovated the complex, also built the archway and installed a corresponding alliance coat of arms for himself and his wife Anna Sibila von und zum Pütz (also: Putz) .

In 1725 Francken sold the plant to Franz Carl Graf von Winkelhausen . With his childless death, the entire property fell to his sister Isabella von Winkelhausen, who was married to Edmund Florenz Cornelius Graf von Hatzfeld zu Burg Weisweiler , imperial general, Palatine privy councilor, marshal and bailiff in Düsseldorf. In the course of an inheritance, one half of Kaldenberg fell to Hatzfeld-Wildenberg, the other half to Baroness Anna Johanna Rosina Antoinette von Nagel zu Vornholz , née von Tastungen. Her descendants sold their half of Kaldenberg in 1803 to Baron Joseph Caspar von und zum Pütz, who had previously also acquired the Hatzfeldt half. After 1807, Count von Hatzfeldt again auctioned the entire knight's seat. After the Second World War , the manor fell to the city of Düsseldorf, in 1957 to the Graf Recke Foundation and in 1998 to the current owner.

The facility was completely renovated in the 2000s. On September 13, 2009, Open Monument Day, Einbrungen started with the performance of the play “572 Years of the Kaldenberger Hof. Das Spiel zum Rittergut Kaldenberg “celebrated the commissioning of the manor as a residential courtyard.

building

The four-wing complex consists of a residential building, adjoining farm buildings on both sides and a gate building. The house with a pan-covered hip roof is plastered and divided into seven axes on the courtyard and field sides. The windows on the ground floor are larger than those on the upper floor. The input has window surrounds with ears . The windows have shutters. Under the right window on the ground floor there is an access to the basement, which only makes up part of the house area. The farm buildings consist of exposed brick. The gatehouse, which used to have a round arched opening, was faced with baroque shapes and has an alliance coat of arms with a crown and the year 1715. The brick gable is decorated with ball attachments. A plastered house for servants adjoins the gatehouse on the right.

Monument protection

The courtyard and manor buildings have been protected as a historical monument since February 20, 1984. Since September 10, 2003, the grounds of the courtyard have also been placed under protection as a ground monument.

literature

Josef Fellsches: Das Rittergut Kaldenberg , Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-927826-71-7 .
Jörg Heimeshoff: Monument protection and architectural monuments in and near Wittlaer , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch Wittlaer 1990, Ratingen 1990, pp. 7–21.
Jörg Heimeshoff: From a manor to a restaurant? New use for the listed Kaldenberger Hof , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch Wittlaer 1999, Ratingen 1999, pp. 158–161.
Hermann Lohausen: The Francken-Putz double coat of arms at the Kaldenberg house , in: Düsseldorfer Familienkunde, 17th year, issue 3, 1981, p. 119 ff.
Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf, History from the Origins to the 20th Century , Vol. 2, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 73.