Hof Rheinau

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The Rheinau farm was an agricultural property in the area of ​​today's town of Neuwied . It was located where the Krupp blast furnaces were later built and now the Dyckerhoff cement works stand, between the Rhine and the former arm of the Rhine, Die Schleidt .

history

The farm is first mentioned in 1606, when the von der Leyen men ran the Rheinau farm. In 1670 the Lieutenant Colonel von Hachenberg acquired the farm and named it Rheinau. In 1699, the Rheinau court was mentioned again in a letter to the nobility from Emperor Leopold I (r. 1658–1705). In 1679, Duke Carl of Lorraine proposed to the Imperial War Councilor to elevate Lieutenant Colonel Johann Henrich Hachenberg to the nobility because of his impeccable conduct and his military merits and taking into account that three of his sons also served in the Imperial Army as major or captain. In 1699 the request was granted, Johann Henrich Hachenberg was raised to the status of hereditary count and allowed to carry a coat of arms.

“And so that Johann Henrich von Hachenberg, who is often thought of , can enjoy pardons and privileges all the more calmly and consistently, we take the same sambt of his married couple, children ....., as his house REHINAW the Leyische Haus- und Hoffguth, then also the Staffensche Guth belongs to Friedberg in all respects in the knighthood, in our and the holy empire also in our Ertzhauses Austria special bears protection and shield, glaidt and Salva Guardia graciously look up and on, and think, set and want that he and his own Frewen, use and enjoy ... and after [your] Nohtdurfft, Our Kayser and Royal eagles as a sign of Our Kayserlichen protection, protection and screen, to hang on their houses, farms and apartments and then take them off again with due respect. Given at Vienna on December 5th, 1699. “- Accordingly, the Rheinau court in 1699 seems to have passed to Count Johann Henrich von Hachenberg as a hereditary fiefdom (note by Karl Hachenberg, knowledge based on a copy of the nobility letter).

Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Wied bought the Nodhausen farm from Ernst Anton Sohler on July 7, 1732. Sohler lent the count 2,494 imperial thalers to buy the Rheinau court from the heirs of Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Hachenberg . The widow of Hachenberg, née von Hartleben, sold the farm to the Count of Wied in 1733. He expanded the farm into a model estate for growing clover and potatoes. He later planted a mulberry plantation for breeding silkworms and finally opened a cotton factory.

On February 9, 1740, one comes across Peter Giess , who apparently was cultivating the Rheinau arable land (still in 1772). It was the time when the wiedische house endeavored to round off the scattered goods. The Große Werth (a meadow) and the Kleine Werth were also bought in 1737. The farms of Nodhausen (96 acres) and Friedrichsthal (182 acres) expanded their holdings. The same thing happened in 1707 with the Bonefelder Hof (33 acres). In the middle of this century, however, these purchases stopped. A sparse light fell on the courtyard in 1776. This year a settlement was negotiated between the Wiedische Rentkammer and the so-called Hachenberg heirs. The goods mentioned at that time: On Heimbacher Weg (behind Heddesdorf ), on Sayner Weg, on Engerser Weg, on Distelfeld, in the soles, in the Kirchhelten, on the pile fences, in the frog, on the raven nest, in the little pasture and on the mountain Bäring, in the Gründgen farm, on the Plaiten, in the Langendorfer Feld. These goods are attributed to the Hachenberg heritage due to their location. The bailiff Hachenberg was a son of the well-known Saynischen town clerk. He mainly owned fields on the Engerser Weg, which he had to sell for 82 Reichstaler because of the overindebtedness. The contract that was issued for this reason bears the signatures of Johanna Maria Hachenberg, Antoinetta Hachenberg and SB Hachenberg. In 1776 the entire farm came into the possession of the Counts of Wied. Clemens von Hachenberg was the one who drove this sale. This opportunity offered the possibility of a historical return. In the past, the citizens of Pottelsberg had turned this Rheinau farm over to those of Hachenberg. In any case, the Pottelsbergs were already on the farm in 1728, because the wife of Pottelsberg paid the interest due that year . The Count von Wied had united this farm and its goods with those of the Heddesdorf manor. The Heddesdorf Schulze Fimmel had received three acres of these goods in order to build his house, the so-called Fimmelburg. When the courtyard was set on fire by the French on August 16, 1795 , the officials who were summoned agreed that it was no longer worth rebuilding. The farm estates - as the meager records make clear - came across the fields of the Langendorfer. Details were still remembered at the beginning of the 18th century. Above all, the Geyer Gut was talked about for a long time. The fate of Hof Rheinau is very similar to that of Geucher Hof.

literature

  • Dr. Albert Hardt, Der Hof Rheinau (archival records), private collection.
  • 1000 years of Heddesdorf, publisher Stadt Neuwied 1962
  • 300 years of Neuwied, 1953 City of Neuwied

Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 58.6 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 28.1 ″  E