Isenburg Court
The Isenburger Hof or Herrenhöfchen is part of Heddesdorf , a district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate . The former property is cut through by the B 42 in the area of the Heddesdorf fairground and is built on, among other things, with a high-rise. It is known today as the Landratsgarten.
history
It remains in the historical darkness how the initial Isenburger Hof zu Heddesdorf was laid out there. What is certain is that the Isenburg residents were able to hold onto their farm in Heddesdorf until 1528.
In 1564 it was reported that the ancestors of the abbot zu Marienstatt had previously lent the convent of the Rheinbrohl hermitage a sum of money, for which the monastery people were prescribed thirty guilders as security. Wilhelm von Witzelnbach were entrusted with handling the pending question this year. The parties involved were involved in the handling of this case over a period of 10 years.
By 1562 at the latest, the name wiedischer Hof can be found. It can therefore be rightly assumed that the Wiedische Counts acquired the farm at this time . In 1528 a Wied-Isenburg property register of the Heddesdorf properties was created. At that time the yard had 63 acres . It stayed there until 1553. However, the number of goods subsequently decreased, so that in 1643 only 46 acres were made up. The farm's goods were quite scattered, as could be proven in 1589. The already wealthy citizen of Heddesdorf, Thomas Melsbach, had bought various fields with some fellow citizens.
Several vineyards and also the so-called Werth (Wörth) on the Rhine belonged to the farm . In 1579, Count Johann von Wied pledged the Heddesdorfer Hof to his son, Count Hermann, at a price of 1,000 Reichstaler. His early death (1591 near Rouen ) allowed the farm to be used initially by Count Johann Wilhelm von Wied. When he died (1633), the farm was inherited from his brother Philipp Ludwig von Wied. But because he got into considerable economic difficulties, he sold the Heddesdorfer Hof to his mother Magdalena von Hardeck and received 6,000 guilders. The countess is considered to be extremely active when it comes to purchasing economic goods. Traces of them can be found in all parts of the county. Her death in 1657 came too early for the economic recovery of the Wiedische house. Her unmarried daughter Johanna Walpurgis, usually just called the Fräulein, inherited a large part of the fortune. Despite the covetousness of her cousin, Count Friedrich III. zu Wied , she valued her legacy. When she was struggling with death in Bendorf in 1672 , Friedrich made her promise not to sell the inheritance. In the year Walpurgis died, Count Friedrich reported that the now inherited Heddesdorfer Hof would be used by Christoph von Stein, in whose favor an annual donation of 32 Malter grain was suspended. In spite of the count's discomfort, the levy was brought from the Wiedischer Hof zu Rems.
The economic hardship of the count made the promise of Bendorf take a back seat. In 1683 the count sold the farm to Carl Ludwig von Sayn . He paid the purchase price of 4,160 thalers as well as a carriage with six horses and a ring worth 400 thalers. Only the Werth on the Rhine remained in the property of the Wiedische Count in order to unite it with the palace gardens. The Heddesdorfer Hof remained in the ownership of the Saynian count until 1761. The count's family resided there for a time. Around this time - it was said - the two unmarried daughters of the Saynian countess lived there in the courtyard house. After all, the house in Heddesdorf was heavily in debt because it was increasingly burdened by imperial military taxes. For this reason, as early as 1698, Count Carl Ludwig von Sayn had to pledge the Heddesorfer Hof to the Rommersdorf abbot Carl Wirtz at a price of 733 Reichstaler .
Against the background of economic bottlenecks, Count von Wied was forced to lease the farm to the active Hermann Dietrich Bachoven immediately after the repurchase (1671). At that time, Bachoven was successfully trading goods in the wiedischen Land. The heirs of Mr. Bachoven found themselves exposed to never-ending quarrels because the estate was leased and the tenants were in arrears with the agreed taxes. Count Friedrich then bought the farm with the promise to raise the burdens of 3,696 Reichstaler to satisfy the debtors. However, the two Saynic daughters, Countesses Carolina and Concordia, were initially allowed to live on the Heddesdorfer Hof.
Around 1740 the manor house was built in the rural baroque style on the site of the courtyard house. From 1851 to 1906 it was the seat of the Neuwied District Administrator.
Ultimately, Count Alexander von Wied bought the farm in 1761 with all the freedom it gave, except for the adjoining house, by paying Count Alexander Ludwig the amount of 15,000 guilders. At that time the old Saynic house, as the aforementioned residential building, was right next to the curtain wall. From then on, the house, farm and goods remained identical throughout. The Sayner's house was later sold to the Portuguese Count Oliviera. He later bequeathed it to the Wiegershausen family, who soon sold it to a Mr. von Trott. The latter sold it in 1801 to the Rhenish baron Johann Justus von Runkel. His son became mayor of Heddesdorf in 1817, his grandson Eduard Justus von Runkel was appointed district administrator in 1851.
literature
- Albert Hardt : The Isenburger Höfchen or the Herrenhöfchen in Heddesdorf (City of Neuwied) .
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '30.2 " N , 7 ° 27' 55.1" E