Jesuitenhof (Düren)
The Jesuitenhof is a listed building in Düren ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
The Jesuitenhof stood at Nideggener Straße 68-70 on the site of today's indoor swimming pool, which was named after the Jesuitenhof. The Jesuitenhof, or the house that still exists today, is one of the oldest buildings in the city. Its core dates back to 1719, but was changed in the 19th and 20th centuries. The main house is a three-story brick building with sandstone walls . Next to the house is the archway of the former courtyard.
Over the centuries the farm has had different names. It was called Meyradtshof after the foundation of the Junker Bernhardt Meyradt von Reifferscheidt; St. Annahof , because the parish of St. Anna was looked after by the Jesuits , and Jesuitenhof , because from April 26, 1634 it was owned by the Jesuit college.
During the Thirty Years' War the Jesuit Court burned down on December 31, 1639. After the reconstruction, the Jesuits renovated the courtyard in 1678. On May 22nd and 23rd, 1718 the Jesuitenhof burned down again because a "bad guy" had set the thatched roof on fire. It says:
“Because of the great heat and drought, the fire spread so quickly that none of the violence of the fire would have escaped if the farmers and the shepherd and his dog had not been startled by a blow like a gun when a servant had warned them (maybe powder was secretly put under the roof). Only a few cows were snatched from this fire together with the people, and a little house, which was a little removed from the big house and made entirely of stone, contained the oven for baking bread; it was also used by the caretaker and his family for reception after the fire. Of the rest, the barn, the stable and a rather spacious house with four excellent noble horses, about 300 sheep, further pigs and all the large cattle, the equipment and the grain went up in flames and burned down so that only the four house walls, which were built of solid stone, and the back of the barn, also made of stone, was left within two hours before help could be brought from the city. The damage exceeded 3,300 Reichstaler. "
Originally, the land of the Forsthof, known as Courtenbachshof, also included the area of the later Jesuitenhof. Junker Bernhard Meyradt had set up a foundation for his son Everhard, who belonged to the Society of Jesus, from the proceeds from the sale of the Courtenbachhof. However, it was not paid out after Everhard's death. In return, the Jesuits received a third of the land from the Courtenbachshof, which has since been combined to form the Jesuitenhof . Since the Jesuit court lay unprotected in front of the city fortifications, it was often plundered or devastated. The current house dates from the beginning of the 18th century. During the time of the French occupation (1794-1814) the Jesuitenhof belonged to the French state, which in 1799 leased it to Friedrich Platz from Gatzweiler for 1,300 francs a year. At that time, the farm comprised 160 days of work as arable, pasture and garden land. On August 6, 1821, the farm went to Rudolf Schenkel for the sum of 10,175 thalers. For this he received 6 rods of arable land and meadows for the buildings 201 acres . His brother-in-law Friedrich Schoeller later inherited the property. Schoeller's daughter Ernestine married Richard Prym in 1839. From 1854 Matthias Siepen is the new leaseholder of the farm. Then the married couple Johann von St. Vith took over the management of the Jesuitenhof. On August 25, 1950, the merchant Walter Theodor Prym sold the farm to the city of Düren for DM 275,000.
The new indoor swimming pool of the city of Düren, which was inaugurated on July 20, 1974, has now been built on the grounds of the courtyard.
The building is entered under No. 1/025 in the list of monuments of the city of Düren.
literature
- Josef Geuenich: On the history of the Jesuit court in Düren . In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter , No. 53, Düren 1974, p. 101 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Pawliczek: Directory of monuments of the city of Düren 1984. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter. No. 76, Düren 1987, ISSN 0416-4180
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 36.5 ″ N , 6 ° 29 ′ 21 ″ E