Junker house Eifel
The Junkerhaus Eifel , municipality of Aremberg in the district of Ahrweiler, is a historical building that was mentioned again and again in the writings at the time of Arenberg Castle.
The owners and names
It has had many names such as: "Burgmannshaus", the "Forsthaus" and the "Rentamt". It stood at the foot of the castle and still adorns the footpath to the ruin today. In 1860 the French took up a plan of the castle and the valley in which there is talk of a pacification of the valley, the "old Thalmauer" is a boundary of the lower garden at the lower "Schwabenthurner Lehnhaus" which is called "Burghaus" and today as "Junkerhaus" is known.
The history goes back even further: in 1571 this house was lent to von Meil, later it came into the possession of the Arburg in 1749 this number bears a double coat of arms of the Lersch family, Landschultheiß Franz-Theodor Lersch (1716–1786) who owns this property with farm buildings took advantage of the thick wall surrounding it. Then it became a forester's house by Mr. Saleck and was named "House Saleck". The house was renovated from the ground up in terms of building biology and monument history.
Building history
14th century and many original details from Renaissance and Baroque. So it has z. B. over a whitewashed "Cologne ceiling" from the 16th century and a mansard roof with hand-cut Moselle slate. It is the main building of a closed courtyard that surrounds a wall made of solid natural stone. A double coat of arms of the Lersch family from around 1749.
literature
- Aremberg in the past and present by Gerold Rosenthal ISBN 3-9800970-7-2
- The castle and fortress Arenberg a monograph on the ancestral castle of the dukes of Arenberg, Heinrich Neu