Kamper Hof

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Kamper Hof (March 2016)

The Kamper Hof , also Kamperhof or earlier Camper Hof , is the former city branch of the Cistercian order of the Kamp Abbey from the 13th century in Rheinberg on the Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia . It originally consisted of the town house , a hospice and a chapel. Of these three parts of the building, only the chapel, which is now a listed building, remains today .

History and description

The house and the hospice of the Kamper Hof were mentioned in a document in 1295, whereby one can conclude that they were built shortly after 1235, after the Kamp Abbey acquired the right to incorporate the St. Peter Church . At that time, between 1295 and 1296, the chapel was built. In a major fire on May 13, 1494, a third of the city, including the Kamper Hof, was completely destroyed. In the same year, however, the chapel was rebuilt and consecrated in 1509. According to the art historian and monument conservator Paul Clemen, it was originally a single-nave brick building . In 1583, Adolf von Neuenahr occupied Rheinberg and moved into the Kamper Hof as an apartment. Under Dutch siege in 1633 during the Eighty Years War , the Kamper Hof was used exclusively as the quarters of the fortress governors, only at the beginning the Catholic community was allowed to hold services in the chapel for a few months and in 1641 one room of the house could be used as a school for Catholic children . In 1678 the Kamper monks returned and from Rheinberg organized the reconstruction of their monastery, which was destroyed in 1586 under Adolf von Neuenahr, to which they finally returned around 1700. In 1801/1802 the monastic court was secularized , sold and passed into private ownership.

The Commerce Underberg made after 1880 for the renovation of the chapel to apartments and built the eastern entrance. A two-storey brick building half the width of the main building was added to the south and equipped with a large hall. On September 23, 1888, he handed the renovated Kamper Hof over to the Catholic Journeyman's Association, which used it as a Kolping House until 1954 . In March 1987 the former chapel was included in the list of monuments of the city of Rheinberg and registered as a monument with the number 121. The extension is not a listed building.

The former chapel, the only remaining part of the Kamper Hof, is a gable-independent building with two full floors and two storeys above it. In the lintel on the street side there is the initial "UA" for Underberg- Albrecht .

In 2012 the Kamper Hof was restored and converted into an event and congress center. In addition to the facade, all interior spaces such as the ballroom (the former chapel), the governor's room and the atrium were renovated in accordance with the protection of monuments.

During the restoration work on the facade, a very well-preserved Pietà from 1500 was discovered. This is currently to be restored and made accessible to the public through appropriate development, as well as being protected from the weather.

Web links

Commons : Kamper Hof  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A historical walk through Rheinberg. (PDF file; 1.6 MB) City of Rheinberg, accessed on December 27, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Ute Geissler: The city of Rheinberg on the Lower Rhine and its fortifications (=  writings of the city of Rheinberg on history and local history . Volume 8 ). City of Rheinberg, 1995, DNB  946772703 , p. 31 . Retrieved December 26, 2011.
  3. ^ Friedrich Michels: History and description of the former abbey camp near Rheinberg . Funcke, 1832, p. 157 . Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b Rheinberg: The house of the journeyman's association, a place of refuge for the Kamper monks. In: Rheinische Post . April 14, 2007, accessed December 27, 2011 .
  5. ↑ a b c Monuments of the monument area No. 2 “Stadtkern Rheinberg”. (PDF) Stadt Rheinberg, p. 12 , accessed on December 27, 2011 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 41.1 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 2.2 ″  E