Lorsbeck

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Lorsbeck was a village in the area of ​​today's city of Jülich in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Düren . It was probably destroyed in the 16th century during the Third War of the Geldr Succession . Today only an estate of the same name and the remains of a former knight's seat remind of the former village.

history

A Mesolithic open - air station (temporary resting place for groups of hunters in the open area) is occupied near Lorsbeck .

Beck means Bach. Lors is to be thought of as originating from lurissa , where the component "isa" means stream or water. Lorsbeck should therefore be interpreted as a "settlement on the water".

The village of Lorsbeck was probably completely destroyed in 1542 in the Third War of the Geldr Succession. Only the Lorsbeck house and the neighboring estate of the same name were rebuilt.

Lorsbeck belonged to the parish of Kirchberg . That is why the wealthy and nobles from Lorsbeck were buried in the local parish church of St. Martinus , as evidenced by a few weathered tombstones.

building

House Lorsbeck

The house had been known as a knight's seat since the 14th century and was owned by a family of the same name. In the 18th century the manor house was rebuilt . The main house was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War , but was rebuilt in simple forms in the 1950s. With the exception of its listed gate tower, Haus Lorsbeck was demolished in February 2011.

Good Lorsbeck

Gut Lorsbeck 1929, Vierseithof, residential house with anchor inscription 1696, gate construction and other buildings, in the foreground the mill pond

The manor consists of a closed four-sided courtyard in brick on an almost square floor plan. It was formerly surrounded by a ditch. The southern wing consists of the mansion on the eaves and the gate building to the west. The manor house was dated 1696 with an anchor inscription and was probably unadorned except for a narrow block frieze on the eaves cornice. It was two-story with a steep gable roof and had four slightly irregular window axes on the eaves side and two regular window axes on the gable side. The window openings were renewed in the shape of the late 19th century. On the eaves side, there were three brick buttresses between the window axes at the level of the ground floor . The front door was in the courtyard. The attic was also two-story. On the eastern gable there were three small original window openings with draperies. The building was completely destroyed in World War II and then rebuilt. The single-storey gate building with a gable roof was apparently rebuilt in the 19th century. Two old, large stone cannonballs served as wheel deflectors , which were probably found in the immediate vicinity of the property and are evidence of fighting. The other three wings of the four-sided courtyard were farm buildings.

Jülich-Lorsbeck, Gut Lorsbeck, in the background an agricultural shed. This is the former Lorsbeck chapel.

The Lorsbeck chapel also belonged to the estate as a free-standing building . In 1518 this was looked after by a chapel servant, the vicar von Lorsbeck. In 1533 it was maintained by the owners of the estate and belonged to the Kirchberg parish . At the end of the 19th century, the chapel, a simple, unadorned brick building, served as a shed on the estate's farm.

Moth Lorsbeck

Jülich-Lorsbeck, Motte im Graben system, 1929. Artificial hill, possibly a fortification of a predecessor building of Haus Lorsbeck or the place of a storage building.

The Motte Lorsbeck is an artificial, round, flat hill from the Middle Ages . It is located in the meadow pond, part of the moat system. Presumably it was a fortification as part of a predecessor of Haus Lorsbeck or the place of a storage building. The hill has not yet been explored.

In the vicinity of Lorsbeck, in a lowland in swampy terrain between a branch of the Iktebach, rises a flat hill, which is probably also a former moth.

literature

  • Wilhelm Consten: Manor Lorsbeck. In: Rur flowers. Vol. 14, No. 29, 1934, pp. 225-227.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Specialist contribution cultural landscape to the Cologne regional plan. P. 139 ( PDF ; 39.7 MB).
  2. ↑ Franz-Josef Riesen: place names of our district based on the term "water". In: Rur flowers. Volume 13, 1933, No. 2.
  3. ↑ Octavia Zanger: Monuments in the city of Jülich. City of Jülich, Jülich 1989, ISBN 3-921869-02-1 , p. 40.
  4. ^ Gut Lorsbeck demolished. In: Aachener Zeitung , local section Jülich. Edition of February 16, 2010 ( online ).
  5. ^ Friedrich, Päffgen: Medieval castle complexes. 2007, p. 75.