Medefurter Hof

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stainless steel plaque in memory of the Medefurter Hof and its mill

The Medefurter Hof was a medieval manor with an attached water mill. It was in today's Duisburg district of Hüttenheim on the border with Wanheim-Angerhausen am Angerbach .

Meaning of the name

The name comes from a former ford over the Angerbach. Mede- possibly stands for middle , Medefurter Hof thus for yard at the middle ford (over the Angerbach) .

history

The Medefurter Hof was on an ancient road from Ehingen to Wanheim . The name ( warnerus de medevurt ) appears for the first time in the records of the courts of the Gerresheim Abbey, which were created between 1218 and 1231 . However, the history of the farm seems to go back to the early Franconian times, because graves from around 500 were discovered in the immediate vicinity of the farm.

In 1271 the yard and mill were owned by the knight Heinrich von Linnep and his wife Udelindis. In 1364 a Gotschalk from Medevort appears as a guarantor in a Bergisch document. When Duke Wilhelm von Berg and his wife Anna von der Pfalz re-founded the Düsseldorf Monastery in 1392 , they also founded the Medefurt court, among other things.

In 1414 Konrad von Eller sold the farm, inheritance and estate at Medefurt to Lutter Quadt and his wife Margarethe von Landsberg . In 1416 Johann von Landsberg leased half of the Medefurt farm on the Angeren from Ryne von Kunigunde, Reinhard von Landsberg's widow. After the neighboring house Angerort had been expanded into a fortress, Medefurt was almost always named together with Angerort from 1434 onwards. In 1448, Duke Gerhard von Ritter Hermann von Winkelhausen , who had inherited the Medefurt farm and mill, requested the transfer of the property because of its proximity to Angerort Castle . In return for the handover, Knight Hermann, who owned a second mill in the Huckingen area with the sand mill , was assured that the Medefurter mill would only grind grain for the Medefurter Hof and Angerort Castle. When Duke Gerhard pledged the Angerort house to his Marshal Johann vom Haus in 1450 for a payment of 10,000 guilders, the Medefurter Hof and the mill were there. In 1478 the local bailiff Ruprecht von Steinen passed the Medefurter Hof on to Johann von Volden from Duisburg.

In return for the fact that the married couple Gerhard von Troistorp and Margarete von Hammerstein zu Schloss Heltorf paid off an old ducal debt to third parties, Duke Johann von Jülich-Kleve-Berg transferred the couple Hof Medefurt together with Angerort for life in 1522. When Duke Wilhelm von Jülich-Kleve-Berg transferred Angerort and Hof Medefurt to his Chancellor Johann Ghogreff in 1541 , the Duke had to offer compensation to the now widowed Margarete and her son Sibert von Troistorp zu Heltorf. In addition to various financial compensation measures, Sibert was appointed bailiff at Angermund and Margarete was given a lifelong right of residence at Angermund Castle .

The mill remained, even if it was leased, as a sovereign mill. In 1785 Medefurt went together with Angerort to the manufacturer Braselmann, then possibly again together with Angerort in 1838 to the merchant Wiesmann from Hattingen and in 1861 to Friedrich Krüger from Ruhrort . In 1882 Gerhard Carl Bohres sold the mill with 6.71 hectares of land to Count Spee .

The yard and mill were often badly damaged by the Rhine and Anger floods. Old photos of the mill show it as a badly patched building. In 1907 Schulz-Knaudt AG acquired the site including the Angerort house and the Medefurter Hof with mill from the possession of Count Spee for the construction of a steel mill and a sheet metal rolling mill. When a flood in 1920/1 brought the mill under water up to the roof, it was decided to demolish it. Today only foundation stones of the mill can be seen at the edge of the Angerbach. The farm continued to exist for a few years. At first it was located near the administration of today's Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann , but was then demolished in 1935 for a switchover station for the RWE company .

To commemorate the farm and mill, the Duisburg-Huckingen Citizens' Association has set up a corresponding information board on the way to the Rhine portal Angerort viewing platform at the level of the former Medefurter Hof. In addition, Medefurthstrasse was named after the farm in Duisburg-Hüttenheim.

Web links

literature

  • Dietmar Ahlemann, Bernd Braun: Haus Angerort including courtyard and mill Medefurt , in: Bürgererverein Duisburg-Huckingen eV (ed.), Huckinger Heimatbuch (Volume III), Duisburg 2015, pp. 228–262.
  • Bernd Braun: Angerorter / Medefurther Mühle In: Bürgererverein Duisburg-Huckingen eV (Hrsg.): Historical hiking trail in Angerland - Huckingen and the surrounding area. Completely revised new edition, Gladbeck October 2012, pp. 19–20 ( PDF ; 7.3 MB).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter von Roden: History of the city of Duisburg. II. The districts from the beginning, the entire city since 1905 . Duisburg 1974, p. 334.
  2. ↑ LACA VI p. 122.
  3. ↑ Ludger Horstkötter: Document book of Hamborn Abbey with translation and commentary , vol. 1 (1139–1467), p. 64 ff. (No. 8, document 5)
  4. ↑ LAV NRW, Dept. Rhineland , Berg, documents, no. 386.
  5. ^ Jost Kloft: Inventory of the document archive of the princes of Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg zu Schönstein / Sieg. In: Inventories of non-governmental archives, Vol. 1, Regesten No. 1–450, 1217–1467. Cologne 1975, p. 100 (document no.206).
  6. ^ Ludger Horstkötter: Document book of the Hamborn Abbey with translation and commentary , Vol. 1 (1139–1467), p. 65.
  7. ^ Jost Kloft: Inventory of the document archive of the princes of Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg zu Schönstein / Sieg. In: Inventories of non-governmental archives, Vol. 1, Regesten No. 1–450, 1217–1467. Cologne 1975, p. 164 f. (Certificate No. 322).
  8. ↑ Spee'sches Archiv Heltorf, H 2.24 and 39.
  9. ↑ Spee'sches Archiv Heltorf, P19.2.
  10. ↑ Spee'sches Archiv Heltorf, P19.4.
  11. ↑ Spee'sches archive Heltorf, P19,6, Günter von Roden: history of the city of Duisburg. II. The districts from the beginning, the entire city since 1905 . Duisburg 1974, p. 335.
  12. ↑ Spee'sches Archiv Heltorf, P19,18.
  13. ^ City of Duisburg (ed.): Monument to the settlement of Hüttenheim . Duisburg 2010, p. 9 f. ( PDF, 3.4 MB ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 31 ″  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 54.1 ″  E