Rottland (Waldbröl)

Rottland City of Waldbröl Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 46 ″  E
Height :	255 m above sea level NN
Residents :	34  (December 2, 2004)
Postal code :	51545
Area code :	02291
Location of Rottland in Waldbröl

Gateway to the Rottland estate

Foundations of the wind turbine planned by Robert Ley

Rottland is a village in the town of Waldbröl in the Oberbergisches Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

The place is about 6 km west of the city center. However, a distinction must be made between the village of Rottland and Gut Rottland : The estate is explicitly the old manor, the village is the somewhat remote, later built small farms.

history

In 1705 the place was mentioned for the first time, the spelling when it was first mentioned was Rottland. In 1882, about 109 acres of arable land, 39 acres of meadows, 1 acre of forest and 4 acres of courtyard and house garden belonged to Gut Rottland . The owner was Johann Hollenberg, who took out a loan at the time. In 1925 the Evangelical Church bought the property and built a rest home for mothers in need of care on the manor house.

In 1934 the management of the estate was transferred to Wilhelm Heuser from Waldbröl and the estate was managed again for the first time without loss. On January 1, 1936, the farm was bought by the leader of the German Labor Front, Robert Ley , and made an ancestral farm by being entered in the family register . The estate now had a size of 170 acres, 128 of which were cultivated land . In 1936/37 the farm buildings were completely renewed and expanded because the management should be intensified. The renovation plans came from Clemens Klotz , the construction was carried out by the Wilhelm Kolb company from Waldbröl-Heide . In 1938 the old manor house was torn down, replaced by a new one based on plans by Clemens Klotz and furnished. In 1938 Gut Rottland was given a monumental courtyard entrance, and in 1942 figures of a sowing man and an SA man made by the sculptor Willy Meller were placed in the interior niches of the pillars . In early 1939, Ley's asset manager Hugo Simon became the estate manager. In 1940 Ley received a gift of one million Reichsmarks from Adolf Hitler , which he put into financing the court. During the war, the estate was provided with extensive bunkers. Ley also planned the construction of a wind turbine that would supply the estate with electricity and make it self-sufficient. Its foundations are still visible today. In 1945 orders were given to burn down the manor house so that it would not fall into the hands of the Americans advancing through the Bröltal and the Nutscheid . While the building burned down with all the artifacts, employees were able to save the rest of the property.

Today Gut Rottland is owned by the Bamberg family.

leisure

Bike paths

The bicycle tour half-timbered route leads along numerous well-preserved and renovated half-timbered houses and crosses Berkenroth , starting point is Nümbrecht. There are eight height differences to be overcome. The 40-kilometer route runs along the route Nümbrecht - Marienberghausen - Lindscheid - Benroth - Langenbach - Berkenroth - Gut Rottland - direction Wirtenbach - Bruch .

Web links

Commons : Gut Rottland  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gottfried Corbach: History of Waldbröl. Scriba-Verlag, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-921232-03-1 , pp. 499-538.
2. ^ Karl Schröder : The rise and fall of Robert Ley. Published by the Ruppichteroth Citizens' Association. Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-87710-342-5 , pp. 164-165.
3. ^ Karl Schröder: The rise and fall of Robert Ley. Published by the Ruppichteroth Citizens' Association. Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-87710-342-5 , pp. 160-163.
4. ^ Karl Schröder: The rise and fall of Robert Ley. Published by the Ruppichteroth Citizens' Association. Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-87710-342-5 , p. 166.