Schönrath (Cologne)

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Schönrath, residential building, 2011

Gut Schönrath is an estate in the Höhenhaus district of Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine , Am Flachsrosterweg 33.

location

Originally Schönrath was completely free, roughly in the middle between the former Premonstratensian monastery in Dünnwald , the destroyed castle in Stammheim and Mülheim am Rhein . Today it is wedged between the A 3 in the west, the Gruiten – Köln-Deutz railway line in the east and the Dünnwalder Kommunalweg in the north.

Schönrath has been part of the Cologne Höhenhaus district since it was founded in 1934. However, until the mayor's office Merheim was detached from the Mülheim district and incorporated into Cologne on April 1, 1914, the farm was part of the Dünnwald community. It is still listed in the cadastre and land register under the district of Dünnwald.

history

According to a much quoted but unproven statement, Schönrath (= beautiful clearing) is said to have been in the possession of a "Knight Sigwin" who is said to have donated the farm to the Cistercian Abbey of Altenberg near Odenthal in the 14th century to atone for a blood debt . According to Mosler and Huck, however, Schönrath was owned by the abbey as early as 1210, which remained until it was abolished in 1803 as part of secularization . At 773 acres , Schönrath was the largest of the farms belonging to it at that time, which is due to the previous consolidation through the purchase of neighboring ones (Buchheim, Mülheim, Espen and possibly also Merheim). As a result of the French Revolution, religious from the left bank of the Rhine temporarily found refuge on Schönrath.

After secularization, the farm was divided and a second, independent farm was created under the name Neurath (today's location Neurather Weg 18). This, however, belonged to the same owners for a long time and was managed by the same tenants for many decades.

From the possession of the domain it was bought by Baron Theodor von Fürstenberg (1772–1828), who was seated at Schloss Stammheim . As in previous centuries, he and his descendants had the property managed by tenants. Around 1818 Johann Rolshoven was sitting in the courtyard as such. He had married a daughter from Gut Iddelsfeld in Anna Sibilla Düppes in 1815 and later moved to the Gut Neufeld in Holweide, which he had built and which was opposite .

In 1928, Schönrath came from the property of the current von Fürstenberg-Stammheim family into the possession of the city of Cologne, which, like numerous other estates in their bacon belt, acquired it to store land, for the purpose of later subdivision into plots for residential construction or commercial use.

The Litz family had been managing the estate since around 1860. Ludwig Litz (1851-1913), a son of the first tenant, founded horse breeding on Schönrath which existed until the end of the 1950s. In 1974 animal husbandry was completely stopped and only arable farming (grain, sugar beet and maize) was carried out.

The courtyard was placed under monument protection on July 1, 1980 (No. 624).

description

The street side in brick listed two-storey residential building of 7: 3 axes was around 1870 under the tenants' Henry Litz "; built (born December 21, 1824 in Cologne † 13 June 1874 on Schönrath), who ran the farm for the 1860th The one-storey farm buildings facing north-west in a semicircle are also made of brick.

Schönrather Hof cemetery

The Schönrather Hof is named for the nearby park-like cemetery Schönrather Hof , which was opened in September 1967 as a relief cemetery for the existing Mülheim cemeteries. In contrast to the Mülheimer Friedhof , which opened in 1904, it is also called Neuer Mülheimer Friedhof and is located for the smaller part in the Mülheim district and the larger part in Stammheim.

literature

  • Johann Bendel : Homeland book of the district of Mülheim am Rhein. History and description. Sagas and stories. 2nd and 3rd editions, self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1925, p. 398.
  • Manfred Gorny: 1948–1998 50 years in between. The history of the Brother Klaus settlement in Cologne-Mülheim. Self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1998.
  • Jürgen Huck : The mayor's office in Merheim and its predecessors through the ages. In: The mayor's office of Merheim through the ages. Published by the Heimatverein Köln-Dellbrück eV "Ahl Kohgasser". 2nd ed. Cologne 1974, pp. 44–157.
  • Alfred Kemp: Cologne Höhenhaus between then and yesterday. Cramer, Cologne 1996, new edition 2007, p. 6.
  • Henriette Meynen (historical texts): List of monuments. 12.7 Cologne district 9 (Mülheim) Ed. By the Rhineland State Conservator. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0461-7 , p. 70.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vinzenz Jakob von Zuccalmaglio: History and description of the city and the district of Mülheim a. R. , To the advantage of the Cologne cathedral building, Cologne 1846. Digitized edition , p. 335, later by Johann Bendel: Heimatbuch des Landkreises Mülheim am Rhein. History and description. Sagas and stories. 2nd and 3rd ed., Self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1925, p. 398.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Huck: The Mayor's Office Merheim and its predecessors through the ages. In: The mayor's office of Merheim through the ages. Ed .: Heimatverein Köln-Dellbrück eV “Ahl Kohgasser”, 2nd edition 1974, Cologne 1974, p. 60.
  3. ^ Hans Mosler: The Cistercian Abbey Altenberg. (= Germania Sacra; New Series 2. ) Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1965. Digitized , p. 102.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Heinrichs: Order and its branches in old Düren . Hahne & Schloemer-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-927312-55-X , p. 60.
  5. ↑ Herbert M. Schleicher: 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections (=  publications of the West German Society for Family Studies, New Series No. 42), Volume III, Cologne 1988, without ISBN, p. 278.
  6. ↑ Manfred Gorny: 1948–1998 50 years in between. The history of the Brother Klaus settlement in Cologne-Mülheim. Self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1998, p. 11f.
  7. ^ Henriette Meynen (Historical Texts): List of Monuments. 12.7 Cologne district 9 (Mülheim). Edited by Landeskonservator Rheinland, Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0461-7 , p. 70.
  8. ↑ Herbert M. Schleicher: 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections (=  publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV New Series. No. 42), Volume III, Cologne 1988, without ISBN, p. 278.
  9. ↑ Schönrather Hof cemetery on stadt-koeln.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 14.1 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 56.7 ″  E