Borghees Castle
The small castle Borghees , also known colloquially as Haus Borghees or Castle Borghees , is a manor house in the district of the same name in the Lower Rhine town of Emmerich . After an eventful history, it is considered today Cultural used and is in December 1986 as a monument under monument protection .
description
The house stands between meadows and polluted willows on the edge of the Borghees forest in the north of Emmerich. Two trees standing on the site are protected as natural monuments.
The building is a two-storey brick building measuring around 17 × 11 meters and closed off by a hipped roof with dormers . Its main facade on the west side has five axes and is vertically structured by six pilasters . Above the portal in the middle of the facade is the alliance coat of arms of the Rickers and Raab families from 1680. On the east side of the building is a square stair tower with four storeys and a high helmet in front of the building. As in the case of Haus Hertefeld in Weeze , the Borghees castle has different storey heights, with the ground floor being lower than the first floor. The area to the west of the house is surrounded on three sides by a moat .
history
In 827 a "villa hese juxta Embrica" was first mentioned in a document, which was sold in 1336 by the Elten monastery . However, their identification as Borghees is not certain. The present-day property was not documented until the 17th century, when the Brandenburg customs inspector Christoffel Rickers (also Ryckers) acquired the property in 1678 and had a country house built on the property two years later . It was a one-storey building with brick masonry , with a small turret with a baroque hood in front of it. Christoffel's daughter Catharina became the maitresse of Friedrich I after she married Count von Wartenberg . Katharina inherited the property when her father died in 1690 and subsequently let her cousin Johann manage it. His grandson Johann Peter Reinhard von Rickers expanded the manor house to its present form in the middle of the 18th century.
Through inheritance through the female line, the farm came to the Dutch Thooft family in 1804, who leased it to Peter Reyers from 1838 . He not only used the building for agricultural purposes, but also ran a cheese dairy and an inn there, which was taken over by the Braam family in 1907. In 1902 the property had already gone to the Jonkheeren Bosch van Rosenthal. After the farm was taken over by the Rheinische Heimat settlement company, the property was divided into three individual agricultural farms. The castle was bought by the Braam family in 1957, who sold it to what was then Rees County in 1964 . During renovations in the 1960s, an extension north of the turret was demolished.
When Emmerich was assigned to the Kleve district in 1975 , the building became the new owner. Shortly afterwards, the Borghees castle came into the possession of the city of Emmerich. In the same year, a fire almost completely destroyed the roof and upper floor of the building. On the initiative of the citizens of Emmerich, the complete demolition was prevented; instead, the city of Emmerich began to rebuild, which took two years. During the restoration , the top floor of the house was converted into an apartment. In 1978 the silted-up moats on the property were restored.
Todays use
From 1982 to 2000 the building was used under the direction of a board of trustees for cultural events such as exhibitions and concerts. Meanwhile under the management of the city's cultural institutions, the house now functions, among other things, as a location for the event series Art, Classical, Aperitif , in which not only established, but also young, as yet unknown artists use the rooms as exhibition space. The TiK puppet theater has also been located there since March 2008. In addition, the registry office in Emmerich maintains a wedding room in the small castle.
The Christmas market , which has been organized by the Lions Club on the second Sunday of Advent every year since 2000 , was closed in 2018.
literature
- Gregor Spohr: How nice to dream away here. Castles on the Lower Rhine . Pomp, Bottrop / Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89355-228-6 , pp. 34–35.
- Jens Wroblewski, André Wemmers: Theiss-Burgenführer Niederrhein . Konrad Theiss , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1612-6 , pp. 36-37 .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information according to the topographic map for Borghees available online
- ↑ Information according to the online cadastral map for Borghees
- ^ A b Jens Wroblewski, André Wemmers: Theiss-Burgenführer Niederrhein. Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, p. 37, ISBN 3-8062-1612-6
- ^ Galleries in Emmerich , City of Emmerich, accessed on January 5, 2020.
- ↑ Sarah Eul: Lions Club announces the end of the Borghees Christmas market . NRZ, March 21, 2019
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '23.1 " N , 6 ° 13' 8.2" E