Baldeney Castle

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Main building of the castle from the southwest, in the middle the residential tower

The Baldeney Castle , also home Baldeney called, is at the Essen district Bredeney and went from a medieval moated castle forth. There was the 1933 completed Baldeneysee , on the north bank it is, his name and stands as construction and archaeological monument under monument protection .

description

Today's palace complex was built from Ruhr sandstone and, in addition to the main building, consists of a former farm building and the adjoining chapel . It used to be surrounded by a moat that was filled in around 1890 but can still be seen in the area. The original cadastre from 1875 shows the property with wide trenches and farm buildings that are no longer preserved today.

The castle chapel

The oldest surviving part is the almost square one, from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century residential tower with three floors and hipped roof . A flight of stairs leads to its portal , above which is the coat of arms of the Barons von Bottlenberg . Like the cross- frame window and the windows with stone walls , it dates from the 19th century. To the east and west of the residential tower are building wings from the 17th and 18th centuries, which were completely redesigned in the 19th century. The west wing is a two-story building with a vaulted cellar and hipped roof, the windows of which have sandstone walls . The east wing also has two floors, but no basement.

The Remise (2007)

To the north-west of the main building, the so-called Remise is a two-storey three-wing building that used to house the stables and servants' quarters. Its appearance is largely determined by the large, arched doors on the ground floor. It was built around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in accordance with the castle romanticism that was prevalent at the time, in the style of historicism , which is particularly evident in its central, crenellated tower.

The former farm building is adjoined to the west by a small chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene . Today she is looked after by the parish of St. Markus in Essen-Bredeney. Its appearance goes back to a renovation in the 16th century, while the interior dates from 1821. The canopy of the sacred building , supported by columns , probably also dates from the 19th century. There is a small cemetery right next to the castle chapel, which is surrounded by a low stone wall. It has been documented since the 19th century and was the burial place of the castle owners. The grave slabs that have been preserved are so badly weathered that the names of the deceased can no longer be deciphered.

history

Count Adolf I von der Mark had a first permanent house built on the site of today's main building in 1226 , but a moth probably already existed there before that . The house was a fiefdom of Werden Abbey and was first mentioned in a document in 1337, when the then owner Theodoricus von (der) Leythe (also Leythen, Leyte and Leithe) founded a chapel together with his son Everhard .

The complex was owned by the von (der) Leythe family until 1432, after which it passed through female family members to changing owners, some of whom held the office of Hereditary Marshal of Werden and were also treasurer of the prince abbey of Essen . Among the lords of the castle are, for example, the knight Kracht Stecke zu Mylendonk and Meiderich and Arndt von Vittinghoff , who came into possession of the house in 1445. It was followed by von Eyll in 1563. In 1612 the complex came to the von Neuhoff family, which was followed by the von Drimborn family in 1655 . In 1747 the imperial captain Baron Franz Ernst von dem Bottlenberg , known as Schirp, became lord of the castle. His family held the property until 1968.

Baldeney Castle around 1870

After an additional wing had been added to the residential tower on the west side in the 17th century, the building was extended to the east with a second wing in the 18th century. The interior of the ensemble underwent fundamental changes in the 19th century. At the same time, the owners had a farm building erected north of it and in 1870 the mill belonging to the house was demolished.

The buildings had been leased since 1921 and were first used as a school camp then mainly as a restaurant, which after completion of Lake Baldeney developed into a popular restaurant for excursions. After the sale in the 1960s, the owners had the castle and park extensively restored after years of dilapidation , for example the castle chapel in 1992. A restaurant was also run on the area again, but it fell victim to a fire in September 2004. The facility has been unused since then. After the owner's bankruptcy, the more than 9000 square meter property was for sale for a long time. In August 2011 it was bought by a real estate agent in Essen for 3.9 million euros.

literature

  • Klaus Gorzny: Ruhr castles . Piccolo, Marl 2002, ISBN 3-9801776-7-X , pp. 142-143.
  • Ingo Gutenberger: mansions in Essen (= Essen homeland books . Volume 2). Tosch, Essen 1978.
  • Bianca Khil: House Baldeney . In: Kai Niederhöfer (Red.): Burgen AufRuhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0234-3 , pp. 167-170.
  • Bianca Khil: House Baldeney. In: Detlef Hopp , Bianca Khil, Elke Schneider (eds.): Burgenland Essen. Castles, palaces and permanent houses in Essen . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8375-1739-2 , pp. 26-29.
  • Ingrid Märtens, Andreas Stanicki: Baldeney Castle . In: The Minster on Hellweg . Vol. 41, 1988, pp. 64-81.
  • Gregor Spohr: Romantic Ruhr area. Castles, palaces, mansions . 2nd Edition. Peter Pomp, Bottrop / Essen 1996, ISBN 3-89355-110-7 , p. 28.
  • Baldeney Castle. Popular destination with more than 700 years of history. In: Top-Magazin Essen. Vol. 7, No. 2, 1993, pp. 126-128.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Baldeney  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Gorzny: Ruhr locks. 2002, p. 142.
  2. ↑ a b Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the city and the district of Essen (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 2, section 3). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893, p. 61 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b immopool.de ( Memento from November 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Christina Wandt: Baldeney Castle poses a riddle. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . Edition of January 21, 2014 ( online ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 28.7 "  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 27.6"  E