Brünninghausen Castle

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Historical view of Brünninghausen Palace, Alexander Duncker collection
The ice cellar secured due to the risk of collapse

Brünninghausen Castle was a moated castle in Dortmund . In the 13th century the property belonged to the "von Brünninghausen" lords.

history

The old part of Brünninghausen Castle around 1890.

The Nordkerke family had a moated castle built in 1300. Dietrich Notkerke, descendant of the von Brünninghausen family, left the old village in the 14th century and chose this place as his place of residence. In addition to the actual castle, numerous cottages and courtyards in Barop , Hacheney , Wellinghofen , Kleinholthausen and Lücklemberg belonged to the property. Extensive forest ownership on the northern slopes of the Ardey Mountains also belonged to Brünninghausen Castle.

By marriage in 1483 the property came into the possession of a branch of the Rodenberg family, which later called itself von Romberg . From 1560 to 1571, Conrad von Romberg replaced the dilapidated moated castle with a new structure with a tower each on the northwest and southeast corner. In 1681 Conrad Philipp von Romberg had the castle renewed and the gatehouse built.

In the 19th century, the Rombergs owned many mines in the Ruhr area. Between 1820 and 1830, Gisbert Christian Friedrich von Romberg was able to carry out an elaborate conversion of the old castle complex into a classical palace, after he had gained wealth and political influence, especially through the family's commitment to mining. The old castle was probably integrated into the palace complex. The castle has a park laid out in the style of an English landscape garden, today's Rombergpark . Brünnighausen Castle became known as the residence of the bon vivant Baron Gisbert II von Romberg (1839-1897), who is considered the model for the fictional character of the mad Bomberg . He was tried by family members for being drunk and wasteful. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, a hospital for war wounded was set up in Brünninghausen.

Christoph Ernst Friedrich von Forcade de Biaix (1821–1891) acquired the estate in 1873 together with his wife Isabella Freiin von Romberg (1836–1909), where he died on July 18, 1891. Clemens von Romberg Brünninghausen (1863-1923) moved in 1904 by Castle Buldern in the Westphalian Buldern order. The house was then empty and for sale. The city of Dortmund acquired the facility from Gisbert III in 1927 . von Romberg (1888–1952). During the Second World War , the castle was destroyed in a bomb attack on the Hoesch site in 1945. The moat was filled with rubble, while stones from the walls of the castle were used in the zoo .

Building findings

Front of the gatehouse today
Side view of the gatehouse, behind it the classical gable of the main house, around 1890.
The front around 1890.
The back around 1890.
Excavations of the ruins in 2012
exposed moats 2013

The now known Torhaus Rombergpark , built in 1681, was badly damaged in the Second World War and restored from 1957 to 1959 under the direction of the engineers Bernhard von Glisczynski and FH Sonnenschein. It has been used as a municipal art gallery with changing exhibitions and concert events since 1968 . So-called ambience weddings are also possible there. It is located at the north entrance of the Rombergpark . The Torhaus Brünninghausen is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .

Other preserved evidence of the castle are parts of the castle moat and the ice cellar , which is now in danger of collapsing and was used to cool wine and food. A citizens' initiative is campaigning for the preservation of the castle's farm yard and the historical building stock, which is in great need of renovation. The approximately 200 year old buildings are not subject to monument protection . The farmyard - also called Gut Brünninghausen - housed, among other things, a brewery in which beer was brewed for the Rombergs' own use. The Hotel Rombergpark was located on the estate until 2002. Adjacent was the business school for the hotel and catering industry , wihoga , which moved into a new home in a new building opposite in 2007. The prefabricated buildings of the Hotel Rombergpark and the wihoga were demolished in 2008. The site, which includes the former depot Brünninghausen as well as the former service yard of the castle, was to be re-used several times. The establishment of a private clinic (2000) or a wellness facility with a hotel (2011) both failed, and a Dortmund investor group is currently planning a hotel / boarding house and a restaurant including a brewery. The house brewery and restaurant are planned in the former manor stable building, new buildings for administration, service and training in the area of ​​the eastern manor buildings.

On March 4, 2011, an empty farm building, probably the last part of the former manor next to the gatehouse, burned down.

During work on the redesign of the Schondelle stream in October 2011, walls of a building with a floor plan of 6 m × 6 m and remnants of a vault as well as an adjoining wall to the west were discovered behind the gatehouse southern castle house with the adjoining tower of the castle from 1560/71 have been identified and suggest the remains of an even older castle complex in this area. From December 15, 2011, the walls were exposed. The finds were classified as worthy of protection. The area is integrated into the stream of the renatured Schondelle.

See also

literature

  • Wilhelm Hücker: On the history of the Brünninghausen house. In: Contributions to the history of Dortmund and the county of Mark . No. 64, 1968
  • Ministry for building and traffic of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia / Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Burgen auf Ruhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region . Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2010, pp. 52–54
  • Ludger Wilde, Dr. Henriette Brink-Kloke: A country party - on the history of the Brünninghausen house in Dortmund . In: City of Dortmund, city planning and building regulations office, monument authority (ed.): Building blocks and found objects . tape 04 , 2014, ISSN  2192-9408 ( dortmund.de [PDF; accessed on April 30, 2016]).

Web links

Commons : Brünninghausen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History about Gut Reckenburg digitized ( memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ No. A 0861. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 20, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de
  3. ↑ Gut Brünninghausen: Savior in sight? ( Ruhr Nachrichten , March 27, 2008)
  4. ↑ Construction plans for Rombergpark ( Ruhr Nachrichten , October 28, 2014)
  5. ↑ Fire Department of the City of Dortmund: Dortmund Fire Department - Annual Report 2011 (PDF) May 31, 2012, accessed on June 20, 2014 (size: 180 kB).
  6. ↑ the west: Burgturm discovered in Rombergpark in Dortmund, December 16, 2011
  7. ^ Ruhr Nachrichten: Archaeologists uncover Gut Brünninghausen, December 19, 2011
  8. ^ City of Dortmund: Monument of the Month March 2012, February 24, 2012 ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ City of Dortmund: Schondelle sees daylight again, February 21, 2013 ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 0.4 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 6.7 ″  E