House Ermelinghof

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House Ermelinghof

House Ermelinghof (often Ermelinghoff ) is a former in the Bishopric of Münster diet capable manor in the Hammer district Bockum-Hoevel (old parish Hoevel). It is located immediately east of the Bockum-Hövel train station. It was first mentioned in a document in 1350 . At the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries it is attested several times as Memerinchove , Memerinckhove or Mermelinchave . The property is also referred to as a castle , estate , noble house or just Ermelinghof .

location

Ermelinghof Castle is located on Geinegge 38 in Hövel (formerly: Ermelinghofstraße named after the property), part of the Hamm-Bockum-Hövel district in the northwest of the city of Hamm . It is located near the Bockum-Hövel train station , which was originally only laid out to provide traffic access to the castle and was therefore initially called Ermelinghof train station. House Ermelinghof is located in a rural idyll and is surrounded by old trees. It has been a listed building since 1985 .

Building ensemble

Depiction of St. John Nepomuk at the driveway
chapel

Haus Ermelinghof is a water system. Originally it was located on two islands surrounded by the Geinegge , to which a third in the south belonged as a Vorwerk. After the internal forces were eliminated, all buildings are now on an island. The property is surrounded by a moat that is fed by the Geinegge.

When you approach the castle, you first see an elongated gatehouse with a stepped gable and a Doric porch (column portal). This dates from the year 1831. Compared to the building originally located here, it has been shortened and changed in a classical style.

In front of the bridge crossing to the courtyard and the main building you can see a statue representing the "bridge saint" John of Nepomuk . The bridge itself is framed by goal posts.

Behind the gatehouse is a low farm building with a hipped roof. The two-winged timber-framed building was built around 1800.

Located on the north side of the courtyard, the stately two-storey brick or brick building with a three-tiered gable and narrow, gabled porch, on which a coat of arms is attached, is located next to the main house and has existed almost unchanged since the fire of 1627. It used to be used for the production and storage, primarily of beer and bread.

Also worth seeing is the Inaugurated in 1654, this small, plastered, three-bay St. Bartholomew - chapel with pfannengedecktem gable roof and roof skylights with hood, a bell tower in the.

Today's neo-Gothic main house was built in 1875 after the old house burned down. It is a four by nine or ten-axis plastered building with tall rectangular windows. The building has narrow sides with stepped gables, an inner front with a four-story tower two axes wide and a pointed arch frieze under its hipped roof. It also has a pan-roofed gable roof, a two-storey extension and a three-storey tower on the outer front. Considerable remains of the older building fabric have been preserved.

In the garden there are two more small goal posts with bowl attachments.

In addition to the farm buildings, only the stepped gable of the main house, which burned down around 1875 and rebuilt in neo-Gothic forms, testifies to the old building stock.

The status of a monument relates to the exterior of the property, which does without modern ingredients (after 1945), as well as the interior, which has been preserved in its historical form, and the structural structure.

history

Aerial view of the manor house, in the foreground on the right the chapel.

Former Bockum-Hövel local researchers want to know that Ermelinghof was inhabited by the Alamarich family in ancient times. This was then replaced by the knight family of the Summeren. This information can neither be proven nor refuted with the documents available today.

It is probably correct that a von Ermel family lived there as early as the 12th century. For this reason Ermelinghof was called Imberlinckhem or Emelrikenhoff in earlier times . One of Ermel's heirs then married the squire of Schredigen (Scheidingen) around 1230. Around 1278, Count Engelbert von der Mark found a castle man named Hermann von Scheidingen. Around this time, the house chapel was first mentioned as a separate church.

In 1350, Ermelinghof Castle is mentioned in a document. The estate and its chapel were still owned by the Scheidingen family . In 1355 the squire Henrich von Schedingen was named as guarantor in a document from the Höveler church. In addition to von Scheidingen, von Sümmern also had rights to Ermelinghof.

In 1410, when the male line of the family had died out, Ermgard von Scheidingen married Heinrich von Galen. So the property came to this family. The heir to the von Scheidingen family received the castle as a bride's treasure . Count von Galen probably came from the neighboring House of Venne. The von Galen were castle men of the Counts of the Mark. The family had three red wolf fishing rods in gold shields as coats of arms.

From Ermelinghof, the principle Cuius regio, eius religio , which spread with the Augsburg religious peace of 1555, apparently affected the St. Pankratius Church in Hövel: in 1534 the owner of Ermelinghof, Gert von Galen , was with his wife Mechthild von Korf zum Converted to Protestantism . He had been persuaded to do so by his brother, a canon and parish priest. Dietrich von Galen later converted to the Lutheran faith in 1550. From 1563 to 1618, preaching in the Höveler Church was largely Lutheran. The extended family probably believed in better support from the Lutheran faith. As a rule, all noble families had a family seat in a parish church. However, this was not true of von Galen's. The St.Pankratius Church was not available to them for this purpose. The von Galen family probably only received their family seat in the St. Pankratius Church when a close relative, Georg von Galen, whose father Philipp von Galen was mayor of Hamm around 1591, became a minor pastor in Hövel. In 1652, Alexander von Galen and his family converted to the Catholic Church - influenced by the recatholisator of the Münsterland , Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1650–1678).

The house chapel in Ermelinghof hadn't been used for a hundred years and was accordingly dilapidated. That is why the Prince-Bishop of Galen gave Alexander von Galen an amount of 1,200 thalers to build a new house chapel. This was inaugurated in 1654 by Father Bernhardus Hackfort from Münster. Prince-Bishop von Galen, however, demanded that the old chapel square be fenced in forever. In 1657 the amount was increased from 1,200 thalers to 1,425 thalers. Around 1662 a house vicarie with the name "ad Sanctum Bartholomaeum" (for St. Bartholomew) was formed. Alexander von Galen was appointed executor after the death of the Prince-Bishop of Galen in 1678. For this activity the prince-bishop gave him an altar cross for the house chapel while he was still alive. The altar cross most likely dates back to the time when Dietrich von Isenberg became Prince-Bishop of Münster around 1218, because there is a coat of arms of the Altena counts on it. The altar cross of Dietrich von Altena was thus brought back to its former home - Dietrich von Altena was temporarily at home at Nienbrügge Castle in Hövel. It was then completely redesigned in 1714 by the silversmith Christian Hövel, who lived in Hamm . The chapel was consecrated in 1680.

After the economic decline and because of the dissolute life of the von Galen, Franz Joseph von Galen zu Ermelinghof had to file for bankruptcy. In 1781 the entire property was forcibly auctioned. The last male offspring of the Ermelinghofer Galens, the canon Clemens August, drowned in 1809 at Minden in the Weser.

On May 26, 1787, Baron Anton von Wintgen, who also acquired the Braam house in 1793 , bought the Ermelinghof house. This led as a coat of arms in a silver shield a blue crossbar with a red lion. The manor belonged to an important property, around a dozen farms and cottages in the Hölter and Geinegge farmers were owned by him and therefore subject to tax. Baron Wintgen died in 1798 and was buried in the church at Hövel. His son had no male offspring; the heiress married in 1840 (alternative information: 1844) the baron Josef von Twickel zu Havixbeck. Here they founded their own line of the Twickel family, who have owned the estate since then. The gatehouse was built in the Greek style around 1800. According to an old drawing, the bridge saint, Saint Nepomuk , should not have stood there at that time . During this time, the palace park and the entrance to it were also redesigned.

In 1875, as a result of the carelessness of a servant, the main house burned to the ground. The house was rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style.

Freiherr Fritz von Twickel was a long-time honorary officer in the Drensteinfurt office, which also included Bockum and Hövel until 1908. The first official building was housed in the gatehouse of Ermelinghof. After a short time it moved to the summer house. Baron Fritz von Twickel died in 1913 as a result of a hunting accident in the Wiehenholt forest, shortly before the inauguration of the newly built office building in Hövel. He had no offspring. Ignaz von Twickel, who came from Recklinghausen , took over the inheritance . His granddaughter Walburga and her husband Christoph Freiherr von Aretin are now the owners of the Ermelinghof.

The chapel of SS. Maria and Bartholomaeus on Haus Ermelinghof

The Beatae Mariae Virginis et S. Bartholomaei chapel belonging to the noble Ermelinghof family , which was built during the Counter-Reformation , is still fully preserved today. The Catholic chapel, consecrated to the Mother of God and St. Bartholomew, is at the entrance to the former outer bailey. It is a small, light hall building. Its predecessor probably already stood in this position in the Middle Ages. Of the stone figures on either side of the entrance in front of the building, only St. Catherine can be seen standing on the left.

The large altarpiece in the chapel, fitted into a baroque frame that was added at a later date, with its life-size wooden figures of Saint Nepomuk and Saint Agatha, gives the room a festive character, more in line with the 18th century than when it was built.

When the otherwise inaccessible roof turret of the Ermelinghof chapel was climbed with the help of a fire brigade ladder, a bell from 1649 was found there (strike e '' + 7, diameter 503 mm, weight about 75 kg). It is not signed, but the design and the excellent casting suggest that it was cast by the Lorraine master Johann Fremy. He supplied bells with the same decorative shapes for several churches in the Münsterland. Among them was a particularly beautiful bell for the former Metelen collegiate church.

In the attic of the chapel there is still a small wrought-iron clockwork that probably dates from the first half of the 19th century and has long been shut down.

House chaplains at Haus Ermelinghof for the chapel ad Stum Bartholomaeum were:

  • around 1500: Evard Holtmann
  • 1511–1541: Wilhelm Sweringe
  • 1544: Diricus Schene
  • 1550–1652: The von Galen family converted to the Lutheran faith.
  • 1662: Theodor Klutmann
  • 1709: Johannes Cramer
  • 1750: Adolf Johannes Cordes
  • 1800: Goswin Rieve
  • 1867: Friedrich Nienberg
  • 1925: Theodor Klauser

Castle mill on Ermelinghof

The gradient of the Geinegge at the outflow from the graves was already used to operate a mill in 1400. The castle mill is first mentioned in a document around 1430. In 1732 a new mill was built on the left side of the Geinegge on the site of the old structure. Here, when there was enough water in the river, oil was harvested until the grain mill was finally built on the right side in 1894. In 1906 the water wheel was replaced by a water pressure turbine. When the water level was low, grain was ground with electric power until around 1955. Since then, the mill and miller's house were only ruins. In 1978 it was canceled.

literature

  • FC Berkenvelder: Family research in the German border area to the Netherlands . Anniversary volume of the "Werkgroep Genealogisch Onderzoek Duitsland" 1967–1992. Lost, Hilversum 1992, 2 editions, ISBN 90-6550-354-4 , OCLC 185845085, page 73 f.
  • Friedrich Brune: The struggle for a Protestant church in the Münsterland, 1520–1802. Luther-Verlag, 1953, pp. 130, 166.
  • Dehio Westfalen: Handbook of German Art Monuments, second volume of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Ed .: Association for the publication of the Dehio manual. Edited by Dorothea Klinge and Wilfried Hansmann. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1969.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Jerrentrup : Catholic parish church of St. Pankratius and chapel SS. Maria and Bartholomaeus on the Ermelinghof house . In: Modern churches in Hamm . Hamm 2002, pp. 76-81.
  • Josef Lappe : Hamm in the Middle Ages and in modern times, The Burg zur Mark in: 700 years of the city of Hamm, Festschrift to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the city . Werl 1973.
  • Helmut Richtering: Noble seats and manors in the area of ​​the city of Hamm . In: Festschrift 750 years of the city of Hamm . Hamm 1976, p. 131.
  • Willi Schroeder: A home book. Two districts introduce themselves. Bockum and Hövel . o. O. 1980.
  • Fritz Schumacher and Hartmut Greilich: Bockum-Hövel. From history and local history . Regensberg, Münster 1956 (new edition Hamm 2002).
  • Julius Schwieters: Historical news about the eastern part of the district of Lüdinghausen. The parishes of Werne, Herbern, Bockum, Hövel, Walstedde, Drensteinfurt, Ascheberg, Nordkirchen, Südkirchen and (branch) Kapelle , 1st edition, Aschendorff, Münster 1886 (unchanged photomechanical reprint, Aschendorff, Münster 1974, ISBN 3-402-05708 -5 ).

Web links

Commons : Haus Ermelinghof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dehio Westphalia: Bockum-Hövel - House Ermelinghof in: Handbook of German art monuments, second volume of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Edited by Dorothea Klinge and Wilfried Hansmann . Ed .: Association for the publication of the Dehio manual. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1969, p. 63 .
  2. ^ Willi Schroeder: A home book. Two districts introduce themselves. Bockum and Hövel . o. O. 1980, p. 66 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Julius Schwieters: Historical news about the eastern part of the district of Lüdinghausen. The parishes of Werne, Herbern, Bockum, Hövel, Walstedde, Drensteinfurt, Ascheberg, Nordkirchen, Südkirchen and (branch) Kapelle . Aschendorff, Münster 1886, p. 206 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 30 "  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 32"  E