Harkotten Castle
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The Castle Harkotten located in Sassenberger district Füchtorf in Münsterland and is a rare example of a double lock system .
Since it is used for private purposes, it is usually not open to the public, but there is a garden café in the former farm buildings of Korff's Castle and the manor house is available for public events, such as the garden festival .
History and description
Today's palace complex goes back to a previous building from the 14th century. Between 1297 and 1309 built Heinrich II. Von Korff as Lehnsmann the diocese Münster a Wasserburg to secure the diocese borders to Osnabrück , by an extensive Gräftensystem was surrounded.
After his death in 1334, his two sons Heinrich and Eberhard divided the property between them. While Eberhard received the western part of the castle, the eastern part went to Heinrich, who then called himself von Korff-Smiesing. Since that time there have been two separate mansions on the site . The outer bailey , the mill, the court house with dungeon and the forestry department, as well as the brewery and the castle chapel , built from 1311 onwards, remained in the joint ownership of both branches of the family.
On December 7, 2015, the Friends and Patrons of the Harkotten Monument eV was founded with the aim of maintaining and reconstructing the double lock complex .
Ketteler Castle
After the male line of the Harkotten line of Korff-Schmiesing had expired in 1615, her share came to her husband's family, the Freiherren von Ketteler, through her heir Christine . In 1755 they had their part of the castle demolished and, from 1754, a representative baroque palace was built on the same site according to plans by the prince-bishop field captain and regional engineer Johann Leonhard Mauritz Gröninger . It wasn't completed until 1767, as construction work was suspended during the Seven Years' War from 1758 to 1763. The outside staircase in front of the castle portal was not even completed until 1796. After 1800 a garden was added to the north of the palace building, which was based on baroque models .
The baroque castle building is a plastered brick building with two floors, which rise above a cellar and are closed off by a flat mansard roof. A double flight of stairs leads to the portal in the central projection of the south facade, which has a semi-oval floor plan and is closed off by a curved gable with the alliance coat of arms of the Ketteler and Korff.
Flat side projections with a connecting, low wall enclose a small courtyard in the south. The garden north of the palace building can be entered via a terrace on the mezzanine floor. Inside, old marble fireplaces and elaborately crafted stucco ceilings have been preserved.
After the company of the designer Luigi Colani had been based in the castle for several years, the Sieger family signed a long lease with the Ketteler family in 1988 and had it extensively restored. The rooms are still used today as the headquarters of a design agency run by the brothers Christian and Michael Sieger. At the same time, the outdoor facilities were restored by the Belgian garden architect Jacques Wirtz. In the restored baroque garden there is now a collection of contemporary art objects that were made by the castle leaseholder and his son Michael as well as befriended designers and artists.
The white lady
For many decades there has been a portrait in the stairwell of Kettler Castle, which is generally called the "White Lady". It's a pastel drawing of an 18th century woman wearing a large plumed hat. If you take the picture from the wall and hold it up to the light, a second picture comes into view, which is just as ugly as the first was lovely. The velvet of the hat looks like hard straw, the eyes are rigid, the pupils are small and devoid of life, the mouth and chin are ugly disfigured, and the bare neck is full of bloody-red welts. How this picture was created, whether it was overpainted or caused by rubbing the pastel colors under the glass frame, can no longer be determined today. Various legends and narratives are entwined around this picture in the manner of a white woman . According to one, she is said to be a virgin who was burned as a witch, according to the other, “Breen Tühne”, a misty woman who rises at night. Other stories connect it with the nearby Totenknapp, still others with the two windows in the south-east on the second floor of the castle. In the 18th century, a resident wanted to have seen the white lady float up out of the broad moat (Breen Tühne) at midnight and penetrate the castle through the closed first window, only to escape through the second window after half an hour. To good people she appeared as a lovely young woman, to bad people as the ugly witch. After bricking up the first window, she used the second. When the second window was also walled up, she stayed in the castle and is supposed to be there today and appear every twelve years at midnight when small clouds of mist rise over the moats and meadows.
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Korff Castle
After the eastern mansion had been replaced by the new Ketteler castle in the 18th century, the Barons von Korff also had their old manor abandoned at the beginning of the 19th century in order to erect a new, modern building. In the period from 1804 to 1806, Friedrich Anton von Korff and his wife Rosine had a simple castle built in the classicism style. He commissioned Adolph von Vagedes as the architect , who used the Anhalt Castle of Wörlitz near Dessau as a model for his plans.
The classicist building rises on an elongated, rectangular floor plan over two floors with a flat hipped roof . Its west facade is divided by three risalits. The two side risalits are framed by pilaster strips and closed off by a balustrade . The upper end of the central projection has a flat triangular gable with the coat of arms of the locksmiths. A portico with Doric columns is built in front of it and supports a balcony.
After the graves of Korff's share had already been filled in in the course of the construction of the new palace, the other outdoor facilities were also redesigned in 1831. To the west of the manor house, a central roundabout with a lawn and a pond was laid out in the middle, and a farm building was erected north of it. In that year, the portico in the middle of the west facade was converted into an entrance hall.
In 2002, shooting took place in the castle, still inhabited by the Korff family, for the first crime scene in Münster: The Dark Spot .
During renovation work in 2014, wall paintings by Philipp Ferdinand Bartscher , who worked as court painter in Corvey, were discovered . They should be exposed, but left in their original state and not supplemented. After the renovations have been completed, the von Korff family plans to use the ground floor publicly and the upper floor private.
literature
- Walter Kordt: The Korff Castle Harkotten. In: Adolph von Vagedes. A Rhenish-Westphalian master builder from the time of Goethe. A. Henn, Ratingen / Rhld. 1961, pp. 25-28.
- Bernhard Riese: Harkotten Castle in the Middle Ages. In: Kreisheimatverein Beckum-Warendorf (ed.): An Ems and Lippe. Warendorf 1985, pp. 67-69.
- Bernhard Riese: The castle chapel in Harkotten. In: Kreisheimatverein Beckum-Warendorf (ed.): An Ems and Lippe. Warendorf 1988, pp. 76-77.
- Bernhard Riese: Harkotten in the 18th century. In: Kreisheimatverein Beckum-Warendorf (Hrsg.): Local calendar of the district Warendorf. Darpe, Warendorf 1991, ISSN 0932-3864 , pp. 70-72.
- Erich Tönspeterotto, Birgit Cremers-Schiemann: Castles in the Münsterland. Artcolor, Hamm 1994, ISBN 3-89261-125-4 , pp. 104-107.
- Bernhard Riese: Füchtorf a heath village in the Münsterland. Warendorf 1957.
Web links
- www.schlossharkotten.de
- Information on the gardens of the two castles
- Deeds from the archive of Harkotten I and Harkotten II
- Harkotten Castle in the Alexander Duncker Collection (PDF; 198 kB)
- Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Gardens at the von Korff house in LWL geodata culture
- Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Gardens at the von Ketteler house in LWL-GeodatenKultur
Individual evidence
- ↑ E. Töspeterotto, B. Cremers-Schiemann: castles in the Münsterland. P. 104.
- ↑ Ulrich Lieber: Association founded. "Harkotten is a lighthouse". In: Westfälische Nachrichten . Edition of December 9, 2015 ( wn.de ).
- ^ Bernhard Riese: Füchtorf, a heath village in the Münsterland. Warendorf 1957, pp. 210-11.
- ^ Bernhard Riese: Füchtorf a heath village in the Münsterland. Warendorf 1957, p. 211.
- ^ Ulrich Lieber: Art historian at Harkotten Castle. Experts speak of sensation. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . Edition of 14 February 2014 ( wn.de .
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 39 ″ N , 8 ° 1 ′ 55 ″ E