Heiligenhoven Castle

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Heiligenhoven Castle
Herrenhaus von Heiligenhoven Castle, north view

Herrenhaus von Heiligenhoven Castle, north view

Creation time : 1363
Castle type : Mansion
Conservation status: All parts received
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Lindlar
Geographical location 51 ° 0 '50.5 "  N , 7 ° 21' 21"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '50.5 "  N , 7 ° 21' 21"  E
Height: 226  m above sea level NN
Heiligenhoven Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Heiligenhoven Castle

The Castle Heiligenhoven located in Lindlar in Oberbergisches Land , North Rhine-Westphalia.

history

Heiligenhoven Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Herrenhaus von Heiligenhoven Castle, south view
patio

It is a former castle that was first mentioned in 1363. The current complex with outer bailey and a manor house surrounded by moats dates from 1758 to 1760. The name of the castle is derived from an old hallway name, inghoven = Hellinghoven, the courtyard in the slipway.

In 1425 the ownership structure was first mentioned in a document, Heiligenhoven was owned by Johann van Eyckelinckhoyven, known as de Wrede, Rittmeister. In 1461 Aillff von Eyckelynckhoyven, known as de Wrede, acquired the Ober-Heiligenhoven estate. In 1573 it changed hands again, it went to the married couple Wilhelm von Steinrod. It remained in the possession of this family until 1663, when it was transferred to the family's cousin, Adolf Schenck von Niddegen, on June 2, 1663. He died of the plague in 1666, his tombstone is embedded in the brickwork of the St. Severinus parish church in Lindlar.

In 1748 Johann Joseph Reichsritter von Brück, mayor of the Steinbach office , acquired the estate. He had a new mansion built. In the 19th century the Westphalian noble family of the Barons von Fürstenberg bought the property. After 1925, Fernandine Theresia Freiin von Fürstenberg lived on Heiligenhoven, who, due to the generally poor economic situation, was forced to sell individual pieces of land from the former manor.

The castle was bought in 1928 by the Wipperfürth district , which had emergency work carried out to reduce unemployment. Large pieces of forest were cleared, on which the farms Eibachhof, Krähenhof, Tannenhof, Wiedfeld, Nussbüchel, Dutztal, Im alten Hau, Kesselberg and Weiersbachhof were built. During the time of National Socialism , the castle served as a warehouse for the Reich Labor Service , then until 1940 as accommodation for the rural service. From July 11, 1943 to April 14, 1945, the Cologne military district commandos were housed in the castle.

In 1956 the castle was sold to the Adam Stegerwald Foundation, which transformed it into a recreation center. In 1973 the mansion burned down and shortly afterwards it was completely rebuilt in neo-baroque style. Until 2017, the castle was owned by the Rhineland Regional Council , housed the administration of the LVR open-air museum in Lindlar and could be rented for seminars and conferences. The student hostel in the listed outer bailey, which enables school classes to stay in the museum for several days, has meanwhile moved to the grounds of the LVR open-air museum in Lindlar. Since May 2012 it has been in Gut Dahl at the north gate of the museum grounds and is barrier-free.

Castle Park

The publicly accessible palace gardens of Schloss Heiligenhoven were laid out around 1800 in the style of English landscape parks. In the scenic park is a pond and various very old trees. A beautiful hiking trail (5 minutes) leads from here to the LVR open-air museum in Lindlar .

Special clinic

In the next two years, Heiligenhoven Castle will be converted into a special clinic. Entirely new parts of the building are also planned and some old, non-historic parts of the building will be demolished. The new clinic, which will accommodate 120 patients, is designed for people suffering from burn-out syndrome . So there won't be a closed station here either. The use of the castle park is also planned as before.

  • The pond of the castle park

  • The castle park

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Schloss Heiligenhoven  - Collection of images, videos and audio files