Hellenbroich Castle
The Light Broich Castle (also Bright break ) was a medieval diet capable knight's seat in the Honschaft Diepensiepen south of Mettmann .
location
The originally fixed house , later the castle, was located on the Mettmanner Bach just before it flows into the Düssel . According to the name ( -broich for break ) the house was built in an originally swampy area.
history
The house first appears in a document in 1327 as Hellenbroke . It initially belonged to the Lords of Eller before it came to the Lords of Buer around 1410 through the marriage of Beatrix ( Potza ) von Eller to Johann von Buer , son of the Drosten of the Werden Abbey , Ludekin von Buer. In the second half of the 15th century the house went to the Düsseldorf bailiff Gisbert Gogreve, and later to his son Wilhelm, who headed the Mettmann office around 1520 . After Wilhelm's death the house was inherited by his brother Johann Gogreve , Bergisch Chancellor. Since his children had no offspring, Hellenbroich fell to Johann's sister-in-law Catharina von Binsfeld, daughter of Werner von Binsfeld , who brought it into her marriage to Heinrich von der Horst zu Mydlinghoven in 1552. The Lords of the Horst owned the house until the 18th century. In 1770 the house came into bourgeois hands. The castle building fell into ruin and was later demolished.
literature
- Dietmar Ahlemann: The Lords of Buer - A West German Family History from the High Middle Ages to the 19th Century. In: West German Society for Family Studies eV (Ed.): Yearbook 2012, Volume 274, Cologne 2012, p. 234.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 16.6 ″ N , 6 ° 58 ′ 39.3 ″ E