Heltorf Castle

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Outer bailey
Mansion
Heltorf Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Neo-Gothic palace library

The Heltorf Castle is located in Düsseldorf district Angermund north of the city on Angerbach and the outskirts of Duisburg . It is surrounded by an English country garden .

history

The castle was built to manage the agricultural and forestry goods in the area. It is a moated castle . Forestry has been practiced in the area since the 12th century.

Heltorf is first mentioned in the 11th century as Hof Helethorpe in the pension register of the Kaiserswerth monastery .

The early owners were the gentlemen of Heldorp . Otto von Heldorp is mentioned as the owner of Heltorf Castle as early as 1167. It also appears in the deed from around 1189, in which nobleman Arnold von Teveren all his property on the right bank of the Rhine in Holthausen, Düsseldorf, Buscherhof, Eickenberg near Millrath, Monheim, Himmelgeist, on the banks of the Rhine near Holthausen and on the Anger for 100 marks to Engelbert von Berg pawned. Zobodonus de Heldorp , presumably identical to Albertus named Zobbe von Heltorf , who was mentioned at the same time , appears as a witness when Düsseldorf was granted city rights in 1288.

In 1360 Heltorf was sold by Adolf von Graschaf and his wife Jutta von Stein to Thomas von Lohausen called Troisdorf and his wife Aleide von Geynhoven . In this family, later called von Troisdorf , Heltorf stayed for 5 to 6 generations until the heir, Maria, daughter of Sibert von Troisdorf , brought it into her marriage to Wilhelm von Scheid called Weschpfennig in 1569 .

Their granddaughter Maria, daughter of the Ducal Great Steward Johann Bertram Scheid called Weschpfennig and Margaret of Tengnagel , married in 1649 to house Böckum second marriage to Friedrich Christian von Spee . As a result, Schloss Heltorf came to the Counts of Spee in 1662, after the death of Maria's parents, who still own it today.

The Stroetrecht (from "Stroet" for shrub, bushes, thickets) also belonged to Heltorf. It was a matter of the right to keep wild horses in the forest between Duisburg and Düsseldorf, which apart from the Duke of Berg had only a few knightly seats (Heltorf, Böckum , Broich , Haus zum Haus , Groß-Winkelhausen , Oefte and Landsberg ).

building

The mansion was rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th century in the classical style according to plans by the Essen architect Heinrich Theodor Freyse . Inside, the frescoes from the Barbarossa cycle in the large garden room are remarkable: the reconciliation of Frederick and the Pope in Venice and a supplementary portrayal are an early work from 1826 by the history painter Karl Stürmer , Heinrich Mücke took over the main part of the painting of the room with The Repeal the eight imposed on Heinrich the Lion at the Reichstag in Erfurt (completed in 1829), the humiliation of the Milanese of 1833, Frederick I's imperial coronation and a grisaille over portraits in 1837 and the individual pictures of St. Bernhard, preaching the crusade and Bishop Otto von Freising , Carl Friedrich Lessing painted the battle of Iconium in 1831 and Hermann Freihold Plüddemann painted the storming of Iconium by Friedrich von Schwaben in 1840 and Friedrich's death in 1841 . The wall paintings mark a high point in history painting at the Düsseldorf School . In addition, the castle has an extensive collection of old books, the Count von Spee'sche Bibliothek Schloß Heltorf in the tower-like neo-Gothic extension specially built by Count Wilhelm in 1862 by the Cologne cathedral builder Vincenz Statz .

The castle is not open to the public.

Mass ceremonies take place every Sunday at 11:00 a.m. in the castle chapel next to the manor house.

Castle Park

The castle park is laid out as an English forest park, with the castle pond in the center. The idea of ​​laying out the garden in the English style comes from the French Abbé Biarelle in 1796. It was carried out by Maximilian Weyhe in 1803. Special features at the time are exotic trees, such as the second oldest rhododendron plantation in Germany. The park occupies an area of ​​54 hectares . It has been open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Froschenteich entrance) since April 1, 2020.

Every year on Ascension Day at 4:00 p.m., an open-air Marian celebration is held in the castle park with guests from the surrounding areas.

Agriculture and Forestry

Forestry operations will continue at Schloss Heltorf. The management is based on the principle of sustainable management. The castle includes extensive property in Düsseldorf and the southern Ruhr area.

literature

  • Heinrich Ferber: The manors in the Amte Angermund. In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Yearbook of the Düsseldorf History Association. 7, 1893, ZDB ID 300198-2 , pp. 100-119. ( online )
  • Ludger Fischer : The most beautiful palaces and castles on the Lower Rhine. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2004, ISBN 3-8313-1326-1 , pp. 34-35.
  • Material on Schloss Heltorf in the Duncker Collection (PDF; 235 kB) of the Central and State Library Berlin
  • Benedict Mauer: Heltorf Castle . In: Burgen Aufruhr - On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region. Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0234-3 , pp. 105-107.
  • Theo Volmert: Knight seats and castles on the Anger. In: Die Quecke - Angerländer Heimatblätter, No. 45, September 1975, pp. 1–34.
  • Park Heltorf, 1796–1996 , Düsseldorf 1996 (paperback).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fischer: The most beautiful palaces and fortresses on the Lower Rhine. 2004, p. 35.
  2. ↑ Hans Stöcker (Ed.): Between Anger and Schwarzbach. 2nd Edition. Düsseldorf 1976, pp. 19 and 192.
  3. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine. Volume 1 (779-1200). Düsseldorf 1840, certificate 521. ( Google books ).
  4. ↑ a b c Ferber: The manors in the office of Angermund. 1893, p. 107.
  5. ↑ The noble lords of Graschaf were dynasts and belonged to the high nobility. At the same time, however, they were also feudal men of the Counts of Waldeck . Cf. Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen : Basis of the Waldeckische Landes- und Regentengeschichte . Göttingen 1825, p. 367, footnote x. ( Google books ).
  6. ↑ Walter Kordt : The wild horses in the Angermunder Forest - When the forest between Düsseldorf and Duisburg was still under wilderness - , in: Bürgererverein Duisburg-Huckingen e. V. (Ed.): Huckinger Heimatbuch, Geschichte und Geschichte , Volume II, Duisburg 1997, pp. 52–57.
  7. ↑ Information from the parish of St. Peter and Paul, Ratingen on the Marian Celebration 2019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '30.5 "  N , 6 ° 46' 14.3"  E