Hetterscheidt Castle
Hetterscheidt Castle (also Hetterscheidt Castle, Hetterscheidt House) was a moated castle or moated castle in the Hetterscheidt district of Heiligenhaus .
history
The area of today's municipality of Heiligenhaus has belonged to the Werden monastery since its foundation. In addition to Langenbögel, Hetterscheidt, mentioned in 847 as Hetratescethe, was one of the main courtyards of the monastery. The building was mentioned as a permanent house in the Werden account books in 1364/65 in connection with the construction of walls and gates. The complex was given as a fief . It consisted of an upper house and a farm building. The tenant assured that he would move to the farm building as soon as the abbots wanted to live in Hetterscheidt. The castle, sometimes also known as a palace, served the abbots as a summer residence. A chapel is attested from 1525. In 1587 the complex was destroyed during the Spanish winter and was rebuilt by Abbot Hugo Preuteus and surrounded with a wall. A tower of the building is preserved today. The exact shape is not entirely clear. A historical illustration from the 16th century shows a moated castle with a gabled house and a square tower. Another figure shows two towers of different heights. An illustration from 1783 shows a two-story house with a gable roof with two round towers. The facility fell into disrepair since the 18th century.
description
Only a tower is preserved today, with a weather vane in which the year 1537 is carved out, but which is not supposed to be of historical origin. Parts of the facility are believed to be in the nearby Abtskücher reservoir, which was expanded as part of a job creation measure at the end of the 1920s. The Rinderbach, which runs through the reservoir, may have been part of the surrounding moat in the past. It is assumed that the abbot kitchen belonged to the Hetterscheidt house.
Todays use
The reservoir and its surroundings with the St. Jakobus Chapel , the local history museum in the Old Abbot School, the Hof zum Hof (today public utility company) and the remains of the castle are popular destinations today.
literature
- Handbook of the historical sites of Germany. Vol. 3. North Rhine-Westphalia. Stuttgart, 1970 p. 300f.
Web links
- Hetterscheidt Castle on Geschichtsverein-Heiligenhaus.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 14.6 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 21.7 ″ E