Hugenpoet Castle

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Manor house with surrounding moat

Schloss Hugenpoet (pronounced "Hugenpoot" - see strain e ) is a three-part, by moats surrounded surge in Essen district of Kettwig in close proximity to Schloss Landsberg . Its name can be interpreted as "toad pool", which gives an indication of the swampy floodplain landscapes in the Ruhr valley . The complex has been a listed building since February 1985 and is now used as a hotel-restaurant.

architecture

Plan of the palace complex, 19th century

Mansion

South facade of the manor house (2012)
Alliance coat of arms above the entrance to the manor house

The mansion is a free-standing building on a rectangular floor plan. On its north side rise two mighty, rectangular flanking towers with three storeys, which have curved hoods with eight-sided lanterns and weather vanes . The brick building with corner blocks stands on a stone base and is horizontally structured by inlays made of sandstone . A stone arch bridge leads to the flat central risalit with the portal from 1872. Above the entrance it shows the alliance coat of arms of Friedrich von Fürstenberg zu Hugenpoet and his wife Anna-Franziska Countess Wolff Metternich zur Gracht .

In the course of renovation work for use as a hotel, the park-side north facade of the main building was given a terrace extension in 1954, but the interior fittings have largely been preserved in their original state. These include the Troja chimney and two other Renaissance chimneys with sandstone reliefs from the years 1560 to 1578, which originally came from Horst Castle , as well as the free-standing portal in the entrance hall and the adjoining baroque staircase made of black marble. The portal has a curved gable , crown and ball decoration. The coats of arms of Konstantin Erasmus Betram von Nesselrode and his wife Maria Ambrosiana von Viermund can be seen on it, as well as the year 1696 in the architrave .

Inner bailey

Portal of the inner bailey

The inner bailey is located in front of the manor house to the south and consists of two elongated buildings with hipped roofs that delimit an inner courtyard on its east and west side. A flanking tower was to be erected at the southern corners of the two simple, two-story stone buildings , but this plan was never fully implemented. Only the tower foundations were built and are still preserved today. The cross-story windows of the two wings of the building divide them into eight axes.

The builder of the outer bailey was Konstantin Erasmus von Nesselrode zu Hugenpoet, whose coat of arms is on the outer facade above the archway of the portal. This is framed by two pilasters with Ionic capitals that support an architrave. The western building of the inner outer bailey houses the castle chapel to the north of the gate entrance, which has been traceable to Hugenpoet since the 18th century . Its interior was completely redesigned in the historicist style around 1880, just like the other rooms in the inner bailey .

Outer bailey

Portal of the outer bailey

The single-storey outer bailey is to the west of the other palace buildings. Its free-standing portal can be reached via a stone arch bridge. It shows the coat of arms of the Nesselrode and Winkelhausen families above the archway as well as the following inscription:

THE WOHLEDELLGEBORNER JOHAN WILHELM VON NESSELRAD NESSELRAD MADE HUGENPOET, FARSTLY PFALS-NEUBURGER HERR GEHEIMER RADT, CAEMMERER, COUNTRY COMMISSARIUS AND AMMANN TO BEYENBURG AND NEAR (SO) WOAUEDELLGEBORN, AT (SO) WOAUEDELLGEBORNE, FROM WEAUEDELLGEBORNE, FROM WEAUEDELLGEPOET, FROM WEAUEDELLGEBORNE, FROM WEAUEDELLGEBORNE, FROM WEAUEDELLGEBORNE, FROM WEAUEDELLGEBORNE, FROM MERTGEPOETEN, FROM WEAUEDELLGEBORNE ANNAT GEBUMETEN, AND FROM WEAUEDELLGEBORNE ANNAT GEBUMETEN MORR, HAVE BUILT DEISSEM BUILDING IN FRONT OF YOU AND YOUR HERITAGE IN ANNO 1647 THE 17th JULIUS.

The right-angled south wing is bounded at its corner by a rectangular, single-storey tower. It can be assumed that a symmetrical north wing was to be placed opposite the wing, as is customary in the Baroque era, but this was never implemented. Loopholes in the masonry indicate that the outer outer bailey was built using the fabric of the old castle from 1509.

The connection to the inner outer bailey is a ramp-like bridge that was built on a barrel vault .

history

The previous Hugenpoets building, the Motte Nettelshof , was first mentioned in a document in 778 as the Nettlinghave toe Loepenheim as the royal estate of Charlemagne . Nettelshof was later an upper court of Werden Abbey , with which Knight Vlecke was enfeoffed by Hugenpoet in 1314. At that time, the facility was used to control the Ruhr Bridge leading to Kettwig, which the Jülich Duke Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg had demolished in 1635.

It is not known when the estate was expanded into the first fortified castle . However, it was in 1478 during a feud of Klever Duke John I of Cleves against the Duchy of Geldern stormed and set on fire. A tower and an outbuilding were still standing from this first fortified complex in 1756, over which a farmstead was built in the 18th century. Only the remains of the former moat and the castle pond are still preserved today.

Around 1509 the Knights von Hugenpoet built a new building at the current location, about 200 m from the old location. This remained in the possession of the family until 1831, who called themselves from around 1600 "from Nesselrode to Hugenpoet". But this building was not spared from destruction either. During the Thirty Years' War the castle was devastated by Hessian troops.

Johann Wilhelm von Nesselrode zu Hugenpoet, together with his wife Anna von Winkelhausen (they were the in-laws of Bernhard III. Von Droste-Hülshoff ) had all the ruins torn down in 1647 and - starting with the outer outer bailey - in their place essentially Hugenpoet Castle rebuild its current form. The work was completed in 1696 under Freiherr Konstantin Erasmus von Nesselrode zu Hugenpoet.

His descendants did not have the financial means to keep the complex, and so the now dilapidated castle property was auctioned in 1831 by Baron Friedrich Leopold von Fürstenberg , whose descendants are still in possession of the castle today. The Fürstenbergs had it expanded and modernized between 1844 and 1872 under the architects August Lange and Heinrich Theodor Freyse in the neo- renaissance style. Here was the roof ridge raised a cornice with mussel fries mounted and gable built the central projection by Dutch models. During the renovation work, the cross-frame windows from that time were also replaced by their current shape. At the same time, the new castle owners had the castle park laid out. In 1879 the family moved entirely from Borbeck Castle to Hugenpoet.

During the Second World War , Wehrmacht offices were located in the palace buildings, which were followed by refugee families after the end of the war. The ground floor of the main building temporarily housed the exhibition of the Folkwang Museum in Essen , before the castle was given its current use as a hotel restaurant in 1955 by hotelier Kurt Neumann.

Paul Henckels , known for the role of Professor Bömmel in the movie Die Feuerzangenbowle , was a permanent guest in the hotel with his wife Thea Grodtczinsky in the 1960s . Henckels died in Kettwig in 1967. During this decade, in May 1968, traffic on the Lower Ruhr Valley Railway was stopped and the Schloßhotel Hugenpoet stop was abandoned. In 1995 the Lübbert family took over the management of Hugenpoet Castle and expanded it, particularly in the restaurant area. In December 2013, the hotel faced bankruptcy . In the same month, the operating couple handed over management to the owner Maximilian Freiherr von Fürstenberg, who took over the hotel and restaurant operations. The 5-star castle hotel used to belong to the Leading Hotels of the World and is now a member of two hotel associations for privately run, independent hotels.

gastronomy

In the Laurushaus, the property's former tithe barn, chef Erika Bergheim runs a gourmet kitchen that has had a star in the Michelin Guide since November 2017 . Bergheim has been in charge of gastronomy at Schloss Hugenpoet for 20 years. The second restaurant in the complex is the "HUGENpöttchen" in the main building.

Interior view of the Laurus House

literature

  • Elmar Alshut: Hugenpoet Castle . In: Kai Niederhöfer (Red.): Burgen AufRuhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region . Klartext Verlag , Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0234-3 , pp. 184-187.
  • Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the city and the district of Düsseldorf (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 3, section 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1894, pp. 121-127 ( online ).
  • F. Flothmann (ed.): Castles and palaces in Kettwig on the Ruhr . 2nd Edition. Flothmann, Kettwig 1983.
  • Adolf Freiherr von Fürstenberg, Maximilian Freiherr von Fürstenberg: Castle Hugenpoet . Nobel, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-922785-23-9 ( Essener Spezialführer . No. 1).
  • Bianca Khil: Hugenpoet Castle. In: Detlef Hopp , Bianca Khil, Elke Schneider (eds.): Burgenland Essen. Castles, palaces and permanent houses in Essen . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8375-1739-2 , pp. 62–65.
  • Jens Wroblewski, André Wemmers: Theiss-Burgenführer Niederrhein . Konrad Theiss , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1612-6 , pp. 76-77 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Hugenpoet  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ( PDF ; 401 kB).
  2. ↑ Information on the Schlosshotel at hotel-im-schloss.de , accessed on November 7, 2014.
  3. ↑ Baron von Fürstenberg takes over Hotel Hugenpoet himself . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . Online edition from December 20, 2013.
  4. ↑ https://www.viamichelin.de/web/Suchen_Restaurants/Essen_Kettwig-45219-Laurushaus-wfvs2au5
  5. ↑ https://www.hugenpoet.de/de/restaurants/laurushaus/

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 42.5 ″  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 2 ″  E