Linnep Castle

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The castle from the sea side
Linnep Castle from the west, with the stairs leading to the main entrance over the moat
Entrance door with coat of arms

The Linnep Castle , or commonly House Linnep called, is a moated castle south-southeast of Ratingen neighborhood Breitscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia Mettmann .

Linnep Castle at sunset

history

The knight's seat is mentioned for the first time around 1090–1120 in a document from the Kaiserswerth monastery as linepo and in 1093 in the person of Wernherus de linepe in a document from the Werden Abbey. The construction of the old parts points to the 12th century. In 1769 a new building was built on the site of the old castle , into which the round tower, probably 1000 years old, with the pointed roof and the curtain wall from the old complex were integrated. Further extensions were made after 1855. The very compact facility is surrounded by a large moat through which the small Hummelsbach flows. Access to the castle is now a sweeping staircase over the moat. The courtyard in front of it is fortified as an outer bailey and consists of a gate system with farm buildings .

To the southwest of the castle is the simple hall of the Linnep Forest Church, which was consecrated in 1684 and is one of the oldest reformed church buildings in the Rhineland . Next to it is the half-timbered building of the former castle mill, which was built on the Hummelsbach, was a long-term inn and is now part of the riding stables behind it.

House Linnep (or Lennep) was the core of the Linnep rule until 1802 . The knights and lords of Linnep ( Linepe , Lynepe ) owned the castle until 1461. Through the marriage of Eva (* around 1420, † 1483), heir to Dietrich von Linnep and Elisabeth von Sayn, with Friedrich von, which took place on September 29, 1461 Neuenahr-Alpen came to rule to the Counts of Limburg . From 1582, the baronial von Isselstein family, who belonged to the Reformed denomination, lived in Haus Linnep, initially as a pledge, then from 1643 onwards through purchase.

In the course of the Reformation , the Protestant Christians in Linnep gathered in the castle, the residence of their patron, until 1684. From 1684, the first services could be celebrated in a separate church on a property near the castle, which the then lord of the castle, Baron Vincent Schott von Isselstein, gave to the community.

From 1731 there were frequent changes of ownership. In 1855 the castle was bought by Ferdinand Reichsgraf von Spee , the younger brother of the Count at Heltorf Castle , and the forest area was enlarged to over 300 hectares. The archive of the Mettmann district was located in the newest wing of the castle until the 1990s . The castle was the private residence of the farmer and long-time CDU local politician Clemens Graf von Spee (1929–2011) and his family. In 2008, Isabella and Wilderich Freiherr von Ketteler took over Linnep Castle. Since 2010 it has been possible to have civil weddings in Linnep Castle.

After the devastating storms “Cyrill” in 2008 and “Ela” in 2014, the castle and its surroundings were restored to a very good condition.

literature

  • Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the city and the district of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf 1894, p. 152.
  • Heinrich Ferber: manors in the office of Angermund . In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine. Yearbook of the Düsseldorf History Association . Volume 7th Ed. Lnitz, Düsseldorf 1893, p. 111 ff ( digitized version of the ULB Düsseldorf ).
  • Jens Friedhoff : House Linnep . In: Ministry for Building and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia / Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Hrsg.): Burgen AufRuhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region . Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2010, pp. 283–286.
  • Ernst Haiger : Denomination and burial place: Noble graves in the St. Laurentius Church in Mintard in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: The parish church in Mintard = magazine of the history association Mülheim ad Ruhr 92 (2017), ISSN 0343-9453, pp. 69–111 (including about the v. Isselstein family and the Linnep church)
  • Karl Heck: Linnep Castle near Kettwig . In: MBGV - monthly journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . Vol. 17 (1920) No. 7/8, pp. 49-59.
  • Paul Herder: The church at Linnep Castle . In: Bergische Geschichtsblätter . Vol. 5, No. 4, Elberfeld 1928.
  • Frank K. van Lennep: Verzameling van oorkonden betrekking hebbende op Het Geslacht van Lennep, 1093 - 1900 , Vol. 1, Amsterdam 1900 ( digitized version of the BSB ).
  • Theo Volmert: Linnep Castle and its residents , in: Die Quecke, Ratinger and Angerländer Heimatblätter, No. 51, October 1981, pp. 1-10.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Linnep  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kelleter, Urkundenbuch Kaiserswerth, U 10, p. 16.
  2. ↑ LAC I 247.
  3. ↑ The files of the rule Linnep are in the LAV NRW W, inventory Grafschaft Tecklenburg [1]
  4. ↑ A hybrid line developed into the Dutch noble family Van Lennep , which is still flourishing today .
  5. ↑ As a result of the pledge of the rule Linnep to the family Isselstein the widow Konrad Gumprechts of Bentheim-Tecklenburg , Countess Johannetta Elisabeth of Nassau-Siegen , the Count House Bentheim , was with whom you promised dower house Linnep and the benefits that marriage contract funding could not be provided left her guardianship in the county of Limburg for Count Moritz von Bentheim-Tecklenburg .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 54 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 29 ″  E