Loersfeld Castle
The Castle Loersfeld located in Kerpen in North Rhine-Westphalia . The castle was built in the 15th century and has been owned by the Barons von Fürstenberg since 1819 .
history
The property of the Lords of Loersfeld, located between today's nature reserves Loersfelder Busch and Parrig , was mentioned in a document as early as 1262 . At the time it was first mentioned, the Loersfelder Hof belonged to the knight Eberhard von Belle and his wife Hildegunde, who sold 30 acres of farmland to the Bottenbroich monastery at their farm in lodervelt sita . Since the purchase contract was concluded in Kerpen and Johann von Kerpen was also sealed as the landlord, Loersfeld obviously belonged to the Kerpen manor at that time. From then until the French era , Loersfeld was part of the county of Kerpen and Lommersum . In the further course of the 14th century Loersfeld first came into the possession of the Merode family , then by marriage into the possession of the von Horn family, who then adopted the addition "called von Loersfeld". In 1435 Heinrich Spies von Büllesheim zu Bodendorf became the owner of the farm. Loersfeld remained in the possession of this family, which belonged to the ancient nobility of the Duchy of Jülich , for the following 140 years, during which the current mansion was built , until it went to the von Eynatten family for 86 years in 1559 . In 1665 the castle was sold to Dietrich von Leers. Around 1770 it was bought by the Cologne merchant Caspar Wilhelm von Hamm, from whom it passed to her husband Georg Albert Reinecker after the death of his daughter Anna Catharina in 1795. Today's outer bailey was built after the anchor pins in 1771 and replaced a previous building. Reinecker finally sold Loersfeld with all the buildings and the associated lands on June 5, 1819 to the Westphalian hereditary drosten Friedrich Leopold, Imperial Baron von Fürstenberg zu Herdringen . His sixth son, Franz Adolph Josef, born on June 28, 1805, was the first Fürstenberg to make Loersfeld his residence. In addition to extensive construction work in 1840 and 1865, he also had the park in the English landscape style expanded to a total size of ten hectares. When he died on February 14, 1880 as the royal chamberlain and captain of Benrath Castle , his property fell to his nephew Friedrich Leopold II von Fürstenberg (Borbeck-Hugenpoet line). After his death in 1901, his son Clemens, who was born at Borbeck Castle , inherited the Loersfeld estate, who together with his wife Therese nee. Countess von Korff called Schmising moved his residence to Loersfeld. Her only son, Clemens August, renounced his inheritance in 1938, so that Loersfeld fell to the main Fürstenberg-Hugenpoet line in 1941 . The owner is Maximilian Freiherr von Fürstenberg-Hugenpoet. Loersfeld Castle is located in the middle of a very well-kept, ten hectare English landscape park and is one of the most beautiful castle complexes in Germany. Members of the family lived in the castle until 1954, and it has been leased to the Bellefontaine family since 1960. The tenant Thomas Bellefontaine has been running a restaurant in the manor house since 1992, which was awarded one star in the Michelin Guide from 1999 to 2019 .
Web links
- www.schlossloersfeld.de
- Material on Loersfeld Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF download; 231 kB)
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '21.9 " N , 6 ° 41' 44.1" E