Merlsheim Castle
The Merlsheim Castle is a Grade II listed secular building in Merlsheim , a district of Nieheim in Höxter ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ).
history
Merlsheim was first mentioned in 1292 under the names Merlhossen and Merlhusen , which was later also called Merlsen . At that time Merlsheim is the castle seat of a knight family of the same name, which had its heyday in the 13th to 15th centuries. In the middle of the 14th century, the knights of Oeynhausen near Merlsheim acquired property, and in 1390 Johann the boy from Oeynhausen bought the village of Merlsheim. In the course of an inheritance division Sievert von Oeynhausen received Merlsheim in 1420, where he built a castle, the structural remains of which are preserved in the basement of the south wing. Ilse von Oeynhausen brought the noble residence into her marriage to Heinrich von Rengershausen, who received Merlsheim in 1507 as a fiefdom of the Paderborn Monastery. In 1548 the moated castle fell to Burchhard von Oeynhausen, who was married to Margarethe von Rengershausen. After the Merlsheim branch of Oeynhausen had expired, the property was withdrawn as a settled fiefdom in 1632 and administered by a Vogt.
In 1652 the prince-bishop of Paderborn left the castle and its accessories to the cathedral dean Caspar Philipp von Ketteler . The property remained in the possession of this family until the beginning of the 19th century. The Canon C.Ph. von Ketteler had the old weir system expanded from 1667–1668 into the current house in Merlsheim . After that, Haus Merlsheim underwent several changes of ownership, in 1920 the estate was inherited from the Barons von Hövel, who had been resident here since 1845, to the von und zur Mühlen family, who moved from Münster to Merlsheim at that time and still lives here today. (One branch of the family is based in the Münsterland on Haus Ruhr .)
literature
- Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
Web links
- Entry on Schloss Merlsheim in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Document requests from the Merlsheim archive / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
- History (accessed May 30, 2012)
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 47.6 ″ N , 9 ° 1 ′ 20 ″ E