Niederweis Castle

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Niederweis Castle from the West (2012)

The Niederweis Castle is a castle in the municipality Niederweis in Rhineland-Palatinate Bitburg-Prüm . It stands as cultural monument under monument protection and is in the list of cultural monuments in Niederweis entered.

history

The rule of Niederweis, which also included the villages of Alsdorf , Kaschenbach and Meckel , was originally a fiefdom of the Counts of Chimay . By marrying Christoph Cobs with Margaretha Fock von Huebingen around 1580 it passed to the Bitburg family Cob von Nüdingen . Christoph Cob's sons were both childless, so after the death of his son Philipp Christoph Cob von Nüdingen in 1699 , Niederweis came to his sister Maria Ursula, who had married Johann Hermann von der Heyden in 1680 . Niederweis then went to von der Heyden.

The baroque palace was built in 1751 for Baron Franz Eduard Anton von der Heyden (1693–1755), who, as President of the Provincial Council of Luxembourg, was the highest-ranking official in the Luxembourg country. The new building replaced an older Christoph Cobs von Nüdingen house. Planned as a building with three wings entre cour et jardin , the palace was described as unfinished in the Theresian cadastre from 1765 to 1769 . In 1819 the north wing of the palace no longer existed. Franz Anton Eduard von der Heyden died in 1755 and could no longer complete the building. Clemens Wenzeslaus von der Heyden (1774-1840), the last male representative of his gender, died unmarried. He left his entire fortune to the Bitburg district to raise orphaned children and care for poor elderly people. The district thus established the Von der Heyden and Schütz'sche Foundation . Niederweis Castle was subsequently leased out several times and lost its original character. In 2005 the castle came into private ownership and was professionally restored for five years . After the work was completed, the owner couple opened the small complex to the public for events and set up a restaurant there. At the beginning of 2012, its owners wanted to sell the castle for 3.95 million euros, but finally made a decision and now want to expand the catering business.

description

The castle is a two-storey plastered quarry stone building with a mansard roof . An open staircase with seven steps leads to a round arched portal , above which the year of construction can be read in the keystone . In the gable of the main facade, the alliance coat of arms of the builder Franz Eduard Anton von der Heyden and his wife Marie Wilhelmine von Eltz-Rodendorf , who married in 1732, is emblazoned under a baron's crown (seven pearls) . From the construction period, a large chimney with structure, wall and hook cupboard and a stucco ceiling have been preserved in the rooms of the main wing .

To the south of the main building are the still-preserved horse stables and a large barn, which can be dated to 1755 by means of wedges above its two gates.

literature

  • Bernd Altmann, Hans Caspary: Bitburg-Prüm district. City of Bitburg, Verbandsgemeinden Bitburg-Land and Irrel (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 9.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1997, ISBN 3-88462-132-7 , p. 486-488 .
  • Michael Berens : From the work of the state preservation of monuments in the Bitburg-Prüm district . In: Heimatkalender 1986. Landkreis Bitburg-Prüm . District administration Bitburg-Prüm, Bitburg 1985, ISSN  2193-7508 , pp. 98-100.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin [a. a.] 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 .
  • Albert Endres: Stories from the Eifelheimat. A collection of local history articles about Niederweis and the southern Eifel . Self-published. Sindelfingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-022890-2 , pp. 3-25.
  • Werner Weber: From the estate act of Clemens von der Heyden, Baron zu Niederweis . In: Gester an Hätt. Local history journal . No. 27, 2001, pp. 19-23.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Niederweis  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of the cultural monuments in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm . Koblenz 2010, p. 57 (PDF; 1.3 MB).
  2. ^ A b Karl Emerich Krämer : From castle to castle in the Eifel . 4th edition. Mercator, Duisburg 1986, ISBN 3-87463-066-8 , p. 58.
  3. ^ A. Endres: Stories from the Eifelheimat , 2008, p. 21.
  4. ^ B. Altmann, H. Caspary: Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , 1997, p. 486.
  5. ↑ From the Turkish Wars to the Mont Royal Fortress . In: Trierischer Volksfreund . Online edition from September 19, 2010 ( online ).
  6. ↑ New lord of the castle wanted . In: Trierischer Volksfreund . Online edition of March 28, 2012 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Niederweis Castle: Looking for partners instead of buyers . In: Trierischer Volksfreund . Online edition from December 19, 2012 ( online ).
  8. ^ B. Altmann, H. Caspary: Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , 1997, p. 488.

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 12.7 "  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 53.3"  E