Reuschenberg Castle (Neuss)
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The Reuschenberg Castle lies near the district of the same name Reuschenberg the city of Neuss .
Surname
The name of the castle refers to the noble family von Reuschenberg . This is where the name of the nearby town of Reuschenberg arose.
In addition to well-known noble families such as von Braumann and von Boeselager , the castle has had many owners over the past centuries. Among other things, the castle was also known as: Feldhoff, Rittergut Seligem, Merhof, Hof zu Seligheim and most recently as Haus Selikum.
history
The court of the Knights of Selinchein is mentioned in documents as early as 1284 and 1288. Later documents from 1405 report from the Hoyve zu Selickhem. Lease documents show the property as a Hof zu Seligheim in the parish of Nuysse. Raids, burns and destruction in the years 1582–1587, which were not inferior to the horrors of the Thirty Years' War, also laid the property of Wilhelm II von Reuschenberg in rubble and ashes. The gentlemen from Reuschenberg zu Selikum did not recover from this misfortune. Because of their large debts, the family had to vacate the Selikum house in 1699. After the foreclosure auction, the last of the Reuschenbergs on Selikum was lost. No documents are available about the reconstruction.
Documents from 1615 state that the house and yard are surrounded by a pond. House Selikum and the properties belonging to it were then owned by qualified legal administrative and camera officials with the family names Salm , Lambertz, Zehman and were owned by the Brauman family for 99 years.
Landesrentmeister and Hofkammerrat Arnold von Braumann drowned in the Erft in 1814 without leaving any descendants. In 1837 his sisters sold the Selikum house and estate to the Westphalian baron Carl von Boeselager . The only reminder of the former manor house is the stone with the coat of arms of the Reuschenberg family with the year 1634, which was walled in on the rear side of the current building and is currently located on the right side in the entrance hall of the castle.
Baron Carl von Boeselager began major renovations on the Selikum house in 1847. The old farm yard within the trenches was completely demolished. Instead, a new manor was built in front of the outer moat. A stone with the Boeselager coat of arms, the two crossed shovels, is still set in above the front door of his house. The exterior of the manor house has also been completely changed.
In 1912 Baron Dietrich von Boeselager sold the Selikum house and estate, including the St. Cornelius Chapel, to the city of Neuss for 1,100,000 marks . Baron von Boeselager (born 1867) died in Locarno in 1942. His wife, Countess von Bocholtz - Asseburg , died in 1920. The marriage was childless.
school
In 1917, the Society for Agricultural Women's Education founded the " Selikum Economic Women's School " there for the training of agricultural household teachers. In 1935 the school was converted into a "Rural Women's School" and then into a "Rural Women's School Selikum", which was run by the Rhenish Provincial Association from 1942 to 1945. In 1920 a school building with teaching and living rooms was built on the other side of the pond and in 1928 a student dormitory was built on the free space of the former farm yard. The school existed until the 1980s. It was affiliated to the Reifensteiner Verband from 1917.
In the summer of 1943, the property was badly damaged by a bomb, so that the school had to be evacuated to Kreuznach . Reconstruction began in autumn 1945. Schools only started again in mid-1947. In October 1953, the Rhineland Agricultural Association took over the school from the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, which had supported it since 1945, and remained its owner until the school closed in 1997. From 1969 it was run as a school for women’s education in agriculture and housekeeping, from 1980 a vocational school for rural housekeeping, and a technical school for nutrition and housekeeping.
In 1999, an asset management company acquired Reuschenberg Castle and the associated buildings. Several Internet companies have settled here between the years. In 2000, the castle and outbuildings were extensively renovated and modernized. At the end of 2009 the castle was sold and passed into private ownership.
literature
- Rudolf Brandts: House Selikum. Documents and files on the history of the house and its owners (series of publications by the Neuss City Archives, Vol. 1), Neuss 1962.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ortrud Wörner-Heil: Women's schools in the country - Reifensteiner Verband (1897-1997), series of publications by the Archives of the German Women's Movement, Volume 11, Archives of the Women's Movement, 1997
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 10.9 ″ N , 6 ° 42 ′ 19.1 ″ E