Rurich Castle
The Rurich Castle is a moated castle in Rurich , a district of Hückelhoven in North Rhine-Westphalia Heinsberg district . The facility is surrounded by an approximately 20 hectare landscaped park in the English style , in which part of the old moat still exists.
“Rurich is surrounded by a beautiful park adorned with wonderful trees, 1½ mile from Jülich, in the midst of the meadow-rich Roer-Thales, in a lovely, extremely fertile area. The estate covers an area of over 1000 acres, making it the most important in the so richly blessed Jülich region. "
The castle still has water rights to the Malefinkbach , where a grain mill belonging to the castle was previously operated. However, it was destroyed by fire in 1986.
description
The palace complex consists of a manor house with a chapel , the New Palace , a coach house and an adjoining economic building. The classicist palace was built on the old, square castle island according to planning proposals from the early 19th century and was intended to counteract the further decline of the castle vault .
The garden side of the simple two-story manor house has a central and two narrow corner risalites . The facade is divided into seven axes by windows. Above the entrance on the courtyard side there is a coat of arms stone with the marriage coat of arms of the von Hompesch and Ketzgen von Geretzhoven families with the year 1659. The castle chapel adjoining the manor house to the west is a single-nave, neo-Gothic brick hall with a polygonal choir .
Opposite the manor house from 1788 is a three-wing coach house , the two floors of which are closed off by mansard roofs . The simplicity of the white plastered facade is only loosened up by the corner blocks of the building. From the south facade of the main wing emerges a risalit from the wall, above whose arched gate the alliance coat of arms Reuschenberg - Gymnich can be found.
The remise is connected to a farm yard to the north, which was structurally renovated in the 19th and 20th centuries due to a fire in 1975.
The extensive, English landscape park with valuable old trees and a large obelisk dates from the mid-19th century in its current form.
history
Owner and owner
The castle was the ancestral seat of the family of the same name, from which Engebrand and Wilhelm von Rurich are first mentioned in 1248. In the middle of the 15th century, the castle of that time came to the von Zweibrüggen family by marriage , whose members called themselves "von Rurich" like all other families. Once again through marriage, this time between Sophia von Rurich and Heinrich von Reuschenberg (later Herr zu Eicks ), the property passed to his family in 1517.
Since Reinhard Dietrich von Reuschenberg (Heinrich's great-grandson) died in 1612 unmarried and without descendants, the property fell to her husband, Baron Hermann Philipp von Hompesch -Bollheim, through his aunt Anna . This family was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1706 . In 1909, after the death of the last male descendant of this branch of the family, Count Alfred Polycarp von Hompesch , Rurich Castle came to the house of the manor owners Hubertus and Theodor Schlick zu Rurich and finally by inheritance to the current owner Count Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin .
Building history
From the old castle, the construction of which was probably completed in 1585, as evidenced by a coat of arms preserved in the coach house building, only the former cellar vaults remain today. It was a square building made of bricks, with small round towers at its corners with Welschen hoods and flat gables over the windows. In the course of the Jülich-Klevischen succession dispute, imperial troops captured Rudolf II. Rurich, which was also looted the following year.
The mansion dates from the end of the 18th century and was built in the Rococo style. Gustav Vincent von Hompesch had the old castle laid down in 1787 and this new building was erected close by by 1790. In the years from 1860 to 1870 it was changed a lot. A tower that was destroyed in the Second World War was added to the south-east side - towards the park side . On the west side of the courtyard, Count Alfred Polycarp von Hompesch added a chapel in 1862, which was inaugurated in 1865.
Located in the area of the hotly contested Rurfront , the building complex was completely destroyed by shell hits at Christmas 1944 . The valuable library with a book inventory of over 18,000 volumes was looted. Systematic reconstruction then began.
literature
- Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 8, Section 2. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, pp. 340-345 ( PDF ; 8.1 MB).
- Alexander Duncker (Ed.): The rural residences, castles and residences of the knightly landowners in the Prussian monarchy together with the royal family, household, Fideikommiss and casket goods in lifelike, artistically executed, colored representations and accompanying text . Volume 10. Duncker, Berlin 1857–1883 ( PDF ; 211 kB).
- Hans-Henning Herzberg: City of Hückelhoven . (= Rheinische Kunststätten, issue No. 315) 1st edition. Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1987, ISBN 3-88094-533-0 , pp. 23-25.
- Robert Janke, Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces in the Rhineland . Greven, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7743-0368-1 , pp. 116-117.
- Werner Reinartz: On the building history of Rurich Castle . In: Local calendar of the Erkelenzer Lande 1956 , p. 68.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ H.-H. Herzberg: City of Hückelhoven , p. 25.
- ↑ a b c H.-H. Herzberg: City of Hückelhoven , p. 24.
- ↑ P. Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , p. 342.
- ↑ R. Janke, H. Herzog: Burgen und Schlösser im Rheinland , p. 116.
- ^ Georg Dehio : Dehio manual . North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 1, Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 564.
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 45.5 ″ N , 6 ° 16 ′ 21 ″ E