Schlenderhan Castle
Schlenderhan Castle is a country estate and farm in Quadrath-Ichendorf , which belongs to the town of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft district . The castle is best known for the Schlenderhan Stud, which is located there .
history
Slenderhagen was first mentioned in 1028, when Count Palatine Erenfried donated the property to the newly founded Brauweiler Abbey . The donation was confirmed by Archbishop Pilgrim in 1051 by mentioning the name of the manor. When the Villewald was divided up in 1258, the estate came to the imperial abbey of Kornelimünster , which gave it as a fief . In 1271, a knightly family named after the estate appeared in documents for the first time. In 1527 the property came to the Raitz von Frentz through the marriage of the heiress Maria and Winand (the neighboring Frens Castle came to the Cologne patrician and knight family of the Raitz as early as 1347). In the 17th century, Jan von Werth , who later became famous as an equestrian general of the Thirty Years' War and whose daughter later married the landlord, served on the farm . Having become even richer, the family was elevated to the status of imperial baron in 1650 . After the death of Adolf Carl Hubert Freiherr Raitz von Frentz, the long-serving district administrator of the Bergheim (Erft) district, in 1867, the wealthy Cologne banker Simon von Oppenheim acquired the estate from his heirs. The motivation for this acquisition was also the lignite deposits there in the Rhenish lignite district . In the same year he was knighted. His son Eduard then founded the stud, today the oldest and most important private German racing stable. In 1957 the demolition of the castle was temporarily considered because of the planned lignite mining.
Building
The older water-surrounded castle complex, located about one kilometer from today's castle, was abandoned in 1780 and largely demolished. The last tower slid in the 1940s into the lignite mine that was then immediately backfilled and is now backfilled. The castle is shown in small form on a pilgrim picture from 1767 from the Bethlehem Monastery .
The new late baroque palace is one of the last country estates that the Rhenish nobility built before the French era . It forms a double horseshoe shape and is separated from the village of Quadrath-Ichendorf with its parish church and small cemetery by the castle ponds. The central older building of the two-storey Maison de Plaisançe with a hipped mansard roof has 11 times four axes and a central projection facing the park . Two wings later added to the courtyard side form a kind of courtyard of honor . The same was designed towards the park with a garden parterre , which was laid out around 1870 and enclosed by the wing in front , and since the Oppenheims the front side of the palace. The forecourt created in this way was closed in 1873 with a wrought iron grille and gate. In the interior of the main house, the stair railings and doors with plait style framing from the late 18th century are remarkable.
A large landscaped park adjoins the garden ground floor. Beyond the castle pond, the classicist stallion house is representative of the stud . Paddocks, horse stables, barns and servant houses are otherwise spread over the extensive area.
literature
- Henriette Meynen: moated castles, palaces and country houses in the Erftkreis . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7927-0556-7 (on behalf of the Erftkreis ).
- Lutz Jansen: Schlenderhan. History and art history of a Rhenish aristocratic residence, Bergheim 1996.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from Quadrath-Ichendorf / Ahe ( memento of November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from the history of Quadrath
- ↑ Landesarchiv NRW NW256 No. 494 p. 1.
- ↑ Bethlehem on the Oberaußem district forum ( memento of the original from June 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The article is largely based on the description by Henriette Meynen.
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 39.8 " N , 6 ° 40 ′ 59.2" E