Sonsfeld Castle

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The current castle Sonsfeld, including Blue House called

The Castle Sonsfeld was a castle in Haldern , a district of Rees in North Rhine-Westphalia Kleve . The castle was two kilometers southeast of Haldern north of the former Sonsfeld pastures. Other former noble houses in the area are the Aspel House and Bellinghoven Castle . The Battenberg Tower belonged to the castle for a time. To the southeast that was Cistercian - Kloster Schledenhorst .

history

Family coat of arms of those of Wittenhorst

It was first mentioned in 1259. In 1368 it was owned by a Steven von Wittenhorst. Nothing is known of the following centuries. In 1666, the owner Sonsfeld and the farmers of Helderloh, Wittenhorst and Herken received it as glory . In the first half of the 18th century, the castle was demolished and a new building was not planned.

In 1810 the property was partially sold to the Luyken family, who had a forester's lodge built in the forest north of the former castle in 1815. In 1863 this forester's lodge acquired the status of a manor suitable for the state assembly as the successor to the lost castle . In the place of the forester's house, a new mansion was built around 1890 , which was rebuilt in the classicist style in 1910 . This building is now known as Sonsfeld Castle or the Blue House . It is privately inhabited and cannot be visited.

The former location of the old family castle is overgrown, only the remains of the moat can be seen. North of the remains of 50 are in the forest  hectares large Baroque garden to recognize, including some avenues and remains of two water basins. One avenue, the Turmallee, faces the Battenberg Tower, which was also owned by the von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld family towards the end of the 17th century.

Personalities of the Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld family

literature

Battenberg Tower in Haldern
  • Paul Clemen (Ed.): The art monuments of the Rees district . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1892 ( Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz . Volume 2, Section 1), p. 65 ( online ).
  • Stefan Frankewitz : Castles, palaces and mansions in Rees . BOSS, Goch 2006, ISBN 3-933969-57-3 , pp. 69-72.
  • Walter Luyken: About castles and castle-historical facilities in the Rees district . In: Rees County Home Calendar 1967 . Schiffer, Rheinberg, p. 90.
  • Elke Dißelbeck-Tewes: Women in the Church. The life of women in the medieval Cistercian monasteries of Fürstenberg. Graefenthal and Schledenhorst, Cologne 1989. (also Diss. Bochum 1988/89)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 35.7 "  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 34.4"  E