Störmede Castle
The Castle Störmede , also home Störmede and rarely Castle Störmede called, a former's castle ruins in Störmede (now city Geseke ). The complex goes back to a possibly early medieval hill tower castle (Motte). In the High Middle Ages it was the seat of the noblemen of Störmede. Destroyed in various ways, it was rebuilt at a slightly different location. After the von Störmede family died out, ownership fell to the von Hoerde family , whose Störmeder line was divided into different branches. It passed through other owners to the von Ketteler family and in 1970 to the city of Geseke. In 2010 the manor was acquired by the Bröggelwirth family.
history
As early as 826, Störmede was mentioned in the list of donations from the Corvey monastery . There may also have been forerunners to a castle . Störmede was later the seat of the nobles of Störmede. A Wernor from Störmede is recorded for 1155. The original castle dates back to the 12th century and was the center of an extensive rule. The castle on Hellweg appeared to the Archbishops of Cologne , who had a dominant focus on Westphalia in particular around Soest , to be so strategically important that Philip I of Heinsberg acquired at least parts of it and returned them as a Cologne fief to Radobus and Reinerus.
Apparently there was a dispute between the bishops and the Lords of Störmede, since the castle was destroyed in 1233 by the people of Cologne. Then it was rebuilt. Under Albert von Störmede (1217–1255) the power of the noble lords was expanded through the transfer of county rights by the Counts of Arnsberg . Around the middle of the 13th century the Lords of Störmede founded a town in the immediate vicinity of the castle. The castle and town were destroyed in 1277 during the conflict between the Archbishops of Cologne and the Bishops of Paderborn , but were rebuilt in a different location after 1292. However, the city did not flourish and today only a few remains of the ramparts are preserved.
The noble lords died out around 1300. The castle and the property came to the Lords of Hoerde by inheritance. As a result, the von Hoerde ministerial family experienced a strong social rise. After the sex was divided, a line was named Hoerde zu Störmede. In the 14th century this was divided into the Altes Haus and Hohes Haus lines. The ownership of the Altes Haus line fell to the Korff zu Harkotten family in 1652 . The high house came to the von Bocholtz family in the 16th century , who formed the Bocholtz line to Störmede.
In addition, the Middle House of the von Hoerde existed for a while from 1529. Alhard von Hoerde tried to gain a position directly from the empire and, together with the relatives of the high house, offered the property of Emperor Charles V as a fief. The Cologne archbishops objected to this. When Alhard had fortifications built, Salentin von Isenburg stepped in . In the so-called Salentine Recess, the lines from Hoerde to Störmede had to forego all sovereign claims.
The von Bocholtz family sold the Störmede house in 1879 to the businessman Dietrich Modersohn from Lippstadt . In 1881 the Ketteler-Harkotten zu Schwarzenraben bought the property. They lived there until 1964. The heirs sold the house to the city of Geseke in 1970.
Buildings
The actual castle, initially in the form of a moth, was located in the Middle Ages roughly in the area of today's church square of Störmede and its immediate surroundings. The facility was about two hectares. It was surrounded by a double curtain wall, some two meters thick. The castle, a hunting lodge, which houses were Burgmannen , a palace and a chapel . This was built in the 12th century on possibly Carolingian remains.
The castle was later moved to its current location. The later system was secured by a ditch and a wall. The timber-framed high house and stables, some remains of walls, gatehouses from the 17th century and agricultural buildings have been preserved. The old house, probably also from the 17th century, received late classical plaster decorations in the 19th century and was located on the southern part of the palace area. After the transfer to the city of Geseke in 1970, the building fell into disrepair and for a long time only existed as a roofless ruin .
In the winter of 2011/12, the reconstruction of Störmede Castle began. Today it serves together with a newly built outbuilding under the name “Rittergut Störmede” as an event location for weddings, concerts, exhibitions or meetings.
literature
- Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 3 North Rhine-Westphalia. Kröner, Stuttgart 1970, pp. 708-709.
- Cornelia Kneppe : Castles and cities as crystallization points of rule between 1100 and 1300. In: Harm Klueting (Hrsg.): The Duchy of Westphalia, Volume 1: The Duchy of Westphalia: The Electorate of Westphalia from the beginnings of Cologne rule in southern Westphalia to secularization in 1803 . Münster 2009, pp. 216–217.
Web links
- Homepage of the "Rittergut Störmede"
- Information about the castle on westfalen-adelssitze.de ( Memento from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 24 tons of steel for the fairytale castle ( memento from December 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), derpatriot.de, January 2, 2012, accessed on February 4, 2012.