Strauweiler Castle

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Strauweiler Castle,
the home of Hubertus Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and his family

Strauweiler Castle is a noble residence and residence in the valley of the Dhünn in Unterodenthal, municipality of Odenthal in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

The complex was first mentioned in the middle of the 14th century, but the property is much older. The owners were successively the gentlemen von Vorst , von Quadt , von Hall and von Wolff-Metternich . The castle is now owned by the Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg family .

history

The first known family on Strauweiler was that of Vorst , who verifiably lived here in the 14th century. The castle was first mentioned in 1347, but a Heinrich von Udindara (the early medieval name of Odenthal) probably had his seat here as early as the middle of the 12th century.

Strauweiler was a fiefdom in the Duchy of Berg , as its owners in the 14th and 15th centuries, members of the noble Quadt family can be proven. So was Wilhelm Quadt the Elder. J., married to Bela von Limburg on November 6, 1390 enfeoffed with Strauweiler. He was followed by his son Johann d. Ä. Quadt 1426. When the inheritance of Johann d. Ä. In 1467 his son Adolf ( Aleff ) received property in Buschfeld and other places on the left bank of the Rhine as well as in the places on the right bank of the Rhine Deutz and Bensberg , the son Johann d. J. (in addition to other farms in the area Odenthal the house Strauweiler with all accessories tithe to regulate fisheries and the right to dispute ( Hofgedinge )). 1482 Johann d. J. Quadt enfeoffed with Strauweiler.

"Of all these farms, heirs and estates, vineyards, houses, rents and assets with all their additions and accessories," Aelff has for himself and his heirs "neither motherly, nor motherly, and klaiclois myt halme, hande ind monde vertzegen ind vertzyen ', by virtue of this letter according to the law and custom of the Landesvan dem Berghe and the city of Cologne' as I billichen ind zorechte dorn soulde 'in hands and on behalf of Johann and his heirs and has disinherited himself and his heirs from it and Johann and whose heirs are inherited for everlasting days. Pay debts. The brothers Aelff and Johann have given us both conditions that they should pay the debts of their father and mother, who both died, as far as they are still unpaid. "

In 1416 Strauweiler was destroyed during a feud between the Electorate of Cologne and the united duchies of Jülich and Berg . The castle was later rebuilt on the old foundations as a late Gothic- early modern residential palace.

Through the marriage of Adolf von Hall zu Ophoven to Anna (also Enghein or Swana ) Quadt in 1437, the von Hall family acquired inheritance claims to the Strauweiler house. After the death of the childless Johann Quadt von Buschfeld, Strauweiler fell as a dowry to his sister Anna von Hall. Their descendants on Strauweiler were:

  • Her son Dietrich von Hall († 1510), enfeoffed with Strauweiler in 1489,
  • his son Adam von Hall († before 1555),
  • his son Degenhard von Hall, enfeoffed with Strauweiler in 1585 and
  • his daughter Maria Catharina von Hall (1599–1663).

According to documents that have been preserved, the Halls fought a lengthy dispute with the abbots of the Altenberg monastery over fishing rights from 1577 to probably 1622, which was initially believed to be resolute at the end of the 16th century. The dykes and locks built by Hall were allowed to remain, but fishing was not hindered any further. Nevertheless, there were always complaints from the abbots.

"The Palatinate-Neuburgian Jülich and Bergischen Presidents and Councilors certify the dispute between Abbot Godtfried von Zündorf and the Conventuals of the Monastery of Aldenberg on the one hand and Heinrich and Degenhardt von Hall zu Strauweiler on the other hand because of several battles, dikes, Locks and fish sources mediated by princely commissioners comparison of 1577 and its confirmation by the local chancellor according to the literal recession of 1596. "

In the family of Hall heiress Maria Catharina Hall with followed by the marriage in 1615 Johann Adolf Wolff Metternich to the canal , the Wolff-Metternich , the Strauweiler over 300 years from July 1618 to the 1950s, held in possession. They got the house as a fief from the Duke of Jülich and Berg. 1955 followed the Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg through the marriage of Karl-Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Monica Maria Christina Flaminia Countess Wolff Metternich zur Gracht. Today the buildings are privately owned by the Hubertus Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg family and his wife Sema Meray and are not open to the public.

Strauweiler as a place to live

A surviving tax list from 1586 shows that the village was part of the Dorfhonschaft in the Odenthal parish.

On the Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Miselohe from 1715, Strauweiler is categorized as Adelich Haus and named Strauwyler . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking recorded Strauweiler on his chart of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Strauweiler .

Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813, the rule was dissolved and Strauweiler was politically assigned to the Mairie Odenthal in the canton of Bensberg . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the mayor's office in Odenthal in the Mülheim am Rhein district .

Strauweiler is regularly recorded as Strauweiler on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824, on the Prussian first survey from 1840 and from the Prussian new survey from 1892 on on measuring table sheets .

Population development
year Residents Residential
building 		category Political /
Church affiliation
1822 6th House Odenthal mayor's office,
parish of Odenthal
1830 6th Castle house
1845 14th 1 Manor
1871 12 2 Manor
1885 10 1 Locality
1895 5 1 Locality
1905 6th 1 Locality

architecture

The core of the castle is a four-storey residential wing from around 1500 in the north-western area of ​​the overall complex, which is accentuated by four round, slightly protruding corner towers and a high, steeply sloping hipped roof. One of these corner towers is two-story. It used to be the local prison, which was only accessible from above. Prisoners were lowered with a rope. In the north-east there is a low wing that was added in the 16th century. Another part of the building was added to the south in 1665. The richly carved railing of the house stairs is a striking part of the historic interior. The elongated coach house and the gatehouse date from the 18th century. The chapel in the gatehouse (now a garage) is still used today for church services. In 1862 there was a thorough renovation in line with historicism. The building was newly plastered, the windows were renewed and the battlement floor of the core building as well as the corner turrets were restored in a historicizing way. In 1955, Strauweiler was renovated again by the family of the current owners, this time without any major structural changes. However, the former prison in the corner tower became a bathroom.

literature

  • Kurt Niederau : Quadic pedigree . In: Communications of the West German Society for Family Studies 23 (1958), Sp. 319–352.
  • Ernst von Oidtman : Hall to Ophoven . In: Schleicher, Herbert M (arrangement): Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Vol. 7, Cologne 1994, pp. 443-456.
  • Ernst von Oidtman : Quad, Quaide, Quadt . In: Schleicher, Herbert M (arrangement): Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Vol. 12, Cologne 1997, pp. 281-362.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strauweiler is expressly attested to as a fiefdom of the Duke von Berg in 1489; Niederau, Sp. 324; Oidtman, Hall, p. 440
  2. ↑ Niederau, p. 326. Strauweiler was not previously, as is sometimes claimed, a fiefdom of Bela's father Johann von Limburg; see. in detail: G. Aders et al. (Arrangement): Castles and Seats . In: In: G. Aders et al .: The history of the counts and lords of Limburg and Limburg-Styrum and their possessions. Assen 1978. pp. 256-269. (Divorce of the Graven van Limburg Stirum, Deel II, Vol. 4)
  3. ^ Oidtman, Quad, p. 286
  4. ↑ a b Castle trade on marriage market older article (before 1996) of the Kölner Stadtanzeiger in the archive of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein
  5. ↑ Oidtrman, quad, p 286
  6. ↑ History of the Cologne, Jülich and Berg families in family tables, coats of arms, seals and documents, Volume 1, Anton Fahne, Verlag Heberle, 1848
  7. ↑ Oidtman, Hall, pp. 439-441.
  8. ↑ Where the prince takes a shower in the dungeon Kölner Stadtanzeiger from October 16, 2005
  9. ↑ Gerd Müller: Odenthal, History of a Bergische Gemeinde, published by the municipality of Odenthal, Odenthal 1976
  10. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
  11. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  12. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
  13. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  14. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
  15. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
  16. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Issue XII), Berlin 1909.
  17. ^ Entry by Christoph Kühn on Strauweiler Castle in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council
  18. ↑ Please come in A castle for friends and bats Kölner Stadtanzeiger from March 26, 2015

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 21.2 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 32 ″  E