Westhusen Castle

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Entrance front of the manor house

The Westhusen Castle , also home Westhusen called, is a moated castle in the Dortmund area Westerfilde .

It was (also spelled Speke) in the first half of the 14th century by Gerlach specks, a member of the family of Bodelschwingh built, then came through marriage only to the family of Vittinghoff and finally to the von Sydow that the mansion of the castle by a renovation in the 19th century gave it its present appearance. The facility has served as a senior citizens' residence since the 1980s and can only be visited to a limited extent.

While the castle building as a monument in the monument list of Dortmund is entered, the whole castle area is available as ground monument under monument protection .

history

When the estate was divided between the two brothers Ernst and Gyselbert Specke zu Bodelschwingh in 1311, the property of the later House of Westhusen Gyselbert fell to. His son Gerlach built the Westhusen house there in 1332 and subsequently called himself "Specke zu Westhusen" after his new property. In 1361 he donated a chapel belonging to the house , which, however, was outside the castle grounds at that time. Gerlach's son Heinrich only appears in documents as "von Westhusen". He had to witness how the complex was destroyed during the Great Dortmund Feud in 1388, but the owners had the Westhusen house rebuilt.

In 1469 the property came through the marriage of the heiress Cattin von Westhusen to her husband Wilhelm von Vittinghoff , called Nortker (c) ke, whose family remained the owner until the 17th century. After it was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , the castle was inherited from the husband of Arnolde von Thulen (also Arnolda von Thülen ), who married Ludolph Lutter von Hoete zu Bögge in 1600. Her uncle, the last male family member of the Vittinghoffs living on Westhusen, made her heiress through a family contract after his childless marriage. The couple had their property renewed in the same year.

The von Hoete family owned Westhusen until 1743. When they died out as a male, Johann Ludwig von Hoete's adopted daughter, Sophie von Geuder called Rabensteiner , brought the estate to Friedrich Wilhelm von Sydow , who came from Brandenburg , when she married . He had the manor house completely rebuilt in 1750. His family built the farm buildings on the estate between 1853 and 1856 and had the manor house redesigned in the neo-Gothic style from 1886 to 1888 in line with contemporary tastes. The castle chapel had already been demolished in 1809 . A primal land map shows it as a rectangular building about five to six meters wide and eight to ten meters long.

Conrad von Sydow sold the estate to Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG) in 1913 and relocated to Zemlin in the Pomeranian district of Cammin . The GBAG had the castle's moat, fed by the Nettebach, drained.

The palace buildings were restored between 1974 and 1979 . In the 1980s there was a workshop for the disabled on the site. At the end of the 1980s, the facility was rebuilt for the last time and has been used as a senior citizens' residence since summer 1992. In the course of the work, the southern part of the outer bailey building was laid down and replaced by a new building.

description

Stepped gable on the south side of the manor house

Westhusen Castle consists of a simple mansion and two elongated buildings to the east that were formerly used for commercial purposes. They are parallel to each other and have no connection to the main house. They are now used as senior citizens' apartments.

The two-storey manor house made of rubble stones rests on a pile grid made of 350 oak posts. Its two floors have a yellow coat and are of a gable roof completed. Its bright corner blocks and window frames stand out just as clearly from the paintwork of the outer walls as do the green shutters . The north and south sides of the house have stepped gables with small gable windows and (blind) ox eyes .

A polygonal tower with a bent helmet protrudes from the middle of the eastern facade , which is one mezzanine floor higher than the rest of the building. It dates from the 1880s. A bridge leads to the portal on its ground floor, above which the coat of arms of the von Sydow and von Plettenberg families can be found. The south-east corner of the mansion is defined by a small terrace , which is enclosed by a low wall with a crenellated roof and a small polygonal watch tower on the south-east corner .

literature

  • Richard Borgmann: Palaces, castles and permanent aristocratic houses in the parish Mengede, Seventh episode: Westhusen Castle. In: Heimatspiegel. Supplement to the Dortmunder Nord-West-Zeitung, No. 47, 1958.
  • Henriette Brink-Kloke: House Westhusen. In: Kai Niederhöfer (Red.): Burgen AufRuhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0234-3 , pp. 81–84.
  • Klaus Gorzny: Emscherschlösser. Castles, palaces and aristocratic residences in the Emscher Landscape Park. Piccolo, Marl 2001, ISBN 3-9801776-5-3 , pp. 110-112.
  • Karl Hoecken: House Westhusen near Nette. Dortmunder Bergbau AG, Dortmund 1961.
  • State Office for Archives Maintenance (Ed.): Inventories of the non-state archives of Westphalia. Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . Volume 2). Aschendorff, Münster 1968, ISSN  0539-2292 , pp. 17-18.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Westhusen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Dortmund, city planning and building regulations office: Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund. Status: July 2, 2015 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; 180 kB ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de
  2. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969, p. 139.
  3. ^ H. Brink-Kloke: House Westhusen. 2010, p. 82.
  4. ↑ K. Gorzny: Emscherschlösser. 2001, p. 110.
  5. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969, pp. 139–140.

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 35 "  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 22"  E