Wewer Castle

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The manor house of Schloss Wewer, view from the southwest

The Wewer castle part of a former manor on the edge of Paderborn district Wewer in North Rhine-Westphalia . The palace complex consists of several buildings of different dates and was called Wewer II in the 19th century to distinguish it from the Wewer I estate with the Old Wewer Castle . In 1838 the two estates were combined into one property by Baron Friedrich Carl von und zu Brenken .

The castle stands as since 26 June 1985 monument under monument protection . All buildings on the property are used privately today and cannot be viewed. The area can be seen from the street.

history

Illustration of the castle from around 1837–1840

A manor in Wewer was one of the early possessions of the Paderborn bishopric , a villa there was mentioned in documents as early as the 11th century. In the High Middle Ages , a ministerial family named themselves after their property in Wewer, because in 1189 a Suetherus von Wewer was mentioned in a document. His family's ancestral home was probably the Motte Imbsenburg, three kilometers southwest of the village .

In 1429 the Lords of Wewer owned the estate. In 1449, the Paderborn cathedral chapter enfeoffed Arnold von Imbsen with the property. At the turn of the 15th to the 16th century, the brothers Cordt and Johann were joint owners. Johann sold his part in 1519 to the knight Reinhard von Brenken , who had previously married Cordt's daughter Anna and moved his residence to Wewer. Reinhard had the old castle built as a new residential building before the final sale in 1515/1516. Although Anna was Cordt's heir, half of Wewer's family did not get to her husband's family, because after the death of his first wife, Cordt married a second time. From this connection the son Melchizedech emerged, to whom he inherited his share of the fief (Wewer I.). From then on, both halves of the Wewer office were run as two separate manors. The von Imbsen family had a castle built on their share (Wewer II) as a representative residence between 1684 and 1686.

Lithograph of the castle from around 1863

The von Brenken zu Wewer family died out in 1817. Their heir was Baron Franz Joseph von und zu Brenken zu Erpernburg . When the von Imbsen family also died out in the male line with the death of Wilhelm Anton von Imbsens on April 28, 1833, their indebted property went to their daughters and was for sale. Friedrich Carl von und zu Brenken, Franz Joseph's son, seized the opportunity and on February 6, 1838 also acquired Wewer II with the castle from the heiresses, thus reuniting the property in one hand. The archive of the house came to the family of her husband Friedrich Ludolf von Landsberg - Velen through the marriage of Sophia von Imbsen in 1842 . Today it is on deposit in the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia, Westphalia Department (formerly the State Archive of Münster).

Friedrich Carl von und zu Brenken was succeeded by his sons Max and Dietrich and his son Reinhard as owners of the two aristocratic residences. He bequeathed Schloss Wewer to his daughter Juliana von Brenken-Papen, while the old castle came to Isa Baron von Elverfeldt. In the 20th century, the old castle was temporarily used by the estate's pension building .

description

Site plan of the castle with the former rentier and tithe barn

The complex consists of the baroque manor house , farm buildings and a mill as well as a castle park . To the southwest of it are the former Rentei (old castle) and the former tithe barn .

architecture

The focus of today's facility is a two-story mansion from the Baroque era. It is divided into 13 axes by windows and has a high hipped roof with small dormers , the original roof turret, however, no longer preserved. The portal on the north side is flanked by two columns and is crowned by a coat of arms relief and an inscription with the year 1686 contained in a chronogram . At the north-west corner of the building is a neo-Gothic palace chapel by the Paderborn cathedral builder Arnold Güldenpfennig from 1862. To the south of the manor there is a farm building that dates from the mid-19th century. The remaining utility buildings on the property are more recent.

Castle Park

North-east of the mansion is an approximately 9.6  hectares large landscaped which is bounded in the east of the Alme and to the west of the district road 37th It was laid out in the course of structural changes to the manor around 1860 instead of a baroque ground floor garden. The basic structure of the 19th century has largely been preserved, but the branching system of winding garden paths no longer exists. Some other garden elements, such as a fountain and a grotto , have only survived in fragments.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schloss Wewer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Entry by Gabriele Rustemeyer zu Wewer in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  2. ↑ Information on Gut Wewer in GenWiki , accessed on May 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d House and Castle Wewer on westfalen-adelssitze.de ( Memento from April 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b Landesarchiv NRW Westphalia department , accessed on May 13, 2015.
  5. ↑ Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 5.9 ″  E
  6. ↑ G. Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2: Westphalia. 1969, p. 599.
  7. ↑ Information on the castle chapel in the photo archive Photo Marburg , accessed on May 13, 2015.
  8. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Wewer Castle Park in LWL Geodata Culture
  9. ^ A b Carsten Seick: Studies on landscaped gardens and parks in Westphalia-Lippe with special consideration of the facilities of private clients. Dissertation from the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster 1996, p. 377 ( PDF ; 1.8 MB).

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 '17.4 "  N , 8 ° 42' 10.5"  E