Wickrath Castle

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East wing of the outer bailey of Wickrath Castle

The Wickrath Castle is a water castle on the Niers in the region Niederrhein . It is located in the immediate vicinity of Mönchengladbach district Wickrath and consists of two Baroque Vorburg sashes, a castle-like residential buildings and a Baroque park in the form of a pentagonal coronet .

The castle - a bailey and a high castle (main castle) - was built between 1746 and 1772 on behalf of Count Wilhelm Otto Friedrich von Quadt (1717–1785). The outer bailey has been preserved and has been used as a horse stable with brief interruptions since its construction . The high castle was demolished in 1859, and in its place the castle-like state stable master's house, which is still preserved today, was built as a residential building for the stud manager at the time .

The ensemble of buildings and the publicly accessible park were placed under monument protection on September 24, 1985 , and part of the park is also a nature reserve .

In preparation for the State Garden Show in 2002, the outer bailey, bridges and park were extensively renovated. The outer bailey was repainted in the original oxblood red color. In the same year the Horse Center Schloss Wickrath was established when the Rhenish Horse Studbook moved its headquarters from Bonn to Schloss Wickrath. Since then, the east wing has been used as a horse stable again. The west wing is inhabited today, and the Landstallmeisterhaus is used by a restaurant.

To the east of the palace complex there is a tournament area, a riding stable and a new event hall. This is used for various equestrian events and folk festivals . Wickrath Castle has been part of the Route of Garden Art between the Rhine and Maas since 2004 .

history

Wickrath Castle

From the first mention in 1068 until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the Hochstaden , Broichhausen, Hompesch and Quadt families ruled over the castle and the castle Wickrath. The coats of arms of these families are on a fountain in the farm yard of the outer bailey. Not much has been described or known about Wickrath Castle. A painting depicting Wilhelm Thomas von Quadt from the middle of the 17th century shows a castle that is probably Wickrath Castle. It is located on an island with low bushes and consists of several buildings. Markantester part is a high, off-standing tower with a very acute spire . It was a moated castle, which in the 12th century was possibly built in the form of a moth and whose trenches were supplied by the Niers. Above ground there is no evidence of the former location of the castle. Count von Quadt had all medieval remains removed from the castle when the castle was rebuilt.

Hochstaden

Anno II. With models of the monasteries he founded - illustration in the Darmstadt Vita Annonis Minor (around 1180)

A document from the Archbishop of Cologne in Anno II about the exemption of the Witenhusen court from the obligation to tithe was mentioned by the Lords of Wickrath for the first time in 1068. A Gerlacus de Wickerode, also called Gerlach or Gerlagh, was present as a witness when the document was signed. Gerlach seems to have been friends with Anno II and came from a well-known dynasty . The appointment as bailiff of the Siegburg abbey founded by Anno II indicates this. It may be a younger brother of Gerhard Flamenses . Wickrath Castle, known as "Castrum Wichinrod", is mentioned for the first time in the biography of Anno II , written from 1104 onwards . Accordingly, shortly before his death in December 1075, he had Count Gerlach, lord of Wickrath Castle, come to him.

After Gerlach's death, Wickrath Castle became the property of Count Gerhard I of the Hochstaden family , the older brother of Archbishop Hermann III of Cologne . from Hochstaden , over. Some sources see him as a son of Gerlach, other sources call him his son-in-law, who married Gerlach's daughter. Gerhard I is only listed as a count in one document, the Maria Laach Abbey Book of the Dead , this title is missing in other documents. His son, Gerhard II, inherited the castle and the place and called himself Gerardus de Wyckerode from 1118 . His daughter Aleidis married Otto I von Ahr, who was named Ahr-Hochstaden after the marriage. After his death in 1166 he was first followed by his youngest son Otto II (1166 to 1197), mentioned from 1194 as Otto Graf de Wicrode, and then his grandson Otto III. (1197 to 1247) as Lords of Glory Wickrath.

From 1227 to 1264 Lothar von Wickrath, the seventh child of Otto III., Ruled in Wickrath. Lothar's only son died before him, so his brother Heinrich von Wickrath took over the rule. In 1277 documents named his son Otto IV von Wickrath as lord of the castle. He was followed by Ludolf, Herr zu Wickrath, a son of a brother of Otto III. or from Lothar von Wickrath. The last of the family Ahr Hochstaden, Otto V., whose marriage was childless, was the Count of funds in 1310 which until then rich direct rule Wickrath to feud on. The Schwanenberg exclave on the western side of Erkelenz , which until 1714 belonged to the Duchy of Geldern and then to the Duchy of Jülich and was first mentioned in 1312, also belonged to the Wickrath reign.

Otto V's widow married the knight Wilhelm von Millen after the death of her husband . He is mentioned as lord of Wickrath Castle from 1310. It is described as a Niederungsburg with Niersbrücken. Wilhelm von Millen made the castle available to Count von Jülich for military purposes. Wilhelm von Millen died in 1334.

Broichhausen

In 1338, Count Rainald II von Geldern transferred the castle and the subordination of Wickrath to Wilhelm von Broichhausen. From 1363 his son Johann I. von Broichhausen ruled over the castle. Until 1373 he was also bailiff of Burg Krickenbeck . Johann I was first followed by his son Johann II, and after his death his second son, Heinrich von Broichhausen, who ruled until around 1394. After reaching the age of majority in 1406, Heinrich's son, Johann III. von Broichhausen, rule over Wickrath. From 1429 he also held the office of treasurer of the Duke of Geldern, Arnold von Egmond .

Hompesch

Between 1474 and 1482, the Geldrian vassal Evert, also called Eduard, ruled Vogt zu Bell over Wickrath. But the Vogt zu Bell brought Maximilian I a lot of "harm and hardship". He occupied Wickrath in 1482 to put an end to this hustle and bustle. Maximilian I, Duke of Burgundy , sold Wickrath to his councilor Knight Heinrich II. Von Hompesch (* approx. 1448, † 1501) in 1485 as thanks for his support in suppressing uprisings in the Burgundian Netherlands . Hompesch, from 1481 occupied as marshal and court master of Jülich, released Wickrath in 1488 from the Geldrischen feudal rule and left it by Emperor Friedrich III. to declare imperial rule. The emperor's collection privilege granted Wickrath market and town rights. The rule of Wickrath was thus directly under the emperor, von Hompesch rose to the rank of territorial lord, and Wickrath received town charter . Heinrich von Hompesch and his wife Sophia founded the Kreuzherrenkloster in 1490/1491 , dedicated to St. Antony the Great . The monastery existed until 1802 .

Quad

The marriage of the Hompeschs remained childless. After Heinrich's death in 1502 his step-sons von Quadt , the founders of the Quadt-Wykradt family , inherited the rule of Wickrath. Johann Quadt married a daughter of Rainer von Geldern , who brought in as a dowry the claims of Geldern to Wickrath as a former fiefdom of the duchy, which actually no longer existed since the imperial immediacy. Johann Quadt married twice, and each of the two marriages had twelve offspring. After his death there were protracted inheritance disputes over the castle. Eventually Dietrich, a son from his first marriage, took control of the castle. He was followed by Wilhelm Thomas von Quadt as Imperial Baron and Lord of Wickrath. He also holds the post of hereditary steward and Erbdrosts of the Duchy of Geldern. He died in 1670.

New construction of the castle

Painting by Johann Heinrich Fischer . The double portrait shows the builder of the palace Wilhelm Otto Friedrich Reichsgraf von Quadt and Matthieu Soiron or his brother François. In the background, Wickrath Palace with the high palace and the wings of the outer bailey is shown.

Wilhelm Otto Friedrich von Quadt zu Wickrath and Schwanenberg was enfeoffed with Wickrath Castle in 1742 under Roman law . A fire destroyed the previous late medieval castle in 1745 and it was demolished in 1746. At the end of 1746, Wilhelm Otto Friedrich von Quadt laid the foundation stone for a new castle. The construction required a pile foundation due to the swampy subsoil . In 1748 documents reported that roofing work on the new castle marked the end of the first phase of construction. Documents prove that the brothers François and Matthieu Soiron were architects from 1751 onwards . In 1754, François designed the Protestant church in neighboring Odenkirchen , while his brother designed the Schlickum house in Glehn .

For a long time, Johann Joseph Couven and his son Jakob , who designed, among other things, the related Jägerhof Palace in Düsseldorf, were the architects of the Wickrath Palace. The cathedral builder Joseph Buchkremer attributed the building to them on the basis of stylistic analyzes: Its architecture is very schematic and clearly points to the collaboration of the younger Jakob Couven, the son Johann Josef Couven, who has been working as an architect with his father since the mid-1950s. Paul Clemen also came to this conclusion. Later stylistic analyzes by Paul Schoenen raised doubts about this theory.

The assignment was also made because the master builder depicted in the painting by Johann Heinrich Fischer Wilhelm Otto Friedrich von Quadt zu Wickrath as the builder of Wickrath Castle with the master builder and a portrait reproduced from it that Josef Mataré made before 1933, depicting Johann Joseph Couven (1701 to 1763) were considered. Both the portrait and the original painting illustrate Wickrath Castle in the background. The overall picture is in the Rheydt Castle Museum . An interpretation of the painting as a portrait of Jakob Couvens (1735 to 1812) was unlikely, as he was only eleven years old at the time the foundation stone was laid. The pictures probably show Matthieu Soiron or his brother François. There is no reference to a change of architect in the existing documents. It has not been conclusively clarified whether another architect worked before the soirons in Wickrath were mentioned in a document.

The order for the architects was to build a generously proportioned, axially symmetrical palace complex in the Dutch-Baroque style , divided into an outer and main castle. Matthieu's son, Mathias Soiron , also a master builder and architect, was probably involved in the work and made the drawings for the palace. During the construction phase, the count lived on his property in the Netherlands , while his secretary and landlord Thomas von Wylich organized the construction and its financing. This period also saw the so-called fall Wickrather turmoil , a dispute between Wilhelm Otto Friedrich von Quadt with Catholic monks of Kreuzherren monastery . A legal dispute in which it was a question of compliance with days of penance and prayer ordered by Wilhelm Otto Friedrich von Quadt, he lost before the Vienna Reichshofrat. However, the Prussian government confirmed his position. The religious disputes evoked probably served to divert attention from the disputes about the services of the Wickrath population in building the palace.

Wilhelm Otto Friedrich von Quadt, who bought the title of Count from Emperor Franz I for 14,000 guilders in 1752 , had the floor plan of the park, which is characterized by ponds and avenues of lime trees, laid out in the form of a count's crown . As far as is known, the layout of the entire facility is unique. Graf von Quadt had all typical elements that were necessary for representation integrated into it. An orangery was housed in the east wing, and the count attached particular importance to the construction of the count's stables . A zoo was set up on the so-called Eternity in the south outside the palace complex . The palace complex was completed in 1772 and the construction costs were around 250,000  guilders . The separation of the outer and main castle as an indication of the conception of the previous castle was architecturally outdated at that time. It is probably to be seen as an indication of its origins from an old Lower Rhine family and their rule of Wickrath Castle, which was already two hundred and fifty years old at the time. Count von Quadt seems to have mainly used Wickrath Castle as a summer residence . He spent most of his old age in Nijmegen , where he received citizenship in 1770. He rewarded the architects Soiron by handing over the Kasteel de Wildenborch .

Reconstruction phase

Wickrath Castle on the original cadastral map from 1846; a riding arena of the state stud is marked in the south of the Parkspitze.

In 1794, France occupied the Rhineland on the left bank of the Rhine, including Wickrath. The last ruling imperial count, Otto Wilhelm von Quadt, son of the client, fled across the Rhine from the advancing French troops. The French army used the castle as a stallion depot. To compensate for this, Count Otto Wilhelm von Quadt-Wykradt received the imperial abbey of Isny and the imperial city of Isny in the Allgäu during the secularization of 1803 . The Reichsgrafschaft Isny, which had roughly the same population as Wickrath and Schwanenberg, only existed for a short time. The count, who converted to Catholicism , negotiated with various parties about the sale of Isny, and in 1806 both fell to the Kingdom of Württemberg during mediation .

With the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the imperial immediacy ended for Wickrath. Seven years later, the French troops left the Rhineland after their defeat in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , and Wickrath fell to Prussia . From the travel reports of Jean Charles François de Ladoucette it emerges that after the decree of the Prefect of the Rur Department regarding the veterinary police of April 15, 1815, stallions were held at the castle at that time. The Prussian administration set up barracks in Wickrath Castle in 1819 after renovations by the architect Adolph von Vagedes (1777 to 1842) . The Prussian army quartered squadrons of the Hussar Regiment "von Zieten" No. 3 , the 8th Hussar Regiment (1st Westphalian) and the 5th Uhlans . After various outbreaks of intermittent fever , the Prussian military gave up the barracks in 1834.

Haymaking with draft horses at Wickrath Castle. The man with the peaked cap is Karl Eduard von Engel, director of the stud in Wickrath from 1897 to 1908.

In 1839, Wickrath Castle became a Rhineland State Stud and from 1876 it developed into a stronghold of the Rhenish-German draft horse breed . The decision was probably made in favor of Wickrath because it was already used as a state stallion depot during the French occupation. The post of first master stables was occupied by Friedrich Wilhelm bowl; he remained in office until 1870. First he ran a warmblood breeding for the needs of the army based on the model of East German state studs . It was not until 1873 that breeding began to be reoriented towards the cold-blooded horses desired by agriculture. Gustav Schwarzecker (1829 to 1893) is considered to be the first stud director who steered the "control of the state stud in a folk way" to the "Belgian blows that were favorably requested". In addition, he issued a new licensing regulation in 1880 . Wilhelm Hubert Grabensee (1841 to 1915), director of the stud in Wickrath from 1881 to 1892, promoted Rhenish cold blood breeding on a sustained basis, as he recommended not to sell the good fillies that were brought up in the Rhineland . The horse breeding association Grevenbroich dedicated a memorial plaque on the east wing of the state stud to him as the "founder of the Rhenish cold blood breed", which is still preserved today.

In the year the Rhenish Horse Studbook was founded in 1892, the number of stallions in Wickrath was 100 cold-blooded stallions of Belgian breeding. Spurred on by the breeding success, the breeders continued to expand the stallion portfolio. In 1905 there were already 205 stallions in 90 breeding stations. The heyday of cold blood breeding lasted until the 1930s. With the mechanization of agriculture that then began, the need for draft horses dwindled dramatically within a few years. In 1957 the state stud was relocated to Warendorf and merged with the Westphalian to form the North Rhine-Westphalian state stud .

The outer bailey formed the main courtyard of the stud. The Nassauer Stall, so called because of the stallions from Nassau that were housed there when the Rhenish State Stud was founded, was the original stables of the castle in the time of Wilhelm Otto Friedrich von Quadt. The state stud used all north and south wings of the outer bailey as horse stables. The garden pavilions served as a forge and saddlery . Riding arenas were laid out on the baroque Pleasure Ground and south of the top of the park, outside the palace gardens. In the south outside the castle grounds, the so-called Eternity , the state stud built more stables and buildings for the employees.

Monument description

Apart from the avenues, only the access bridge, which has been repaired several times, and a terrace parapet with sculptures, as well as the farm buildings of the outer bailey, have been preserved from the original, magnificent complex.

The outer bailey consists of a main wing and two side wings. The two-storey pavilion in the middle, stepping back a little, has a hipped mansard roof, the top of which is an eight-sided turret with a lantern and onion dome.

A hotel-restaurant now rises on the site of the former castle.

The well-preserved and still used outer bailey is worthy of protection as a building example with urban character as a monument. The castle park with pond as well as the old trees and the avenue of lime trees also belong to this protected position.

The building has been entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach under No. Sch 007 since September 24, 1985 .

Building description

Map of the Wickrath Castle Park

Wickrath Castle consists of the outer bailey and the main castle with a baroque park. The northern part, the outer bailey, consists of the east and west wings. The palace wings consist of a central building, a north and a south central wing, and a north and a south building. The south part of the west wing is called the Nassauer Stall.

The central axes of the palace wings each form an outer and inner courtyard bounded by walls , the courtyards of honor . The central farmyard is located between the two palace wings. The north-south axis of symmetry runs through it , on which the Niers Bridge , the Horsehead Bridge and the Carrot Bridge, also known as the five-arch bridge, are lined up. The parapet wall of the carrot bridge is decorated with sculptures , clad sphinxes with armor and lion tails , fruit baskets and putti made of Liedberg sandstone . Access to the outer bailey is via the Niers Bridge and the Horse Head Bridge. The carrot bridge connects the outer bailey and the main castle. The crown bridge in the south is also on this axis. Two garden pavilions , of which the southeastern one used to house a forge and later the ornithological museum, are also part of the outer bailey.

A tributary of the Niers, the Carrot, flows through the castle complex from west to east and separates it into the outer and main castle. The main castle consists of the stable master's house and a baroque park and is enclosed on three sides by ponds and ditches. To the southwest of the Landstallmeisterhaus is a landscape park with an amusement area, the Pleasure Ground. To the east of the Landstallmeisterhaus, which is now used as a restaurant and castle hotel, is a water playground . From there the gallery forest runs in an easterly direction, via which the two riding arenas and a riding hall located in the eastern part of the palace complex can be reached.

High castle

Wickrath Castle Hochschloss, Chateau de Wyckradt (photograph by M. Rademacher from March 19, 1859)
Floor plan of the high castle, ground floor, mid-18th century

The high castle consisted of three rectangular parts of the building that were linked by two elements. Three floors and high roofs covered with roof slate rose above a basement . The basement contained a corridor and twelve rooms, the kitchen and a washing-up room. A two-winged door in the central building led into the vestibule , the representative entrance hall, and the stairwell on the first floor . This is where the 40  feet (about 12.5 meters) long and 30 feet (about 9.5 meters) wide, south-facing garden room was housed.

In the north facade, the two corner buildings protruded around a window axis, the central projection, a part of the building that protruded to the full height and a typical design element of Baroque architecture, was less prominent. The garden facade on the south side, on the other hand, was clearly influenced by the central building, which protruded much further there, whereas the side parts did not stand out as strongly as on the north facade. The ground floor could be reached via a two-flight flight of stairs with platforms on the central building.

The central projection had balconies with wrought iron railings on the upper floors. It was structured by slightly protruding wall panels . The central building of the high castle had a mansard roof with a tower-like crown, an octagonal tambour as a vertical architectural element, and a gable field made of natural stones, probably Maastricht limestone , with the coat of arms of those of Quadt above the main cornice .

During a visit to the stud in 1811, the court chamber councilor KJZ Bertoldi expressed its appreciation about the interior. The hall was of all beauty and preciousness, he liked it better than Schloss Benrath . The Count von Quadt had some of the interior fittings transported to Isny.

In 1859 the Prussian administration had the high castle demolished completely against the resistance of the Wickrath population due to alleged dilapidation , which was caused by long vacancies and the intensive use of the building by the military, and most of the stones were sold. The then head of the stud, Friedrich Wilhelm Schal, is said to have advocated the demolition for personal reasons, as the furnishings of the house were partially destroyed and the walls were damp. In its place, the Landstallmeisterhaus was built in 1875 for the then head of the stud.

Landstallmeisterhaus

North facade of the Landstallmeisterhaus

The construction of the Landstallmeisterhaus began in 1875 on the forecourt of the demolished high castle as the official residence of the Landstallmeister. The Landstallmeisterhaus was built as a two-storey building in the classical style. In 1913, the Landstallmeister Paul Freiherr von Nagel added an extension to the house. To harmonize the architectural style with the buildings in the outer bailey, he had a neo-baroque style used, and the hipped roofs of the house were covered with slate.

The Landstallmeisterhaus is connected to the outer bailey by the architecturally richly decorated carrot bridge. The municipality Wickrath acquired in 1967 the castle and the park by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , it granted the land stable master house in perpetual lease to a restaurateur. In its function as a restaurant and excursion bar, he had the building rebuilt several times. A planned expansion was not implemented.

Outer bailey

West wing of the outer bailey
Relief of the east wing
Stables in the south transverse section of the east wing

On the outer bailey there are two opposite buildings with an H-shaped floor plan. The western wing is largely preserved from the time the palace was built, the eastern wing was rebuilt after a fire. The buildings served as a residence for the count's employees and as a farm building in which stables, guard rooms , a brewery and other facilities were housed. According to a description by the mayor of Wickrath from 1816, there were two sheds in the west wing of the outer bailey, as well as other smaller horse stables and the forge in addition to the Nassauer stable. The middle pavilion of the west wing was used as a riding arena . In addition to apartments for servants, the brewery was in the west wing. The east wing housed the guardroom and prison, storage rooms and a cowshed .

The Nassauer stable is the south-facing transverse wing of the west wing, the ground floor of which was planned as a three-aisled facility with eleven bays . Graf von Quadt had the room equipped with high quality stucco-decorated domes . The horse boxes for 54 horses were located on both sides of the central stable lane . After focusing on the breeding of cold-blooded horses that required more space, the stud manager reduced the number of horses that were kept tethered to 38. Since a renovation in 1994, the stable has been used as an exhibition room.

The gable reliefs of the outer bailey are made of marl . Buchkremer described it as follows: “The front surface of the central building is closed off by massive stone gables showing rich figural and ornamental decorations.” About the west wing he wrote: “The gable on the right represents Neptune , surrounded by tritons , as he was in his drives through the flood in four horse-drawn wagons. ”About the east wing he wrote:“ The gable on the left represents Ceres , descending on a wagon drawn by winged dragons and scattering seeds. Below is a peasant kneeling, looking up at her pleadingly, before his team, whose oxen are lying idle in the field. The two gables are framed by flat, often curved profile strips and generally form an oval outline. ”In photos from the 1970s, the farmer can be seen with a bowl filled with fruit, which he seems to be offering to the goddess. These were added by restorers when the relief was renovated at this time. The shell was later removed.

The reliefs are probably iconographically related to the use of the buildings. Neptune was considered a horse deity to whom the horse was sacred. The West stable was accordingly as stables used later called Nassauer stable. The count used the east wing with the depiction of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility , as a farmyard and cowshed.

Presumably at the client's request, Soiron separated the side wings from the corps de logis , creating a variant of the courtyard motif . In the southwest and east there are two single-storey garden pavilions. Soiron planned the south-west of the pavilions as a menagerie for keeping rare animals, the south-east as an aviary ; they can be seen as typical of representative castle furnishings of this time. It is not known which animal species were kept in Wickrath. Possibly it was more a question of agricultural small animal and poultry keeping, possibly peacocks or pheasants . The garden pavilions have a central space with a square base. The middle part protrudes from the overall rectangular building in the form of a risalit with rounded corners, which represented a typical style element of the Lower Rhine Baroque.

The Prussian administration rebuilt the facility in 1818 according to plans by the architect Adolph von Vagedes . The renovations and new buildings are no longer preserved. The east wing burned down in a fire in 1883; the Prussian state had it rebuilt with structural changes. After the renovation, the central pavilion in the east wing served as an apartment instead of a barn. In addition, the administration had riding arenas built according to Vagedes plans in the outer courtyards of the east and west wings.

The position of the lawns and the beds in the outer bailey is based on the geometry of the outer bailey wing. As part of the decentralized State Garden Show 2002, the landscape gardeners restored the original symmetrical shape with four central lawn beds. The courtyards and lattice gates of the outer bailey wings were also renewed on the preserved foundations and according to historical plans. Today there is a fountain in the middle of the lawn parterre.

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East wing of Wickrath Castle

bridges

Carrot with carrot bridge and Nassauer stall

The palace complex has six bridges. The northern access to the outer bailey is first via the Niersbrücke and then via a five-arch bridge, the so-called horse head bridge. The bridge spanning the castle pond has high parapets to protect the riders. At the entrance to the outer bailey are two gate pillars decorated with horse head sculptures, from which the bridge owes its name. The original bridge was demolished in 1982 and replaced by a new bridge with a brick-faced reinforced concrete structure. In the south there is the Kronenbrücke, the Flutgrabenbrücke and a bridge in the southeastern part of the park that leads to the parking lot.

The Niersbrücke and the carrot or five-arch bridge over the carrot had to be carefully renovated as part of the state horticultural show in 2002 because of the monument protection, whereby the character of the carrot bridge as a brick bridge should be preserved. To this end, the structures were gutted. The natural stone paving of the five-arch bridge was removed and a concrete ceiling poured in, which increased the load-bearing capacity of the bridge from 1.5 to 7.5 tons. The renovation of the Niersbrücke increased its load-bearing capacity from 12 to 60 tons. The cost of the bridge renovation amounted to 965,000 DM.

The carrot or five-arch bridge forms the connection between the outer and main castle. After 1859 the bridge was widened by about 1.20 meters on both sides. During renovation measures as part of EUROGA 2002, archaeologists found masonry in the southern abutment that probably belonged to the previous castle. The existence of a late medieval previous bridge could be proven archaeologically; Documents mentioned this from 1322 onwards. Today's bridge is 20 meters long and 7.20 meters wide; the original width was 5.10 meters. The bridge has embankment walls on both sides which, in addition to the ornamental function on the south side, also accommodate the steep embankments. The bridge, like the castle, rested on a pile foundation. The parapet wall of the carrot bridge is mirrored on both sides with sculptures of a sphinx , putti and fruit baskets.

park

The conception of the complex in the form of a count's crown

Count von Quadt had Wickrather Park laid out in the form of a pentagonal count's crown in the Niersaue. Its layout is unique in the Rhineland. The outlines of the crown are repeated in the southern part of the main castle island. Various garden models in the park came from a gardener named Lucas, about whom nothing is known. The original bed of the Niers was relocated during the construction of the palace complex and has since flowed around the palace grounds to the north and west. The outer and main castle are surrounded by ponds and ponds, some of which have silted up again. The contour of the count's crown is emphasized by avenues of linden trees. The park includes broderie and lawn parterres as well as various potted plants such as lemon and orange trees .

A tributary of the Niers, the carrot, fed two ponds, one of which silted up over time due to the growth of floodplain and break forest areas. To build the castle, a canal system was created north of Wickrathberg, through which the carrot supplied various mills, such as the Wickrath Castle Mill and the Wickrath Paper Mill , with water.

To the south of the Landstallmeisterhaus is the Pleasure Ground, a part of the park modeled on English gardens. On the Pleasure Ground, essentially a large lawn, there are a number of old and large trees as a design element. The park is since 1985 listed building, about 1.3  hectares of the park also are under conservation . It is between 57 and 60  m above sea level. NHN . Rare species of ducks, kingfishers , geese , gray herons and black swans can be found in the park . Furthermore, in the more wooded parts of the park, wild animals such as various mice, for example field mice and shrews , as well as red fox , rabbits and brown hares can be found . The ponds serve as a habitat for the nutria . In the alder quarry forest in the silted-up, southwestern part of the park, you will find plants such as the swamp sedge , swamp rag and meadow scum herb , swamp marigold and swamp irises . Perennial cane , water duster and reed grow on the reed beds . The western pond silted up over the years and formed a biotope that was excluded from the conservation approaches in the context of the state garden show in favor of nature conservation.

Seven gardens and parks, in addition to Wickrath Palace, the Hofgarten and Benrath Palace Park in Düsseldorf, the Dyck Palace Park and the New Gardens in Jüchen, the Linn Castle Park and Greiffenhorst Park in Krefeld, the Marienburg Park in Monheim and the Neersen Palace Park in Willich-Neersen formed the decentralized state horticultural show, a focus of EUROGA 2002plus . The renovation of the palace and the park began in 2001. In addition to an extensive building renovation, the ditches and ponds were desludged. In the silted up areas of the park, gardeners removed the plants. A dredger cleared the ponds and ditches around the castle. The sludge , a total of around 30,000  cubic meters , was dried, examined for pollutants and applied to the castle field after approval. The costs for this amounted to around 700,000 DM. A water playground was built next to the Landstallmeisterhaus . As part of the state horticultural show, work began on renaturating the Niers in order to restore the ecological continuity of the river and its connection to the floodplain landscape . The projects carried out linked the wetlands of the Niersaue.

In the area of ​​the riding arena and the peninsula, a total of 62 linden trees were felled due to insufficient stability. Furthermore, gardeners replanted 240 Dutch linden trees , all of which come from the same mother plant. At the end of the work, the castle was painted ox blood red instead of the previously yellow tone. According to the information provided by the Lower Monument Authority, the total cost of the renovation work was around 2.25 million DM , of which the state contributed 70 percent. As part of the state horticultural show, artists displayed their works of art in the park for a limited time. The sculpture “The tanner and the water carrier”, originally made from aerated concrete by Enrico George but irreparably damaged by vandalism, has been a bronze sculpture in the southwestern part of the park since 2005.

Todays use

Rhenish horse studbook

East wing, seat of the Rhenish horse studbook

The Rhenish Horse Studbook is the breeding organization of horse breeders in the Rhineland. The club was founded in Wickrath in 1892 and had its headquarters there until 1911. At that time, breeding focused mainly on cold-blooded horses that were used as workhorses for pulling heavy wagons and for harvesting. The state stud, founded in 1826 as the Royal Prussian-Rhenish-Westphalian state stud, was also housed in the palace complex until 1957.

The Horse Center Schloss Wickrath was established in 2002 when the Rhenish Horse Studbook relocated from Bonn to Schloss Wickrath. The association has set itself the goal of reviving Wickrath Castle as the center of Rhenish horse breeding. It has around 5000 members and looks after 8000 breeding horses from 50 different horse breeds. Since then, the east wing has been used as a horse stable again. Opposite the palace complex there is a tournament area, a riding stable and a new event hall. There are licensing , stallion and elite shows, performance tests and other events. In the outer courtyard of the east wing, the Rhenish Horse Studbook placed a bronze statue of the stallion Florestan I, who died in 2012 and one of the most successful stallions of the Warendorf State Stud, while still alive .

Exhibitions

The Nassauer stable serves as an event hall and exhibition space. It found there ecumenical services , art exhibitions , children's parties, jazz concerts held, workshops and other events. The exhibition space is mainly used by locally and regionally known artists.

gastronomy

The former country stable master's house is used as an inn. The café and restaurant has a fireplace room, a gallery and a sun room. Outside there is a terrace facing the park and a beer garden by the lake . The building should possibly be supplemented by a modern extension and thematically oriented towards the horse center. A building permit for the extension has been available for years.

Palace park tournament

Show jumping, palace park tournament (2009)

Up until 2010, Wickrath Castle was the venue for the Castle Park Tournament for 25 years . The tournament consisted of the disciplines show jumping and dressage and took place in the riding stadium at Wickrath Castle. In dressage, the participants competed in the Grand Prix , Grand Prix Freestyle and a qualification test for the Nuremberg Burg Cup , while the jumping competition was the Mönchengladbach Grand Prix. The main competition on every Sunday of the event was the qualification for the Bundeschampionat of the German show jumping horse. In the years before the tournament was abandoned, the starting field was filled with high-ranking riders such as Isabell Werth , Nadine Capellmann or the dressage rider team of the United States, which was trained by Klaus Balkenhol at the time .

The breeding, riding and driving association Wickrath, which organized the palace park tournament, organized the Wickrath Riding Days as a follow-up event from 2013 to 2015. Since 2016 the tournament has been held again under the name Schlosspark Tournament.

Party at the lake

The Fest am See was created in 1975 as a reaction to the municipal reorganization , in which the cities of Mönchengladbach, Rheydt and Wickrath were merged. At the suggestion of Kurt Jacobi, the chairman of the Wickrath Heimat- und Verkehrsverein at the time, the Wickrathers organized a so-called bivouac festival in order not to let Wickrath go down without a sound . Over the years, both the offer and the number of visitors grew and the festival was renamed Fest am See. The offer includes a herding dog demonstration , a beach handball tournament as well as a farmers' and garden market with over 70 exhibitors. The festival experienced a new record in 2014 with 20,000 visitors.

Ornithological Museum

In one of the garden pavilions, the former blacksmith's shop, there was an ornithological museum, maintained by the Naturschutzbund Deutschland Stadtverband Mönchengladbach. The city of Mönchengladbach terminated the lease on June 30, 2012. Employees from the city's building management had noticed a significant amount of mold behind the fixtures and cladding . This room has been empty since then.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Ludger Fischer: The most beautiful palaces and castles on the Lower Rhine . Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2004, ISBN 3-8313-1326-1 .
  • Gisbert Knopp: Schloss und Park Wickrath (=  workbooks of the Rhenish preservation of monuments . Volume 65 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2005, ISBN 978-3-88462-218-6 .
  • Wilhelm Kuhlen: Forays through the history of the Wickrath rule . Ed .: Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Wickrath e. V. 1988.
  • Karl-Heinz Schumacher: Wickrath Castle. A castle complex on the Lower Rhine in old and new pictures. Ed .: Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Wickrath e. V. 2003, ISBN 3-00-012882-4 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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Remarks
  1. ↑ The inscription reads: “DEN HOOGGEBOORE HEER WILLEM OTTO FREDERICK OF THE HEYLIGEN ROOMIC RYX GRAVE VAN QUADT OF ONMIDDELBAERE RYX VRYE HEERLYK HEEDEN WYKRADT EN SWANENBERG REGEEREND HEER VRY HEFER ENFOLE ENFOLE DER GRAFFSCHAP ZUTPEHEN. ”- Translation into High German:“ The high-born Mr. Wilhelm Otto Friedrich, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Count von Quadt, the direct imperial-free glories of Wickrath and Schwanenberg, the ruling gentleman, Freiherr von Loenen Wolferen and the Hereditary Master's House, Mr. von Delwijnen, Erbdrost and Hereditary Master of the Principality of Geldern and the County of Zutphen. "

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '44 "  N , 6 ° 24' 57.5"  E

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