Steinhof (Duisburg)

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Stone courtyard outside
Steinhof inner courtyard

The Steinhof with its stone tower is the oldest surviving building in Duisburg and is located in the Huckingen district on Düsseldorfer Landstrasse 347. Today the Steinhof is used as an event location.

history

The medieval, U-shaped courtyard, originally a free manor , was first mentioned in a document in 1454. The central element is an almost square residential tower, the lower part of which dates from the late 12th century. The middle floor was built in the first half of the 13th century, the second floor belongs to the late 13th / 14th. Century. Today it is surrounded by residential buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, which are in turn connected to younger parts of the building to the south.

The Steinhof's location is unusual as it is unlike other historic buildings in the area, e.g. B. the moated castles Böckum and Remberg , directly on the Angerbach , but on the road between Kaiserswerth and Duisburg . The robber barons tales associated with the Steinhof and the assumptions that it once stood in the swamp and owned a tunnel to the nearby Böckum house have not yet been archaeologically proven. The relationship with the nearby village of Huckingen has also not yet been clarified. It is assumed that the Steinhof including the tower is a road and temporary customs post.

Owners of the Steinhof were the Duisburg citizen Adolf ( Ailf ) Tacken (around 1450), Rütger von Galen and his wife Elsgen von Kalkum ( Calicheim ) (until 1454), the chapter of the St. Lambertus donation Düsseldorf (1454-1805), the state domain administration (1805–1819), the Counts of Spee (1819–1949) and the city of Duisburg (since 1949).

After the farm was closed in 1971, the farm threatened to deteriorate. Committed citizens were only barely able to prevent the buildings for a high-speed railway line between Düsseldorf and Duisburg from being torn down in 1970/1971. In spring 1999, could the city of Duisburg and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is one of their idea different clubs Huckinger community center convincing. After the foundation of the Bürgerhaus Steinhof Huckingen association on May 31, 1999, the renovation work could begin. These have been supported over the years by a larger state grant, voluntary working groups from the associations involved and ABM workers from the employment office. The foundation stone was laid on March 9, 2001.

Todays use

The Steinhof, including the adjoining festival hall, is now used for around 600 people. The non-profit-making association Kultur- und Bürgerzentrum Duisburg Süd Steinhof Huckingen eV is the leaseholder of the facility and ensures the operation through the voluntary work of the members and those responsible. It is also being checked whether a local history museum can be set up in the Steinhof, in which site-specific excavation finds from the Iron and Merovingian times as well as photos and other documents are exhibited.

Web links

Commons : Steinhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Bernd Braun: Steinhof. In: Bürgererverein Duisburg-Huckingen eV (Hrsg.): Historical hiking trail in Angerland - Huckingen and the surrounding area. Completely revised new edition, Gladbeck 2012, pp. 30–31 ( PDF ; 7.3 MB).
  • Kristin Dohmen, Christina Notarius, Claudia Schmidtke: The Steinhof in Duisburg-Huckingen - construction study of a medieval residential tower. In: Denkmalpflege im Rheinland, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2nd quarter of 2003), pp. 66–74.
  • Bernd Braun: Cultural monuments in the south of Duisburg - SteinTurm a medieval residential tower . Duisburg 2007.
  • Mathias Hensch : Duisburg monument themes 3 - The Huckinger stone tower in the light of current research . Duisburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89279-647-3 . ( PDF ; 1.43 MB)
  • Mathias Hensch: The Huckinger stone tower. Duisburg's oldest profane building and a unique testimony to the history of high medieval rule. In: Volker Herrmann , News about the Middle Ages on the Rhine and Ruhr, Duisburg - Huckingen - Meiderich. Archeology and Monument Preservation in Duisburg 9, Büchenbach 2009, pp. 161–215. ( online )
  • Volker Hermann: The Huckinger stone tower - a high medieval stone work in the south of Duisburg. In: Burgen und Schlösser 2010/2, pp. 83–90.
  • Volker Hermann: Steinhof. In: Castles on the Ruhr. On the way to 100 castles, palaces and mansions in the Ruhr region. Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0234-3 , pp. 94-97.
  • Volker Hermann: The medieval stone tower in Huckingen. Duisburg 2011. ( online ).
  • Joachim Zeune : Huckinger Steinhof: The SteinTurm - an interim report , in: Bürgererverein Duisburg-Huckingen (ed.): Huckinger Heimatbuch (Volume III), Duisburg 2015, pp. 107–127.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hensch (2008), p. 7 ff.

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 45 ″  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 1.1 ″  E