Thurner Hof

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The half-timbered house of the Thurner Hof, in February 2008
Thurner Hof, view from the northwest

The Thurner Hof is a manor and former knight's seat in Cologne-Dellbrück , which consists of the manor house on the southeast corner, a four-winged courtyard and a corner tower (the "turret") on the northwest corner. It has been owned by the City of Cologne since 1911. "Thurn" is an Old High German form of tower and refers to the original form of the castle in the form of a moth . The name was also carried over to the associated settlement, today part of Cologne-Dellbrück. The courtyard is surrounded to the east and south by a garden area of ​​7,200 m² and is now used as a teaching garden for the VHS Cologne and is maintained by the VHS Cologne working group on a voluntary basis. The garden is open to all visitors. Every year on the 1st Sunday in May, the Thurner Hof is the venue for the Cologne Plant Exchange.

history

The oldest known owner is Heinrich von Thurn around 1150, who also owned goods in Wichheim (today part of Cologne-Holweide ). The land register of the Benedictine monastery of St. Pantaleon in Cologne mentions the Thurner mill in 1322 and 1324 , from which the monastery received its income. The next owner recorded, but only mentioned in 1423, is a family Hermann von Thurn (vamme Thurme). The von Quadt zu Haus Buschfeld family is mentioned for the first time in 1526 . In 1560 Adolf von Brambach (probably named after a property of the same name in the Overath area ) owned the Thurner Hof, which he sold to his brother-in-law Hans von Hoven, known as Pampus. In 1590 Hans Ludwig von Hatzfeld bought the farm. Adolf von Quadt zu Haus Buschfeld bought the farm back for his family in 1612. He also owned the Iddelsfeld house and was Bachgrave for the lower course of the Strunde . In 1627 he had the courtyard gate, still preserved today, built with the Quadt-Pallant alliance coat of arms . In 1750 the last direct male farm owner from this family died; his brothers were high clergymen in the diocese of Trier and therefore left as heirs. His cousin, Franz von der Leyen zu Hohengerold, now took over the Thurner Hof and had it managed by a leaseholder Schnell. A merchant Schül (l) gen followed as the owner after ten years, for whom the still-preserved memorial cross on the Strunde was erected shortly after 1819. In 1818 the farm came into the possession of the Neuhöffer family. Several tenants and owners followed, including Carl Krein, until the property was acquired by the city of Cologne in 1911. The last tenants and managers were the Werres family.

The mansion

The former manor house was probably built in its current form in half-timbered construction in the late 16th century , as Paul Clemen wrote in the inventory of art monuments of the district of Mülheim published in 1901, which mentions the Thurner Hof as one of the few secular buildings. An only partially recessed, stone-vaulted basement forms the foundation of the house. It is rather unlikely that it comes from a previous building, as suspected. Above it rises, accessed from the north by a flight of stairs, the two-storey half-timbered frame construction with a two-and-a-half-storey, steep, slate-covered gable roof in north-south orientation of the ridge. An annex was later added to the west, via which this roof side is towed today. The stud frame of the house is built without diagonal struts; the high main floors have or had cross-storey window openings. All of this corresponds to a number of large Bergisch half-timbered houses from the 16th and 17th centuries, but is unique in (today's) Cologne city area. On the lower floor, a hall with larger windows and stucco decor was added in the 18th century.

Approx. In 1958/59 the building, which was still fully inhabited at the time, was renovated for the first time. The facade plaster was removed and the damaged half-timbered facades were repaired for the first time; the south gable was extensively renewed. The slate roof, which was probably renewed at the time, was towed over the extension, which had been tiled up until then. From 1972 to 1979 the house was renovated and rebuilt again and turned into a branch of the Cologne Adult Education Center. The damaged half-timbered facade was repaired with plastic seals. The original cross-frame windows were reconstructed on the upper floor of the east facade. Inside, dilapidated ceilings and walls were covered extensively. This as well as a lack of building maintenance (damage to the slate roof) caused massive structural damage in the following decades. Since August 2010, the mansion has therefore been part of the job market and city beautification project "Win-Win for Cologne" and a. renovated by youth welfare in Cologne .

stables

In the farm buildings of the Thurner Hof there are stables of the Reitergemeinschaft Kornspringer Köln eV , which also uses the " little tower".

Garden area

The garden consists of a farm garden, a former weir and a meadow with orchards , where the beekeeping is also located. The garden and the half-timbered manor house from the 16th century form an aesthetic unit.

Cottage garden

The cottage garden is the heart of the garden. Boxwood beds run towards an old pear tree that stands in the middle of the cottage garden. "Old-fashioned" flowers such as pasque flowers , red foxgloves , peonies and columbines are grown in the flowerbeds . In March, scented violets can be discovered on the paths that the wild pansies follow a little later . In June hollyhocks tower above all other flowers. In the wild herb bed, the inconspicuous wild tulips and pasque flower bloom early in the year , and in summer the bright blue ox-tongue and Siberian iris .

In the vegetable patches, crops that have fallen out of fashion grow, among other things, such as garden logs, turnip greens, chard , parsnips , Jerusalem artichokes and broad beans . For educational reasons, vegetables are grown in two different ways: As a mixed row culture according to Gertrud Franck , in which plants are grown in a specific sequence in close rows, and as a more traditional mixed bed culture, in which strong, weak and medium eaters are grown one after the other.

In the herb beds you will find plants as they were kept in a mansion garden of the 16th century: Rue , Real meadowsweet , myrrh chervil and motherwort can be found here as well as the parsley , the laurel and the now popular again in recent years, wild garlic .

Weir ditch

Big pitch dragonfly

The moat is the ecological heart of the garden. Generously supported by state funds, a working group from the VHS Cologne ensured that the remaining part of the historic moat was flooded. Due to the different depths of the water, the varied lighting conditions from deeply shady to full sun and the adjacent long dry stone wall, an extraordinary ecological diversity with a multitude of aquatic and marsh plants could develop here. Here you can find protected plants such as the yellow pond rose and the white water lily , on whose leaves the wagtail hunt for insects in summer .

Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

In spring, yellow marsh marigolds line the water's edge and in summer the red-violet purple loosestrife as well as hedgehog's cob , feverish clover and marsh iris . In March you can see the spawn of the common frogs in the water, from April also that of the water frogs. The kingfisher that breeds nearby has part of its hunting ground here. You can often see him looking for fish on the willow branches that protrude above the surface of the water . Another observation is the heron for which the ponds on the Thurner Hof also ideal hunting ground are. In summer, nest here regularly mallards .

Due to the different habitats, you will find a large variety of different dragonfly species here . They can best be observed from the jetty protruding far into the pond area , from which you can also see the courtship game of the moderlies and sticklebacks . There is a long dry stone wall across from the pond. Bumblebees and solitary bees nest there .

Orchard meadow

The orchard meadow takes up the largest area of ​​the Thurner Hof's gardens . Here, too, an attempt is made to do justice to the historical ambience of the old manor through the selection of cultivated forms. Old apple varieties typical of the region grow here with the Rhenish bean apple and the Rhenish crook . However, the aim of the educational garden is also to be able to show visitors the entire spectrum of fruit, nut and berry varieties. In addition to plums , you can also find apricots , peaches , cherries , a walnut tree and hazelnut bushes, as well as rarer varieties such as medlars and the Sorbian mountain ash .

Numerous species of birds find nesting opportunities in the wild hedges that surround the orchard meadow. The goldfinch can be observed as well as the greenling . Occasionally, in winter, large numbers of tailed tits will invade the branches of the old fruit trees.

beekeeping

The beekeeping working group built an apiary on the orchard. Today the beehive of the Thurner Hof consists of max. 20 peoples, 7 of which are looked after by the participants in the VHS courses.

Individual evidence

  1. Hanna Adenauer: Report on the activities of the urban preservation of monuments in Cologne 1956-1959 , in: Yearbook of Rheinische Denkmalpflege , Vol. XXII, 1959, pp. 107–111; reprinted in: Der Stadtkonservator (Ed.): Cologne: 85 Years of Monument Protection and Preservation 1912–1997, Stadtspuren - Denkmäler in Köln, Vol. 9.I, Cologne 1998, pp. 242–246, here p. 245
  2. Hille Kunkel-Mühlschlegel: Monument conservation measures on Cologne small farms, courtyards and mansions (1995) , in: Der Stadtkonservator (Ed.): Cologne: 85 Years of Monument Protection and Monument Preservation 1912–1997, Stadtspuren - Denkmäler in Köln, Vol. 9.II , Cologne 1998, pp. 212-274, here pp. 256-257
  3. Information from the Heimatverein "Ahl Kohjasser" about the Thurner Hof, accessed on February 21, 2012
  4. Win-Win for Cologne - Projects. Renovation and renovation of the Thurner Hof, accessed on November 14, 2010
  5. Equestrian Community grain Springer Köln eV accessed on November 26, 2016

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 17 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 32 ″  E

literature

  • Winand Breuer: On the history of Dellbrück - literature report and individual studies , in: Rechtsrheinisches Köln, yearbook for history and regional studies. , Vol. 36, Cologne 2011, pp. 120-159, especially pp. 155-157.

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