From the Leyenscher Hof (Koblenz)

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The south wing of the von der Leyenschen Hof 2011

The von der Leyensche Hof (also von der Leyen'sche Hof ) was a late medieval aristocratic court in Koblenz , which was presumably based on the Trier Elector Johann VI. von der Leyen goes back. The building complex on Kastorhof in the old town of Koblenz was in the Second World War destroyed large parts and after the war except for remnants of the former south wing with the already 1355 built James Chapel eliminated to make room for the new building of the State Road Administration (now the country Mobilität Rheinland-Pfalz ).

history

Historical view of the south wing of the von der Leyenschen Hof facing the park of the property

In the 16th century Johann von der Leyen bought the former possessions of the Teutonic Order at Kastorhof, including the cemetery and the chapel, and additional buildings and land were acquired at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1614, the first new building was built, including the older buildings. Together with other Koblenz aristocratic courts, the von der Leyensche Hof was defeudalized during the French period and, from 1801, the seat of the prefect of the newly founded Rhine-Moselle department . Major renovations to the building complex were also carried out at this time. It was not until Napoleon that the von der Leyen family received compensation for their lost property in the amount of two million francs.

In 1825, after payment of further compensation to the von der Leyen house, the property of the Prussian state passed, which subsequently used the building complex as the general command of the VIII Army Corps . In the course of the demilitarization of the Rhineland after the First World War , the American and later the French occupation took over the complex. The air raids on Koblenz in 1944 hit the von der Leyenschen Hof and the adjacent garden hard. After the war, the property was removed except for part of the south wing and the chapel; a new building for the state road administration was built on the floor plan in the 1950s, including the older buildings. In the former garden of the courtyard there is today u. a. the St. Kastor primary school.

Building description

View from Kastorstrasse to the Kastorkirche 1900, on the right the north wing of the von der Leyenschen Hof

The von der Leyensche Hof consisted of various older and newer structurally connected buildings and parts of buildings. To the Kastorhof was the north wing of the property, which was architecturally rather simple. The building was divided into two parts, of which the left, facing the Kastor church, was three-story and the right was originally two-story. In the middle was an entrance portal framed by two pillars. The lavishly designed south wing parallel to it was rebuilt in the 18th century by Johann Georg Seitz. The St. James Chapel, built in 1355, was attached to the central building with its three arcades, which is still in place today . The south wing adjoined the extensive park of the property. In this garden, at some distance and parallel to the south wing, there was an orangery, presumably built in 1716 by the Trier court architect Philipp Honorius von Ravensteyn , which temporarily also served as the accommodation of the commanding general of the VIII Army Corps. The north and south wings were connected to each other by a further building built parallel to Nagelsgasse. In this west wing were u. a. housed the kitchen and the dining room. The access to the inner courtyard created by the three parts of the building, as well as to the Adelshof in general, was in Castorpfaffengasse.

literature

  • Klaus Freckmann: The former Count von der Leyensche Hof in Koblenz , in: Franz-Josef Heyen and Hans-Walter Herrmann (eds.): Yearbook for West German State History , Koblenz 1989, pp. 173–187.
  • Georg Peter Karn: Luxury and taste united . Orangeries and greenhouses in Rhineland-Palatinate, in: Orangeriekultur in Rheinland-Pfalz. Editor: Dr. Simone Balsam, Berlin 2014, pp. 11–34 (series of publications by the Orangeries in Germany Working Group, Volume 11).
  • Fritz Michel : Der vd Leyen'sche Hof zu Coblenz , in: Journal for local history of the administrative district Coblenz and the adjacent areas of Hessen-Nassau, issue No. 19, July 1921, p. 177ff. and No. 20, August 1921, pp. 194-197.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel, Fritz: Der vd Leyen'sche Hof zu Coblenz , p. 178f. In: Journal for local history of the Coblenz administrative district and the neighboring areas of Hessen-Nassau. Rhineland-Palatinate State Library Center, 2010, accessed on December 27, 2018 .
  2. ^ Michel, Fritz: Der vd Leyen'sche Hof zu Coblenz , p. 194. In: Journal for local history of the administrative district Coblenz and the adjacent areas of Hessen-Nassau. Rhineland-Palatinate State Library Center, 2010, accessed on December 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Karn, Georg Peter: Luxury and Taste United , p. 23.

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 43.7 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 8.6 ″  E