Weiherhof (Düren)
Gut Weiherhof , also known as Schillingshof , is located in Gürzenich , a district of Düren in the district of the same name in North Rhine-Westphalia at Schillingsstraße 331.
The Weiherhof is mentioned for the first time in the 14th century. The first known owner was the Schwarzenbroich monastery . The monastery acquired the farm in 1492. The property included two artificially created fish ponds located a little apart. The monastery evidently expanded the property and created six more ponds. The eight ponds served to supply the monastery with fish. The Weiherhof was still called Pfaffenhof at that time .
In 1446 the Schwarzenbroich monastery took two ponds located in Gürzenich in lease from Loiff von Linzenich. In 1492 Jakob Scheyft sold his property, namely the house, farm, Benden and pond, also to the monastery. He had just bought this property from the von Linzenich family himself shortly before.
Around 1640, during the Thirty Years' War , Adam Wilhelm II of Burg Obbendorf ( Hambach ), Herr zu Gürzenich, bought the "Weiherhof" and remained in the possession of the Schellard family until 1767. The Schellart family became impoverished and became increasingly indebted. On February 4, 1767, she was forced to sell the Weiherhof in an auction. Wenau Monastery acquired the property with around 500 acres of forest for 24,900 Reichstaler.
The Weiherhof was secularized by Napoleon in 1802 and then passed to the Schillings family. At the beginning of the 19th century the Weiherhof came into the possession of the chief forester Schillings from Aachen, whose sons were the owners of the farm until 1918. At this time the name "Schillingshof" became common in Gürzenich. The Carl and Max Schillings family, who inherited the farm from their father, achieved world fame. Carl Georg Schillings achieved world fame as an African explorer and writer and his brother Max von Schillings as a composer and conductor (including general music director at the Hoftheater in Stuttgart).
In 1918 Baron von Bennigsen acquired the property. In 1924 the Schoeller family bought Gut Weiherhof, which is now owned by Christa Schüll, a born Schoeller.
The Weiherhof is a two-storey, rectangular mansard house with a mansard roof , with an eight-sided, four-storey tower in front of it on the street side. A three-wing farm yard is attached to the manor house. The main structure of the manor dates from the late 18th century. The year 1778 can be found in the anchors of the farm buildings. The landscape park of the Weiherhof from the 19th century is worth mentioning .
The building is entered in the list of monuments of the city of Düren under No. 6/001.
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Pawliczek: Directory of monuments of the city of Düren 1984. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter. No. 76, Düren 1987, ISSN 0416-4180
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 6 ° 25 ′ 54.7 ″ E