Westerholtscher Hof
The Westerholtsche Hof was an aristocratic palace in Münster at Vossgasse 9. The courtyard was built in 1725 and demolished around 1900 to make room for the construction of the Lorzing Theater. The Westerholtsche Hof is also known as the place where Beethoven and Maria Anna Wilhelmine from and to Westerholt-Gysenberg played music together and also gave concerts.
history
The oldest owners of the farm are not known. In a billing list from May 25, 1757, a "Kochnemisch Hoff" is mentioned in Vossgasse, whereas the Westerholtsche Hof is missing. This could indicate that the farm, which was certainly not without billeting, was owned by the Kochheim family at the time, who also owned the “Große Galensche Hof” on Schlossplatz from 1699 to 1757 . Other owners appear in the cadastre: 1764–1772 a Freiherr von Nagel zu Vornholt, 1773 head stable master Freiherr Ludolf Friedrich Adolf von Boenen zu Berge (* 1747 in Buer, † 1828 in Münster), who Wilhelmine Friderike Franziska Anna Countess von und zu Westerholt and Gysenberg (1757–1820), the heiress of the Westerholtschen possessions, married and adopted her coat of arms and her name. The farm remained in the possession of the Westerholt family until 1843. During the Seven Years' War the house was endangered by the bombardment on September 3, 1759 and on May 2, 1801 there was a fire. In the summer of 1790 the Westerholt family stayed here, accompanied by a then unknown Rhenish musician named Ludwig van Beethoven. Here he gave piano lessons to the daughter of the family, Maria Anna Wilhelmine von und zu Westerholt-Gysenberg, and may have given one or two concerts in the salon with the music-loving family. The Westerholtsche Hof was demolished around 1900 for an extension of the Lorzing Theater, the predecessor of the Münster Theater .
description
Since neither drawings nor photographs have survived, only the description remains: According to this, it was a right-angled mansion with a transverse wing behind a forecourt facing the street on the western edge of the property. A similar building must have already stood at this point, as can be seen from a map from 1698. Behind the wing and the courtyard was a garden. In front of the two street gates, one of which led to the stables, the other to the house, stood four stately urns. There was an inscription over the front door:
“WE PLEASE O HERE BEWAR THIS HOUSE - ALL LIST OF THE ENEMY THREE AWAY FROM IT - YOUR HOLY ANGEL AS WONEN IN THIS - WHAT WE KEEP IN FRIENDS - GIVE US YOUR BLESSING IN ALL TERMS - THROUGH OUR LORD IESUM CHRIST. - AMEN. ANNO 1725 "
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Rave, Architectural and Art Monuments of Westphalia, Volume 41, The City of Münster, Part Four, Münster 1935, p. 133.
literature
- Wilhelm Rave, Architectural and Art Monuments of Westphalia, Volume 41, The City of Münster, Part Four, Münster 1935
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '53 " N , 7 ° 37' 44" E