Wintermühlenhof

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Aerial view of the Wintermühlenhof
Vertical view
Wintermühlenhof, mansion (2014)

The Wintermühlenhof is an estate in Königswinter , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The Wintermühlenhof is located one kilometer east of the city center of Königswinter at about 115  m above sea level. NHN on the south side of the Petersberg or on its southern slope, the Kutzenberg . The area is traversed by the Mirbesbach , which is dammed here in ponds . Landesstraße 331 (Königswinter– Ittenbach ) runs along the south side of the courtyard . At the Wintermühlenhof there is an open deposit of quartzite banks , which are interspersed with two to three meters thick , fine-grained "leaves of sandstones " and formed as Upper Oligocene stream deposits .

history

The origins of the farm lie in a grangie of the Heisterbach monastery . It was first mentioned in a document in 1402 together with the nearby farm "Kackenest" ( Pottscheid ), which later belonged to the Wintermühlenhof. The operation, which refers to forestry, agriculture and a mill (the eponymous Wintermühle extended), was mid-17th century to the vineyards expanded. In the 18th century a quarry was established in which quartzite was extracted. In 1803 the secularization of the Wintermühlenhof began, which fell into private ownership in 1830. The Mülhens family became the new owner in 1843, and they enlarged the estate extensively and gave it its present-day appearance. The manor house south of the four-wing courtyard was also built . One of the extensions was carried out in 1886/87 by the builder Gerhard Franz Langenberg .

Around 1900 the Wintermühlenhof became the retirement home of Ferdinand Mülhens' sole owner . At the beginning of the 20th century, the property was enlarged again, also through a landscaped park planned by Ottomar Stein , including the former mill ponds . Specifically, a temple architecture , an underground grotto , a fountain, a source enclosure, a so-called “pond hall”, a pergola , a playground and a bridge made of grottoes date from the period between 1905 and 1911 . The country road, which was built in 1862, was fenced off from the Wintermühlenhof in 1906 and 1921 . During the Second World War , the first prisoner-of-war camp in Königswinter was located on the Wintermühlenhof from November 1939 until the end of the war , in which 10 prisoners from Poland initially lived as agricultural workers for the farm and from July 1941 21 from France and at least from May 1942 also Ukrainian women. Other buildings on the property are a former cowshed, a wine press house , a horse stable, a large barn from 1940, a remisent tract from 1952 and the former mill in the park.

The Wintermühlenhof estate was converted into an extensive residential and office park with a usable area of ​​around 5000 square meters by 2005/2006. The farm stands, including his late Romantic Landscape Park, which is considered important for the history of the landscape garden, as a monument under monument protection . An entry in the monuments list of the city of Königswinter took place on September 21, 1989.

Population development
year Residents
1816 18th
1828 20th
1843 10
1885 18th

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geological State Office North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.); Gangolf Knapp, Klaus Vieten: Geological map of North Rhine-Westphalia 1: 25,000. Explanations for sheet 5309 Königswinter . 3rd, revised edition, Krefeld 1995, p. 18.
  2. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 560, 563/564 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
  3. ↑ Kreativschmiede above the horse stable , General-Anzeiger , September 14, 2005
  4. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 90
  5. ^ AA Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state , Verlag KA Kümmel, Halle 1823, fifth volume, p. 169
  6. ^ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 291
  7. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne: overview of the components u. Directory of all localities in the government district of Cologne. Cöln 1845, p. 87. ( Online ub.uni-duesseldorf.de )
  8. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, page 116

literature

Web links

Commons : Wintermühlenhof  - Collection of images

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 44.5 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 31.5 ″  E