Ehreshoven Castle
The Ehreshoven Castle is a moated castle, which stands at an altitude of 144 meters above sea level in the district Ehreshoven the North Rhine-Westphalian community angel churches. Nationwide became famous for it as a backdrop for the television series Forbidden Love.
History
Ehreshoven was originally owned by the Siegburg Abbey Michael's Mount, which was founded in 1064 by the Cologne Archbishop Anno II and richly endowed. As far as can be seen from the sources Ehreshoven is first mentioned in 1355. At that time, asked the Armiger Arnulphus de Graschap, the abbot may transfer his investiture with Ehreshoven his father Henry of county. This means that in 1355 a small castle, at least a feast house, has existed in Ehreshoven. Jutta of the county, the daughter of the aforementioned Adolf, with Wilhelm von Nesselrode († 1399 ) was married, which was in 1396 invested with Ehreshoven. From then on, the needle seat remained until 1920 owned by the family of Nesselrode. Countess Marie von Nesselrode - Ehreshoven (1853-1920), who had remained unmarried, bequeathed her estate Rheinische knighthood order to have the long desired Fräuleinstift ( residence for single noble ladies ) could be set up. My nephew fought against that after 525 years of ancestral property should pass into the hands of strangers. It was a process that was decided in favor of knighthood. In 1924 the pin Ehreshoven be established.
Radicals have from the late medieval building located at the rear of the mansion obtained, namely parts of the castle house from the 14-15. Century. Under Wilhelm von Nesselrode, and his wife Elisabeth von Schwarzenberg ( † 1599) Ehreshoven was significantly redesigned. The couple (∞ 1579) continued in 1595 with the chapel a monument of great art historical value.
Towards the end of the 17th century were Philipp Christoph Wilhelm von Nesselrode and his wife Maria Adriana Francisca of Leerodt perform a new building, in which only the Kapellenbau and the north abutment of the original castle house were included. The three-winged manor house and the large four -leaf open bailey were built in this period. In the early 18th century was placed north of the castle on the French garden, which is still substantially preserved (including a tea house from the 16th century ) today. Which builder ran the baroque palace, is not known. Whether the plan of Count Matteo Alberti or one of his associates is derived, can not be ascertained with certainty. Count Francis Wolff Metternich, the longtime Provinzialkonservator the Rhine Province, stated, "In any case belongs to the artist in the circle of the Düsseldorf court. "
Use
About five hundred years the plant was owned by the family of Nesselrode, before she left the last Countess of this generation, the Rheinische chivalry when ladies pen. This exists there today. Parts of the castle, however, are rented today and be used for commercial purposes.
The sooner the castle belonging farm is now used by Malteser than coming.
In the former now converted stables of the courtyard as the custodian of the United needle Archive is housed in the Rhineland. Store here in over 10,000 boxes to about 1,700 meters of shelving, archival records of 20 Rhenish nobility archives. It is from the archive consulting and training center of the Rhineland Regional Council serves in the Abbey Brauweiler to which also inquiries should be directed to use.
Specifications
Ehreshoven is a quarry stone and is considered one of the most magnificent stately homes of the Bergische Land.
From the main road 55 between angels and churches Overath performs a short avenue to the castle in Agger. About a flat stone bridge leads to the main gate of Ehreshoven. The four obtuse adjoining wing of the bailey are two stories and have hipped roofs, which are covered with blauglasierten hollow bricks. The steinsichtigen exterior walls are interrupted only by small, irregular windows mounted. Occur at the two blunt corners strong three-storey towers on approximately square plan shows that are occupied by two times retracted five-sided hoods.
On the outer side of the big, wide overhanging forecastle goal is particularly striking. The plan of the outer bailey causes the gate is highlighted on the side of the field opposite the oblique receding wings. The design increases this effect. Strong Tuscan pilasters with heavy rusticated bosses bear the broad frieze with the small gable above the arched passage. The cornice is cranked, so goes the projecting pilasters. Three vases with wrought iron flowers crowning the pediment with a straight oblique statements and cheeks. In the masonry of the gate openings can be seen for the pull chain of the former bridge; the drawing rollers are preserved in place. This leads to the conclusion that the old drawbridge was probably removed in the 18th century or even in the 19th century and replaced by a stone bridge.
Immediately after you have passed through the magnificent main gate, the room is concentrated. Here, the passage has only a simple segmental arch. If you leave the caused by the construction of the outer bailey kennel -like small room, the courtyard opens - so to speak, as a contrast and as a surprise - to its full length. The five-sided courtyard is divided into lawns. Two set in spaced pairs of large stone balls form marking and distance points on the way to the main castle. The same function have the walls that secure the gap between both islands, and the pair of pillars at the entrance to the main courtyard. The bailey summarizes the prospectus of the castle a pictorially, because they would go over the plan for an extension on the side wings. The spacer elements of the outer bailey narrow view a quasi at the Manor House.
The courtyard of the outer bailey is very simple. Upstairs regularly mounted windows are used with Sandsteinrahmungen. In contrast, the ground floor is divided irregularly, as it corresponds to a functional building. The outer wings have round-arched openings here; the most northern wing are now closed by windows, those in the south by wooden gates. The former use as a coach houses can still be seen.
The entrance to the courtyard is formed by two ashlar piers, between which a wrought iron gate is received of remarkable quality craftsmanship from the period around 1700. In the version it corresponds to the gate to the park.
What one finds at the extramural settlement, is confirmed at the mansion: The individual forms are strikingly conservative. This is typical in the time of construction of the castle for the entire Rhineland and shows with what time delay an art style asserts itself off the main paths.
Manor house
The middle section of the castle today plastered Ehreshoven has the cour d' honneur eleven ( 4:3:4 ) axes. Two full floors rise above a high basement. There are two simple doors on the sides. The windows are mostly transversely rectangular with a center support.
The most striking part is the three-axis central projection, the aligned from the main gate of the castle of view. More clearly than ever in Ehreshoven can be seen here is that the castle is dedicated to the Italian Mannerist style, and was at a time when this style in Italy long past. The central projection is emphasized by a strong Eckquaderung, but only slightly pulled out from the front. A double-barreled staircase with iron railing reichverziertem leads to the main portal. There is a round-arched door to the basement between the wells. At the lateral projections of the small staircase wall fountain with lion masks and shells are attached sandstone. The stereo window next to the stairs are transversely oval and have rich Volutenrahmungen. The round-arched portal to the main floor is framed by profiled pilasters. The gable windows to keep a pad and a lion crowned the arms of alliance Nesselrode Leerodt. A segment gable with attached stone ball concludes the portal architecture.
The high rectangular windows in the full floors have just falls and center supports. The window next to the portal is surmounted by a flat triangular gables.
The striking Hausteingiebel of the buttress is richly structured. It is strongly reminiscent of Italian buildings of the Renaissance and Baroque. The gable is divided into two zones which are connected by the pilasters. In the upper field, a clock is mounted. Among them is located in the middle of a rusticated rectangular window without center support, accompanied by skylights in homelessness Built walls. Volutenwangen and a segment gable frame the whole thing. As acroteria serve stone balls and vases; rises above the segment terminator a wrought iron weather vane.
The attic has two rows of dormers. However, the sequence is interrupted in the respective second axis next to the central projection, because there Zwerchhäuser are attached with sham pediments in the Tuscan order. The gables are crowned by stone balls.
The only single-storey wing to the main courtyard six window bays, the outer ward two. The frames correspond to those on the wing skin. In the basement of simple doors are used in the second and fifth axis. On the side wings in particular falls on the strange roof. For a hip roof with dormers, a keel- arched clerestory beschieferter increases with small rectangular windows, above which a keel curved hip roof is built.
For the architectural history of Ehreshoven is mainly the back side of the Palace of interest. Here you can see the brickwork nor the older components that stand out far from the run of the new building. At the northern corner of the Gothic castle house has been included in the lock. You can see the irregular mounted window openings. The small wooden bay comes from the baroque construction. The three windows on the second floor were enlarged in 1700 and extend into the large ogee roof into it, which is provided with oval skylights. The old castle house has a bell-shaped roof. The base of the roof at the mansion of Ehreshoven makes a wooden Karniesgesims.
Apart from this component, the late medieval castle house, you can see the Kapellenbau. On the ground floor is cantilevered out over profiled consoles of the three-sided altar bay with its large pointed-arch windows. In the space above the chapel was originally the castle archive. Because over the altar could be a useful space itself, many of the castle's owners have begun, instead of a choir to build a bay window which emerges from the house wall. So you've done the canonical requirement sufficiently to give away without taking up valuable room in the castle. In addition, the strategic importance and the aporopäische played a role. From a bay window can one defend a castle better, and the space in which the Blessed Sacrament was kept, as it were, should act as a shield against the enemy. A well-known example of chapel bay can be seen on Burg Eltz, especially at home beet Bach. The chapel bay in Ehreshoven has a polygonal pitch roof, which is interrupted by a narrow cornice at the top. The Kapellenbau itself has a pyramidal roof.
From the rear facade of the new building comes a tower out the staircase. The windows here correspond to those of the courtyard. At the back is obtained for a typical castle additive element remnants still, ie in the Middle Ages was erected only the necessary buildings. When this no longer sufficed was grown.
Opposite this medieval setting is the downright modern action of the main front of Ehreshoven. Especially on the axial arrangement and the almost pictorial unity of the two main views can be seen that the entire building complex is composed additively. One recognizes the will of the builders to build a baroque castle of the medieval castle.
The interior
Because Ehreshoven inhabited and is not accessible to the public, will be briefly only a few areas that are important here.
Behind the main portal there is a vestibule, which occupies the entire depth of the house and has a width of three window axis. However, this is not the entrance in the middle, but was moved to the side. The floor is covered with a checkerboard pattern of alternating color stone slabs. The doors have profiled framings of black marble. The lower ground floor consists of a ceramic cladding. This in contrast to the vestibule disproportionately small staircase has a timeless, simple Balustradengeländer of colored stucco marble.
The north abutting the dining hall is covered with a remarkable leather wallpaper. It dates from the time of construction of the castle and may have been created in a Flemish workshop. As a large vine motif with various flowers and fruits returns, which alternately Putto with trumpet in the left hand and a laurel wreath in her right hand, one can be seen beating the tambourine putto or a dove with an olive branch in its beak. On the narrower base frieze can be seen between flowers birds heads. The reason the Carrets is silver plated; this, the red-colored fruits, flowers and vestments, the green foliage stand out strongly.