Haus Rhade

In 991, Archbishop Heribert of Cologne, Chancellor of Emperor Otto III, acquired the free property of the nobleman Benno and bequeathed it to the Benedictine Abbey of Deutz as an asset when it was founded in 1003. The documentary document shows that the "curtis Rothe" was already the focus back then of a manorial property association, which later owned property in the parishes of Lüdenscheid, Halver, Herscheid, but especially Kierspe.



Over the centuries, House Rhade was pledged to a number of noble families, such as the Lords of Neuhoff, von Hatzfeld, von Heyden zu Schönrad and Bruch.



The latter family buys the property. In 1725, Haus Rhade became the property of the family of Postmaster General von Holzbrinck, who sold it to the merchant Niehoff zu Dülmen in 1910. In 1916, the Düsseldorf manufacturer Johann Gottlieb Schwietzke acquired Haus Rhade, whose family still lives there today.
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