Dikopshof, Architectural heritage monument in Wesseling, Germany
Dikopshof is a manor house with chapel in Wesseling, featuring a residential building from 1681 and an eastern chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross. The complex stands today as a protected monument and shapes the appearance of the Keldenich district with its historical structures.
The farm was first recorded in writing in 1213, though Siegfried von Saffenberg is named as a feudal tenant in 1202, so it is probably older. The southeast residential building bears the year 1681. In 1834 the Farina family acquired the estate and renewed it after a fire; from 1904 it was under the Prussian Domain Administration.
The University of Bonn operated research programs at Dikopshof, focusing on animal breeding, plant cultivation, and crop science until 2009.
The farmstead lies west of Wesseling's Keldenich district in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, with the Chapel of the Holy Cross on its eastern side and the 1681 house at the southeast corner. It is entered in Wesseling's monument list, so the buildings are viewed from outside rather than opened as a museum.
The estate served as a filming location in 2012 for the ARD early-evening series Heiter bis tödlich: Zwischen den Zeilen and for the Henghasch episode of Mord mit Aussicht, and in 2014 for the WDR series Die Kuhflüsterin.
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