Gut Rödinghausen, Manor house in Menden, Germany.
Gut Rödinghausen is a classical manor house with eleven window axes, a two-story left wing and a three-story right wing in Menden. The building is surrounded by water ditches from the Hönne River and combines traditional half-timbered structures with slate-covered facades.
Gut Rödinghausen was the ancestral seat of the Westphalian noble family von Dücker. The long half-timbered manor house was built in 1807, as a weathered foundation stone dated 1807 in the cellar base indicates, probably on the remains of an earlier building. A coat of arms panel of 1698 from that predecessor hangs above the entrance. The manor house, economy building and park were listed as monuments on 25 July 1983.
The Industriemuseum Menden opened in the manor's second upper floor in 2019. Since then the KunstFest PASSAGEN has been held once a year on the estate, funded by the Kunststiftung NRW and organised by the city of Menden. The city also offers civil weddings in the Kaminzimmer, the room that received stucco mouldings and silk wallpaper during the 1990s conversions.
The Industrial Museum Menden occupies the second floor of the manor house, set up there in 2019. The city of Menden offers civil weddings in the Kaminzimmer (fireplace room). Access from the north runs through a narrow avenue and a segmental-arched gate in the western part of the economy building, whose arch bears an alliance coat of arms dated 1875.
In 2015 the manor was wrapped in plastic sheeting and filled with air heated to 75 °C to kill the gescheckter Nagekäfer, an aggressive woodworm found in its old oak beams. The beams had to reach at least 55 °C; the city of Menden budgeted 1.5 million euros for 2015 and 2016 alone.
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