Haus Heidefeld, Manor house in Spork, Germany.
Haus Heidefeld is a manor house in the Spork district of Bocholt, built from 1811 to 1813 for Friedrich Wilhelm von Hamelberg on the former Gries farm estate. The building was extended around 1895 with an annex and retains historic stucco ceilings that survived wartime damage.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Hamelberg commissioned construction between 1811 and 1813 as part of his agricultural development vision. The building emerged during a period of change in the region's farming methods.
The estate's name comes from the heath landscape that surrounded the property when Friedrich Wilhelm von Hamelberg built it. He ran a distillery there that processed the fruit from his orchards, and he is remembered locally as the builder of the Spork post mill, later used as the emblem of the Liedern-Werth district.
The manor stands in the Spork district of Bocholt, on the site of the former Gries farm. After renovation in the 2010s it was converted into a hotel and restaurant. The former cycling track area is now occupied by the parish church of St. Ludger, whose foundation stone was laid on 21 June 1932.
In 1898 Klemens Dierkes junior had a cement oval cycling track built on a 19-morgen pasture with a joint-stock company; it was the first facility of its kind in the wider area. Racing stopped in 1912, and on 21 June 1932 the foundation stone of St. Ludger parish church was laid on the track's site.
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