Nothberger Hof Manor

The Nothberger Hof is a farm in the Nothberg district of Eschweiler, located on "Hofstraße"; formerly also known as Meuthenshof after the Meuthen family. The farm was also briefly called Da(h)menshof, after one of the last owners, who was married to the Aachener Damen.

The Nothberger Hof is probably older than Nothberg Castle. In the oldest directory of the Cologne Archdiocese, the Nothberger Hof is referred to as Udelinberg at the end of the 13th century, after its then owner, Duke Udo of Limburg.

The last owners who used it as an agricultural farm were the Heinrich Savelberg family from 1903 and the Pascal Savelberg family from 1929 to 1980. Today, the farm is used as a private residential complex. The manor house is a listed building.

The Meuthenhof or Meuthenshof was formerly the church farm in Nothberg. On August 27, 1691, the forecourt burned down due to "French arson" with all the harvested crops stored in it. The brothers Johann Peter von Meuthen and Johann Wilhelm von Meuthen, bailiff of the Wilhelmstein office, now signed a contract: With the knowledge and approval of their father Johann Wilhelm von Meuthen, "who was indisposed in body and had suffered great damage from the French," they wanted to rebuild the forecourt in 1692. At the same time, they agreed that the ownership conditions in the forecourt of the parental estate should now be regulated. Johann Peter was the eldest of the brothers and still unmarried. His brother Johann Wilhelm was married and already had four sons. Johann Peter therefore transferred his share of the Nothberg house and farm with "attached" orchard, ponds, brewing kettle, and standing manorial property in the area, which possessed the bush rights in the Nothberg bush, as it was now "burned in Nothberg as mentioned above," for 300 Reichsthaler to his brother Johann Wilhelm, his wife, his children, and descendants. The money, or other "inheritance assets" (in this case, an additional 20 Reichsthaler waiver money) of the same value of 300 Reichsthaler, could be paid by Johann Wilhelm and his wife Regina von Speckhewer in three annual installments, each time at the usual interest. The contract recalled that the father and the already deceased mother on one side, with their deceased brother Reinhard Wilhelm von Meuthen, bailiff of Millen, on the other side, were to "draw up" a purchase receipt in 1663 for this forecourt and its accessories, and received the entire aforementioned property, now destroyed by fire, for 450 Reichsthaler.