Kesselsberg Manor

Gut Kesselsberg is a medieval farm on the southern outskirts of Duisburg in the Huckingen district on the Angerbach.

Until the 15th century, the estate was simply called Hof auf dem Berge (Farm on the Mountain). Afterwards, the farm was named after its owners, the Lords of Bottlenberg called Kessel. Gut Kesselsberg therefore stands for the estate on Kessel's Mountain.

The former knight's estate is located above the Sandmühle on a small hill, where traces of the Younger Stone Age, the Iron Age, and the Frankish period have already been found.

Due to its close proximity to the Sandmühle, it is assumed that Gut Kesselsberg was the economic farm for the noble residence Sandmühle. In contrast to the Sandmühle and most other medieval buildings on the Angerbach, Gut Kesselsberg, due to its location, was spared from the recurring floods of the Angerbach in the past.

The first documented mention dates back to 1349. In that year, the Bergian Marshal Wennemar von Bottlenberg received the Hof auf dem Berge from Margarete von Ravensberg-Berg, Countess of Berg, as a lease. In 1434, the redemption of the hereditary rent by payment of 250 guilders to the Count of Berg was documented, which was notarially confirmed in 1568. In 1646, the estate was rebuilt after severe destruction during the Thirty Years' War.

In 1744, Kesselsberg came into the possession of the Lords of Romberg through the marriage of the heiress Mechtild Christina von Bottlenberg gt. Kessel to Conrad Stephan von Romberg. In 1802, Friedrich Gisbert Wilhelm von Romberg, Prussian Lieutenant General and Governor of Stettin, sold Kesselsberg to the Count of Spee. At this time, Heinrich Brockerhoff and the Heesen family are listed as tenants. In 1908, the Count of Spee leased the farm to Michael Kreifels, whose youngest son Peter continued the lease until 1965.