Schloss Holsthum, also called ''Herrenhaus Laeis'', is a

manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...

in the municipality of

Holsthum Holsthum is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. Sights * Roman villa * Schloss Holsthum * St. Rochus Chapel * Old glassworks * Military cemetery A war grave is a burial place for mem ...

in the county of Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in the German state of

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

. It is a

cultural monument A national heritage site is a heritage site having a value that has been registered by a governmental agency as being of national importance to the cultural heritage or history of that country. Usually such sites are listed in a heritage regist ...

and

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

. The present manor house is a building with eight axes of symmetry with rendered walls, a

slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...

-covered

half-hipped A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...

mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The ...

. It was built in 1789 by officiant (''Herrschaftsverwalter'' or manager of a noble estate), Johann Dominik Laeis, and his son, Matthias Dominik Laeis, by permission of the

baroness Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often Hereditary title, hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher th ...

, Maria Theresia of Eltz-Rodendorf. In the 15th century, the family of

Nickenich Nickenich is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. File:Nickenich Tumulus 3.jpg, Tumulus A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tu ...

lived at Holsthum, from 1496 the

Burscheid Burscheid is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The town is known for its sub-communities (somewhat equivalent to the American concept of neighborhoods) and the town centre with its marketplace and c ...

line of the lords of

Metternich Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein ; german: Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternic ...

. From 1753 the ''

Freiherr (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , literally "free lord" or "free lady") and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire ...

'', Schenk von Schmidtburg, was the owner of the Holsthum estate. The house was given a careful renovation in 2010.

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Literature

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Georg Dehio Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio (22 November 1850 in Reval (now Tallinn), Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire – 21 March 1932 in Tübingen), was a Baltic German art historian. In 1900, Dehio started the "''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgesch ...

: ''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Rheinland-Pfalz Saarland''. 2. Auflage.

Deutscher Kunstverlag The Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV) is an educational publishing house with offices in Berlin and Munich. The publisher specializes in books about art, cultural history, architecture, and historic preservation. History Deutscher Kunstverlag was fo ...

, Berlin . a.1984, .

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* {{Coord, 49, 53, 29.8, N, 6, 24, 39.8, E, type:landmark_region:DE-RP, display=title Houses completed in 1789 Manor houses in Germany Bitburg-Prüm Rhineland