Haus Holtheyde

A chapel is documented for 1771, located in an annex on the east side of the manor house. Its altarpiece, painted around 1700 and depicting the Crucifixion, has been housed in the Niederrheinisches Museum in Kevelaer since 1965. The estate also included an oil mill built on the Steenbeek around the mid-18th century. It operated until about 1910 and survives today only as a ruin, its mill pond now dried up.

West of the house, remnants of former river bends survive following the straightening of the Niers, now used as fish ponds. To the south once lay a geometrically laid-out Baroque garden in the French style; a four-part yew arbor and three gnarled lime trees, roughly 200 years old with trunk circumferences of 3.5 to 5.2 meters, still bear witness to it. The arbor and the group of trees are protected as a natural monument.

Bertram von Bylandt acquired the estate on 5 October 1562; after fire destroyed his Haus Pellandt, he moved to Holtheyde and had it developed into a manor house — tradition holds that stones from Haus Pellandt were reused in the process. Through several lines of inheritance the property passed to the de Cabanes and von Varo families. In 1876 it came, together with Haus Caen, to Rudolf Adolph Geyr von Schweppenburg, who already owned Haus Ingenraedt through marriage. In 1946 ownership passed to the von Loë family. During the Second World War the estate served as an outpost of the Kultur- und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg, storing parts of its collection, which were returned in July 1946.

As in earlier generations, the owners have never lived on the estate themselves but leased it to tenant farmers; since 1911 the Linssen family has run it as a working farm. Franz-Joseph von Loë had the complex restored to preserve it, and his family remains the owner to this day.