Groß-Uersfeld

In Aachen-Richterich on the road to Kohlscheid there were three larger courtyards Uersfeld: the upper (southern) Uersfeld courtyard, which was later called Küppershof, the middle courtyard, initially called Mitteluersfeld and later referred to as Haus Ottegraven, and the lower courtyard, the kept the name Uersfeld or Groß-Uersfeld.

Groß-Uersfeld
The first known owner of the estate is Wilhelm von Uersfeld, mentioned in 1402. In 1425, Konrad von dem Eichhorn, who was also mayor of Aachen at the time, was given a hereditary lease from the Uersfeld court. Shortly afterward, he purchases the property. The later owners include Cornelius de Fays (early 18th century), another Aachen mayor, and the landowner James Cockerill (1844–1914), grandson of the entrepreneur James Cockerill.

On a plan by Laurenz Mefferdatis from 1722, one recognizes an elongated symmetrical complex of the mansion and outer bailey, both surrounded by water. The manor house no longer exists today, but the former outer bailey has largely been preserved. It is a four-wing brick building with an inner courtyard, built in the 17th to 18th centuries. The south wing was flanked by two round towers, one of which collapsed in 1895 and was never rebuilt. The pond system, fed by the Amstelbach, still exists in parts and nestles in a semicircle around the system. Groß-Uersfeld is  a listed building.