The Reifferscheider Hof or Linneper Hof (also inaccurately known as Lenneper Hof) was a manor of the Reifferscheid, Linnep, Sayn-Wittgenstein and families in 's Hacht district on the Domhof in Cologne, which was laid down in the 1740s. It was inhabited by members of the Cologne Cathedral Chapter and was an emphyteusis of the cathedral monastery. Today, the area is part of the grounds of the Romano-Germanic Museum.
The Reifferscheider or Linneper Hof was a hereditary monastery yard (erffcloisterhoiff) of the Cologne cathedral monastery, which was used as a canonic house. It was located immediately south of the choir building of Cologne cathedral on the Domhof, east of the church of St. Johannis in Curia . The High Court was located to the west of this church. On the site of the, Cologne's Domfreiheit was reached through the "Drachenpforte" in the east or the "Hachtpforte" in the southwest.
The yard was originally the and was called the "Old Palace" (antiquum palatium) ca. 1237 or 1238[1] it was donated by Archbishop Heinrich I von Müllenark (d. 1238) to the cathedral chapter as a canon's residence. In the house, next to which the old Carolingian still stood until 1248, lived the canon Herimann von Heppendorf (d. 1257), a brother of Gerhard II. von Heppendorf (d. 1259).[2] Both were the sons of Hermann II. (IV.) von Heppendorf-Alpen (d. 1234/35) and Agnes von Linnep.
The house was subsequently inhabited by members of the Reifferscheid family; as Cologne canons, Heinrich I (d. 1318), Heinrich II (d. after 1330), Heinrich I (d. 1318) and Heinrich II (d. after 1330) are mentioned[3] and Gerhard von Reifferscheid (d. after 1371).[4]