 In 1961 , Stockhausen acquired a parcel of land in the vicinity of Kürten , a village east of Cologne , near Bergisch Gladbach in the Bergisches Land . He had a house built there , which was designed to his specifications by the architect Erich Schneider @-@ Wessling , and he resided there from its completion in the autumn of 1965 ( Kurtz 1992 , 116 – 17 , 137 – 38 ) . 
