Fahrbach (Witzenhausen)

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Fahrbach farm

Fahrbach is an estate in the district of Dohrenbach , a southern district of Witzenhausen in the Werra-Meißner district , northern Hesse .

Geographical location

The estate is located on the eastern roof of the Kaufunger Forest and spreads out to about 270  m on the south bank of the Gelster tributary in Fahrenbach . It is located in a hilly landscape in the geo-nature park Frau-Holle-Land (Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger Wald) about 5.5 km south-southwest of the core town of Witzenhausen and 1.7 km south of the Witzenhausen district of Dohrenbach . Without a direct connection to the estate, but geographically closest, lies the Witzenhausen district of Hundelshausen, 1.5 km away, across a ridge in the east-southeast . The Langenberg ( 565  m ) rises to the south . The county road  62 ends at the estate, which connects it to the federal road 451 (Witzenhausen-Carmshausen-Hundelshausen) after about 2.5 km at the Carmshausen estate .

history

The place was first mentioned in documents as Warenbach in 1327, when the Kurmainzer Burggrafen or Vögten at the Rusteberg Castle near Heiligenstadt were liable for payments. In the following years it is also mentioned as Varenbach / Varnbach and Farenbach / Farnbach and finally as Fahrenbach since the 17th century .

In the years from 1350 to 1420, the estate was repeatedly stated to be owned by the Lords of Stockhausen , and in 1438 a member of the family, Hans von Stockhausen, was notarized in Fahrenbach. According to some sources, the manor could have been fortified like a castle in the Middle Ages. In 1447 and 1459 , Landgrave Ludwig II of Hesse , whose father Ludwig I had regained the previously lost cities and areas on the Werra and finally defeated Kurmainz in 1427, enfeoffed Berit von Dörnberg with the castle, village and court of Fahrenbach. 1474 enfeoffed Landgrave Heinrich III. von Oberhessen as guardian of the still underage Wilhelm I von Niederhessen the Lords of Eschwege with the same property.

In 1483 the Barons von Berlepsch bought the estate; the now self-ruling Landgrave Wilhelm I confirmed the fiefdom to them shortly afterwards. During the Thirty Years War the property was plundered several times, but it remained in the possession of the Berlepsch, even during the Napoleonic interlude with the Kingdom of Westphalia and later after the annexation of Hessen-Kassel by Prussia in 1866. The well-known ornithologist Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch became Born in 1850 on Gut Fahrenbach and was the owner of Schloss Berlepsch and Gut Fahrenbach until his death in 1915 . Karl Adolf Wilhelm Otto von Berlepsch sold Gut Fahrenbach in 1917 to Werner Karl Adalbert Gotzmann. Since 1984 the approximately 180 hectare farm has been operated as a tenant by a joint venture in accordance with the Bioland guidelines, which primarily operates grassland farming with Angus suckler cows.

buildings

The center of the estate is the former stately home, a two-story building from the late 18th century. The brick basement is plastered, the half-timbered upper floor is covered with sheet metal. The representative farm buildings, including a stately barn and a cowshed, partly in solid sandstone masonry, partly in half-timbered construction, date from the 19th century. In the center of the yard there is a hexagonal chicken house. In the former servants' house, a brick building from the early 20th century, there is now a farm shop.

Sons and daughters (selection)

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '  N , 9 ° 50'  E

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Fahrenbach, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of January 22, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 2, 2016 .
  2. ^ Association for Geography, Kassel: Hessische Landes- und Volkskunde: The former Kurhessen and the hinterland at the end of the 19th century , Volume 1, Second Half, Elwert, Marburg, 1907, p. 442
  3. ↑ In the Kingdom of Westphalia, the manor district of Fahrenbach, which at that time comprised Casseler Acker (around 483 hectares ) in 2023 , belonged to the canton of Witzenhausen in the Eschwege district of the Werra department .
  4. ↑ Website of the company
  5. ↑ Gut Fahrenbach
  6. ^ Peer Zietz: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Werra-Meißner district III: old district Witzenhausen. Published by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse. Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig-Wiesbaden 1995. ISBN 3-528-06228-2 , on pages 612-613.

Web links

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 50.