Armada court

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Armada courtyard from the southeast

The Armada farm is a former military courtyard and today's horse stable and learning farm in Wiesbaden-Frauenstein . It is protected as a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act.

location

View from the Goethestein

Hof Armada is located at 161  m altitude southwest of the Wiesbaden district of Frauenstein and south of Sommerberg Castle in Hesse , Germany . It is located below the Sommerberg nature reserve near Frauenstein and above the Grorother Hof in the valley of the Erlenbach, which flows into the Schiersteiner Hafen as the Lindenbach . The border with the neighboring municipality of Walluf runs west of the farm .

Buildings and facilities

Entrance to the courtyard with lettering on the gate

The buildings are grouped around an inner courtyard.

The main house, built in 1856 and located in the southeast, has seven window axes and a central projecting with the entrance, which leads via a staircase to the animal pastures and a small lake on the Erlenbach. It has a hipped roof .

The south-western building served as a horse stable before the renovation in 2011 . There are also farm buildings from 1839 and modern new buildings.

history

Location of the fortifications around Frauenstein, 1819

The farm probably dates from the 12th century. Around the year 1300, the over-indebted Knights of Frauenstein sold Frauenstein Castle and parts of the village to the Mainz ore monastery . As a result, the House of Nassau threatened to lose its influence over the area. In order to secure their neighboring lands, the Counts of Nassau built the fortifications Armada, Groroth , Nuremberg , Rosenköppel and Sommerberg around Frauenstein in the following centuries . The Armada court was mentioned in 1317 as “zur Armen Ruen” (meaning rest). The knight Sifrid (Siegfried) von Lindau built a chapel "zom Armode" in 1341 in honor of Saint Catharine. In the fief books of 1427 it is referred to as the Armudt Tower and served as a knight's seat of the noble family of Lindau von Nassau. Processions and supplications from the Mainz area are known to date back to 1594 . The chapel was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and the courtyard was in ruins . The von Lindauss sold it in 1678 to Elector Damian Hartard von der Leyen , who used it for himself and his heirs of the Count's house of von der Leyen . In 1787 it belonged to the Rheingau vice cathedral office . In 1818 the farm was merged with the Grorother Hof and sold to Valentin Kindlinger. In 1832 the buildings were destroyed by fire.

In 1839 the Dukes of Nassau bought the site and built a fortified courtyard . The current main building was built in 1856. When the Duchy of Nassau became Prussian in 1866 , the court passed to Prussia and became a state domain . During the Franco-Prussian War , Saxon soldiers were quartered there at times . In 1914, Ferdinand Luthmer wrote in his description of the architectural monuments that the courtyard had "unfortunately been completely renovated". After the First World War , the courtyard became part of the Mainz bridgehead of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland in 1919 . In 1929 the French occupying forces left the farm and the province of Hessen-Nassau took over the estate. In 2011, Harald Knettenbrech bought the farm and began building and restoration work. Since 2018, the 24-  hectare farm has been used as a horse boarding house, hostel and learning farm as part of the Hessian farm project as a classroom . The new logo was awarded the German Design Award .

Web links

Commons : Hof Armada  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Georg Dehio, Folkhard Cremer, Ernst Gall: Dehio-Handbuch , Hessen II. Administrative region Darmstadt. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 320.
  2. ^ A b c d e Ferdinand Luthmer : The architectural and art monuments of the districts of Unter-Westerwald, St. Goarshausen, Untertaunus and Wiesbaden. City and country . Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1914, p. 232 .
  3. ↑ a b Hof Armada. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of September 3, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 19, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Birgitta Lamparth: Riding master Bent Branderup at the Frauensteiner Hof Armada . In: Wiesbadener Kurier , June 19, 2018.
  5. ^ August Heinrich Meuer: Sommerberg Castle near Frauenstein . In: Nassauische Heimat, supplement to the Rheinische Volkszeitung , 8th year, No. 4, February 1928, pp. 30–31.
  6. ↑ August Heinrich Meuer: History of the village and castle Frauenstein together with news about the Armada, Grorod, Nuremberg, Rosenköppel and Sommerberg farms . Wiesbaden 1930, pp. 102-122. Quoted from: The inscriptions of the city of Wiesbaden , historical overview, German inscriptions online ; accessed on 19 May 2020.
  7. ^ A b c d Christian Daniel Vogel: Description of the Duchy of Nassau , Wiesbaden 1843, p. 544 .
  8. ↑ a b The inscriptions of the city of Wiesbaden , historical overview, German inscriptions online ; accessed on 19 May 2020.
  9. ^ A b Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research (ed.): Nassauische Annalen , Volume 80, 1969, p. 414.
  10. ^ Anton Schneider, quoted from: Kathrine M. Reynolds: Die Frauensteiner Briefe: Aspects of the emigration from the Duchy of Nassau to Australia in the 19th century . Peter Lang, 2010, ISBN 978-3-03430342-2 , p. 125 .
  11. ↑ a b c d Hof Armada Wiesbaden Frauenstein , accessed on May 19, 2020.
  12. ^ Anton Schneider, quoted from: Kathrine M. Reynolds: Die Frauensteiner Briefe: Aspects of the emigration from the Duchy of Nassau to Australia in the 19th century . Peter Lang, 2010, ISBN 978-3-03430342-2 , p. 46 .
  13. ↑ Kathrine M. Reynolds: The Frauensteiner letters: Aspects of the emigration from the Duchy of Nassau to Australia in the 19th century . Peter Lang, 2010, ISBN 978-3-03430342-2 , p. 55 .
  14. ↑ Hof Armada (Wiesbaden) . Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection , accessed on May 19, 2020.
  15. ↑ The Armada farm - naturally getting to know nature under full sail . www.rheintour.info, March 21, 2019.
  16. ↑ Birgitta Lamparth: Design Award for Heart Project . In: Wiesbadener Kurier , October 16, 2018.

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 33.5 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 10.1 ″  E