Leustadt estate

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Hofgut Leustadt (front view)

The former moated castle Hofgut Leustadt in Glauburg - Stockheim in the Wetterau district in Hesse was first mentioned in a document in 780. The property, privately managed since 1933, is in a renovated condition.

Geographical location

The Leustadt estate is located in the Wetterau on the edge of the flat valley of the Nidder not far west of Stockheim, a district of the community of Glauburg, at an altitude of 139 m above sea level. NN. The state road 3190 from Stockheim to Nieder-Mockstadt leads directly past the property .

history

Hofgut Leustadt (side view)

With a deed of donation, the Fulda monastery received the Leustadt property in 780, which was called Louphstete at that time and until the 9th century . In 1454 the courtyard with the hunting lodge was already referred to as Laustadt . At that time it was owned by the von Wolfskehlen lords , but in the following years it changed hands frequently and at short intervals.

The Thirty Years War 1618–1648 brought devastation and epidemics to the people of Gut Leustadt. The residents died of the plague and the moated castle fell into disrepair. The castle was rebuilt around 1690.

As a result of the third main division (1684) of the Ysenburg counts, the two counts' houses Ysenburg-Büdingen-Birstein (from 1744 Principality of Isenburg and Büdingen, now Isenburg with I ) and Ysenburg-Büdingen were created. The latter split into four special lines in 1687 . They all called themselves zu Ysenburg and Büdingen and each added the seat of their line (standard spelling only from the 19th century): zu Ysenburg-Büdingen in Büdingen (extinct 1941), to Ysenburg-Büdingen in Marienborn , to Ysenburg-Büdingen in Meerholz (extinct in 1929) and in Ysenburg-Büdingen in Wächtersbach (which took their seat in Büdingen in 1941; only this line was left). The sub-counties were not only connected by consanguinity, but in particular also by house contracts (succession regulations) ( agnates ). Leustadt came to Count Karl August von Marienborn . This line ( Ysenburg-Büdingen-Marienborn ) died out in 1724, the area fell to the house of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Büdingen . In 1724 Philipp Adolf Biermann, the chamber secretary of the Count of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Büdingen, came to the estate as a tenant.

From 1743 to 1753 the courtyard and the chapel were left to a small colony of the Moravian Brethren , as they could no longer find accommodation on the Herrnhaag near Büdingen. At that time Abraham Roentgen lived and worked in the palace of the Hofgut. His son David Roentgen was born here in 1743. At the end of the First Coalition War in 1796, French soldiers destroyed Leustadt's house and farm. After the end of the old German Empire in 1806, the Principality of Isenburg was formed as a sovereign state in the Confederation of the Rhine , to which all Isenburg lands belonged. Finally, in 1830, the features of a moated castle were almost completely eliminated by filling in the moat and removing the surrounding walls. In the same year, an association of teachers was founded in the parts of the castle that were still usable and thus formed the basis for later unions.

In 1865 the formerly independent Leustadt district already belonged to the Stockheim district and had 41 residents. In 1933 the farmer Erwin Heinrich Spruck bought the property and started restoration work together with his wife Gisela in 1949. Over the course of 40 years, the Hofgut was rebuilt almost authentically with the appearance of the mid-18th century. In 1971, with the territorial reform in Hesse, Stockheim, and with it Gut Leustadt, came together with the community of Glauberg to form the newly founded community of Glauburg.

The Hofgut

Plan of the Leustadt estate

The area of ​​the Hofgut covers around 45 hectares excluding agricultural land . 7000 m² of this is covered with basalt paving. There are nine historical buildings with a total of 37,000 cubic meters of enclosed space on the site.

In the western half of the site, surrounded by a natural stone wall, is the former moated castle by a pond. Two L-shaped stables extend southeast of it. The main driveway runs in the vacant lot between the two and can be closed by a gate. In front of it there is a newer barn for agricultural vehicles.

The castle-like main building has an L-shaped floor plan with a diagonally attached side wing to the southeast. The three-storey central section is the courtyard towards a circular staircase tower with slate covered hood purposed, the tip of the saddle roof does not project beyond. Except for the side wings, the building is brightly plastered. The latter and the pointed gables on all sides consist of exposed half-timbering .

On the south side of the castle courtyard, a small rectangular, single-storey building made of natural stone completes it. The stepped hipped roof with four dormers gives the house a well-proportioned height. A low building with clinker facings is attached to the side. Between the main building and the adjoining house, the access path leads over a suggested bridge over the no longer existing moat into the castle courtyard.

Awards

  • Hessian Monument Protection Prize 1988
  • German Prize for Monument Protection (Silver Hemisphere) 1999
  • Federal Cross of Merit 2011

literature

  • Siegfried RCT Enders: Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany , Department: Architectural Monuments in Hesse. Wetteraukreis I. Ed. By the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1982, ISBN 3-528-06231-2 , p. 246f.
  • Gisela Spruck: On the history of Leustadt in a commemorative publication for the 1200th anniversary of the Ortenberg district of Selters and the Leustadt farm , Stadt Ortenberg, Ortenberg 1980, pp. 37-48
  • Gisela Spruck: A contribution to the history of the Leustadt court and the Leustadt truce of 1540 by Wolf von Wolfskehl (1501–1544). In: Büdinger Geschichtsblätter 14, 1991/92, pp. 465–492.
  • G. (ustav) Simon: History of the Ysenburg-Büdingen'schen Land , Heinrich Ludwig Brönner's Verlag Frankfurt a. M., 1865
  • The head of the state chancellery: palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 145–147.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gisela Spruck: Guided tour through the Hofgut Leustadt 2009
  2. ↑ a b Kreis-Anzeiger May 4, 2011: Adolf Kaiser on the history of Leustadt ( Memento from June 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b G. Simon: History of the Ysenburg-Büdingen'schen Land , Heinrich Ludwig Brönner's Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1865, pp. 136-137
  4. ↑ FRANKFURTER PATRIZIER Chapter 149, p. 623 ( Memento of December 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b Speech by Gisela Spruck on the occasion of the presentation of the Hessian Monument Protection Prize in 1988
  6. ↑ German Prize for Monument Protection 1999
  7. ↑ Wetterauer Zeitung January 19, 2011: Federal Cross of Merit for Gisela Spruck

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 46.9 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 38 ″  E