Jägersburg (Odershausen)

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Jägersburg
Alternative name (s): Hunting lodge, pleasure palace
Creation time : 1718
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, exposed fountain
Standing position : High nobility
Place: Bad Wildungen - Odershausen
Geographical location 51 ° 4 '50.1 "  N , 9 ° 4' 22.6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 4 '50.1 "  N , 9 ° 4' 22.6"  E
Height: 431  m above sea level NHN
Jägersburg (Hesse)
Jägersburg

The Jägersburg is an abandoned hunting lodge southwest of Odershausen , a district of Bad Wildungen in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

location

The Jägersburg stood south of the 492 meter high "Nickelkopf" about 250 meters south of today's B 253 , halfway between Odershausen and the Bad Wildunger district of Hundsdorf . Today there is a refuge there. The course is part of the Kellerwaldsteig , stage 8.

history

In 1718 Prince Friedrich Anton Ulrich von Waldeck-Pyrmont had a small hunting lodge or pleasure palace built there. The high game population invited to hunt. The facility only existed for around 140 years. In 1857, after it had fallen into disrepair, Prince Georg Viktor sold it for demolition, which was completed in 1862. The still usable building material, stones, wood and bricks, were used to build houses in Bad Wildungen. The lands connected to the estate were divided up and came into the possession of farmers from Odershausen, Hundsdorf and Albertshausen .

Building description

The almost square structure had square stair towers around five meters wide at all four corners . The corner towers were connected by longer rectangular rooms on the ground floor. In the middle there was an octagonal room as the central point of living. The probably two-story property could be entered at two opposite entrances via a twelve-step double flight of stairs .

today

Today the former location, the former "castle garden", is designated as a large natural monument Jägersburg . The area serves as a bird protection tree. As part of a nature adventure trail that was laid out for the state horticultural show in Bad Wildungen, a refuge was built there and a fountain was uncovered. In the vicinity in the direction of Odershausen there are three old Süntel beeches , which are also designated as natural monuments.

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Bleibaum (ed.), Gottfried Ganssauge (edit.): The architectural and art monuments of the state of Hesse, Kassel administrative district (part 4) , Eder district: since 1942 part of the Waldeck district, Bing, Korbach 1960, p. 335 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park: Kellerwaldsteig: Stage 8: From Odershausen to Berg Freiheit ( Memento from July 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Construction plans for the Jägersburg hunting lodge around 1718 .  In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).