Louisburg Griesheim Hunting Lodge

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The first building from 1713 to 1736: then called Griesheimer Haus or Jagdhaus Griesheim .
The Louisburg ( Ludwigsburg ) hunting lodge from 1740

The hunting lodge Louisburg Griesheim or Princely Hunting Lodge Louisbourg or simply Griesheimer Haus or Ludwigsburg was a hunting lodge on the boundary between Griesheim and Darmstadt in the 18th century. The location is now in the Darmstadt district of Darmstadt-West in the south of Hesse .

location

The property was located between Darmstadt's current district of Bessungen and Griesheim on the extension of today's Hausweg es to the south-west into the Griesheimer Forest (then called Griesheimer Tanne ) at 122 m above sea level, where it stood at the meeting point of eight star-shaped aisles as a hunting lodge and later a hunting lodge. The demolished property is located a few hundred meters south-east of the Darmstädter Kreuz at a point that is intersected by the A5 motorway and is about 800 m west of the Heimstättensiedlung . Lanes exist today only to the north and east.

history

The first building as a hunting lodge was commissioned by Landgrave Ernst Ludwig from Hesse and Darmstadt in 1713 (sometimes also referred to as 1714). It was an expression of the landgrave's passion for hunting, who built several of these small hunting castles around Darmstadt around and at the beginning of the 18th century. The larger hunting lodge Bickenbach , the Dianaburg , the Bessunger Jagd- und Kavaliershaus and the new hunting lodge Jägersburg in which the Landgrave died in 1739 should be mentioned. In addition to the renovation of the Darmstadt Residenzschloss from 1715, he strained the finances of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt so much that he was forced by the opposition officials and theologians to give up the parforce hunt in 1718. Several of the small hunting lodges were abandoned and demolished or left to decay after or during his son's reign.

The Griesheimer Haus was a two-story small hunting lodge, which only existed until 1736 and then collapsed.

A new castle was built in 1740 on behalf of his eldest son, Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt , and is now called Louisbourg (Ludwigsburg) . This baroque building only stood for a relatively short time, exactly 34 years. As a representative small baroque palace, it was designed as a representative functional building and the center of the stately hunting in the Griesheimer Forst. In 1770 or 1774 the hunting lodge was demolished and it was not until the second half of the 19th century that an open wooden pavilion was built on the same spot as a resting place for hikers, as was also the case for Dianaburg.

The short period of around 60 years is enough to let some haunted stories or legends arise around the house, the main character of which was primarily the "Schwärzelhannes" and was also reflected in literary terms. These presumably go back to the strict master hunter and privy councilor von Mingerod , who served under both landgraves and was valued by the landgraves but was feared and hard-hearted by the residents of Griesheim. His evil soul is said to have haunted his death and caused strong winds around the house at midnight .

Building description

The Griesheim house was a striking square building on a heaped hill, like moths in the Middle Ages, with the distinctive roof shape of a bell roof , but which had a roof balcony cut off at the top with a stone railing about the size of half the house floor plan. Two gables with circular windows each gave the house a playful look. The two-story building had three larger windows on the ground floor and four smaller windows on the first floor. The corners were covered with a closed sandstone front and had a small capital protruding from the floor. The eaves enclosed a double ducted sandstone fries . Two open staircases interrupted by the basement access with double sandstone railings led on the main page to the hunting lodge, which was surrounded by a circumferential octagonal bastion with railings. Basement windows in the bastion area can be derived from the picture.

The Louisburg hunting lodge was a baroque, square, two-story, three-axis building with a central projectile and two outside staircases tapering to the corners, with a cellar with an extended sandstone portal in between. In each case, three dormer windows in the mansard hipped roof were raised by a circumferential roof balcony , in the center of which stood a square turret with a pointed hood and window. A flat, one-story building like a stables lay twice the width behind the hunting lodge. In the Hessian State Archive Darmstadt several elevations exist of Griesheim house from 1757 to 1761. Two beautiful paintings are from Ernst August average Spahn and Johann Georg Stockmar .

literature

Web links

Commons : Jagdschloss Louisburg Griesheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Views

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b P. AF Walther: Darmstadt how it was and how it became , p. 184
  2. ↑ Griesheimer Fir. Hessian field names. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ These data are used in various archives, in the older literature of the 19th century mostly 1770 in that of the 20th century 1774.
  4. ^ The "Griesheimer Haus" , website 850 years of Griesheim, accessed on November 15, 2016
  5. ↑ View of the Princely Hunting Lodge Louisburg in the Griesheimer Tanne, 1852. Historical views of the town, plans and floor plans (as of July 23, 2008). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 15, 2016 .
  6. ↑ u. a .: Johann Jakob Hill:  Elevation de Louisbourg comme on pourroit le rebatir si les sousterreins etoient encore en bon état  Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt : Order signature : ST 51 No. 5098, accessed on November 15, 2016.

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 24.9 ″  E