Ostein Palace

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View into the main courtyard of the palace and the U-shaped complex

Palais Ostein is a former aristocratic residence of Count Johann Friedrich Karl Maximilian von Ostein in Geisenheim, built between 1766 and 1771 .

history

On part of the grounds of the Kronberger Hof , which had been owned by the Ostein family since 1732 , as well as on other properties acquired for this purpose, Johann Friedrich Karl Maximilian von Ostein had a palace built from 1766 based on designs by Johann Valentin Thoman . A French park was built around the palace, to the north an English garden with an orangery . Von Ostein had already developed the idea of ​​a landscape park in 1764 in the park on the Niederwald .

The plant was divided by sale in 1809/1811. Lieutenant Colonel von Gontard acquired the west wing and middle wing, which he had demolished in 1812. The east wing, initially acquired by the Count von Degenfeld, was sold to the Dressel family and the wine merchant Friedrich August von Lade in 1813. Heinrich Eduard von Lade was born here in 1817 . In 1849 the Brentano family became the owners of the east wing, which fell to the Freyberg family by inheritance , after which the building has its current name Freyberghaus . The St. Ursula School acquired the west wing (today: St. Marien ) in 1925 and the east wing in 1964 to accommodate boarding and school rooms.

Both buildings have been largely empty since 2006 for fire protection reasons . Only a small part to the north of the formerly famous park has survived today. A stables adjoining the palace to the east was demolished in the 1970s; today Ursulinenplatz is located there .

description

The remaining wing structures of the originally horseshoe-shaped complex are each two-storey and extend over eleven axes. To the north, connecting buildings to the former central wing. On the sides facing away from the inner courtyard, there are single-storey garden pavilions on a rectangular floor plan with protruding bay windows, of which the eastern pavilion is largely in its original state with valuable stucco and painting work. The interior was done by the Kurmainzer court plasterer Johann Peter Jäger and the painter Christian Georg Schütz the Elder. Ä. The hall of mirrors and the library, the so-called "head room", with medallions of Greek and Roman wise men are remarkable. The rooms and corridors are characterized by high-quality stucco work and paintings as well as numerous marble fireplaces.

gallery

  • Geisenheim Rheingau Palais Ostein mirror hall (1) .JPG
  • Geisenheim Rheingau Palais Ostein (5) .JPG
  • Geisenheim Rheingau Palais Ostein (4) .JPG
  • Geisenheim Rheingau Palais Ostein (3) .JPG
  • Geisenheim Rheingau Palais Ostein (1) .JPG

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hesse. 2: The Darmstadt administrative region. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 .
  • Gerd Hagenow: Klio and Kronos. For the interpretation of a stucco relief in the Ostein-Palais in Geisenheim. In: Nassau Annals . 95, 1984, pp. 261-273.
  • Wolfgang Kotschi: The palace of the Counts of Ostein. In: 100 Years of the Ursulines in Geisenheim 1894–1994 . Ed .: Ursulinenkloster St. Joseph and St.-Ursula-Schulgesellschaft mbH, Geisenheim 1994
  • Ursulinenkloster St. Joseph und St.-Ursula-Schulgesellschaft mbH (ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the centenary of the monastery and school. = 100 years of the Ursulines in Geisenheim 1894–1994. Ursuline convent St. Joseph et al., Geisenheim 1994.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 134.
  • Dagmar Söder: Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Volume 1: Altkreis Rheingau. Volume 1: Eltwille, Geisenheim, Kiedrich (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Hesse. ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8062-2987-5 .

Web links

Commons : Palais Ostein (Geisenheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '55.3 "  N , 7 ° 57' 47.8"  E