Bergheim Castle (Edertal)

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Bergheim Castle is a castle with an English garden on the western edge of the old town center in the Edertal district of Bergheim in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

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The castle, with 30 rooms and 1,200 m² of living space, consists of an elongated two-storey, 15-axis main building on a basement, with a hipped roof and a three-axis central risalit on the park side, and a two-storey commercial and two-storey building at right angles to the eastern end Gate construction along Schlossstrasse. The transverse sides are five-axis. A flight of stairs on the courtyard side leads to the portal.

The complex includes an approx. 50,000 m² park that extends as far as the Eder with remarkable old trees from the 17th and 18th centuries.

history

The castle was built in 1692 instead of a small medieval castle seat for Count Christian Ludwig von Waldeck . He handed over the castle with the villages of Bergheim, Wellen and Königshagen as Paragium to his son from his second marriage, Josias , who founded the count's branch line Waldeck-Bergheim , which existed in the male line until 1966 .

From 1785 to 1786, the Kassel builder Simon Louis du Ry extended the palace in the early Classicist style for Count Josias II von Waldeck-Bergheim.

When the estate settlement between the Free State of Waldeck and the Waldeck Princely House, which was removed in November 1918, was completed in 1920 , the palace and its park were left to the princely house or its count's branch line to Bergheim, while the agricultural chamber property that had previously belonged to the palace was awarded to the Free State as a state domain and by law of April 8, 1921 came to the Waldeck-Pyrmonter domanial property. In April 1929 this special property was transferred to a special purpose association comprising the Waldeck communities and then in February 1942 to the Waldeck district, which had to manage these assets for the benefit of the former special purpose communities. After the end of the Second World War , the Bergheim domain was dissolved for settlement purposes and for compensation for war victims.

Count Georg zu Waldeck and Pyrmont in Bergheim (1876–1966), the last male offspring of the line, sold the castle and park in 1965. In the following years, the park was redesigned with direct access to the Eder to become a very popular campsite with foreign guests . The castle was used as a residential building, the street wing as a medical practice for a long time. The owner's workshop and a restaurant were located in the outbuilding .

In 1984 a hotel chain took over the entire area; The plan was to convert it into a 4-star hotel with 150 beds, conference rooms and a restaurant. The outbuilding was demolished and almost everything valuable was removed from the castle and temporarily stored for the renovation, but after several years of renovation the project came to a standstill and what remained was a ruin and the loss of many objects belonging to the castle and its history. Since then, the castle has had changing, mostly short-term owners and various uses, was often for sale for longer periods of time, and was increasingly threatened with decay. It has had a new owner since autumn 2018, but the future use and financing of the urgently needed renovation are still unclear.

51.1674 9.1348Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 3 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 5 ″ E