Buchenau Castle

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Buchenau Castle

The Buchenau Castle (also Schenck castle called) is located in Buchenau between Fulda and Bad Hersfeld and belongs to the community Eiterfeld .

building

The castle was built from 1611 to 1618 by Georg Melchior von Buchenau and his wife Agnes von Schwalbach in the Weser Renaissance style. The oldest building on the castle grounds is the so-called “Generalshaus”, which was built in 1550 by Georg von Buchenau (1535–1563) and his wife Susanne von Mansbach. In addition, there is the forester's house, in which the forester responsible for the administration of Buchenau Forest lived, the mountain house built in 1953 as a boarding house, the garage house, the old farm, the seminar house, a bakery and the gatehouse.

history

Aerial view of Buchenau Castle
The General House

Georg Melchior von Buchenau financed the construction of the palace by pledging 3/8 of his entire property to the prince abbot of Fulda monastery , his liege lord . In 1691, the monastery under Prince Abbot Placidus von Droste finally acquired this share, but already in 1692 exchanged this property with the later lieutenant general and governor of Upper Hesse, Wolf Christoph Schenk zu Schweinsberg (1653-1717), for his castle and estate in Burghaun . Schenk zu Schweinsberg moved to Buchenau in 1694. In 1713 he had the rentier extensively renovated; the building has since been called the “General House”. His nephew inherited the property, and his descendants lived in the castle and Upper Castle until 1912.

In 1904 a tower was added to the general house in the Upper Castle - as a copy of the tower on the Wartburg . Another staircase was added to the castle in 1910, the so-called wedding tower, which was built on the occasion of the wedding of Hans Schenck zu Schweinsberg with his wife Else. In 1912 Hans Schenck zu Schweinsberg was insolvent. After his suicide , the castle was forcibly sold in 1913. It then changed hands several times. The central building was built after the First World War . At that time, refugees from Alsace were housed in the castle.

In 1924 the Hermann Lietz Landerziehungsheime Foundation acquired the castle and ran a boarding school there until 1984 . Afterwards the buildings were used as resettlers' home.

Since 2001 the property has been privately owned again. Today the castle and the buildings belonging to it are used as a conference and group house. It offers 125 beds and many different meeting rooms.

architecture

The castle was built in three stages. Two two-story long buildings, rotated by 90 ° and connected with a stair tower in the enclosed courtyard, were built in 1611 and 1618. Both are designed in the Weser Renaissance style and each has richly decorated gables. In 1917 the four-storey central building was built, and in 1921 the top floors of the long buildings were expanded. The gables of the two long buildings were attached to the central building, which resulted in a good integration of the new central building into the existing long buildings.

In the castle there are still some renaissance doors with rich ornamentation.

The castle also has a park with a sports field.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 190.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HStAM Fonds Urk. 75 No 2016: Detailed description of the barter transaction ("This is how it happened Fuldt the 30th Martii anno 1692")
  2. ↑ Buchenau New Castle

Web links

Commons : Schloss Buchenau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 49 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 56 ″  E