Langenselbold Castle

The Langenselbold castle was built by the Counts of Isenburg-Birstein (1744 princes) in Langenselbold built in the years 1722 to 1752 (with interruptions).

The building site was the site of the Premonstratensian Choir of Selbold , which was dissolved in 1543 . The architect was the builder of the County of Hanau , Christian Ludwig Hermann , who worked for Count Wolfgang Ernst zu Isenburg-Birstein on this project and for the parallel construction project for the Evangelical Parish Church in Langenselbold .

The facility consists of six individual buildings, some of which are grouped in pairs around the four sides of a 95 × 127 m inner courtyard. Here was originally Baroque - Garden created whose central fountain later in the castle Birstein was transferred. On the eastern and western long sides of the courtyard there are barns and shed houses , on the southern narrow side there is a building that formerly contained servants' apartments and is now used as a restaurant. All of these buildings are single story. The north side of the complex consists of two two-story buildings with mansard roofs . The western one, from 1722, is the oldest of the complex and served as a fruit store. The east, from 1749, is the youngest of the ensemble and was the stately residential building. Inside there are several rooms with Rococo furnishings, silk wallpapers and paintings from the time of construction, including a portrait of Archbishop-Elector Clemens August of Cologne by George Desmarées and one of Landgrave Wilhelm VIII of Hesse-Kassel by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Younger . Another part of the equipment comes from the circle around Johann August Nahl .

Christian Ludwig von Isenburg-Birstein moved into the palace in 1757 after having quit military service. His father, Count Wolfgang Ernst, took care of the facility.

In 1940, the city Langenselbold bought the fruit store and expanded it after the Second World War to the City Hall to 1976 she bought the rest of the plant. A lifelong right of residence was retained for some members of the princely family. This also included the art historian Margarete Princess von Isenburg. The former stately residential building is now home to the city library, assembly rooms and a ballroom.

literature

Friedrich Bleibaum: Two Isenburg baroque castles . In: Isenburg / Ysenburg 963–1963, pp. 125 ff.
Gerhard Bott : Castles and public buildings in the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2015, pp. 35ff. (here especially pp. 71-73).
Georg Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments - Hesse II. Administrative Region Darmstadt. (Ed .: Folkhard Cremer and Tobias Michael Wolf), 3rd edition, Munich 2008, p. 540.
Georg Ulrich Großmann : South Hesse. Art guide. Imhof, Petersberg 2004, ISBN 3-935590-66-0 , p. 140.
Inge Wolf: Christian Ludwig Hermann. Construction director at Hanauer Hof . In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 30 (1988), pp. 445-555 (463 ff.).
Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 227.

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↑ See: Christof Krauskopf: Langenselbold, Main-Kinzig-Kreis - Klosterberg. Archaeological investigations in 1982 in the area of the former Selbold Abbey . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-89822-037-0 (Archaeological Monuments in Hesse 37).
↑ The noble house has only been called von Isenburg since 1920

50.1742 9.0376Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 27 ″ N , 9 ° 2 ′ 15 ″ E

[1] See: Christof Krauskopf: Langenselbold, Main-Kinzig-Kreis - Klosterberg. Archaeological investigations in 1982 in the area of the former Selbold Abbey . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-89822-037-0 (Archaeological Monuments in Hesse 37).

[2] The noble house has only been called von Isenburg since 1920