Old Veckerhagen Castle

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Old Veckerhagen Castle
Castle and paint factory (on the grounds of the old castle) in Veckerhagen (2011)

Castle and paint factory (on the grounds of the old castle) in Veckerhagen (2011)

Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, small remains of the wall
Place: Reinhardshagen -Veckerhagen
Geographical location 51 ° 29 '35.5 "  N , 9 ° 36' 22.7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '35.5 "  N , 9 ° 36' 22.7"  E
Old castle Veckerhagen (Hesse)
Old Veckerhagen Castle

The old castle Veckerhagen is a defunct Niederungsburg , of which only small remains of the wall are left today. It was a landgrave-Hessian protective castle on the banks of the Weser in Veckerhagen, a district of the municipality of Reinhardshagen in the Kassel district in Hesse . In their place and on their foundations are the factories of the paint manufacturer Habich Farben .

history

Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse had a castle surrounded by a moat built on the banks of the Weser between 1430 and 1431, which served as the seat of landgrave ministers and feudal men and to protect the Hessian possessions on the upper Weser against the Mainz property in the Reinhardswald . The castle may have replaced a previously existing fortified courtyard. After the Mainz-Hessian War of 1427, which was successfully concluded for the Landgraviate with the "Peace of Frankfurt" concluded on December 8, 1427, and the end of the Hesse-Paderborn feud in 1472, the castle's military purpose was fulfilled. The Hessian office of Veckerhagen was dissolved in 1550; no attention was paid to the maintenance of the castle and it gradually fell into disrepair.

Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel had the three-winged, baroque hunting lodge Veckerhagen built next to the old castle in 1689 .

Todays use

Remains of the old castle in Veckerhagen

In 1810, King Jérôme Bonaparte von Westphalen sold the hunting lodge and the old castle for 2000 Reichstaler to the Habich family of manufacturers from Kassel . In 1823 the company moved its paint factory from Kassel to the palace and the old castle, built production facilities in and on the remains of the old castle and has since been producing chemicals and paints there and at times even in the basement of the palace, which otherwise serves as an administrative center.

Part of the old castle used by the factory burned down in 1914 and was not rebuilt. During the Second World War , Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke set up a branch on the factory premises. In 1967 the still stately remains of the old castle fell victim to another major fire. The remaining foundation walls were used to build workshops and warehouses. Today, about 125 employees painter paints , latex paints , lawn marking paints and colored granules produced.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chrome yellow was produced in the cellar. ( Burgen-und-Schloesser.net ) (accessed in May 2012)
  2. ↑ HNA, August 17, 2010

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