Bökerhof
The Bökerhof is located in the East Westphalian village of Bökendorf (town of Brakel , district of Höxter ) in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The Bökerhof is one of the family seats of the Baron von Haxthausen, as is the Abbenburg estate and the Vörden house. The von Haxthausen family belonged to the four noble pillars of the Principality of Paderborn and at the beginning of the 14th century they were awarded the named goods by the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn.
The courtyard
Baron Caspar Moritz von Haxthausen entrusted the Hildesheim court architect Anton Went with the planning and construction of the Bökerhof in the years 1768–1771. The first resident of the facility was the client's son, Werner Adolph von Haxthausen .
The two-storey manor house was built on the ruins of a water system from the 15th century. The building extends to the side in two tower-like extensions. The roofs are covered with Solling sandstone slabs in accordance with the region . In 2009, the entire roof was covered again with Solling sandstone slabs in accordance with the listed buildings.
The Bökerhof is surrounded by a spacious garden of around three hectares . Some old beeches , chestnuts , spruces and elms as well as a magnificent plane tree on the castle meadow still bear witness to the history of the complex. The rear park of the house was surrounded by a corridor shaped from hornbeams . The branches of his beeches were regularly cut back at a height of over two meters so that a thick, impressive canopy of leaves could grow.
Even today, this historical one-of-a-kind is still largely preserved as an "arcade" and can be walked on. Already at the beginning of the 19th century he inspired well-known personalities such as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the Brothers Grimm . A watercolor by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff from 1820 documents the already enchanting romantic view of the rear view of the Bökerhof.
As a special garden design feature, a spatial axis extended from the Bökerhof as the central point . Even today, the south-western straight gives the Bökerhof a special view of the vastness and beauty of the landscape. It stretches impressively over the castle meadow, an ascending slope with an avenue of lime trees and a crossroads, up to a large wooden cross standing in the forest. The east axis is unfortunately only a hint, in the form of an avenue at the entrance to the Bökerhof.
In the 1990s, the inside and outside areas of the Bökerhof were thoroughly renovated and the original condition was restored according to old plans in accordance with the listed buildings.
Bökendorfer Romantikerkreis
In the 19th century, the Bökerhof manor was the center of the “Bökendorfer Romantikerkreis” (1810–1834) with the sisters Jenny and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm , Clemens Brentano and Josef Görres . In 1817 Ludwig Emil Grimm traveled to Bökerhof Palace.
The creators of this literarily ambitious group were in particular the brothers Werner and August von Haxthausen , but their sisters Anna, Ludowine and Ferdinandine also belonged to this community.
The poets Heinrich Straube , August von Arnswaldt , August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Luise Hensel joined this group around 1820.
The Brothers Grimm collected fairy tales, sagas and folk songs in East Westphalia. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff learned from stories at the Bökerhof and from the notes of her uncle August Franz von Haxthausen , the "Story of an Algier slave" (1808), of an authentic criminal case from the Bökendorf area at the end of the 18th century, which she in her novella “ Die Judenbuche ” (1842).
The Bökerhof and thus also Bökendorf were the starting points for many years of personal-literary relationships.
The Bökerhof Museum
The Bökerhof manor houses a currently inaccessible literature museum . Here visitors u. a. an impression of the living conditions of the Biedermeier period . The heart of the museum is the historic hall, which has been returned to its original state in accordance with old traditions.
Various exhibits relating to the romantic circle are available in the fund. During the cultural summer, events such as readings, concerts and exhibitions took place in an environment that had already inspired Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the Brothers Grimm.
A special exhibit is the magnificent pen calendar of the Principality of Paderborn from 1747. Another is the square piano by the Münster-based piano maker Melchior Quante from around 1800, on which Annette von Droste-Hülshoff also gave a public concert in 1820.
literature
- Günter Tiggesbäumker: Bökerhof: The house, its history and its residents . Bökerhof Society, 2000, ISBN 978-3-9803068-1-2 .
- Walter Gödden (Hrsg.): Westfälische Dichterstraßen - Southeast Westphalia. A guide to original locations in literary history between Bad Driburg and Höxter . Bökerhof Society, Münster 1997.
- Horst-Dieter Krus : Mordache Soistmann Berend. On the historical background of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's "Judenbuche" . Bökerhof Society, Höxter 1997.
- Heimatverein Bökendorf (ed.): Bökendorfer Liederheft, with numerous folk songs in words and wise from the circle of the romantic circle . Bökerhof Society, Bökendorf 2003.
- Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff / Sibren Verhelst: Werner Adolph Freiherr von Haxthausen - inspirer of the Bökendorfer Romantikerkreis and his descendants . Self-published by Sibren Verhelst, Gorinchem, Netherlands 2014.
- Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in the field of tension of her family . In: From the German aristocratic archives . tape XI. . CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0683-0 .
- Anna Bálint: Castles, palaces and historical aristocratic residences in the Höxter district. Ed .: District of Höxter. Höxter 2002, ISBN 3-00-009356-7 , pp. 42-45.
- Karen Duve: Miss Nice short summer . Galiani, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86971-138-6 .
Web links
- Entry by Jens Friedhoff and Stefan Eismann about Bökerhof in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Bökerhof Society: House Bökerhof. Archived from the original on March 18, 2007 ; accessed on March 18, 2014 .
- ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Gutspark Bökerhof in LWL GeodatenKultur.
- ^ Website of the Bökerhof Society: The Bökendorfer Circle. Archived from the original on March 13, 2007 ; accessed on March 18, 2014 .
- ↑ LWL for the dissolution of the Bökerhof Society 2012 ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of the Bökerhof Society: The Bökerhof Museum. Archived from the original on October 22, 2010 ; accessed on March 18, 2014 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 20 " N , 9 ° 12 ′ 50.2" E