Bassenheimer Palais

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Portrait of the building owner Casimir Waldbott von Bassenheim (1642–1730) on the entrance door of the St. Gertrudis Chapel in Oberreifenberg.

The Bassenheimer Palais , also Bassenheimer castle called, is a Grade II listed former stately building in Oberreifenberg , the largest district of the municipality of Schmitten , in southern Hesse Hochtaunuskreis .

location

The castle is located in the north of the village of Oberreifenberg, a few dozen meters south below Castle Reifenberg , on the Schloßstraße leading to the castle and its confluence with Siegfriedstraße, which bends to the east . Located on the mountain slope , oriented lengthways southwest to northeast, it overlooks the valley floor of the village. A palace garden used to be attached to the southwest .

history

It used to be assumed that the court architect Benedikt Burtscher built the palace as the count's administrative seat of the Reifenberg office on behalf of Count Casimir Ferdinand Adolf Waldbott von Bassenheim in the first half of the 18th century . Casimir Waldbott von Bassenheim (1642 - November 6, 1729) was canon of Mainz and Trier , imperial and royal Polish chamberlain , imperial lieutenant colonel of the Metternich cuirassier regiment, choir bishop of St. Moritz in Tholeja in Trier, cathedral scholaster and electoral chamber president of Mainz and Senior magistrate in Mombach . The noble Waldbott von Bassenheim family, who became imperial barons in 1638, became imperial counts in 1720 . Your rule Bassenheim becomes imperial direct rule and is subordinate to the emperor. In the Taunus, Casimir owned the office of Kransberg and the reign of Reifenberg, which fell to his family when the von Reifenberg family died out in 1686. He was the nephew of the Archbishop of Worms Franz Emmerich Kaspar Waldbott von Bassenheim . Casimier brought the famous figure of the Bassenheim rider to Bassenheim, which comes from the rood screen of the Mainz cathedral that was torn down in 1683 . It can be assumed that he had received it through the mediation of his uncle. With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the Bassenheim offices of Reifenberg and Kransberg fell to Nassau-Usingen and subsequently to the Duchy of Nassau .

More recent studies indicate that it was built between 1764 and 1768 as a rental farm for Johann Maria Rudolf Waldbott von Bassenheim (1731–1805). The builder is said to have been Johann Friedrich Sckell from Weilburg .

From 1823, the palace was used as the seat of the newly established ruling chief forester at Reifenberg.

In 1852 or 1854 the Waldbott von Bassenheim family sold the property to a private individual. Afterwards it was used as a manufacture for "wire and fillet goods", at the beginning of the 20th century it became a hotel, then the seat of the Hessian forest administration. The property is now privately owned again. A renovation has been carried out since 2009. In 2013, the owners received the Hessian Monument Preservation Prize in Wetzlar for the “excellent, careful and with extraordinary commitment” and, together with the architect and the four craftsmen involved, they received the second prize of the Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation in 2014 .

The construction

South-west side with surrounding wall and viewing pavilions (2019)

The palace consists of a two-storey seven-to-four-axis plastered baroque building with a slate mansard hipped roof and a single-storey, also plastered outbuilding. The entrance to the main building is on the south-eastern side of the courtyard. A two-flight staircase leads in the middle of the eaves to a two-winged arched portal with a skylight . Another smaller entrance is to the northeast on Schloßstraße . High, double-leaf arched windows, framed by natural stone walls, structure the façades symmetrically and are provided with shutters. Another design element is the surrounding cornice made of natural stone. The building has a high mansard roof with axially symmetrical dormers in the cranked roof area. Two other smaller dormers are embedded in the saddle area of ​​the roof.

The original equipment from the construction period is largely preserved. This includes doors, paneling, stucco work and floors as well as a staircase with a baluster railing . Under a later applied spray plaster, wall paintings were found on the clay plaster in the ballroom on the upper floor . It shows frescoes with city and landscape motifs from Venice based on the pattern of Canaletto . The frescoes in the hall on the first floor has probably followed investigations by the owner in Frankfurt acting Swiss painter Christian Stöcklin made (1741-1795).

The almost square wall surrounding the property is adorned on the south corner with a round turret with a conical roof . The associated garden is a slope with a clear incline. Two ornate wrought-iron double-winged gates in the surrounding wall to the north and east of the palace facing the street, both crowned with sandstone columns and stone spheres, emphasize the street front of the palace. To the north of the house there is another passage as a sandstone portal with a wrought-iron door.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments , Volume 15b (= Hessen II: Darmstadt District), Munich 2008.
  • Christian Ottersbach: Frankfurt & Rhein-Main - castles and palaces in and around Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt, Mainz, Taunus and Wetterau , (= castles-mansions-mansions , volume 4), publisher: Marburg Working Group for European Castle Research, Imhof-Verlag , Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-452-3 .

Web links

Commons : Bassenheimer Palais  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New genealogical realm and state handbook: on the year 1794 , Verlag Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main, 1794 online
  2. ↑ a b c d Excellent redevelopment , online article in the Taunus-Zeitung , Frankfurter Neue Presse, by Anja Petter , July 6, 2013, accessed on December 7, 2016
  3. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Duchy of Nassau , Volume 15, pp. 90–91, November 19, 1823, online
  4. ↑ Federal Prize for Handicrafts in Monument Preservation in Hessen - Monument owners and craftsmen are honored in the Meistersaal of the Chamber of Crafts in Wiesbaden p. 4 (PDF document, 130.2 kB), November 25, 2014, accessed on December 7, 2016
  5. ↑ Christian Stöcklin (also Stöcklein) was born in Geneva in 1741 . His father worked as a ribbon weaver and came from Basel . Christian trained with the Geneva portrait painter Steudlin around 1757 , discontinued in 1757, followed by a tour of Italy (including Bologna , 1758 in Rome ). Went to Germany around 1759 (stations: Stuttgart (1761 to 1764) and Ludwigsburg ), mostly stage painting . Moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1764 and worked as an architecture and theater painter (mostly painting churches). Known u. a. for his oil painting on wood interior of the Frankfurt Cathedral from 1774. He died in 1795 in Frankfurt.

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 46.2 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 47.4"  E