Bessunger Forsthaus

Bessunger Forsthaus
Bessunger Forsthaus
Data
place	Darmstadt
Architectural style	classicism
Construction year	1815
Coordinates	49 ° 51 '52.6 "  N , 8 ° 43' 41"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '52.6 "  N , 8 ° 43' 41"  E

The Bessunger Forsthaus is a monument in Darmstadt .

Geographical location

The Bessunger Forsthaus stands in the east of the former Bessunger deciduous forest . For many decades it was considered Roßdörfer Forsthaus referred, although it on the district of Bessungen , located in Aschaffenburg street 200th

history

The prehistory of today's building is no longer verifiable. The first chief forester known by name for the Bessunger Forest was Reinhard Rohr, named in 1713. Rohr was followed by the chief forester Friedrich Daniel Korndörfer (1733–1766), his son Reinhard Korndörfer (1766–1789) and then Georg Ludwig Schott (1789–1795). In 1795 the forester and court hunter Wilhelm Jakob Heyer took over the chief forester. Before 1800 he built a forester's house.

In 1815, Grand Duke Ludwig I of Hesse had today's two-story forester's house built for his court hunter Wilhelm Heyer - the first Hessian forestry school . Heyer set up a "master school" for foresters on the property . The Grand Duke rewarded Heyer's commitment and let his son Carl Heyer study forestry in Giessen . The forest scientist Carl Heyer was one of the most important forest reformers of his time , alongside Georg Ludwig Hartig . Heyer's forester's house from the years before 1800 was integrated into the school at a later date.

In 1820 the facility was converted into a forest ranger's office, integrated into the Roßdörfer Forest and subsequently referred to as the Roßdörfer Forsthaus . From 1860 the forester's house again served the Darmstadt forest and was renamed Bessunger forester's house . The Bessunger Forsthaus was now a forest maintenance facility . From 1911 to 1933 the forest warden Jakob Kolb officiated in the Bessunger forestry. He successfully campaigned for the Hessian forest guards to be recognized as foresters.

The facility is still used today as a forester : Revierförsterei Bessunger Forst of the Darmstadt Forestry Office of the Hessen-Forst State Office .

building

The Bessunger Forsthaus is a simple, classicist building that faces Aschaffenburger Straße. This “front side” is structured by six window axes, which are grouped into three groups of two. There is a vaulted cellar under the building .

For historical and artistic reasons, the building is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Worth knowing

Approx. 100 meters northeast of the Bessunger Forsthaus is a Roman spring outlet. The spring intake is located directly at the southern foot of the embankment of the Darmstadt Ost – Groß-Zimmer railway line .

The station Bessunger Forsthaus at kilometer 4.5 of the railway line is named after the forester's house. He is still in the traffic of the railway museum of the DME of the railway museum kranichstein approached.

literature

• Roland Dotzert et al .: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt . Stuttgart 2006. ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 and ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 80.
• Günter Fries et al .: Cultural monuments in Hesse - City of Darmstadt = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse . Braunschweig 1994. ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 381.

Web links

Commons : Bessunger Forsthaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frieze.
2. ^ Revier Bessunger Forst on the Hessen-Forst website ; accessed on November 18, 2017
3. ↑ Frieze.
4. ↑ Frieze.
5. ↑ Frieze.
6. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 . Plates 86, 154.