Calenberg Castle (Warburg)
| Calenberg Castle | ||
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 The hilltop castle Calenberg |
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| Alternative name (s): | Kalenberg | |
| Creation time : | around 1250 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Standing position : | Clericals, nobles | |
| Place: | Warburg - Calenberg | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 27 '56 " N , 9 ° 9' 52.5" E | |
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The calenberg castle , also Kalenberg called, is a hilltop castle on the Calenberg in the middle of the district Calenberg the city Warburg in Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The castle was built by the lords of Berkule around 1250 and mentioned in 1299. In 1307 , the Paderborn bishop Otto enfeoffed the Westphalian family von Papenheim with the castle, which was soon called Rave von Calenberg . In 1326, the Papenheimers were once again enfeoffed with Calenberg Castle. In the contract, the place is referred to as a city. After the last rave in Calenberg had died in 1464, a feud broke out between the Landgrave Ludwig II of Hesse and the Bishop of Paderborn over the inheritance of Calenberg. The Hesse-Paderborn feud was only settled in 1471.
In 1868 the Barmer merchant Hugo Schuchard , who with his company “J. Grisar, Schuchard & Ko. ”In Valparaíso , Chile, had acquired a significant fortune, the“ Gut Calenberg ”, to which the castle also belonged. The castle and the associated farm buildings took up almost half of the mountain cone. Schuchard had these buildings demolished, with the exception of a house set up as official apartments, and a new manor, "Neu Calenberg", built in the field below. The castle, which is still well preserved in terms of walls and roofing, was then completely rebuilt in the years 1880 to 1884 by the Cologne architect Heinrich Wiethase in the sense of a castle-romantic "fairy tale castle", the two main parts connected by an intermediate building and a massive stair tower to facilitate traffic attached to a peculiar tour, from which one has a wide panoramic view of the whole area. The remaining part of the site was converted into gardens and the slopes of the hill were covered with trees.
Hugo Schuchard, the father-in-law of the painter Adolf Erbslöh and uncle of the painter Felix Schuchard , died two years after the castle was completed. Until her death in 1927, Calenberg was the favorite stay of his widow Luise, nee. Erbslöh , who only lived in her property in Barmen during the winter months.
In 1927 the castle was taken over by her son Hugo Schuchard, Jr., who now lived on "Neu Calenberg", the builder and operator of the neighboring Welda hydropower station , but who only partially inhabited the castle. In 1938 he had a coal central heating installed and from 1945 the castle served as accommodation for refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern regions . After Schuchard's death, it was acquired by the businessman Karl-Heinz Rehkopf in 1972 and restored true to the original.
literature
- Anna Balint: Castles, palaces and historic aristocratic residences in the Höxter district . Höxter 2002, ISBN 3-00-009356-7 .
- Lutz Dursthoff among others: The German castles and palaces in color . Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8105-0228-6 , p. 744.
- Rainer Decker: The history of the castles in the Warburg / Zierenberg area . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History 93 (1988) pp. 9–48. Hofgeismar / Zierenberg also appeared separately in 1989.
Web links
- Entry by Gabriele Rustemeyer zu Calenberg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry on Calenberg Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Calenberg Castle at burgenwelt.de