Castle Manufacture
| Castle Manufacture | ||
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 Herstelle Castle photographed from the Weser |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1292 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | received after new construction | |
| Place: | Beverungen - Manufacture | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 38 '25.7 " N , 9 ° 25' 0.6" E | |
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The Herstelle Castle is a hilltop castle on an elevation in the Weser Valley above the Herstelle district of the city of Beverungen in North Rhine-Westphalia . Today the castle is privately owned by the Hörning family after its thorough renovation.
history
In the early Middle Ages, the hilltop castle was initially laid out as a hill fort over a strategically important Weserfurt at the time. The construction time is not known. From the 7th century, Saxons settled the area. In 797 they tried to defend the ford and castle against Charlemagne, but were defeated, as the field names "Kemperfeld" (fighter field) and "Totengrund" still attest to. Charlemagne built his winter quarters here and named the castle Heristal Saxonicum . He wanted to announce the future capital city function of Heristal with bishopric for Saxony. Heristal in Francia (today Herstal , a Belgian municipality in the province of Liège ) was as the cradle of the Pippinids and main residence of Charlemagne from 758 to 784, a main residence of the Franconian Empire and the exhibition site of the "Haristalense" (capital from 779). On October 28, 797, the Capitulare Saxonicum began a less harsh policy towards the Saxons. In Heristal Saxonicum , numerous wooden buildings were initially built under the protection of the Wallburg for the Franconian re-establishment. The importance of this emerging royal palace at that time is also evident from the fact that Karl's winter quarters there unusually expanded until May 798.
It has not been passed down, which is why Paderborn, at the intersection of the Westphalian Hellweg and Frankfurter Weg, became the seat of a bishopric the following year . Presumably the sudden escape of Pope Leo III played here . because of allegations of adultery from Rome to the Palatinate Paderborn a role. The Pope bought the help of the powerful Frankish king not only through the recognition of a diocese in Saxony in 799, but also through Charles' coronation as Roman Emperor at Christmas 800 in Rome. Only two years after its founding, Heristal Saxonicum was far from being as developed as the Palatinate Paderborn, which was founded in 776.
Karlstein wants to remember this earliest time in the castle. This rock table just a few hundred meters not far from the castle on a cliff above the Weser was built in 1835 when a road was blown up (today's federal road 83 ). After 1835 the oldest cross stone in Westphalia, often referred to as the Bonifatius Cross, was moved to this location and given the year 797 to commemorate the early history of Herstelle. Its origin is not known. W. Brockpähler describes him in his standard work "Steinkreuze in Westphalen" (Münster 1963, p. 63f) as possibly Old Franconian and writes of a possible stonemason in the entourage of Charlemagne, who made the cross "according to the pattern of similar monuments in his homeland" could have. The Boniface Cross could come from the castle itself, because the creation of the Karlstein in 1835 corresponds well with the modern construction work on the castle from 1825 to 1832. In addition, the proximity of the castle and Karlstein speaks for it. However, there is no evidence.
The late medieval castle Herstelle was first mentioned in 1292 as the property of the Paderborn bishop. After pledging in the first half of the 14th century, Bishop Simon II (1380-1389) set the Knights of Falkenberg there as officials. On July 24, 1464, soldiers of the Hessian Landgrave Ludwig II in a feud with Bishop Simon III. (1463–1498) in the Hesse-Paderborn feud (1464–1471) around the castle and town of Calenberg Castle and the place Herstelle in rubble. By the end of the 15th century, the residents rebuilt the castle and village with the support of the bishop.
Looted and burned down again during the Thirty Years War , the castle was rebuilt again (almost completely) around 1650. At the beginning of the 19th century it finally fell into disrepair. Some sections of the curtain wall, the former Episcopal Paderborn office (1798) - a single-storey, five-axis plastered building with a mansard roof - and a barn from 1757 still exist. After that, the castle served as a recreation area for changing owners until 1983.
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The current building was built between 1825 and 1832. In 1823 Fernandine Heereman von Zuydtwyck , a daughter of Werner Adolph von Haxthausen , acquired the facility and commissioned the Koblenz architect Johann Claudius von Lassaulx to build a new castle , a little west of the old castle. In 1832 the castle was completed and its components incorporated the idea of the castle complex. The exposed brick, from dry stone built main house represents the Palas . The right subsequent round stair tower with arched frieze and battlements intended to keep remember. Both are located behind a short stone bridge to which a seven-step staircase leads. In the 19th century, well-known artists and scientists met at the castle, including Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the Brothers Grimm . Neo-Gothic portal: the facades of the three-story castle are regularly structured by pilaster strips, a multi-layer wall structure and a round arch frieze in the eaves area . The windows frame red sandstone walls with profiled triangular gables . A high gable roof covered with Weser sandstone slabs with dormers in two rows crowns the building. The building with the high Weser sandstone can be entered through a two-wing, neo-Gothic portal with tracery decorations . On the opposite west side, the entire width of the conservatory is built on a high basement . Today the castle is privately owned after its restoration.
In August 2016 the castle was named Monument of the Month in Westphalia-Lippe by the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia .
Todays use
With the purchase of the castle by the Hörning family in 2007, the complex was gradually made more accessible to the public again. The great hall of the castle is occasionally used as the wedding room of the registry office of the city of Beverungen.
The "Academy of Reading Arts" rented rooms in the castle and organized a literature seminar. It thus followed the 170 year old tradition of the castle as a meeting place for artists and authors. In 2016, the art and culture association Burg Herstelle e. V. founded. He wants to support events that cannot be financed through participation fees or admissions alone.
Web links
- Entry for Castle Manufacture in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Castle Herstelle at herstelle.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Castle becomes publicly accessible - News - Beverunger Rundschau. Retrieved September 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Christoph Heuter: Monument of the month: "in half-Gothic style" - Castle Herstelle on the Weser. (No longer available online.) LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia , archived from the original on September 15, 2016 ; accessed on September 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
