Waldmannshausen Castle

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Waldmannshausen Castle
Front view of Waldmannshausen Castle

Front view of Waldmannshausen Castle

Creation time : 1486
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Standing position : Ministerials
Place: Elbe valley
Geographical location 50 ° 30 '47.8 "  N , 8 ° 3' 13.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '47.8 "  N , 8 ° 3' 13.7"  E
Height: 198  m above sea level NHN
Waldmannshausen Castle (Hesse)
Waldmannshausen Castle

The castle Waldmannshausen is built between 1486-1488 by Thebus of Waldmannshausen a Wasserburg in Elbgrund , in the municipality of Elbe Valley in Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse 18 km north of Limburg an der Lahn .

In earlier times the castle formed a unit with the neighboring Gut Waldmannshausen. The ruins of the Alte Burg moated castle are also on the site . The property is on the outskirts of the community on the connecting road to Frickhofen . Together with a palace building built in 1790, the castle has served as a school campus since 1935 . The castle is owned by the Schullandheim Burg Waldmannshausen eV, which is based in the Westphalian town of Hagen .

investment

Back of the castle

There are only remains of the old castle north of the road to Frickhofen.

The New Castle was built in 1486 as a late Gothic stone moated castle. The building is particularly characterized by its steep gable roof with several dormers. Round towers with pointed roofs shield the house from the north and south. A slimmer stair tower flanks the main portal to the inner courtyard. The facade still shows Gothic elements, but was heavily changed shortly after 1900. Inside there are neo-Gothic fittings, such as hall stairs and tent vaults in the tower rooms. The moats are leveled today.

The farm building was built in 1800 next to the Neue Burg. It was used as a fruit store, stables and servants' quarters. The central projection is highlighted much higher and stronger against the two low wings. The architectural decorations with pilasters , a triglyph frieze and triangular gable also emphasize the central part opposite the barely decorated wings. The gable bears the inscription "UTILITATI.ET.OBLECTATIO" (The benefit and the pleasure). The sandstone fountain basin in the courtyard was created at the same time as the building or shortly before.

The old building of the Hofgut (today's address: Frickhofener Straße 37) from 1790 turns away from the manor house and opens onto Landstraße. The only decorative elements on the plaster facade are sandstone walls and a cornice. The northern part of the building is highlighted by a flat risalit and a flight of stairs as the administrator's apartment. A plaque there points to the builder Christian Heinrich von Erath. The high mansard roof is provided with billet hips. In the south of the building there were originally three additional window axes that were destroyed by fire. Part of the old building is an elongated barn with stables, which is very flat for the region. In the 19th century, another three-sided courtyard was added to the estate, which opens onto the manor house. The younger half-timbered coach house and a quarry stone wall facing the street are also part of the monument.

The landscape garden is still part of the monument, even if only a few elements of the design are recognizable due to the long lack of maintenance. A turbine house from 1920 on the Mühlengraben west of the manor house and an older retaining wall on the pedestrian bridge over the country road are also listed elements.

history

Farm buildings

The castle ruins north of the road to Frickhofen were the ancestral seat of the lower aristocratic family Walpot von Waldmannshausen, who also held positions of national importance. The von Waldmannshausen family was first mentioned in a document in 1136. The other Walpoden / Waldbotten lines branched off from the Walpoden von Waltmannshausen early on, including the Waldbott von Bassenheim .

In 1486 Thebes (also: Debus = Matthäus) had the "New Castle" built by Waldmannshausen as a manor southeast of the old complex. He was the son of Gerhard von Waldmannshausen and was in the service of the Counts of Nassau-Dillenburg in the 1480s. In 1767 the mansion, which had been in ruins since the 17th century, fell to Nassau-Orange together with the associated estate . Shortly afterwards it went to Christian Heinrich von Erath (1745-1803), the former Nassau-Orange governor of Java. Erath had the manor house repaired, the manor that still exists today to the east of it and a representative house built in 1790. Around 1800 an area from the old castle to the manor and the Elbbach was designed based on the model of an English landscape garden. Several owners followed, including the Bethmann family from Frankfurt in 1835 and the deposed Dukes of Nassau in 1870 . In 1933 a school camp was set up and the following year the manor was separated and sold for private use. In 1935 the former castle came into the possession of the school camp association of the Westphalian city of Hagen. Today, the manor is only used as a residential building and is no longer used for agriculture.

Today the complex is a listed building and has also been given protection status in the event of war under the Hague Convention .

  • House of the adjoining former manor

  • Back of the former stables

literature

  • Georg Dehio , Ernst Gall : Handbook of German art monuments - Southern Hesse . Berlin 1950.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 444-445.
  • Ferdinand Luthmer: The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Wiesbaden . Vol. 3 (= Lahn area ). Walluf 1973.
  • Adolf-Krüper-Schullandheimverein Waldmannshausen (Ed.): 500 years of Burg Waldmannshausen , Hagen 1986, 84 pages

Web links

Commons : Burg Waldmannshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hellmuth Gensicke: The von Waldmannshausen . In: Nassauische Annalen 90 (1979), p. 171.