Domain Neuhof
The Neuhof domain near Hattenheim in the Rheingau was a grangie of the nearby Eberbach monastery until 1803 .
history
Between 1163 and 1178 the monastery Eberbach received from Mainz Johannisstift against interest a feud nomine Hargartdun, consisting of two courtyards - a courtyard in today Hallgarten and today Neuhof. In a papal charter from 1178 the court is referred to as Grangia proxima, i.e. the court closest to the monastery. The farm was primarily used to supply the neighboring Steinberg vineyard . In order to produce the necessary fertilizer for this, mainly cattle breeding was carried out, with the focus on pig breeding. Agriculture served to supply the monks of the nearby monastery with food. The courtyard known as Nuenhoven is given in the Oculus Memoriae from 1211 with a size of ten acres . In the following years the property could be increased considerably through acquisitions, donations and exchanges. After the farm fell into disrepair as a result of the Thirty Years War , it was rebuilt in various construction phases from the 17th to the 19th century.
After the secularization of 1803 , the court was managed by the Ducal Nassau domain administration. In the years that followed, the owners changed many times, and the focus of management gradually shifted to horse breeding and seed reproduction.
description
A Romanesque main gate made of limestone blocks in the south, created around 1200, shows two blocks with cross and braided patterns. Within the adjacent wall, the origin of which goes back to the 13th century and to which the Steinberg wall adjoins, the courtyard is spread over various buildings: The two-storey manor house from 1682, built under Abbot Alberich Kraus, whose coat of arms can be found in the lintel of the courtyard portal, was created according to the plans of Giovanni Angelo Barella from Mainz. The high hipped roof is closed off by a striking roof turret with a bell and a wind vane. The farm buildings to the east were built under Abbot Adolph II Werner von Salmünster. The coat of arms of Abbot Hermann Hungrighausen can be found on the former home of the vineyard supervisor from 1750, as well as on the octagonal fountain and pigeon house in the middle of the courtyard. Most of the other buildings date from the 19th century. The Neuhof is connected to the Steinberg via a gate in the north.
literature
- Paul Claus: The Neuhof near Hattenheim . In: Rheingauer Zehnt- und Klösterhöfe and the wine . Society for Rheingauer Weinkultur mbH, Oestrich-Winkel 2001
- Dagmar Söder: Rheingau-Taunus District I.1 Altkreis Rheingau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , Theiss-Verlag , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3806229875
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse II: The administrative district of Darmstadt . Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3422031173
Web links
- Neuhof, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Dagmar Söder: Eberbach Monastery Landscape - The Monastery as a commercial enterprise and its traces in the Rheingau landscape (PDF file)
Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 51.8 " N , 8 ° 3 ′ 11.7" E