Draiser Hof
The Draiser Hof on the border between Eltville and Erbach in the Rheingau was the first farmyard of the Cistercian monastery Eberbach and is now the seat of the Baron Knyphausen winery .
history
In 1141, the Archbishop of Mainz, Markolf, gave the monks of the nearby Eberbach Monastery a swampy area west of Eltville. After extensive drainage work by the monks, a first farm yard and wine storage area was created, which was followed a short time later by the neighboring Reichartshausen monastery . The connection to the Rhine, which flowed directly past the farm before the Rhine was regulated, was of great importance for the monastery business in Eberbach. The farm was first mentioned as a cellarium in 1163 , its name possibly deriving from the Old High German word triesch , d. H. water rich back. Through donations and purchases, the property could be steadily increased. With the now silted up Nonnenaue on the other bank of the Rhine near Heidesheim , which the monastery shared with Gottesthal monastery , the farm had land to grow fruit. After being destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , the farm was rebuilt and in 1727 today's manor house was built according to plans by the Eberbach monk Bernhard Kirn.
As part of the secularization , the estate came into the possession of Duke Friedrich August von Nassau-Usingen in 1803 , who gave it to his minister Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern for his services to Nassau during the secularization negotiations. As early as 1815 von Gagern sold the farm to the Eltville official cellar Georg Herber . After Karl Wilhelm Georg von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg , who took over the estate from Herber in 1818, his grandson Carl Gisbert Wilhelm von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg inherited the property in 1845 . Through his only child, Wilhelmine, the estate came to the barons of Innhausen and Knyphausen (through marriage in 1867 to Dodo Alexander Freiherr zu Innhausen and Knyphausen). In addition to the winery, the Draiser Hof now also has a manor hotel.
description
The estate is surrounded by an old wall in a park with vineyards. To the west of the two-storey manor house is a shed , the so-called "coal house", which was built like the manor house in the 18th century. In the northeast there is a wine press house from the beginning of the 19th century. A pond is said to come from the time the farm was founded. After a fire around 1890, the remaining farm buildings were rebuilt.
literature
- Dagmar Söder: Rheingau-Taunus District I.1 Altkreis Rheingau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , Theiss-Verlag , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3806229875
- Helga Simon: Steinheimer Hof, Eltzer Hof and Draiser Hof In: Rheingauer Zehnt- und Klösterhöfe and the wine . Society for Rheingauer Weinkultur mbH, Oestrich-Winkel 2001
- Werner Kratz: Eltville. Monuments and history , 1st volume, Verlag Sebastian Wolf OHG, Eltville am Rhein 1961
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse II: The administrative district of Darmstadt . Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3422031173
Web links
- Dagmar Söder: Eberbach monastery landscape - The monastery as a business enterprise and its traces in the Rheingau landscape
- Drais Hof, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Weingut Baron Knyphausen Official homepage of the winery
- Baron Knyphausen Gutshotel Official homepage of the Gutshotel
Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 8 ° 6 ′ 17.3 ″ E