Eichelbacher Hof

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Eichelbacher Hof
Eichelbacher Hof

Eichelbacher Hof

Alternative name (s): Eichelberg
Creation time : around 1213
Conservation status: receive
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Weilrod - Rod an der Weil
Geographical location 50 ° 19 '13.8 "  N , 8 ° 21' 9.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '13.8 "  N , 8 ° 21' 9.4"  E
Height: 405  m above sea level NN
Eichelbacher Hof (Hesse)
Eichelbacher Hof
Half-timbered mansion with the two corner towers

The Eichelbacher Hof is a former Renaissance moated castle of unknown class. He is in today's district Rod an der Weil the municipality Weilrod in Hochtaunuskreis in Hesse , about 60 kilometers north of Frankfurt and about 40 kilometers northeast of Wiesbaden .

Geographical location

The Eichelbacher Hof is surrounded by extensive low mountain range forests of the Taunus , in the eastern Hintertaunus in the source area of ​​the Eichelbach , a western (left) tributary of the Weil . To the west of the Eichelbacher Hof rise the Stückelberg (510 m) and the Kuhbett (526 m), on the eastern flank of which, a little above the farm, the historic Rennstraße runs past. The village of Hasselbach is about two kilometers further north and Rod an der Weil and Cratzenbach are each three kilometers away in the northeast and east.

history

First mention finds the castle Eichelsberg , a medieval , by a Gebück protected tower castle , in 1213. It was designed to protect a busy mountain road through the Taunus, the racing road. The area belonged to the County of Weilnau , after 1326 the Count of Nassau . In 1339 there is documentary mention of the Reinberg zu Eichelbach family , who were wealthy here. Until this line died out in 1615, the Eichelbacher Hof remained in family ownership.

The tower castle, whose defense-related insignificance turned out to be in the middle of the 14th century, was torn down, building remains are no longer available today. A little further south in the valley a stately four-wing complex, a moated castle with four corner towers, was built. It was exemplary for a rural aristocratic residence from the late Middle Ages .

The robber baron Friedrich von Hattstein , later city governor in Limburg , conquered the Eichelbach castle in 1353 - he took Siegfried von Reinberg by surprise at his wedding party - and held it for four years. The Hattsteiner threatened and plundered travelers and merchants on the once busy section of the Rennstraße between Camberg , Hasselbach and Rod an der Weil . In a chronicle it says that “the road” was soon “quiet and deserted”, “so that the grass grew like a good meadow”. The farmers in the surrounding villages were not spared either. It was not until 1357 that Siegfried von Reinberg managed to recapture his property.

In 1568 the part of the castle that still exists today, the manor house, was renewed. After the death of the last Reinberger (Marquart von Reinberg) in 1615, the Eichelbacher Hof fell to Nassau-Weilburg , the court complex was no longer used and as early as 1642 it is said that it was half disintegrated.

After various loans, Prince Wilhelm Heinrich zu Nassau-Usingen bought the castle in 1706 . Around 1776 the sale of larger estates diminished the property. In the same year the Nassau forestry department moved here; for this purpose the east wing was restored. From 1787 the farm belonged administratively to the Oberamt Usingen in the Principality of Nassau-Usingen . From 1806 it belonged to the village of Cratzenbach , it was part of the parish Rod an der Weil and then belonged to the Duchy of Nassau in the Usingen district . When Nassau was incorporated into Prussia in 1866, the farm became part of the Hesse-Nassau province .

From 1880 the farm was again leased to farmers, and from 1920 it was again used by the Prussian forest administration . After the Second World War and when it became the property of the Hessian forest administration, the farm was sold and passed into private ownership .

Former description of the building

The still well-preserved manor house , from whose massive ground floor two round corner towers protrude on the east side, was once the east wing of a four-tower Renaissance palace . The courtyard measure 100 to 100 feet and was standing over a wooden bridge with the upstream on the north side Vorburg in conjunction. The outer bailey secured the courtyard house, barns and stables, a brewery and a chapel (mentioned in 1410) through two gates .

description

In the manor house, which was renovated between 2000 and 2004 with the support of the Hessian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, the renaissance style is already heralding the rich ornamentation of the half-timbered structure and the facade . The roof structure of the half-timbered building in particular, with its original hanging structure, enabled large, column-free rooms, such as the so-called “Fine Hall”, whose valuable stucco ceilings could be restored. Attempts were also made to restore the various window types with single-glazed casement windows to match the openings found.

Todays use

The Eichelbacher Hof has been privately owned since it was sold by the Hessian forest administration in the 1950s and has been leased for a time. It has been stylishly renovated over the years and has now developed into a popular excursion restaurant with down-to-earth gastronomy . The farm was presented in hessentip , a broadcast on HR television , on June 1, 2012.

Personalities

  • Friedrich Halbey (1797–1870), bailiff, privy councilor and member of the state parliament was born on the Eichelbacher Hof.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 448f.
  • 700 years of Hasselbach ... a village tells. 1306-2006 , Seltersdruck & Verlag, p. 188 f.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 363.

Web links

Commons : Eichelbacher Hof (Rod an der Weil - Weilrod)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://limburgeraltstadt.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=66&Itemid=76
  2. ↑ http://www.dreier-denkmalpflege.de/index.html