Eilhausen (Bad Arolsen)

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Eilhausen is an agricultural property in the Orpe valley near the Kohlgrund district of the city of Bad Arolsen in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse . The estate stands on the site of a former moated castle of the Counts of Waldeck , the core of which was built by the Corvey Abbey and which was first mentioned in 1125 and was owned by the Waldecker Counts from 1339 onwards.

history

In 1021, Count Dodiko donated his properties in Eilhausen to the Abdinghof monastery in Paderborn . In 1113 the Corvey monastery owned a tithe in Eilhausen; in the 14th century the Lords of Brobeck held this von Corvey as a fief . In 1515, the Obermarsberg Abbey gave its share of the Eilhausen desert to Count Philip III with the approval of the Corvey Abbot . from Waldeck .

In 1537 Eilhausen is mentioned as a dairy with a size of around 347 acres. In the same year, Eilhausen Castle is mentioned for the first time, which at that time was surrounded by a graft that was leveled in 1750 . The exact construction date of the castle is not known. The year 1542 is mentioned on a former stable building, and the castle was probably completed around 1539 and built by Count Wolrad II (1509–1578), the progenitor of the middle line of the Waldeck-Eisenberg family. For almost thirty years, from 1547 until his death in 1578, the castle was the residence of Wolrad, who was born and died in Eilhausen.

Until 1816, Eilhausen was the seat of one of the nine offices into which the County of Waldeck was divided. When these were then merged into five upper offices, the offices of Rhoden and Eilhausen were combined to form the upper office of Diemel, based in Rhoden.

Nothing remains of the former castle today. As early as 1656, Count Georg Friedrich von Waldeck is said to have instructed his builder to demolish the castle. Today's manor house was built in its place in 1816 . Until the end of the Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont after the First World War, the estate was Waldeck's state domain . The last ruling Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Friedrich , received after his abdication , by comparison with the Landtag of the Free State of Waldeck in 1920, the usufruct of the Arolser Castle as well as the ownership of the Arolsen Forest and the Hünighausen domain; the latter was then exchanged for the Eilhausen domain. The estate has been owned by the Waldeck-Pyrmont company since then, but is now leased.

future plans

Since 1990 efforts have been made to convert the manor into a golf hotel with a golf course. A first attempt, during which the first earthworks were carried out by BVG-Freizeitanlagen GmbH from August 2000, had to be stopped the following year due to financial difficulties. Since then, the then roughly modeled area has been partially used for agriculture again. Nevertheless, there are still plans to attract investors for a project with a golf hotel, an 18-hole and a 9-hole course. Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '  N , 8 ° 57'  E

swell

  • Louis Curtze : History and Description of the Principality of Waldeck, Arolsen, 1850.
  • State Archives Marburg and Münster.

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