Forsthaus Neuhaus

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Phiilipsborn Castle (copper engraving from the 17th century)

Forsthaus Neuhaus is a listed manor-like facility near Saarbrücken , which houses an event and training center on the subject of "forest".

use

"Forsthaus Neuhaus" is a nature conservation project whose initiators are NABU Saarland e. V. , the SaarForst Landesbetrieb and the Saarland Ministry for the Environment. The core of the forester's house is the “Scheune Neuhaus”, in which a “Center for Forest Culture” has been set up. In addition to forest and eco-educational exhibitions, tours and activities on a wide variety of ecological aspects are offered all year round. One of the focal points of work is the “Primeval Forest at the Gates of the City”, which was started in 1997 and funded by the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU). Since that time, no forestry activity or landscape conservation measures have been used on an area of ​​approx. 1000 hectares. Nature can expand and develop as it suits her. In the course of the years, a primeval forest with new communities of animals and plants will emerge in this way . The project is accompanied by rangers from the Saarland Naturwacht , an institution sponsored by the Saar Naturland Foundation .

The “Scheune Neuhaus” also serves as a venue for cultural, social and private events. There is a restaurant in a modern anabu to the historic forester's house.

history

The "Scheune Neuhaus" is the oldest part of the forester's house . It was built around the middle of the 19th century (inscriptions 1832, 1849) in the area of ​​an old palace complex, the origin of which is believed to be a forest castle of the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken called Wanborn from the 12th century. In 1570 Count Johann IV . demolished the castle. His successor, Count Philip III. von Nassau-Saarbrücken , had a renaissance- style four-wing complex , the Philippsborn hunting lodge , built in 1576 by the builder Christmann Strohmeier from the Electoral Palatinate . The vaulted cellar is still preserved from this period . The facility was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and rebuilt in the middle of the 18th century. At this point the name "Jagdschloss Neuhaus" appeared for the first time.

Prince Wilhelm Heinrich von Saarbrücken recognized the agro-economic possibilities of the area around the hunting lodge and had it converted into an estate with extensive meadows, pastures and arable land between 1740 and 1768 . During these times the names Neuhäuserhof and Neuhauserhof were used. In the course of the French Revolution , large parts of the complex were burned down by Napoleonic troops in 1793. Part of the facility was rebuilt and managed until the middle of the 19th century, after which the buildings became the seat of the forest administration (until 1991). The name Forsthaus Wanborn lasted until 1950 , after which the current name Forsthaus Neuhaus prevailed.

Today, significant parts of the former castle have been preserved. The castle was almost square in plan and had four corner towers. Originally it was probably surrounded by a moat and had an access with a (train) bridge from the south side. The surrounding walls and above all the foundations in the buildings on the south side with cellar vaults and the stump of the south-west tower have been preserved. The moat and the former bridge are still clearly visible.
Nearby is the listed forester's house Wolfsgarten , a simple building from 1830 with a hip roof and outbuildings.

Photo gallery

  • View from the southeast with moat and former bridge

  • View from the southwest with the tower stump

  • View from the courtyard side

  • Forsthaus Neuhaus: Inner courtyard of the Center for Forest Culture

  • View from the south with the tower stump

  • Forest house Wolfsgarten

  • Forest workers around 1910

  • Forest information center at the forester's house in Neuhaus

  • Wash fountain of the Neuhauser Hof

literature

  • Saar calendar 1904. Ed. Art and trade association for the Saar area. Saarbrücken-St. Johann: Saardruckerei u. Commission publisher Hubert Becker, 1904. [in it: woodcut and text on Philippsborn Palace]
  • Three castles tour. By Eckart Sander u. a. Ed .: Saarbrücken City Association. Saarbrücken: Self-published, 1994. Number no. Ill. [Contains u. a. The Philippsborn Hunting Lodge]
  • Marlen Dittmann: Glass cube and cellar vault: the renovated Neuhaus forester's house. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung / Ausg. Stadtverband. Vol. 2004, No. 209 of 8.9., P. B2: Ill.
  • Dieter Bülte, Jörn Wallacher, Gangolf Rammo: Siebensternewege to the Forsthaus Neuhaus. Texts with hiking map. Ed .: Ministry for the Environment of Saarland. Saarbrücken: self-published by d. Min., 2007. 51 pp., Ill.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the restaurant "Forsthaus Neuhaus"

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '24.8 "  N , 6 ° 58' 55.7"  E