Germershausen (Oberweimar)

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Gut Germershausen
Germershausen Mansion (Nov. 2011)
The farm buildings (left and back)
The pond

Germershausen is an estate with a mansion about 0.6 kilometers northwest and in the district of Oberweimar in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse .

location

The estate is at 220  m above sea level. NN at the southern foot of the Kirchberg (270 m) in the Gladenbacher Bergland in the valley of the Wenkbach, surrounded on both sides by forest . The stream flows immediately west of the manor and is dammed up south of the farm to form a pond measuring around 70 × 70 m . The estate can be reached via an access road from Oberweimar.

history

The estate was first mentioned in 1324 as "Germereshusen". The owners obviously changed quite frequently over the next two centuries. In 1389 they owned the Schutzbar called Milchling, the estate at "Girmershusen", from which they donated income to the parish in Marburg. The tithe was in 1418 the Isenburg fiefdom of those of Allna , then those of Hohenfels . Around 1350 and 1439 the Döring , 1452 von Breidenbach , 1465 von Dersch , before 1528 also von Weitershausen had income from property in the place. In 1474 the farm was owned by the von Lare family in Marburg.

In 1511, the Marburg merchant Johann Heydwolff bought the estate, which has been owned by his family ever since, and at the same time (against payment of a reasonable sum) obtained hereditary nobility on the basis of an imperial coat of arms . A land and village book of the Upper Duchy of Hesse-Marburg created by the administration of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1629/30 (the Upper Duchy was occupied by Hesse-Darmstadt troops in the course of the Hessian War of Succession in 1624) states that the noble court of Germershausen was owned by Helwig (Helvicus) Heydwolff was inhabited with three sons and four daughters, while the Heydwolff'schen Hof in Oberweimar was inhabited by Elisabeth Catharina, Hermann Heidwolff's widow, and her son and daughter.

In connection with Johann Gottfried von Heydwolff's admission to the Knighthood of Althessia in 1741, the noble-free court of Germershausen was merged with the Heydwolff'schen Hof in Oberweimar to form the Oberweimar manor district . This resulted in a largely rounded-off property with its own district, which encompassed more than half of today's Oberweimar district in the north and east and was managed by the two farms in Germershausen and Oberweimar. With the dissolution of the independent, independent manor districts in Prussia , the manor district was incorporated into Oberweimar in 1928.

The attachment

The complex consists of the manor house directly alongside the access road and three large, half-timbered farm buildings grouped around the courtyard , which stand below the manor house on the sloping slope.

The mansion itself, with a floor area of ​​around 12 × 22 m, has two floors on the slope side facing the street and three floors with a massive basement on the courtyard side. The two upper floors, like the two attic floors under the gable roof , are made of clapboard half - timbering. On both gable sides the roof ends in a very small, almost only hinted at, hipped roof . On the street side, the house is presented with a rectangular stair tower with an area of about 6 × 6 m; A half-timbered structure rests on two massive basement floors, with its steep hipped roof (with a dormer on each side) clearly towering over the ridge of the house.

The farm is privately owned and used for agriculture.

Merovingian burial mounds

In the vicinity of Germershausen there are nine late Merovingian burial mounds that were explored in 1877; the finds, sword and spear are in the museum in Marburg.

Forest funeral forest

In November 2010 a 20 hectare fenced area for forest burials was inaugurated in the forest of Germershausen .

literature

  • Hugo Brunner: manors and manor districts in the former Kurhessen. In: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics 115 (1920), pp. 52–54.

Web links

Commons : Germershausen (Oberweimar)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Germershausen. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 11, 2012 .
  2. ^ Hugo Brunner: manors and manor districts in the former Kurhessen. In: Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics 115 (1920), pp. 52–54.
  3. ↑ Helwig Heydwolff († October 20, 1668 in Germershausen) was mayor of Niederweimar and over the court Reizberg and forester over the Lummersbach, the stately forest between Cyriaxweimar and Wehrshausen .
  4. ↑ p. 6 ( Memento of July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ p. 15 ( Memento of July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Michael Agricola: Burial in the forest: rest forest in Oberweimar has opened . In: Oberhessische Presse, November 25, 2010, accessed on December 11, 2012

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 57 ″  E