Big House (Thalitter)

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The Big House (July 2010)
The Great House , view from the Itterburg (July 2010)

The Große Haus in Thalitter , a district of the municipality of Vöhl in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg , is a former manor house , possibly also intended for use as a hunting lodge , which served as a mining authority building from 1718 to 1868 and then as a residence of a manor until 1970 . It is now privately owned and a listed building .

The building

The striking house, which dominates the townscape, stands immediately to the west of the B 252 that runs through Thalitter , separated from it by only a 25 m wide strip of forest. It is a three-storey half - timbered building with a floor area of ​​around 24 × 14 m with a carefully symmetrical arrangement of wood. With its slate roof and its frame construction , which is becoming wider on the upper floors , it corresponds to the half-timbered construction of the early modern era. The three truss projectiles are on a massive basement and bear once again three attics under the both sides with dormers provided gable roof . The south-western gable side facing away from Itterburg is slated .

history

After the death of Landgrave Georg II of Hessen-Darmstadt in 1661, his second son Georg III. (1732–1776) from his brother Ludwig VI. as Paragium the Itter rule around Vöhl in the former Ittergau in northern Hesse. He resided at the Lauterbach farm and in Vöhl, wanted to expand the Itterburg as a residence and had a manorial house built in Thalitter, below the castle and on the opposite bank of the Itter, which was the center of a landgrave's estate and which it could also be used as a hunting lodge thought. George III but died before the end of the work. Since he left no male heirs, his Paragium fell back to his nephew Ludwig VII of Hesse-Darmstadt. Landgrave Ernst Ludwig pledged the Itter estate to the Augsburg merchant and landowner Johann Matthäus Koch von Gailenbach in 1691 , but redeemed the pledge in 1695. The order of George III. The large manor house built in Thalitter was used as the residence of the local landgraves' dairy .

As Ludwig Balthasar Müller in 1709 in the Appelau between Thalitter and Dorfitter the first shaft abteufte that began copper mining in the valley of Itter . Other shafts soon followed in the Thalitter area, and a copper smelter was built near Thalitter as early as 1712 . Landgrave Ernst Ludwig, who was urgently dependent on the income from copper mining, promoted the development, appointed Müller as a mining inspector in 1709 and, after a personal inspection in 1715, relocated the mining office , which was initially located in Vöhl , to Thalitter. From 1718 the large mansion, which came into the possession of Müller that year as a gift from the Landgrave, then served as the mining authority building and the seat of the mining inspector. It had this function until 1868 when the copper mining in Thalitter was stopped.

Origin controversy

For a long time, and in some cases still today, there was considerable uncertainty about the age and origin of the house. According to tradition gave Landgraf Ludwig VIII. , Of 1739 to 1768 in Darmstadt ruled, the main structure of the landgraves Jagdhof Kleudelburg at Battenberg that for the copper mining in Ittertal responsible upper mountain inspector Ludwig Balthasar Müller († 1746) in Thalitter that it in the local Grange as had the “Big House” rebuilt. This reported e.g. BCF Günther in his work Pictures from Hessian Prehistoric Times , published in 1853 , however, the history association Itter-Hessenstein says that the Great House was not moved from Kleudelburg to Ittertal, but according to dendrochronological investigations as early as 1679 with wood from that time and in Thalitter for Georg III. was built by Hessen-Darmstadt. In fact, the style of the Great House does not fit in with the Kleudelburg ensemble of buildings built from 1721, and the purchase letter from 1718 clearly shows that it was already in Thalitter at that time. When Landgrave Ernst Ludwig visited the mine in Thalitter in 1719, he lived with Oberberginspektor Müller in this house. It is possible, but not very likely, given its size, that the house had stood there before the expansion of Kleudelburg into a large hunting lodge, which began in 1721, but was then transferred to Thalitter because of the economically important development in Ittertal and given a more financially lucrative purpose.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 6 "  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 45"  E

literature

  • Hans pocket: history of the Thalitter copper works. In: Second report of the Upper Hessian Society for Nature and Medicine , Giessen, 1849
  • Hermann Bing: The manor house in Thalitter. Was it once in the Battenberg Forest? in: Local history supplement to the Waldeckische Landeszeitung "Mein Waldeck" , 1958, 2.
  • Heinrich Röser: The manor house in the village of Thalitter. Historic site from the days of the Darmstadt Landgraves, in: Hessenland, Heimatzeitschrift für Kurhessen, Marburg, Ed. C. Hitzeroth (Marburg) 1963, 6.
  • Alfred Höck: A happily preserved testimony to old room art, the old mining office, in: Waldeckischer Landeskalender , Korbach, 1967, p. 67.
  • Christian Paul: The history of Itter's copper mine, Korbach, 1939.
  • Itterian mountain order, “like those from the Prince. Berg-Ambt erected there and graciously confirmed thereupon, and furthermore, for the sake of several reports, it was promoted to print and published. Anno 1718 "

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Matthäus Koch von Gailenbach the Younger (1610–1680) and Johannes Koch von Gailenbach (1614–1693), sons of the wealthy Augsburg merchant Matthäus Koch (1581–1633), who lived in 1622 a. a. the Gailenbach Castle in Edenbergen at Augsburg had bought were in 1653 by Emperor Ferdinand III. ennobled (“Koch von Gailenbach”) and in 1654 accepted into the Augsburg patriciate . Johann studied in Leipzig, made a name for himself as a mathematician at the Viennese imperial court and took over the manor in 1669. His son Johann Matthäus (1646–1713) was a member of the secret council in Augsburg from 1701–1710. ( Augsburger Stadtlexikon ( Memento des original dated October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtlexikon-augsburg.de
  2. ↑ In the process, however, one found abandoned Pingen , Halden and Alten Mann , without anyone at the time being able to provide information about their origins. There are no reports of mining in the Ittertal before the Thirty Years 'War, but according to the Itterian mountain patent from 1711, mines are said to have been operated there before the Thirty Years' War, but were closed again. ( Hans Tasche: History of the Thalitter copper works. In: Second report of the Upper Hessian Society for Natural and Medicinal Science. Gießen, 1849 )
  3. ^ Website of the community of Dautphetal - castles and hunting castles Kleudelburg ( Memento from May 12, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ CF Günther: Pictures from the Hessian prehistory. Jonghaus, Darmstadt, 1853, pp. 212–215
  5. ↑ On the background of copper mining in the Ittertal ... , at HNA.de, September 17, 2010