Grorother Hof

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Grorother Hof from the northeast

The Grorother Hof (formerly: Groroder Hof ) is a former military courtyard and today's winery in Wiesbaden-Frauenstein .

location

View from the southeast, in the background vineyards, Goethestein and Hof Nürnberg

The Grorother Hof is located at 145  m above sea level at the southeastern, lower end of the Wiesbaden district of Frauenstein in Hesse , Germany . Above the courtyard is the Spitzer Stein elevation with the Goethestein and the Nuremberg courtyard . The "Europe Vineyard" is located on the southern slope. Immediately below the farm, Lippbach and Erlenbach flow together and form the Grorother Bach, which is called Lindenbach below the Grorother Mühle and flows into the Rhine .

Buildings and facilities

The extensive complex is surrounded by a wall in its entire extent. Small round towers with loopholes , which were intended for powder guns, are in front of the corners . The manor house in the middle probably dates from the 16th century. At the end of the 17th century a two-story house with baroque portals was built on the road through the Grorother Valley. There is a small fountain in the middle between the buildings.

A wine press from 1808 stands in front of the courtyard .

  • Entry from the south

  • Pergola portals, from a 1914 book

  • Wine press from 1808

  • southern corner tower

history

Location of the fortifications around Frauenstein, 1819

Around the year 1300, the over-indebted Knights of Frauenstein sold Frauenstein Castle and parts of the village to the Mainz ore monastery . As a result, the House of Nassau threatened to lose its influence over the area. In order to secure their neighboring lands, the Counts of Nassau built the fortifications Armada , Groroth, Nuremberg , Rosenköppel and Sommerberg around Frauenstein in the following centuries .

Grorod coat of arms

The farm was first mentioned as Grawenrode in 1327, later in the 14th century also as Graenrode. It served as a residence for the noble family of Grorod, which was mentioned in a document from 1329 and died out in the 17th century. During the Thirty Years' War the farm was pledged. In 1694 the court became the property of the noble family Sohlern . Baron Anton (II.) Von Sohlern zu Graroth (* 1665; † July 12, 1729, Imperial Rittmeister) and his wife Maria Angela von Crazenbach lived here.

In 1699, the owners built the Grorother mill about 1 km southeast , which today belongs to Schierstein . In 1811 the farm came under Nassau administration and in 1914 it was owned by the von der Leyen family .

The Grorother Hof is owned by the Ott winery, which runs the Zum Kapellchen restaurant . The farm is the seat of the Frauenstein wine cooperative founded in 1898.

Web links

Commons : Grorother Hof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Groroder Hof Frauenstein. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of April 17, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on April 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b c d e Ferdinand Luthmer : The architectural and art monuments of the districts of Unter-Westerwald, St. Goarshausen, Untertaunus and Wiesbaden. City and country . Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1914, p. 232 .
  3. ↑ Website of Weingut Ott, accessed on April 13, 2020.
  4. ^ August Heinrich Meuer: Sommerberg Castle near Frauenstein . In: Nassauische Heimat, supplement to the Rheinische Volkszeitung , 8th year, No. 4, February 1928, pp. 30–31.
  5. ↑ August Heinrich Meuer: History of the village and castle Frauenstein together with news about the Armada, Grorod, Nuremberg, Rosenköppel and Sommerberg farms . Wiesbaden 1930, pp. 102-122. Quoted from: The inscriptions of the city of Wiesbaden , historical overview, German inscriptions online ; accessed on March 6, 2020.
  6. ^ A b c Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research (ed.): Nassauische Annalen , Volume 80, 1969, p. 414.
  7. ^ Christian Daniel Vogel: Description of the Duchy of Nassau , Wiesbaden 1843, p. 544 .
  8. ↑ a b Eva Wodarz-Eichner: Grorother Hof: The late luck of the count . Website of the city of Wiesbaden, published in Wiesbadener Kurier on August 7, 2004.
  9. ↑ Grorother Mill. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of September 3, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 27, 2020 .
  10. ↑ website of the wine cooperative Frauenstein , accessed on 13 April 2020th

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '28.7 "  N , 8 ° 9' 48.1"  E