Hüffe Castle

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Central building of the manor house

Hüffe Castle is a moated castle in the Lashorst district of Preußisch Oldendorf in the Minden-Lübbecke district, dating back to at least the 15th century . The facility is located south of the Mittelland Canal in the Alsweder Niederung and is around 13.5 hectares in size. It is privately owned.

history

Manor house and moats

The first mention of a gender "von Huffe" comes from a document from the year 1229. However, the reference to the corresponding farm in Hüffe is uncertain. The Hüffe manor was first mentioned for sure in 1439. Just like the neighboring Hollwinkel Castle , it formed a western outpost of the Minden bishopric . The original owners of Schloen, called Gehle , were the owners of these two complexes. Since the originally not precisely defined border between the Grafschaft Ravensberg and the Hochstift Minden ran through the estate, the history of the estate is characterized by territorial and inheritance disputes up to the 18th century, which were even fought before the Imperial Court of Justice in 1609 .

Colonel Christoph von Wrisberg , who was a landlord from 1554 to 1580, played a major role as Landsknechtsführer in the disputes with the owners of the Hollwinkel Castle. These disputes were also violent. Philipp Wilhelm von Cornberg bought Hüffe Castle in 1593. Again a conflict arose with the owners of Hollwinkel Castle, which von Cornberg finally won with the help of the Hessian landgrave. Since the owners of Hollwinkel Castle, the Schloen family, known as Gehle, sought help from the Minden monastery, a war with Hessen-Kassel almost broke out . It was only shortly before his death, after long trials and settlement negotiations, that von Cornberg was able to secure the Hüffe estate for himself and his descendants.

Friedrich Christian Arnold von Jungkenn , a Hessian general and civil servant, acquired the ailing Gut Hüffe in exchange for Gut Lübrassen near Bielefeld in 1773 . Between 1775 and 1784 the palace and park were built in their current form. Von Jungkenn is buried on the funeral island in the castle park. Since he died childless, his niece Frederike von Romberg and then her only son Friedrich von Vely-Jungkenn inherited the property. Under Baron von Vely-Jungkenn, Wilhelm Hohoff worked from 1871 to 1886 as a chaplain at Hüffe Castle. The von Jungkenn family remained the owners of the facility until 1947.

A niece of the von Jungkenn family, Baroness von Vittinghoff-Schell , transferred the castle to the Westphalia-Lippe regional association of the German Red Cross in 1947 , but the land initially remained in the family's possession . The Red Cross operated the facility as a rest home for those returning from the war and used the building as a retirement and nursing home until 1977. In 1977 Hartmut Krukemeyer acquired the property and invested several million DM in the restoration of the castle, park and surrounding buildings. In 1970 Krukemeyer opened a clinic on the outskirts of Osnabrück, from which one of the largest private hospital companies, the Paracelsus clinics , developed. He was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit in 1990 and died in 1994. His widow, Katharina Countess von Schwerin-Krukemeyer, was the owner and lived in the castle afterwards. She died in 2015. All heirs named in her will rejected the inheritance.

In March 2019, a merchant from the Emsland acquired the castle, including the outbuildings and land. At the end of 2019, the palace and park were sold again, but without most of the land.

Hüffe Manor

Around 1856, an estate district of Hüffe, which was on a par with a municipality, was newly formed by being separated from the municipality of Alswede . On October 1, 1928, it was dissolved and incorporated into the then community of Lashorst .

Building and park

Burial island in the castle park

Today's manor house was built on an island from 1774 to 1782 after a previous building was demolished . The design probably comes from the Kassel senior building director Simon Louis du Ry . It is the only building in the wider area that was built in the style of late baroque classicism . In contrast to the restrained exterior design, the interior is characterized by rich stucco . In particular, the hall of mirrors in the central building is to be emphasized.

The park was laid out by the court gardener Pierre Bourgignon, who worked in Kassel, from 1775. A long line of sight in the park allows a view to the Wiehengebirge .

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bätjer: The country castle Hüffe and Simon Louis du Ry (= Westphalia. Special issue 8, ISSN  0342-4170 ). Coppenrath, Münster 1941 (at the same time: Hanover, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 1939).
  • Dieter Besserer: Christoph von Wrisberg, Landsknechtführer and owner of the Hüffe manor. In: The Minden-Ravensberger. Vol. 63, 1991, ISSN  0947-2444 , pp. 77-79.
  • Wilhelm Brepohl : Country Castle Hüffe. In: Westfälischer Heimatbund , Westphalian Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Westfälische Kunststätten . Issue 11. Printing and publishing house W. Bitter, Münster 1980, ISSN  0930-3952 .
  • Thomas Bufe: Garden trip. A guide through gardens and parks in Ostwestfalen-Lippe. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster-Hiltrup 2000, ISBN 3-7843-3037-1 , pp. 18-20.
  • Klaus Kreppel : Wilhelm Hohoff - Christian and socialist. In: Messages from the Minden History Society. Volume 45 (1973), pp. 81-88.
  • Hartmut Krukemeyer: Hüffe Castle. An East Westphalian manor. Meyer, Osnabrück 1994.
  • Ernst Maoro: Hüffe Castle in Lübbecke. In: Palaces, castles, mansions in East Westphalia-Lippe. Westfalen-Verlag, Bielefeld 1986, ISBN 3-88918-038-8 , pp. 164-166.
  • Florian Matzner , Ulrich Schulze: Baroque in Westphalia. A travel guide (= Kulturlandschaft Westfalen. Vol. 3). 2nd, unchanged edition. Ardey-Verlag, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-87023-052-5 , p. 153.
  • Hans Nordsiek: Hüffe, a manor with two state parliament mandates . In: Messages from the Minden History Society. Vol. 51, 1979, ISSN  0340-188X , pp. 115-118.
  • Regine von Schopf: Baroque gardens in Westphalia (= Green Series. Sources and research on garden art 10). Werner, Worms 1988, ISBN 3-88462-049-5 (also: Münster, Univ., Diss.).
  • Lothar Wessels: Hüffe Castle. An East Westphalian manor. Uhle & Kleimann, Lübbecke 2008, ISBN 978-3-928959-49-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Hüffe Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on August 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ Hüffe Castle. In: Website of the city of Preußisch Oldendorf. City of Preußisch Oldendorf, accessed on August 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Schlosspark Hüffe in LWL-GeodatenKultur, accessed on August 27, 2019.
  4. ^ Rescue dog squadron Wiehengebirge-Mühlenkreis eV: Schloss Hüffe ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Desired final resting place: coffin burial of Countess von Schwerin-Krukemeyer on "Friedhofsinsel" can take place , juris news from February 27, 2015, accessed on March 2, 2015
  6. ↑ Christian Busse: Hüffe offers insolvency administrator at the English auction house Sotheby's: The castle does not want any inheritance. In: Westfalen-Blatt . Westfalen-Blatt Vereinigte Zeitungsverlage GmbH, August 20, 2015, accessed on April 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Arndt Hoppe, Kai Wessel: Merchant from the Emsland receives the contract for Hüffe: The castle has a new master. In: Westfalen-Blatt. Westfalen-Blatt Vereinigte Zeitungsverlage GmbH, March 30, 2019, accessed on April 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Sandra Spieker: Hüffe: A lord of the castle is found after four years. In: New Westphalian . Newspaper publisher Neue Westfälische GmbH & Co. KG, April 8, 2019, accessed on April 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 250 .
  10. ↑ http://www.burgerbe.de/2015/12/27/orben-wollen-schloss-hueffe-nicht-verkauf-fuer-64-mio-geplant-31053/

Web links

Commons : Schloss Hüffe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 56 ″  E