House Bosfeld

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Moated castle Haus Bosfeld near Rheda-Wiedenbrück (built 1725)

The house Bosfeld is a 1725 as a baroque mansion built small moated castle in Bosfeld, a district of Rheda-Wiedenbrück in Gütersloh ( NRW ).

history

Gut Bosfeld ( Bosefeldt ) was first listed in the pension registers of the Rheda rulership at the end of the 16th century . It can be assumed, however, that it already existed a long time before.

After various owners in the 17th century, the estate came into the ownership of the ruling Count House of Bentheim-Tecklenburg in 1713 . It is still owned by this family to this day. The existing building was converted into the widow's seat of Countess Christina Maria (1673–1732) in 1725 , using rubble stones from the crumbling tower of the castle in Rheda . Just one year later, in 1726, the client was able to move into Haus Bosfeld.

The following is a lease for agricultural use and from 1769 to 1773, a use as porcelain - and faience - Manufacture of Graf house. After the Benedictine convent of Herzebrock was dissolved in 1803, the religious order that came from there was quartered. The Bosfeld house has been inhabited by members of the princely family since the middle of the 19th century , interrupted by its use as a maternal convalescent home during World War II . In 1946, on the instructions of the occupation troops , Prince Adolf and his relatives had to leave the old headquarters of Rheda Castle and move to Haus Bosfeld. Since 1987 the princely family has been living again at the Residenzschloss zu Rheda.

Today there are rental apartments in Haus Bosfeld and the buildings of the farm yard, so the facility cannot be visited.

Buildings and equipment

The baroque manor house, built in 1725, has a central projectile and attached triangular gable and mansard roof is completely surrounded by a moat . The two-winged front door with a baroque portal is reached via a bridge and a double flight of stairs . Directly below is a second entrance to the basement, which used to be the servants' entrance .

The courtyard area is limited to the east by a rampart, to the west flat farm buildings are connected to another courtyard. The main entrance is bordered by a high wrought iron gate on sandstone posts; an avenue used to lead from the street to the manor house. The side entrance to the farm yard has an imposing half-timbered and brick archway with a small tiled roof .

Historic manor park

The approximately one hectare site is largely surrounded by a hornbeam hedge , the courtyard between the gate and the manor house is characterized by lawns with axial and curved gravel paths and old trees. The area east of the buildings and moats is largely covered with spruce . Smaller garden areas with baroque design elements are embedded in this spruce stand.

The smaller parts of the park outside the moats and a thatched garden house on the northern edge can be reached via white wooden bridges. Smaller, slightly overgrown parts of the park on the county road have a high density of spring geophytes . In summer Asian peacocks populate the manor park of Haus Bosfeld.

literature

  • Sofie Meisel: The natural spatial units on sheet 97 Münster. Natural division of Germany. Sheet 97.Bonn -Bad Godesberg 1960.
  • Sissi zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg: A little peephole in the history of Haus Bosfeld. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch Kreis Gütersloh 1983. pp. 54–58.
  • Ernst Maoro: Bosfeld Castle in Rheda. In: Palaces, castles, mansions in East Westphalia-Lippe. Bielefeld 1986, ISBN 3-88918-038-8 , pp. 202-204.
  • Rainer A. Krewerth , Dieter Rensing: Westphalia - land of moated castles . Bielefeld 1990, ISBN 3-928193-05-8 .
  • Thomas Bufe, Walter Neuling: Garden Landscape OstWestfalenLippe - Documentation of important parks and gardens in the Detmold administrative district . (= Contributions to landscape and building culture in Westphalia-Lippe. Issue 3). Volume 3.3, Gütersloh district, Minden-Lübbecke district. Zugl. CD-ROM, Münster 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Haus Bosfeld, Rheda-Wiedenbrück Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) February 29, 2000.
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Böckenholt: Castle and Lordship of Rheda. 1st edition. Rhode Druck und Verlag, Harsewinkel (Marienfeld) 1979, ISBN 3-921961-02-8 , p. 41.

Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 24 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 2 ″  E