House Buddenburg

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Buddenburg Castle in November 1977 before demolition

The Buddenburg house was located in the Lippholthausen district of the city of Lünen in the Unna district . The classicist castle , built around 1845, was demolished in 1977 after a long period of neglect due to its dilapidation.

history

Buddenburg House in the mid-1930s

The Buddenburg House (Low German: Boddebürch) was first mentioned in 1293. It was built as a moated castle by the brothers Gottschalk Budde and Gottfried Budde and named after them Buddenburg. However, at the behest of the Counts of the Mark , it soon had to be torn down again.

In 1338 a new castle was built, its owner was Evert Vridach . Since the 14th century it has been owned by the von Frydag zu Buddenburg family .

Around 1845 a classicist castle was built by the master builder Ferdinand Zangerl (1813–1865) from Bork for Baron August von Frydag (1802–1875) as a replacement for previous buildings. It consisted of a main house with a lantern-topped dome and two two-story pavilions in front of it. The castle grounds were bounded by the Lippe in the west, south and east and a moat in the north. The model was the smaller Tegel Palace near Berlin .

When the last Baron von Frydag died in 1902, the property was taken over by his nephew Udo von Rüxleben . On the night of May 2, 1908, von Rüxleben was shot by his wife; she then committed suicide.

The location with the hedge in July 2007

When Lippholthausen was incorporated into Lünen in 1914, the town acquired the property from the heirs. On January 10, 1934, the city of Lünen leased the castle to the National Socialists , who turned it into a field master's school for the Reich Labor Service . For the opening on June 29, 1934, Adolf Hitler came to Lippholthausen and took the parade on the large flight of stairs. Soon the labor service was becoming increasingly militarized. Not far from the training facility on the Lippe, a shooting range was built on Moltkestrasse. In 1938, the United Aluminum Works (VAW) built a large production facility, the Lippe Plant, in the immediate vicinity of the Schloßpark .

In 1945, temporarily displaced persons and a special school for repatriates were housed in the castle. From 1946 to 1955, the Dortmund Werkkunstschule was located in the rooms of the palace . Then the United Aluminum Works also acquired the castle with the castle park. Obviously, this was intended to avoid conflicts of use , because in the 1960s and 1970s the Lippe Plant was one of the largest smelter locations in Germany, produced around 400,000 t of aluminum oxide and 50,000 t of aluminum per year and had almost 2,000 employees. In November 1977 the VAW had the castle demolished after decades of neglect due to alleged dilapidation. Ten years later, aluminum oxide production was stopped in 1987, aluminum production in 1990 and cryolite production in 1999 for reasons of profitability.

In memory of the demolished castle, privet hedges were planted on the floor plan of the old building walls, so that the exact location of the main house and the outbuildings can be traced. Today, not much can be seen of the moat, because it no longer has any water. The old paths of the surrounding castle park are still accessible today. Not far from the former castle, Frydagstrasse is a reminder of the former family of Frydag.

Illustrations

State in spring 1977

  • View over the Lippe Bridge to the main building and pavilions

  • Frontal view of the main house - roof still partially covered

  • Main house from the northwest

  • Main house from the west

  • Western pavilion

  • Eastern pavilion

Demolished in autumn 1977

  • Frontal view of the main house

  • Side view of the main house

  • Western pavilion

literature

  • Sabine Grimm: The gentlemen from Frydag zu Buddenburg , Books-on-Demand-GmbH, Norderstedt, February 3, 2012, ISBN 978-384232-7207 , 224 pp. [1]
  • A. Ludorff: The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia. Volume 3: District of Dortmund-Land ( digitized version ). Photomechanical reprint of the 1895 edition: 1995, ISBN 3-922032-42-7 .
  • Manfred J. Kreibich, Matthias Rasch: From the life of Ferdinand Zangerl . In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Unna , year 2006, pp. 145–148.

Web links

Commons : Haus Buddenburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ^ Fredy Niklowitz, Wilfried Heß (City of Lünen): Lünen 1918–1966 - Contributions to City History. 2nd edition, 1995, ISSN  0932-1667 , p. 319 ff
  2. ↑ Lünen City Archives, memorandum 50 years of the Lippe Plant.

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 39 ″  E