Betzigerode mansion
| Betzigerode mansion | ||
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 Former mansion in Betzigerode (2015) |
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| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Castle type : | Mansion | |
| Conservation status: | receive | |
| Standing position : | Lower Hessian nobility | |
| Construction: | Half-timbering , plastered | |
| Place: | Bad Zwesten - Betzigerode | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 4 '26.4 " N , 9 ° 11' 7.8" E | |
| Height: | 250 m above sea level NHN | |
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The manor house Betzigerode is a former stately manor house in Betzigerode , a district of the Bad Zwesten community in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse . It is privately owned and not open to the public.
Geographical location
The building is on the west side of the manor about 300 m north-northwest above the village on the after Wenzigerode and further to Bad Wildungen leading County Road K 74 which is in the village ornamental garden road. The manor is located at the southern foot of the Ebersberg (351.5 m) immediately west of the K 74 and the Scherengraben stream , which comes down from Wenzigerode from the northwest along the western flank of the Ebersberg and flows 200 m north of the federal highway 3 into the Lohrbach , which in turn flows 500 m south of the B 3 between Bad Zwesten and Kerstenhausen flows into the Schwalm .
architecture
The building is a two-storey, ten-axis, today plastered half-timbered building on a stone base, with a floor area of around 28 × 10 m and a mansard hipped roof . On the front of the courtyard facing east-northeast, a flight of stairs leads to the portal, above which a two-axis dwarf tower rises, which is flanked by two dormers on the right and left . On the garden side in the west there is a three-axis central projection reaching up to the ridge height .
On the garden side, an approximately 11 × 7 m large, architecturally questionable extension with its own hipped roof is built parallel to the main building from the central projectile to the south end.
Hereditary funeral
On the north side of K 74, in the corner between Ziergartenstrasse and Eichwaldstrasse, there is a small cemetery with the hereditary burial and the crypt of the Heßberg family , who owned the estate from 1786 to 1960.
history
The small town of Betzigerode came to Heinrich von Löwenstein-Romrod in 1523 when property was divided within the family . He had an estate built there and the workers necessary to work on it settle below the courtyard along the Scherengraben. In 1661 the estate and village of Betzigerode were owned by the aristocratic Hund family , half of which were inherited in 1686 to von Dalwigk and half to Major Johann Christian Eckhard called Schmidt, who had married an heir, Hund. In 1713, Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel bought the estate and left it to his son Maximilian . He sold it in 1723 when his father to him escheated rule Jesberg had given and he needed money to build a befitting palace there, the widow of former Landgrave Chancellor Nicholas Wilhelm Goddaeus born (1646-1719), Elisabeth Amalie d'Orville (1676-1752). She had the manor house rebuilt and expanded.
By marriage and inheritance, the estate came to Ernst Ludwig von Heßberg (1737–1796) in 1786, who had married the granddaughter of Chancellor Nikolaus Wilhelm Goddaeus in January 1773 and now moved with his family from Laar (near Zierenberg ) to Betzigerode. As early as 1773, on the occasion of his wedding, he had a small half-timbered chapel with bell towers built on the roof opposite the manor house, on the upper floor of which the forester's apartment was set up. All six sons of Ernst Ludwig became Hesse-Kassel officers, and three of them, now in the service of the Kingdom of Westphalia , perished in Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812 . The third son, Georg Wilhelm Ernst (1777-1852) survived the campaign as orderly officer of the Westphalian King Jerome , took to the restitution Kurhessen part in the campaigns of 1814-15 against Napoleon, then rose to the Hessian Minister of War and Lieutenant General , and went on in 1836 his inherited goods back in Betzigerode and Zwesten. After his death, Betzigerode came to his nephew Louis Otto Ernst Georg Friedrich von Hesberg (1824–1909), Prussian general of the cavalry . Through his son Georg (1858–1926) it finally came to his grandson Eitel Reinhard von Heßberg (1906–1988).
He sold the estate in 1960 to the "Hessische Heimat" settlement company, which set up resettlers' farms there. The 300 acres of forest belonging to the estate were sold to the entrepreneur Lohrey in the same year and are managed by the Lohrey Forest Administration in neighboring Wenzigerode.
literature
- Werner Ide: From Adorf to Zwesten. Bernecker, Melsungen 1972, pp. 36-37.
Footnotes
- ↑ Gerd Fenner: The hereditary burial of the von Hessberg family in Betzigerode. In: Hessische Heimat , 52nd year, Hessischer Heimatbund, 2002, issue 1, pp. 29–31
- ↑ Ernst Ludwig von Heßberg (* August 24, 1738 in Zwesten, † September 21, 1796 in Betzigerode) was a retired Hesse-Kassel captain . His parents were Eitel Reinhard von Heßberg and Marie Amalie von Dalwigk. In January 1773 he married Marie Wilhelmine Goddaeus (1749–1788), daughter of Major Johann Heinrich Goddaeus (1711–1786) and Dorothea Elisabeth Ewald and, since her only brother had died in 1767, heiress of the estates of Betzigerode and Laar (near Zierenberg ). After his first wife died on May 16, 1788, one day after the birth of their eighth child, Ludwig (1788–1872), he married her 13-year-old sister Maria Amalie Goddaeus (1762–1802) on July 4, 1789.
- ↑ His sixth child, Heinrich Justin, was born on March 23, 1785 in Laar, the seventh, Josine Luise Marie Ernestine, on October 31, 1786 in Betzigerode.
- ↑ All came from her father's first marriage.
- ↑ Handbook of the Prussian Nobility , Volume 2, Mittler und Sohn, Berlin 1893, pp. 332–333
- ↑ Son of his brother Heinrich Justin von Heßberg (1785–1827).