Richelsdorf manor house

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The manor house in Richelsdorf; in the background the tower of the village church

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 28 ″  E

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The entrance to the mansion

The manor house Richelsdorf in Richelsdorf , a district of the municipality Wildeck in the eastern Hessian district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg is a manor house built between 1598 and 1600 . It is located on a mountain spur in the middle of the village in the street “Am Kirchrain 2”, immediately east of the village church.

The builder

The builder of the house, Philipp Wilhelm von Cornberg (1553-1616), was the progenitor of the barons of Cornberg . He was a premarital son of Landgrave Wilhelm IV of Hessen-Kassel , born 13 years before his marriage to Sabine von Württemberg . His mother was Elisabeth Wallenstein, daughter of a Kassel tower keeper . Landgraf Wilhelm over appropriated him in 1574 when he was 21 years old, as a hereditary fief Cornberg . After the death of his father in 1598, Philipp Wilhelm ceded the new Landgrave, his half-brother Moritz , Cornberg and instead received 10,000 Reichstaler and the village of Richelsdorf with high and low jurisdiction and church patronage , as well as Obergude , Niedergude and Landefeld as a right man's fief .

The construction

In Richelsdorf he immediately built a mansion on the extensive grounds of his estate at the church , right next to the gothic patronage church in the years 1598–1600 .

The building, with a floor area of about 20 x 12 meters, stands on a hillside just east below the church on a mighty, from red sandstone - rubble masonry built ground floor which has on its east side because of the slope partly an above-ground basement includes with. The upper floor is made of relatively unadorned half-timbering . The building is covered with a half-hip roof over two attic floors. Is located at the north, the yard facing six-axle longitudinal side in a five-eighth circuit boss, three-storey, up to the eaves reaching stair tower , covered by a five-sided tent roof . Immediately to the left of it, and thus exactly in the middle of the north side, is the round-arched portal flanked by pilasters on both sides . On the eastern end of the valley facing the valley, a one-sided flight of stairs (probably added later) leads to a door to the high ground floor here. The roadside south side is the center of a wide and almost to roof height towering Zwerchhaus crowned.

Court square and court linden tree

About 30 m east of the former manor house is the former court square of Richelsdorf. There, on the corner of Kupferstrasse and Kirchrain, the old court linden tree still stands , today surrounded by a surrounding bench.

history

Philipp Wilhelm died in his Richelsdorf mansion on August 30, 1616 and was buried in the patronage church next door. His five surviving sons divided the paternal property among themselves, whereby four Westphalian branches of the family were formed in addition to a Richelsdorf line. When the Richelsdorf line became extinct in the male line in 1739 , Richelsdorf fell to the Auburg line, a branch of which then moved to Richelsdorf in 1762 and founded the new Richelsdorf line. This line expired in 1935 in the male line with the last patron saint of Richelsdorf, Carl August Albert Ludwig von Cornberg.

The 450-hectare manor had been managed by tenants for a long time , and the numerous manorial rights, with the exception of church patronage , had long been lost. Already in 1806 or 1821 the Cornbergers had lost their jurisdiction, and with the Hessian Redemption Act of 1854 they also lost their position as landlords with the associated rights and claims to real and personal services of the Richelsdorfers. With 25 times the amount of all their interest, material and service obligations converted into money, the Richelsdorf residents replaced these medieval feudal burdens , but until 1923 had to pay off the loans taken out by the Landeskreditkasse . For the transfer fee in 1898, the Cornbergers built a villa at the exit of the village to Blankenbach , which they then sold in 1902, together with the entire Cornberg forest property of 281 hectares, to a timber merchant from Gladbeck . After the death of the last Cornberger zu Richelsdorf in 1935, the family's agricultural property in Richelsdorf was parceled out and sold to the local farmers. Only the old mansion, including the manor buildings and the park and garden areas, initially remained in family ownership, but was also sold by his female descendants in 1943.

Refugee families were housed in the manor house in the last years of World War II and in the first post-war years . In 1949 the Rotenburg district bought the manor house and the park and, after structural expansion, set up the old people's home there. After this was later moved to Rotenburg ad Fulda , the vacated house was sold to private owners and converted into a hotel and restaurant. Since 1983, the renovated manor house and the buildings erected on the property have housed a private specialist clinic for addictions, the AHG Klinik Richelsdorf. In the former knight's hall , the coat of arms of the von Cornberg family with the Hessian lion and the slogan "In Treue vest" reminds of the Cornbergers.

Notes and individual references

  1. As early as 1592 he had received the Amt of Auburg with the village of Wagenfeld from his father as a further man fief . In the course of his life he acquired other possessions, goods and interest rates in the Rotenburger Land, in the Fritzlar area and in Kassel . In Westphalia he was wealthy in Minden and Lübbecke and with the Hüffe manor .
  2. ^ Court of Justice in Richelsdorf (with photos), in the Historisches Ortlexikon Hessen
  3. Three from the first marriage with Christine von Falcken in 1582 and two from the second marriage, entered into in 1602 with Christine von Boyneburg , from which ten children each came.

Web links

Commons : Herrenhaus Richelsdorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files