Hof Häusel

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Hof Häusel is located at an altitude of 250 meters in the district of Vockenhausen (municipality of Eppstein ), about 8 km northwest of Hofheim am Taunus .

Today the farm houses, among other things, a horse farm and a horticultural and care business. Around 100 hectares of arable and pasture land are mainly used for keeping horses.

history

The farm was first mentioned in 1233 in a tax register of the parish Schloßborn . Over the centuries the farm has been given different names:

  • Husenlin (around 1226-1239)
  • curthim in Husels (around 1280–1285)
  • hoff zum Huselns (1433)
  • farm by Husels (1434)
  • Hoiff zum Heusels above Eppstein (1592)

The term "Huso" or "Huselin" stood for small house.

Apart from a brief interruption around 1688, the farm was permanently settled. It was originally owned by the St. Stephan monastery in Mainz and became the property of the Lords of Eppstein around 1280 at the time of the Archbishop of Mainz, Werner von Eppstein ("The King Makers"). From 1492 it was completely owned by the Landgraves of Hesse . On a map from 1607 (Wilhelm Dilichs Landtafeln) the farm is listed as an independent municipality under the name "Heusels".

District Court Häusel

The Häusel district court was a medieval legal district that comprised 21 villages and farms between Kröftel and Unterliederbach , Bremthal and Hornau . Up until the Middle Ages, the court sat under a linden tree at Hof Häusel, and since the 16th century in Eppstein's town hall. On behalf of the empire, the lord of the court was the respective lord of Eppstein. With regard to court law, it is said in a wisdom from 1491 that the district court has whoever owns Eppstein Castle in honor.

The last known execution at the place of execution above the courtyard took place in 1687. At that time, the 20-year-old miller girl Gertraud Kroh from Bad Soden was beheaded there. She had been accused of killing her illegitimate child after giving birth in secret. Since 1688, the jurisdiction at Hof Häusel was no longer carried out, then officially given up in 1720.

House in the expressionist design of the upper Häusel courtyard

The stately, two-storey new residential building with the expressionist design of the upper Häusel courtyard was built by the architect Fritz Voggenberger for the Jewish court owner Wilhelm Paderstein, who emigrated in 1938. The corresponding wrought-iron front garden portal shows plant shapes in Art Nouveau ornamentation, at the same time stylistic elements from the thirties, dated 1934 (art locksmith Fritz Stein). The front garden with the planned planting typical of the time is a valuable - as it is rare - example of garden architecture of that time. The house is a cultural monument for historical and artistic reasons.

literature

  • Berthold Picard: History in Eppstein: a guide through the districts of Bremthal, Ehlhalten, Eppstein, Niederjosbach and Vockenhausen. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-7829-0442-7 , pp. 128-129.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hof Häusel, Main-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Handbook of Historic Places in Germany, Hesse, Alfred Kröner Verlag 1967
  3. ^ Eppsteiner Zeitung of July 16 and August 2, 2012
  4. ^ State Historical Information System Hesse
  5. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Hof Häusel In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 8 ° 23'  E