Henriettenthal Court

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The Henriettenthal farm is a listed building that can be traced back to the establishment of a farm by Georg August von Nassau-Idstein in 1699. It is located in the Hessian Idstein near the district Wörsdorf im Taunus . The name can be traced back to Georg August's wife Henriette.

Location and description

The farm is located about 500 meters northwest of the outskirts of Wörsdorf in the valley of the Wörsbach. Today the Frankfurt-Limburg railway line runs a few meters east of the courtyard on a high embankment and the A3 motorway to the west and the Frankfurt-Cologne ICE route (both on bridges).

The courtyard is designed in a classic, four-sided closed manner. Two gates opposite each other provide access. The plastered mansion from the 19th century was built on the older foundation walls of the previous building that had burned down. Plastered mansion from the 19th century on older foundation walls (reconstruction after fire). The barns and farm buildings are largely brick buildings, with some quarry stone masonry and half-timbering still visible.

history

Although there are indications that the construction of the new courtyard was already started in 1691, the establishment of the estate is dated to the year 1699. This against the background that the Hofgut emerged from the abandoned village of Fackenhofen and the last property acquisitions were not completed until 1699. Georg August had given this estate to his wife Henriette as early as 1689 on the occasion of their first childbirth. In 1715 the main house of the new court was built. After the Nassau-Idsteiner line died out in 1721 due to the death of Georg August, the estate fell into the possession of the Nassau-Ottweiler line and shortly afterwards to the Nassau-Usinger line of the family. The estate is of little importance to them, which is why it is often leased before it is sold to the von Dungern family in 1819. This family also leased the property several times until they finally sold it again in 1952. From 1918 to 1931 the leaseholder was the city ​​of Frankfurt , which named a street as Wörsdorfer Straße in memory of this lease .

1875–1877 the estate lost considerable agricultural land due to the construction of the railway line to Limburg an der Lahn . The same thing happened in 1932 with the construction of the A3 motorway .

The Causin family bought the estate in 1952 and held it until 1993 when Deutsche Bahn AG acquired it. This acquisition was against the background of the new construction of the ICE route Frankfurt-Cologne , in the context of which the estate was considered a risk property, even if at the time of the planning status the route was already largely determined and the property did not endanger this route.

In 1990 a golf course was set up on the farm estate's former agricultural land.

literature

  • Fackenhofen - Henriettenthal - Wörsdorf A walk through 800 years of local history , Wörsdorf local council, Rimac-Verlag, Idstein 1999

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Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 22.3 "  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 55.8"  E