Hof Trages

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The Trages farm is owned by the von Savigny family .

Castle building in the courtyard of Trages

Geographical location

The Trages farm is located in the municipality of Freigericht in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse, right on the border with Bavaria . It is located at the foot of the Altenmarkskopf (269 m) at an altitude of 212 m above sea ​​level , 2.5 kilometers southeast of Somborn (Hesse), 2.3 kilometers west of the Alzenau district of Albstadt (Bavaria). A few meters west of the Trages farm, Birkenhainer Strasse , a medieval military and trade route between the Rhine and Eastern Franconia, runs towards the “Buchenkopf” hill .

history

middle Ages

The farm takes the place of a small settlement that was probably made on a clearing in the 9th century by a man named Drago . Originally, the name of the settlement ended with a basic word such as hofen or hausen , which, however, was shortened to Dragus in the first documentary mention . The oldest documentary evidence speaks of two farms at this point from the 13th century. The court belonged to the Somborn court , which in turn was part of the Alzenau free court . This was directly imperial , but the empire pledged or forgave the area again and again. So the rulers changed, including the lords and later counts of Hanau , the lords of Randenburg , the lords of Eppstein and Kurmainz .

Early modern age

In 1500 the elector-archbishop of Mainz and the counts of Hanau-Münzenberg jointly received the free court - and thus also the sovereignty over the court of Trages - as an imperial fief . A condominium was created . The settlement was completely destroyed in the Thirty Years War . Then the construction of today's yard Trages began. From 1727 it was in the hands of the Count von Hanau's Chancellor von Cranz as a fiefdom . In 1787, the court came to the von Savigny family, a noble family with rich estates in West Germany, via inheritance .

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , 1736, landgrave Friedrich I of Hessen-Kassel inherited the county of Hanau-Münzenberg on the basis of an inheritance contract from 1643. The Elector of Mainz, however, denied that the inheritance contract also included the free court and thus Trages. After military and judicial disputes, in 1740 there was finally a "trial of participation" between the two, a real division of the free court. Trages came to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel.

romance

During the Napoleonic period, the Trages court - like the rest of the Büchertal office - was under French military administration from 1806 to 1810 and then belonged to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Hanau Department, from 1810 to 1813 . Then it fell back to Hessen-Kassel, now called " Electorate of Hesse ". In 1821 there was a fundamental administrative reform in which the Trages farm was assigned to the newly formed Gelnhausen district .

At the beginning of the 19th century, Hof Trages developed into a meeting place and retreat for numerous people who later became known and famous and are associated with German Romanticism . These included the lawyer and later Prussian minister Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779–1861), who had inherited the court from his father.

During a trip, Friedrich Carl von Savigny made friends in Jena with Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), who was the same age . Karoline von Günderrode fell in love with the later Minister in 1799. After 1800, Friedrich Carl von Savigny taught at the University of Marburg . His first student in Marburg was Jacob Grimm, through whom his brother Wilhelm Grimm joined the group. In 1804 Savigny married Kunigunde Brentano , the older sister of Clemens and Bettina Brentano . In 1805 Savigny also met Achim von Arnim . In 1811 Bettina Brentano married Achim von Arnim. As Bettina von Arnim, she became an important representative of German Romanticism.

This group often stayed at Trages farm. Clemens Brentano wrote his famous fairy tale Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia (published in 1838) here in the 1830s . The story begins with the sentence " In Germany in a wild forest, between Gelnhausen and Hanau , there lived an honorable elderly man [...]". Descriptions of the location contained in the following text suggest that the romantic ruins of the monastery of the nearby St. Wolfgang monastery near Hanau served as a template for the location “Gockelsruh”.

After his death in 1861, Friedrich Carl von Savigny received his final resting place in Berlin's Hedwig Cathedral , the central church of Berlin's Catholics . In 1875 his coffin was moved to the family crypt of the Hof Trages chapel built in 1866.

Modern times

The castle still serves as the residence of the von Savigny family. Part of the furnishings from the Romantic era and Friedrich Carl von Savignys have been preserved. In 1998, large parts of the inventory were auctioned, which Michael Stolleis rated as "unusually painful". The manor and the surrounding area were converted into a golf course .

The court trages in the legend

The chapel plays a role in a collection of the Spessart sagas. According to the story Der Reiter on the Trages farm, a former landowner vowed to build a chapel during a time of distress. Later he forgets his oath and the building. As the deceased, he finds no rest in the grave, but at night has to ride around the place where the chapel should be built. The spook ends only when a descendant has mercy and fulfills the promise.

building

Overall, the complex is a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act . It plays an important role in the cultural life of the Freigericht community.

lock

The current building of the castle in neo-baroque style originates mainly from the second half of the 19th century. But it was built until 1928. It includes an originally baroque garden house, the two lower floors of the three-story central projectile of the complex.

  • chapel

  • Karoline von Günderrode House on the Trages farm

  • Farm yard of the Trages court, photographed to the south

chapel

The chapel is a neo-Gothic , free-standing building in the park, with a single nave and a polygonal choir closure. The vault of the von Savigny family is located under the chapel. The chapel was built in 1866. The architect was Vincenz Statz from Cologne.

Karoline von Günderrode House

The writer Karoline von Günderrode often lived in a room in a small house on the courtyard of Trages.

Farm yard

The farm yard consists of several residential and farm buildings, all from the mid-18th century, with conversions from the 19th century.

park

The baroque park dates from the first half of the 18th century and shows the typically strict, symmetrical design of that time and an old tree population.

The name Trageser

The family name Trageser , which occurs mainly in Hessen and in the Bavarian town of Kahlgrund, has its origin on the farm.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Studies on Hessian family names
  2. ^ Uta Löwenstein: County Hanau . In: Knights, Counts and Princes - Secular Dominions in the Hessian Area approx. 900-1806 = Handbook of Hessian History 3 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 63. Marburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-942225-17-5 , p. 212 .
  3. ↑ http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3424602/
  4. ↑ Spessart-Sagen, Valentin Pfeifer, Aschaffenburg 1948, p. 69
  5. ^ Studies on Hessian family names

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '19.7 "  N , 9 ° 5' 26.2"  E