Hohenhaus (Herleshausen)

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Gut Hohenhaus in Holzhausen

Hohenhaus is an estate with a castle in the outskirts of the village of Holzhausen , a district of Herleshausen , in the Werra-Meißner district in Hesse .

location

The former manor is 500 m west of Holzhausen at about 299  m altitude on the southern roof of the Ringgau below the Dachsberg ( 440.4  m above sea  level ) in the horseshoe-shaped valley of the Nesse, which is open to the east . This rises around 800 m west-southwest of the estate at an altitude of around 329  m and is dammed into two ponds on the grounds of the estate, at the north and south end of the castle park . From the village an approximately 400 m long, dead straight avenue leads west to the estate.

The Wommen junction of the A 4 ( Europastraße 40) is about 5 km south-east and can be reached via Landesstraße 3423, which runs through Holzhausen .

history

Hohenhaus Castle

The village Holzhausen was 1545-1824 Accessories of about 1.6 kilometers east of lying Holzhausen Castle Brandenfels and thus feudal possession of the noble family Treusch of Buttlar that docked the estate. A map-like drawing in the Marburg State Archives , made around 1600, shows a half-timbered building . In 1856 the lawyer and politician Ferdinand von Schutzbar called Milchling (1813-1891) bought the estate, which he managed until his death.

His son, the royal Prussian chamberlain and cavalier Rudolf von Schutzbar called Milchling (1853–1935), inherited the estate and had the house converted into a castle-like mansion in the historicizing neo -renaissance style in 1901 . The architect was the architect Bodo Ebhardt (1865–1945) , who restored palaces and castles throughout Germany . The associated park was laid out around the turn of the century in the style of English landscape gardens by the Berlin garden architect Martin Bertrams.

Due to economic constraints, the estate, along with the entire agricultural and forestry sector, came into the possession of the Hamburg publisher Richard Ganske (1876–1956), the founder of the reading group “ Readers' Group at Home ”. His son, the publisher Kurt Ganske (1905–1979), had the palace extensively renovated and modernized in 1959. He was a passionate hunter and spent a lot of time in Hohenhaus, where he also had intensive contact with the writers of his house such as Siegfried Lenz , Max Tau and Hoimar von Ditfurth .

Today the Ganske publishing group is the owner of the property. From 1982 onwards, she had extensive renovations carried out and since then a hotel has been operated in the manor house and in the former horse and carriage stable dating from 1890, which was radically converted and expanded while preserving the historical facade. Since 1990 the hotel has been a member of the international hotel cooperation Relais & Châteaux . The Hohenhaus kitchen was first awarded a Michelin star in 1995.

It should be noted that in April 1945 the estate was briefly the headquarters for General George S. Patton and his 3rd Army on the way to liberation in the direction of southern and central Germany as part of the hostilities of the Second World War .

The plant today

On the extensive grounds of the former manor there is a large complex of farm buildings in the east, the former horse and carriage stable in the south and a former sheepfold in the north , in addition to the castle and the castle park with old trees that adjoin it to the west and south-west .

The castle, whose longitudinal axis runs in a north-south direction, is an imposing two-storey building with a steep hipped roof and around 30 × 10 m floor area, with a multiply structured floor plan and with facades that are equally divided by risalits , stair towers , bay windows , balconies and dwarf houses . The dome-crowned stair tower on the park side towers above the ridge of the palace roof. A two-storey bay window rises above the arched portal in the three-storey risalit on the east side, ending in a dwelling with a volute gable and round window.

Hotel Hohenhaus: The former royal stables

Just a few meters southeast of the castle stands on the southern slope in an east-west orientation of the built in the 1890s, elongated former stable with the carriages remise . From 1982 it was completely gutted under the direction of the Frankfurt architect Jochem Jourdan and converted into a two-story modern hotel building with 15 double rooms and five single rooms while largely preserving the historical facade and utilizing the hillside location; In the palace there are two double rooms and four single rooms. The extension of the former coach house is architecturally characterized as one of the exemplary buildings in Hesse.

The agricultural and forestry property is managed separately from the hotel. On the third weekend in Advent, however, the estate and the hotel cooperate in organizing a nationally known Christmas market, the center of which is the estate's architecturally attractive sheepfold with its half-timbered tower.

literature

  • Jochem Jourdan & Bernhard Mueller: Hotel Gut Hohenhaus. In: Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main (Hrsg.): Yearbook for Architecture. Vieweg, Braunschweig & Wiesbaden, 1981-1982, pp. 67-74.

Web links

Commons : Herrenhaus Hohenhaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Former senior judge at the Cassel Supreme Court , later member of the Hessian state parliament, president of the first chamber of the Hessian state assembly , chairman of the Kassel municipal assembly , chairman of the provincial assembly of the Hesse-Nassau province , member of the Prussian mansion , head of the Kaufungen knightly monastery .
  2. ^ Hohenhaus ( memento of June 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at Relais & Châteaux
  3. ^ Rainer Lämmerhirt: The fight for the Werra line in April 1945 between Gerstungen and Treffurt: "The Americans are coming!" , Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, 2005, p. 34
  4. ↑ (Ed.) Chamber of Architects Hessen: Awarding exemplary buildings in the state of Hesse , Volume 6 of the series of publications by the Chamber of Architects Hessen, Frankfurt am Main, 1982, p. 34
  5. ↑ Photo of the sheep stable in the Advent mood

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 29 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 46 ″  E