Jagdschlösschen (Bad Iburg)
The Jagdschlösschen (also Altes Forsthaus Freudenthal ) is a former prince-bishop's property from the late 16th century in Bad Iburg (Lower Saxony).
history
The Iburger Castle was from 1100 to 1672 residence of the bishops and prince bishops of Osnabrück . From 1591 to 1623 Philipp Sigismund von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, was Protestant Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück with residence in Iburg. Below the Schlossberg, he had a pleasure garden laid out on its southern slope. In 1595 he had the Freudenthal House built there, a two-story half-timbered building with a hipped roof . The castle mill, which is now located on the Charlottensee, artificially created in the first half of the 20th century, below the Schlossberg , also dates from his time . Philipp Sigismund von Wolfenbüttel was followed by Eitel Friedrich von Hohenzollern as Prince-Bishop until 1625 . His successor, the counter-Reformation Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg , ordered the dismantling of the hunting lodge and the reconstruction in Thiergarten in 1650 , on whose grounds the Waldkurpark is now located.
In the Jagdschlösschen, the rooms used by the prince-bishop and his entourage were on the upper floor, which could be reached via a no longer existing flight of stairs . The utility rooms were located on the ground floor and were accessible via an entrance behind the outside staircase.
After the secularization in 1803, the hunting lodge became the district forester's house. They were allowed to run a pub with a bar. The name Altes Forsthaus Freudenthal comes from this time .
In 1958, what was then Flecken Iburg bought the building and the associated land. The building was still used as a restaurant. In addition to the former forester's house , the city built the Kurhaus, which opened in 1967. The Kurhaus and Forsthaus were renovated and expanded. The former forester's house was reopened on October 21, 2001 under the previous name Jagdschlösschen. The garden was redesigned and the work was completed in April 2004.
Of cultural and historical importance are 24 wooden figures below the roof ledge, which were created by the Osnabrück sculptor Adam Stenelt . In Bad Iburg he is also credited with three epitaphs from the St. Nikolaus Church , reliefs on the organ loft of the Catholic Castle Church of St. Clemens , the coat of arms of the castle mill and carvings on the house at Große Straße 6.
Carvings by Adam Stenelt
Sundial and Stenelt carvings
literature
- Wilhelm Simon, Gerhard Vollbrecht: Bad Iburg - Small city guide . Association for local and local history Bad Iburg (ed.), Bad Iburg 2007, pp. 22–23
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 44 ″ N , 8 ° 2 ′ 13 ″ E