Bracht hunting lodge

This article deals with the former hunting lodge in Bracht. See also Bracht Castle in Burgbracht, Hesse, and Bracht Castle in Belgium.

Bracht hunting lodge

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 16 ″  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 48 ″  E

Bracht hunting lodge​

Hesse

Memorial plaque on the former hunting lodge

The Bracht Hunting Lodge , also known as Bracht Castle , is a former hunting lodge and later a forestry office in the Burgwald ( Herrenweg ). It stands on the north-western outskirts of Bracht , a district of the municipality of Rauschenberg in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse , on the east side of Rosenthalerstrasse (L 3077), at the corner of Grüner Weg.

history

On the foundations of a built around 1280 house, 1450 as "Dominion yacht house" was first mentioned, mentioned in 1492 as the official residence of a riding ends forester, was from 1721 to 1744 the hunting lodge, a then powerful half-timbered house , by Landgrave Friedrich of Hesse-Kassel built. The Landgraves of Hesse had exclusive hunting rights in the castle forest since 1464 . The so-called “Herrenweg” connects the Bracht hunting lodge with the Wolkersdorf hunting lodge, built between 1480 and 1484, through the middle of the castle forest . From 1802 to December 31, 2004, the Bracht hunting lodge was the seat of the forestry office in the Burgwald.

annotation

A memorial plaque reminds that Hessian history was written here in the 16th century. In 1520 the then Landgrave Philip I , known as the Magnanimous, had secret conversations with a reform-minded young man, the physician Euricius Cordus , a professor of the teachings of Martin Luther , and the humanist Helius Eobanus Hessus , who was responsible for the liberation of science from the compulsion of religious dogmas entered. The aim was to introduce Protestant teaching in Hesse. With the Hessian police order of 1524, Philipp then promoted Protestant teaching and became a pioneer of the Reformation .

Building description

The two-storey, six - axis half-timbered building , built on a stone base and measuring around 14 × 7 m, has a high hipped mansard roof with six dormers and a flight of stairs to the simple entrance portal. The framework was once covered by shingles , which have since been removed.

Web links

• Entry by Stefan Eismann zu Bracht bei Rauschenberg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Entry for Bracht, Schloss in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Bracht, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of June 12, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 28, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Jagdschloss in Bracht on the myheimat.de page