Friedrichsthal Hunting Lodge (Selbach)

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Model of the house on the Ederseebahn cycle path: “Rastplatz Modellschloss” in Selbach off the route

The hunting lodge Friedrichsthal (also hunting lodge Selbach called) was a 1701 for Count Friedrich Anton Ulrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont built a hunting lodge in Selbach , a modern district of Waldeck in northern Hesse .

location

The small baroque style castle is 322  m above sea level. NN at Kreisstraße 19 southeast of the small village Selbach, the smallest district of Waldeck. It is located a little north of the confluence of the K 19 and the B 485 between Netze and Sachsenhausen , in a brook valley leading to the Selbach .

investment

The building, a plastered half-timbered and brick structure , is located on the eastern edge of the developed estate; behind him extends the park to the east-northeast. The two-storey building with an area of ​​around 20 × 12 m has seven axes in the longitudinal axis , which is oriented from south-southeast to north-northwest , with a gabled, flat central projection encompassing the three central axes, with the entrance in the middle. This central projection has its exact counterpart on the northeast side facing the park . The upper floor is already incorporated into the mansard hipped roof construction on both sides of the central projections, with the respective window axes being closed off at the top by portholes .

history

In 1229 a first time Wasserburg the Lords of Selebach mentioned, probably in Silbach a Hofgut the monastery advertising to fiefs held. From 1380 at the latest, the Counts of Waldeck also had a farm in Selbach, which was mostly also given as fiefs to followers. With the abolition of the two monasteries Werbe and Marienthal in the 16th century, their property in Selbach also passed to the counts.

In 1701, Count Friedrich Anton Ulrich , son of the ruling Count Christian Ludwig von Waldeck, had a hunting lodge built on the site of the old moated castle, which he named Friedrichsthal after himself. The old castle, as far as it or its remains still existed, was demolished. The hunting lodge was located immediately north of the Netzer zoo , an enclosed forest and meadow area that served the count's house as a hunting reserve.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the count's estate was converted into a domain , and the small castle became the estate of the Selbach domain. In 1922 the domain was split up and repopulated; this is how the small village came into being, as it still shows today. The former hunting lodge was privately owned and continued to be used as a farm house and, in the past decades, as a holiday farm. Since 2008 it has had new owners who have extensively refurbished and renovated it.

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 36 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 41 ″  E

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Hessen I: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts. 2008, p. 839.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 2nd edition, Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen, 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 133.
  • Theresa Demski: A journey into the past . Selbacher Jagdschloss is transformed back into a piece of jewelery · Court festival on Ascension Day. In: Waldeckische Landeszeitung . May 28, 2011 ( archive.org [PDF; accessed May 13, 2020]).

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ The name of a residential area with several houses about 2.5 km northwest of Netze still reminds of the former zoo .
    Zoo, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 25, 2012 .