Göhrde hunting lodge

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The former stables of the hunting lodge Göhrde, 1869 Castle expanded

The Göhrde Hunting Lodge is located in the municipality of Göhrde within the state forest of the same name in Lower Saxony . The Hanoverian Elector Georg Ludwig had the hunting lodge built from 1706 to 1709 to accommodate his aristocratic hunting guests and their entourage.

history

Outbuildings and white princely house
The hunting lodge built in 1652, later the house of the castle's chef

18th and 19th centuries

A two-storey hunting lodge in Göhrde came from the 16th century. In 1706 Georg Ludwig commissioned a three-story hunting lodge to be built in its place. The responsible building director was the Marquis and Electoral Chamberlain Giacomo Quirini . The palace complex consisted of a two-wing, three-storey main building in brick framework construction and several auxiliary buildings. The construction cost 83,000  thalers and was the elector's most complex building project.

With the help of Johann Christian Böhm and according to plans of the court architect Louis Remy de la Fosse , the most stylish and largest baroque building in the Lüneburg area at the time was completed in 1709, which had numerous outbuildings: a caterer house for the court cook, a large number of stables, including the royal stables for more than 500 horses, the prince's stable, the new stable, the Celler stable, the Hanoverian stable, the bishop's Osnabrück stable, the parforce stable, as well as a hunting yard with a dog kennel and Pikörs cellar for the hunters, a house for the chief hunter and a castle theater for the comedians . There was also a slaughterhouse, a cattle yard, a wash house, a smithy, a wagon shed, a warehouse, a bakery and an ice pit for the storage of ice bars .

With Georg Ludwig's accession to the throne in the United Kingdom in 1714 and his resettlement to England (see personal union between Great Britain and Hanover ), the large Göhrde hunting parties were reduced to a few events.

Between 1756 and 1765 Benjamin Hase drew various site plans of the palace complex, which have been preserved in the British Map Library . From 1766 the Göhrde was still royal hunting property, but was no longer used for hunting when Georg III. ordered the hunt to be leased in the Göhrde, but no tenant could be found. The castle, too, remained unused and was left to decay. In 1772 the exiled Danish Queen Mathilde used the castle as a stopover before moving into Celle Castle . In 1827 George IV had the castle demolished. The material that was still usable was auctioned off, which covered around 10 percent of the previous construction cost. Only the great stables and a cavalier's house were repaired so that they could be used for hunting occasionally.

It was only when the King of Hanover returned to Germany in 1837 that the place revived. Ownership of the facility went to the German Emperor in 1871 , who had some major modifications and extensions carried out. The last time Kaiser Wilhelm II hunted here in 1913 with a large company .

20th and 21st centuries

Hubertus monument in front of the castle

After the First World War , the palace served as a civil servants' sanctuary, from the 1920s as a seminary, during the National Socialist era as an educational institution for teachers and after 1946 as a folk high school at Jagdschloss Göhrde . Among other things, the 23rd meeting of Group 47 with Hans Magnus Enzensberger as the speaker took place here in October 1961 .

In 1997, the district government of Lüneburg declared the castle to be dispensable as a state-owned property, which the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture confirmed. For reasons of economical housekeeping, this made it necessary to sell the property in need of renovation. After no buyer could be found for years, the listed palace complex was sold to an education-oriented company for 30,000 euros at the end of 2005. The obligation contained in the Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act to preserve the castle as a cultural monument was thus also transferred to the purchaser. After the sale, there was a dispute over the use due to unclear ownership.

literature

  • Wilhelm von dem Bussche -Münch: News about the former Jadgschloß and the Jagdhaus zur Göhrde. In: Patriotic Archives . Born in 1842, pp. 80-100 ( digitized version ).
  • Paul Dahms: Göhrde - court hunting ground of the high nobility. In: Game and hunting from Darß to the Alps. Munich 2005, pp. 42-55 ( ISBN 3-405-16652-7 ).
  • Carl Ernst von Malortie : Historical news about the Göhrde. In: ders .: Contributions to the history of the Braunschweig-Lüneburg house and court. Vol. 2. Hahn, Hannover 1860, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10020385-3 , pp. 145–167 ( digitized version ).
  • Jürgen Prüser: The Göhrde. A contribution to the history of hunting and forestry in Lower Saxony (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Vol. 74). Lax, Hildesheim 1969.
  • Werner H. Preuß: The face of Göhrde: Princely hunting lodge and democratic educational institution. 60 years of the Heimvolkshochschule Jagdschloss Göhrde. Husum 2006, ISBN 3-89876-313-7 .
  • Wolfgang Jürries , Berndt Wachter (ed.): Göhrde. In: Wendland-Lexikon . Volume 1: AL. 2nd Edition. Lüchow 2008, ISBN 978-3-926322-28-9 , pp. 244-245.

Web links

Commons : Jagdschloss Göhrde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Annette von Stieglitz: Court without princes. Residence life in Hanover under Georg I and Georg II. In: Rex Rexheuser (ed.): The personal unions of Saxony-Poland 1697–1763 and Hanover-England 1714–1837. A comparison. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05168-X , pp. 369-388, here p. 380.
  2. ↑ Michael Rohde: The Weifengarten. From the baroque aristocratic garden and public landscape park to the “university park”. In Marieanne von König (ed.): Herrenhausen: the royal gardens in Hanover , Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , here: p. 251 -264; here: p. 251f .; online through google books .
  3. ^ Heide Barmeyer (ed.): Hanover and the English succession to the throne (= Hannoversche Schriften zur Regional- und Lokalgeschichte , Vol. 19), Gütersloh: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89534-579-1 and ISBN 3- 89534-579-2 ; passim; Preview over google books .
  4. ↑ The Legacy of the Imperial Hunt. In: Landeszeitung für die Lüneburg Heath , October 21, 2013.
  5. ↑ Marcel Reich-Ranicki : Open to all questions. Answers to world literature. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-421-04437-2 , p. 49.
  6. ↑ Sale of the Göhrde hunting lodge . Small request of February 11, 2009 by MP Pia-Beate Zimmermann ( Die Linke ) as state parliament print 16/1090 (pdf)
  7. ^ Education center Göhrde threatens eviction In: Wendland-net.de , April 1, 2008
  8. ↑ Small request from August 3, 2009 by Member of Parliament Kurt Herzog ( Die Linke ) as Landtag printed matter 16/1607 (pdf)
  9. ↑ Dirk Drazewski, Angelika Blank: Clearance: Off for the education center Göhrde. In: Wendland-net.de , August 27, 2008

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '26.3 "  N , 10 ° 52' 42"  E