Gammelsbach hunting lodge

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View from Karl-Hans-Strobl-Straße to the former hunting lodge in a baroque exposed location

The hunting lodge Gammelsbach , also called Jägerhaus Steingrund or Jagdhaus Steingrund , is a former hunting lodge in Gammelsbach ( Steingrund 31 ), a district of the town of Oberzent in the Odenwaldkreis in Hesse .

Under the construction management of the Count Rentmeister's Klump was Ludwig II. Friedrich Graf to Erbach-Fürstenau in the years 1767 to 1769 to build a stately hunting lodge.

Building description

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The former hunting lodge is a stately, two-story building in solid construction, plastered with local edges Haustein . The house, North-South oriented, is divided to three to six axes with segmentbogigen window openings and has a hipped roof , that the lower roof area with five offset sheet dormer windows is provided in the upper roof area with three triangular dormers. The property has the typically baroque exposed location in the focus of a small side valley that forks at this point . It is with two old lime trees on a high, by powerful, military standard scale retaining walls terraced lined man-made plateau, which is accessed via two ramps. To the north of it stands a small building in front of it as a crossbar, also provided with a half-hip roof.

Todays use

The property has been restored, privately owned and can only be viewed from the outside. With the surrounding land, it is a Hessian cultural monument in its entirety.

literature

  • Peter and Marion Sattler: Castles and palaces in the Odenwald. Edition Diesbach, 2004

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (ed.): Jagdhaus Steingrund In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 27.5 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 33.5 ″  E