Grossenritt hunting lodge

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Photo of the house, 1910

The hunting lodge Großenritte was only in the shell finished little castle west of Großenritte , a modern district of Baunatal in Kassel district in northern Hesse . It was completed as a nursing home and hospital eleven years after the construction freeze and was used as such until it was demolished in 1972.

It stood at 266 m above sea level on the eastern slope of the 439.6 m high castle hill on the edge of the forest, immediately on today's western edge of the place on the "Prinzenstrasse" and the street "Vor der Burg".

history

The founder of the deaconess house, Gertrude von Hanau

Prince Heinrich von Hanau , a son of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel from his morganatic marriage to Gertrude von Hanau , began building a hunting lodge above Grossenritte shortly before the end of the Electorate of Hesse . When annexation Kurhessen by Prussia in 1866 only had shell completed, and the building remained after ten years unused.

It was not until 1877 that the so-called “Schlösschen”, also known locally as the “Prinzenbau”, was used. At the instigation of its Melsung metropolitan , Jacob Wilhelm Vilmar , brother of August Vilmar , the Renitente Church of the unchanged Augsburg Confession in Hesse , one of the predecessors of today's Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK), acquired the building to create a deaconess house for the old and the sick People set up. Gertrude von Hanau, widow of the last elector and meanwhile Princess Hanau von und zu Hořowitz, was won over as the founding benefactor and signed the deed of foundation for the Hessian deaconess house named after her "Gertrudenstift".

The dilapidated "Schlösschen" was demolished in 1972. A new nursing home was built in its place in several construction phases. An extension had already been carried out in 1966 and was also demolished in 2003. Today's home in the immediate vicinity was built between 2006 and 2008.

The construction

The two-storey "Schlösschen" had a rectangular, almost square floor plan and a tent roof with a lantern on the top of the roof and two dormers on the front. The front and the back were five-axis, the sides four-axis, each with large lattice windows .

Web links

Wikivoyage: Eco path, cultural history, Great Rides  - travel guide

photos

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aloys Holtmeyer (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the administrative district of Cassel; Volume IV: District of Cassel – Land (text volume). Elwert, Marburg, 1910, p. 75
  2. ↑ Margret Lemberg, Hans Lemberg: Heinrich von Hanau: a son of the last Elector of Hesse: his life, his political campaign script and his future maps , (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , Volume 46, Small Fonts 7), Verlag Elwert, Marburg 2003, p. 61
  3. ^ Ludwig Metz:  Vilmar, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 725-728.

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 56 "  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 23.2"  E