Holzberg hunting lodge

This article deals with the castle in Lower Franconia in the Rhön. See also: Burgstall Holzberg , market town of Hengersberg in Lower Bavaria.

Neo-Romanesque south side from 1910, restaurant in operation, July 2015

The Jagdschloss Holzberg (also called Jagdschloss Holzberghof , just Holzberghof or Holzberger Jagdschloss ) is a property that has been expanded from a stately forester's house to a modern castle in the Holzberg district named after the castle , in the Lower Franconian Bischofsheim in the Rhön , district of Rhön-Grabfeld , on the southwestern roof of the Rhön in the state of Bavaria in Germany .

location

The property is only a few hundred meters southeast of the 849  m above sea level. NHN high Münzkopf is in a quiet location, still in the southern Hochrhön natural area , but directly on the Lange Rhön nature reserve . It is located a few kilometers north of Bischofsheim in the Rhön near the western border with Hesse , about three hundred meters west of the Hochrhönstrasse as the crow flies . The property is located at 773  m above sea level. NHN not far from the Red Moor , the Heidelstein and the Teufelsmühle geotopes and basalt quarry on the Schwarzbach , a tributary of the Brend , which can be reached via hiking trails . A larger car park is located directly on Hochrhönstrasse, where the half-kilometer-long branch path leads to the Holzberghof.

history

Coats of arms of the noble previous owners

Coat of arms of the first lords on the Holzberg

Coat of arms of the owner of the hunting lodge (17th century): Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn

Coat of arms of the owner in the middle of the 19th century

Coat of arms of the owner around 1910 (neo-Romanesque castle extension): by Schimmelmann

The Schimmelmannsche Lindenborg Slot (Blenstrup Sogn - Hellum Herred), in Ålborg / Nordjyllands Amt in Denmark , the actual model for the Holzbergschloss

In the 16th century, the Lords of Thüngen built an iron smelter on the then and now again wooded mountain . In open pit funded iron ore was there to cast iron melted. In addition to iron smelting, mule breeding was also operated, from which around 30 of these pack animals a year emerged.

In 1614 what is now the oldest part of the castle, the so-called hunting and forester's house , was built for the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn . His sandstone coat of arms and the year can still be seen above a door with a small flight of stairs .

In the centuries that followed, ownership frequently changed between the noble families of the Rhön . In 1850 the property was bought by the Franconian Baron Constantin von Gebsattel zu Lebenhan for 7050 guilders . Presumably the grandfather and godfather of Konstantin Wilhelm Hartmann Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von Gebsattel , Konstantin Wilhelm Hartmann von Gebsattel (1783–1861), forester of Lebenhan, is meant.

1902 acquired the property of the then 29-year-old Danish Count Paul Fredrik mold man by the Countess Adeline von Schimmelmann adopted was and actually the son of a Berlin innkeeper was. The romantic-looking part of the castle at the southern end of the elongated building was only added to the forester's lodge as a neo-Romanesque, modern castle from 1909 to 1911 for the then owners . It is claimed that the palace extension is a scaled-down, adapted copy of the Danish Frederiksborg Palace in neo-Romanesque style, but actually it is more similar to Lindenborg Palace in North Jutland , which was owned by the Danish noble Schimmelmann family . In the 20th century, the Holzberghof was therefore also known as "Frederikstein Castle" or "Frederikstein Castle on the Münzkopf". After the end of the First World War, Graf Schimmelmann moved to England and sold the property.

In 1954 the castle was bought by the Ferdinand Meinschäfer family and converted into a restaurant with guest rooms. The Holzberghof has only been connected to the power grid since 2009 . In the cozy dining room, modeled on a knight's hall , you still have to eat in the glow of petroleum lamps .

description

More views of the castle

View of the neo-Romanesque part of the castle (plastered east side) and the corner tower from the 17th century, this one with biforium and triforium

View of the east side of the 17th century forester's house with tower

Triforium on the tower of the hunting lodge, dated 1695

The approximately 15-meter-wide east-west and 80-meter-long north-south-facing property consists of three non-separate structures with different origins. The central (forester's house) and southern part (hunting lodge) are essential. The structurally oldest two-storey plastered central wing with a gable roof and dating from 1614 has an almost square, almost six meter wide, three-storey tower with a quarry stone facade and corner blocks on the east side. Architecturally interesting are the various sandstone windows with dates from 1695, 1748 and 1795, including a beautiful example of a triforium .

Younger (1909–1911), but architecturally more interesting, is the southern modern extension in the form of a neo-Romanesque or more generally in the form of historicism , hunting lodge , plastered on the sides , also with a gable roof. The characteristic feature is the quarry stone clad south facade with two dominant round corner towers , each of which has a conical roof. As a result, many visitors consider the property to be much older. A modern front terrace with a wall approach is piously integrated into the south facade. Both tracts were given a modern look through the roof extension in the 20th century (gable windows).

The former castle is a re-qualified architectural monument with the number D-6-73-117-100 of the Bavarian Monument List , created on the basis of the Bavarian Monument Protection Act of October 1, 1973.

In the southern tower of the Holzbergschloss a wayside shrine from 1820 is walled in, which is supposed to represent the Holy Family .

Todays use

The restored property is privately owned , used as a restaurant and offers rooms and holiday apartments. A riding school is located north of the Holzberghof in a T-shape, aligned with the castle. The property is suitable as a starting point for circular and high-altitude hikes in the Lange and Hohe Rhön.

literature

• Reinhold Albert: Castles and Palaces in the District of Rhön-Grabfeld , Culture Agency of the District of Rhön-Grabfeld (Ed.), Bad Neustadt 2014, ISBN 979-3-939959-14-3 . P. 70 ff.
• Andrea Czygan: Castles and Palaces in Lower Franconia , Verlag Main-Post, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-925232-61-9 . (Note: the front cover shows the south side of the castle)
• Heinrich Hirsch: The Holzberghof Castle - Checkered history of a Rhön settlement , In: Yearbook of the Rhön-Grabfeld district 2/1980, pp. 174-180
• Christopher Pfaff: Hut Guide Rhön: The 65 most beautiful hiking huts, ski huts and mountain inns in the Bavarian, Hessian and Thuringian Rhön , 2nd edition Roßdorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-4098-2 . P. 48 f.
• Stefan Etzel: Hiking in the Rhön , (including Tour 9), Vlg. Dumont active, ISBN 978-3-7701-8025-7 . P. 54

Web links

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

• Holzberghof hunting lodge at www.bischofsheim.info
• www.holzberghof.de Website of the Holzberghof operator
• Entry on Schloss Holzberghof (Ferederikstein) in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved February 18, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. at alleburgen.de Holzberghof
2. ↑ monument list Bischofsheim adRhön of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , D-6-73-117-100 : Former. Jagdschloss Holzberg , post-qualified (as of January 21, 2016) (pdf format, 155 kB), accessed on February 11, 2016
3. ^ Heinrich Mehl: wayside shrines in northern Lower Franconia: folklore study of wayside shrines in the districts of Hofheim, Bad Kissingen, Königshofen i. Gr., Mellrichstadt and Bad Neustadt , 1969, p. 197

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 20.3 "  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 22.2"  E