Holzheim hunting lodge

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Holzheim hunting lodge
Jagdschloss Holzheim.jpg
Creation time : Previous building (so-called kemenate) 1183, hunting lodge 1732 to 1735
Castle type : Outskirts
Standing position : Landgrave's hunting lodge
Construction: Quarry stone, house stone, sandstone, half-timbering
Place: Haunetal - Holzheim
Geographical location 50 ° 46 '51.9 "  N , 9 ° 40' 12.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '51.9 "  N , 9 ° 40' 12.9"  E
Height: 336  m above sea level NN

The Holzheim hunting lodge is a former hunting lodge on the southern edge of Holzheim , a district of the Haunetal community in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in Hesse . It is privately owned and is not open to the public. The former hunting lodge is often confused or mixed up in literature with the Dicken Turm located in the village , the remains of Holzheim Castle .

building

In its present form, the approximately 20 m long and 10 m wide building consists of a massive ground floor made of sandstone and an upper floor made of half-timbering , covered by a simple saddle roof . The ground floor has five axes with the baroque portal and its double-leaf oak door in the middle. The upper floor has seven axes. Since the interior was completely modernized in 1997/1998, there are two separate apartments in the house. A single-storey extension on the rear facing the park contains a garage and a wellness area with sauna , solarium and whirlpool .

A path with long, flat steps leads from Turmstrasse up to the former castle. Remnants of a baroque garden , in which there is an original horse trough, are also still preserved. The horse trough used to be fed by what is now an underground stream.

history

Side view around 1860

The vaulted cellar with a walled-up secret passage and the foundation walls of the listed castle date from the 12th century (first mentioned in 1183). The former bower and the property belonging to it were owned by the local aristocracy, the von Holzheim family. When this died out in the male line, the Lords of Romrod were enfeoffed with the place and the court seat. They turned the bower into a mansion . After the neighboring Hauneck Castle fell into disrepair in the middle of the 16th century, the Landgrave Hessian bailiff and mayor was transferred to Holzheim in 1560 , where he held office for the combined offices of Hauneck , Schildschlag and Johannesberg in the former manor of the Romrods. From 1562 to 1818 the bailiffs or mayors are completely traceable.

In 1643, during the Thirty Years War , the mansion burned down to the meter-thick walls of the basement, but was rebuilt. In 1686, Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel bought the estate from the troubled Lukas Wilhelm, Wolf Adam and Johann Heinrich von Romrod. Karl's son and successor, Landgrave Friedrich I , who had also been King of Sweden since 1720, and his brother Wilhelm VIII, who ruled for him in Kassel , had it converted into a stately hunting lodge between 1732 and 1735 . The baroque main portal with the volute-shaped skylight (which still has original glass panes), the upper floor with decorated half-timbering, the free-hanging staircase in the stairwell, a still present on the house but hidden coat of arms of the landgrave and a largely preserved approx. 2.50 meter high sandstone wall surrounding the property. The former tithe barn became a horse stable, at the entrance of which Frederick's monogram from 1739 still bears witness to this conversion. In contrast, Knappe states that the Romrods still appeared as masters in the town around 1760.

After Hessen-Kassel had been annexed by Prussia in 1866 , the castle was briefly used as a Prussian district court , with a prison room in the basement. However, the district court was soon moved to Niederaula , and the former hunting lodge served as a district forester until 1963 . Architectural drawings from 1785/86, supplemented in 1860, show the building still in its stately castle character, with a mansard hipped roof and dormers as well as an octagonal tower with a lantern in the center of the front above the portal. The tower, mansard roof and dormers fell victim to later renovations based on sober cost calculations.

The building has been privately owned since 1965.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 166 f. ( unfortunately mixed here with the history of Holzheim Castle )

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ↑ This is where the name of the adjacent "Schloßgartenstrasse" comes from.
  2. ↑ a b c Former hunting lodge of the von Romrod, Haunetal - Holzheim (Haunetal), Turmstrasse 12, parcel: 52/03, parcel: 3 , on bildindex.de
  3. ^ Dietrich Christoph von Rommel: History of Hessen , Volume 5, Kassel 1835, p. 429
  4. ↑ Knappe: p. 166 below