Katzenbach hunting lodge
The remains of the Katzenbach hunting lodge can be found in Katzenbach , the smallest district of the municipality of Biedenkopf , in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf . The ruins of the hunting lodge stand at a height of 300 meters above sea level and can be reached via the district road 16 from Kombach or via a municipal road from Buchenau .
history
Ludwig V of Hessen-Darmstadt had a hunting lodge built on a 16th century estate , which Landgrave Ernst Ludwig converted into a baroque hunting lodge and renovated in 1724. Until its demolition in 1774, it also served as the official residence of the chief forester . After the demolition, the beams of the manor house were used to build the Stapp House on the market square in Biedenkopf (now the Hirsch Pharmacy ); the white frames of the oval window hatches can still be seen in its gable. Today a small remnant of the foundations of the hunting lodge has been preserved.
architecture
The oil painting by Johann Georg Stockmar (1700–1759) in the Kranichstein Hunting Museum shows a rectangular courtyard, one-story longer farm buildings and stables ( stables ) on the two long sides, which were provided with a gable roof. On one of the narrow sides stood the two-story, seven-to-three-axis mansion with high rectangular windows and a hipped roof , which was surmounted by a crenellated chimney . Opposite was a smaller baroque cavalier house with an almost square floor plan with four to three axes, the mansard hipped roof pierced by dormers with a symmetrical number of axes and a wide flight of stairs at the entrance to the inner courtyard.
Web links
- Katzenbach. Katzenbach hunting lodge , website of the "Hinterland Genealogists Working Group"
- View of the Katzenbach hunting lodge near Biedenkopf, 1851. Historical views of the town, plans and floor plans. (As of April 2, 2007). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
literature
- Elsa Blöcher: The Katzenbach hunting lodge . In: Hinterländer Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Hinterländer Geschichtsblätter . tape 56 . Biedenkopf 1977, p. 49 (fig.).
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 50.6 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 28.3" E