Krähberg hunting lodge

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Krähberg hunting lodge
View of the main building of the complex

View of the main building of the complex

Alternative name (s): Krehberg or Krähenburg
Creation time : 1761-1771
Castle type : Hunting lodge
Conservation status: receive
Standing position : High nobility
Place: Oberzent - Ober-Sensbach
Geographical location 49 ° 35 '1.8 "  N , 9 ° 1' 15.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '1.8 "  N , 9 ° 1' 15.1"  E
Height: 543  m above sea level NN
Krähberg hunting lodge (Hesse)
Krähberg hunting lodge

The hunting lodge Krähberg (formerly also Krehberg or Krähenburg ) is a well preserved and restored hunting lodge of the house Erbach - Fürstenau built in the 18th century directly on the plateau of the Krähberg at the northern end of Sensbachtal in the Odenwaldkreis in southern Hesse .

location

The ensemble of the hunting lodge is about twelve meters below the summit of the nearby Krähberg amidst beech forests in the central Odenwald about two and a half kilometers north of Ober-Sensbach and about three kilometers (south) east of Hetzbach and above the Siegfriedstraße , which bypasses the ridge to the south , on the nearby one Reußenkreuz and from which a 600 meter long ascending path leads to the Jagdschlösschen.

Under Krähberg and Jagdschloss, the Krähberg tunnel of the Odenwaldbahn , which when it was built was one of the largest (3.1 km long, 348 m high) railway tunnels in Germany, has connected the Mümling with the Ittertal since 1882 .

history

As early as 795, the Krähberg was mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in a border description to the Mark Heppenheim as Crawinberk , and was the southernmost border of the Mark Michelstadt (border description of the Mark Michelstadt). In 1484 the Krähberg was the subject of an arbitration award between Count Palatine Otto and Schenk Erasmus von Erbach because of the hunt.

After 1753, the municipality of Hetzbach sold the Krähberg to Count Ludwig II. Friedrich Graf zu Erbach-Fürstenau , who had the hunting lodge built on a plateau just below the mountain peak from 1761 to 1771. On the pages of the monument preservation Hessen and LAGIS , however, the building is his brother Count Georg Albrecht (Albert) III. awarded to Erbach-Fürstenau . The basis could be an engraving of a view of the hunting lodge with the four corner houses and a complete square enclosure as well as a drawn floor plan of the property, which is marked with “Stitched by Georg Graf zu Erbach 1750” (or 1760) and the two-part name “Prospect des Krehbergs. Grundriss des Krehberg "is entitled.

The fact is, however, that Count Ludwig, who was enthusiastic about hunting, spent almost his entire life at the hunting lodge, renounced a proper marriage in favor of his brother and was morganatically married to Christine Sophie Küchler . Presumably, the monument information relates to the grandson of Albrecht III., Albrecht (Albert) August Ludwig Graf zu Erbach-Fürstenau (1787–1851), who lived in the hunting lodge at the beginning of the 19th century and had a number of other buildings built on the property .

Until 1806 the castle belonged administratively to the Erbachschen Amt Freienstein. In 1845 three houses with 45 inhabitants are mentioned, belonging to the Protestant parish of Beerfelden and the Catholic parish of Erbach , assigned to the Hessian province of Starkenburg , district of Erbach , with the district court of Freienstein zu Beerfelden in the court of Darmstadt . At the hunting lodge there were works by the Erbach painter and lady-in-waiting of Count Franz I of Erbach . Marianne Lämmerhirt b. Kraus .

After the Erbachschen estates were mediatized in 1806, Albrecht August Ludwig Graf zu Erbach-Fürstenau, from 1820 to 1849 member of the 2nd to 11th Landtag of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and 1823/24 1st Chamber President, used the hunting lodge as the center of his life and died here in 1851. That On August 23, 1840, the hunting lodge was the lavish focus of the wedding of his daughter Luitgarde (1817–1897) with Friedrich Ludwig Graf zu Rechteren-Limpurg-Speckfeld .

There was still a large game park around the hunting lodge until the 20th century .

On July 15, 1913, the wife of Alfred Graf von Erbach-Fürstenau Jenny, born Princess zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and daughter of the Prussian Prime Minister Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, died here . In the 1960s it was the registered residence of Alfred Graf zu Erbach-Fürstenau, member of the Hessian state parliament .

After a long period of vacancy in the second half of the 20th century, the Erbach-Fürstenau house leased the hunting lodge in 1991 by way of a heritable building right .

architecture

The palace was a regularly laid out late Baroque assembly, the design of which was evidently influenced by the Hermitage in Waghäusel , built around 1730 .

The central mansion , a simple, plastered two-story building, is accessed via a representative stair landing and is crowned by a round arched portal . The house has a corner cuboid and segmented arched windows with house walls. Today's tent roof used to be a mansard roof.

The large forest barn

Four square pavilions of clapboard half-timbering with mansard roofs were built on each corner of the rectangular property, each about 40 meters long, and served as a kitchen, administrator's house and servants' apartment.

The hunting lodge also includes a small farmyard from the 19th century with a kitchen extension from 1823, a stable and a coach house that was formerly provided with a chapel. A 26 m deep draw well , an octagonal tea house above the castle (built by Erbach architect Wendt in 1813) and the forester's house "Achtbuchen" built in 1841 complete the complex. The forester's house is a shingled half-timbered building with a classicistically designed dwarf house and a half- hipped roof . A forest barn from the 18th century, a large quarry stone building with corner blocks and a half- hip roof , adjoins the castle area .

The hunting lodge stood empty for a long time at the end of the 20th century. With the leasing to private parties, extensive restoration work began in 1992.

  • A remains of a well on the western slope below the hunting lodge

  • A district stone on the western edge of the hunting lodge with the coat of arms of the House of Erbach

  • The district stone with an "H" for the town of Hetzbach on the other side

Todays use

From 1992 to 1997, the baroque ensemble of Krähberg Castle was extensively renovated in a first phase of construction, with the half-timbering on eight buildings being restored and interior fittings being carried out.

The hunting lodge was used by the building planner Otfried Rau and his family not only for residential purposes but also for architecture and consulting offices as well as a seminar center with a focus on relaxation / self-awareness . Otfried Rau received the monument award in 2002 for the restoration of the Krähberg hunting lodge.

The ensemble of the hunting lodge is in its entirety a cultural monument .

Since October 2009, the municipality of Sensbachtal (since 2018 City of Oberzent) has been trying to upgrade the Krähberg hunting lodge to a cultural monument of overriding importance. This is to prevent technical buildings in the immediate vicinity that could disrupt the landscape and monument image. The historic property is to be preserved in its surrounding landscape as one of the few effective objects of identification and structural landmarks of the small community. With this, the municipality combines a commitment to the public importance of the property and, in addition to maintaining its value through monument-conscious private use, would also like to reflect the special architectural and cultural-historical status of the hunting lodge in the monument topography of the Odenwald district .

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literature

  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 331.
  • Falk Krebs: The hunting lodge on the Krähberg. An architectural history study ; in: Winfried Wackerfuss (ed.) Contributions to the study of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes IV of the Breuberg-Bund , Breuberg-Neustadt 1986, pp. 387-418

Web links

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

Views

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The grounds of the hunting lodge, together with the Reußenkreuz residential area, form an outskirts of the Oberzenter district of Ober-Sensbach.
  2. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 6a, mid-August 795. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, pp. 59–60 , accessed on April 13, 2016 .
  3. ^ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 21 (Regest 3151), between 819 and 823. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, pp. 80–82 , accessed on April 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ since 1753 joint reign with his brother Georg Albrecht III. Count of Erbach-Fürstenau , cf. also:
    Erbach-Fürstenau, Georg Albrecht III. Count too. Hessian biography (as of June 1, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 11, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Gustav Simon: The history of the dynasts and counts of Erbach and their country. Brönner, Frankfurt a. M. 1858. p. 455
  6. ↑ cf. in: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (Hrsg.): Jagdschloß Krähberg In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  7. ↑ Jagdschloss Krähberg, Odenwaldkreis. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 11, 2012 .
  8. ↑ View and floor plan of the Krähberg hunting lodge near Ober-Sensbach, 1780. Historical town views, plans and floor plans (status: November 24, 2008). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ cf. Breakdown in the province of Starkenburg / structure , southern administrative office of the county of Erbach named after Freienstein Castle
  10. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch: The newest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all the localities of the German federal states , Naumburg 1845, p. 797
  11. ↑ According to the land register, the owner is the Count of Erbach-Fürstenau. Land register of Ober-Sensbach: sheet 164, inventory number 25, district Ober-Sensbach, hall 9, parcel 2, Krähberg 1 or hereditary land register of Ober-Sensbach, sheet 226.
  12. ↑ Archive images of the renovation by the Rau carpentry ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  13. ^ Application for inclusion in the regional plan for South Hesse; see. Article in Darmstädter Echo  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sensbachtal holds hunting lodge on the Krähberg in honor of October 22, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.echo-online.de