Linsburg hunting lodge
The Linsburg Hunting Lodge was a hunting lodge in Linsburg in what is now Lower Saxony , which arose from a hunting camp established in the 16th century. Expanded by the Calenberg dukes at the end of the 17th century , they were used to hunt in the nearby Grinderwald . Since the facility had been largely unused since 1714 as a result of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , it was demolished from 1770. The remains are a building now used as a residential building and a small pond as the remainder of a castle pond.
Building description
The hunting lodge was in the middle of what is now the village of Linsburg, which at that time consisted of only a few houses and farms. In the final stages, at the end of the 17th century, the palace complex was almost 20 hectares in size and was 800 meters long and 250 meters wide. It consisted of the building complexes of the old and the new castle, which were connected by two double-row oak avenues. It continued behind the old castle as Königsallee and led into the hunting ground of the Grinderwald.
Old castle
The hunting lodge developed from a simple hunting camp, which is believed to have been built in the 16th century. In the course of time, 10 buildings were built, which could accommodate the royal court traveling to the hunt and its entourage for several weeks. It is possible that the first buildings were built on the remains of the former "Linsburg Castle". The buildings of the hunting lodge, which were called the old castle , were in the south of Linsburg in a depression. They included the palace, the count's, the prince's, the slaughterhouse and the bakery as well as the baker's house , the guard house, the stables , the forge and a menagerie .
New lock
From 1680 there was an expansion of the palace with further main buildings for the electoral family and the nobles accompanying them. The reasons for this are the poor comfort of the old buildings, their poor state of construction (due to their location in damp terrain) and the increased space requirements for larger hunting parties. The new palace complex was built with nine buildings under the name Neues Schloss at a height of around 500 meters north of the old complex on the slight elevation of the "Päperbarge" (Pfefferberg). It was a three-wing complex with the palace as the main building and the royal house and the prince's house as a side building. The extensions included a pastry shop, the kitchen, the guard house, the wagon shed and the stables. The stables and the wagon shed were each about 90 meters long. The electoral family and their entourage had 21 rooms in the palace, 13 in the royal house and 15 in the prince's house for living and representing. The interior of the hunting lodge was carried out appropriately, as government activities continued and diplomatic negotiations were conducted here during the court's hunting trips. According to old inventory lists, the rooms had gold leather wallpapers.
After the expansion of the hunting lodge, the palace complex comprised 19 buildings, including numerous farm and auxiliary buildings. All buildings were of a simple design. Most of them were half-timbered structures filled with stones . As building were among other stones of Landestrost Castle from Neustadt am Rübenberge used, made by the 1675 softening came. To ensure the food supply through fish, four castle ponds were created. The castle extension, begun in 1680, was completed in 1702 and cost around 30,000 thalers .
history
The time when the hunting lodge was built is in the dark. It is believed that Duke Erich II , who resided in Neustadt am Rübenberge , raised the Grinderwald to a court hunting ground in the 16th century. During this time, a simple predecessor facility is said to have existed in Linsburg as a hunting camp. Only after the end of the Thirty Years' War do historical sources mention the complex as a hunting ground in 1648 and report on the frequent presence of the Calenberg Prince Georg Wilhelm, who resided in Hanover . When he became the ruling prince of the Principality of Lüneburg in 1665 , his brother Johann Friedrich took over the hunting grounds of the Grinderwald and the hunting lodge, where he stayed for several weeks each year. After his death in 1679, his brother Ernst August succeeded him, who had the hunting lodge expanded significantly from 1680 onwards. Martin Charbonnier designed the gardens in 1696. It is reported that Ernst August was an avid hunter and spent several weeks in the Linsburg hunting lodge several times a year. The stays in Linsburg offered little diversion to his wife Sophie von der Pfalz . The visits of the Hanoverian court counselor Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Linsburg are said to have given her a change .
Decline
When George I was made King of Great Britain and Ireland in 1714 and moved to Great Britain, the Linsburg Hunting Lodge lost its importance. During his repeated visits to the Electorate of Hanover , George I came to Linsburg to hunt. His son Georg II also hunted in the Grinderwald during his visits to the Electorate of Hanover, the last time in 1755. After his death in 1760, King George III , who lived in Great Britain . the removal of the hunting lodge began, as the maintenance of the largely unused and in need of repair buildings swallowed up large sums of money. From 1770 onwards, with the exception of three buildings, the palace buildings were sold for demolition . The building materials were reused for the Bad Rehburg spa facilities , the rebuilding of the church in Husum and the paving of the highway from Hanover to Bremen, today's B 6 . From the material of the demolished prince's house, a two-storey building for the forester was built in the same place in 1779. Today it is a home for the elderly. The only remaining building of the hunting lodge is the former pastry shop, which was renovated around 1980 and now serves as a residential building. Another remnant of the hunting lodge is one of the four palace ponds. Half of it was preserved because it served as a fire fighting pond for a long time . In 2003 the pond was rehabilitated by a local heritage association. In 2010 an information board on the history of the castle was set up by the pond.
Even after the hunting lodge was demolished in 1770, the court hunts continued in the Grinderwald, to which the hunting guests came from Hanover. The hunting lodges of Springe and Göhrde took on the role of the Linsburg hunting lodge .
literature
- Ludwig Hoffmeyer: The Wölpe office and the Grinderwald with the lordly hunting lodge Linsburg , Nienburg a. Weser, 1922
- Hermann Ziegler: "Our Elector Jhagen zu Linsburg". On the history of the hunting lodge on the edge of the Grinderwald , 2000, Linsburg
- 800 years of Linsburg . Linsburg community, Linsburg 2003, OCLC 255138655 .
Web links
- The Jagdschloß Linsburg in: The Linsburger Chronik on gemeindelinsburg.de
- The new hunting lodge in: The Linsburger Chronik on gemeindelinsburg.de
- A display reminds of the hunting lodge near Samtgemeinde Steimbke on August 30, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmut Knocke : Charbonnier , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 84, online via Google books
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 9 ° 18 ′ 18.7 ″ E