Oesterholz hunting lodge

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Oesterholz hunting lodge
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Data
place Oesterholz-Haustenbeck
builder Hermann Wulff
Client Simon VI. (Lip)
Construction year 1597
Coordinates 51 ° 49 '41.2 "  N , 8 ° 50' 20.3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 49 '41.2 "  N , 8 ° 50' 20.3"  E

The Oesterholz hunting lodge is a former Lippe castle in Oesterholz in the Lippe district . The remaining parts of the building are now used as a senior citizens' home and are entered under number 5 in the list of architectural monuments in Schlangen .

history

At the site of the castle there was a Meierhof in the 16th century , which the Meier Christoph owned by the sovereign of the County of Lippe-Detmold, Simon VI. , had leased. Count Simon visited the farm several times on his hunting trips and so he decided to take over the dairy and build a hunting lodge here. Since the farmer was initially unwilling to relinquish his estate, Count Simon even had him imprisoned. Together with the neighboring Schwarzmeiersche Hof, in 1593 he finally had a sufficiently large area to implement his plans.

In the years 1597 to 1599, the Lemgo master builder Hermann Wulff and the carpenter Iggenhausen (from) Voßhagen built the half-timbered buildings on solid foundation walls on behalf of Simon . The castle was 92 × 153 meters in size, and the area also included a dairy. For defense, the entire complex was surrounded by a moat, the gate could only be reached via a drawbridge and loopholes were embedded in the foundation walls.

Although Simon VII tried to remain neutral during the Thirty Years' War and to protect his possessions in this way, Oesterholz Castle and the attached dairy were looted and apparently also damaged, because a major renovation began under Count Hermann Adolf from 1655. The half-timbered castle was demolished, only the count's room to the left of the entrance gate remained. A “large stone building” with towers at three of the four corners was built on the site of the castle. The stone entrance gate with the inscription 1665 and the deer figure - a clear sign of the purpose of the castle - as well as the remains of a tower on the southeastern edge of the complex come from this construction phase.

In the 18th century the castle fell into disrepair, and so Simon August decided in 1775 to demolish the building. The building materials were used for the construction of the “Zum Stern” spa facility (other sources name the spa facility “Zur Rose”, which was built around the same time) in Bad Meinberg .

The still existing dairy served as the administrative seat of the Horn Forestry Office until the 20th century. After the forest administration was relocated back to Horn in 1928, the remaining parts of the building were converted into an old people's home in 1929 , following a resolution by the state parliament and the state council.

photos

  • Drawing from 1632; the actual lock was to the right of the entrance gate

  • Gate with the year 1665 and a deer figure

  • Tower remains on the southeast side

literature

  • Burkhard Meier, Bernhard Hesterbrink: Lippe residences: palaces and fortresses between the Teutoburg Forest and the Weser . topp + möller, Detmold 1998, ISBN 3-9806101-2-8 , p. 117-122 .
  • Fred Kaspar and Peter Barthold: Big concepts and small remnants: The so-called castle and the Oesterholz domain. Investigations on the system as well as on the construction and functional history. In: Heinz Wiemann (Ed.): History of the villages Schlangen, Kohlstädt, Oesterholz and Haustenbeck, Volume 2, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 678–755.

Web links

Commons : Jagdschloss Oesterholz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Mense: The Oesterholz dairy. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 27, 2013 .