Sankt Meinolf hunting lodge
The hunting lodge Sankt Meinolf , originally Wilhelmsruh and temporarily called Conradsruh , is a former stately home in the Lower Arnsberg Forest near Neuhaus and belongs to Stockum , a district of the municipality of Möhnesee in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia, five kilometers to the north . Sankt Meinolf is surrounded by the Arnsberg Forest nature reserve .
history
The picturesque, castle-like complex was built in 1891 for the Hamburg banker Conrad Hinrich Donner (banker, 1844) (1844-1911) - a grandson of the bank's founder Conrad Hinrich Donner - and in 1911 by the Kiel architect Count Karl-Wilhelm von Hardenberg (1873-1960 ) rebuilt and expanded for Conrad Hinrich Donner (landowner) (1876–1937). It is the last palace to be built in the Sauerland.
How and why the von Donner family, who also owned estates in Schleswig-Holstein , acquired the property in the Arnsberg Forest with large areas of forest and managed it as entails , is not known. After the death of Conrad Hinrich (III.) Von Donner in 1911, the heir Conrad Hinrich (IV.) Von Donner renamed the building to Conradsruh .
It is of particular importance that the von Donner family settled non-native game as a result of their relationship with Hamburg's Hagenbeck Zoo . Most of the species have now disappeared. Only the sika game was able to hold its own until today.
In connection with the Great Depression , the von Donner family had to sell the property in the 1930s. As a result, the castle changed hands several times. After the takeover by Wilhelm von Opel , the property was again called Wilhelmsruh . After the Second World War , the building was taken over by the British military administration. The castle has been called St. Meinolf since 1947 after the Archdiocese of Paderborn established an educational facility there.
The church leased the property from the von Opel family until 1980. Then he was sold to the vicariate general of the Catholic military bishop , Soldatenseelsorge GmbH. As a result, the building was restored. Newly built outbuildings were built in a similar style. From then on, the castle was to serve Catholic soldiers as a place for religious training and discussion. The church sold the building again in 1998. Then he changed hands again several times. A hotel and restaurant business was closed in 2013. The castle has been privately owned since 2014.
architecture
The round arched and rectangular windows in stone frames are characteristic. The rich half-timbering on the upper floors is remarkable . The half-hip roofs are varied. The house is completed by a decorative tower with a pyramid roof and a lantern top.
Nearby is the listed forester's house Wilhelmsruh . The angled house was built in 1914 with open arcades as the entrance area and a loggia above .
literature
- Friedhelm Ackermann: The last castle in the Sauerland. The checkered history of "Wilhelmsruh", the hunting lodge of Hamburg banker Conrad Hinrich Freiherr von Donner in the Arnsberg Forest on the Möhnesee. In: 200 years of the State Forestry Office in Arnsberg 1803–2003. Düsseldorf 2003, pp. 115-117.
- Ursula Quednau (Red.): Dehio manual of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , S. #.
Web links
- Photo and brief history (accessed May 25, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Conrad Hinrich Freiherr von Donner (father and son) at www.woydt.be , accessed on May 5, 2016
- ^ Karl-Wilhelm von Hardenberg at www.einegrossefamilie.de , accessed on May 5, 2016
- ^ "Ah": St. Meinolf, mountains of debt instead of noble hostel. In: Soester Anzeiger from March 27, 2013, accessed on March 31, 2014
- ↑ "dümi / ah": New owner for St. Meinolf. In: Soester Anzeiger of September 29, 2014, last accessed on May 5, 2016
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 5.6 ″ N , 8 ° 7 ′ 47.1 ″ E