Walkenried hunting lodge
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 Walkenried hunting lodge (main entrance) |
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Walkenried 
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| architect | Hermann Korb | |
| Client | Duke August Wilhelm of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel | |
| Architectural style | Baroque hunting lodge | |
| Construction year | 1725-1730 | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 34 '53 " N , 10 ° 37' 4" E | |
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The Walkenried hunting lodge (formerly Wildenhof hunting lodge ) is a baroque building built in the 18th century as a princely hunting lodge in the monastery of Walkenried on the southern Harz in the district of Göttingen .
From 1756 to 1966 the hunting lodge served as a forestry office and since 1976 the building, which is now a listed building, has been a hotel and guest house .
location
The listed hunting lodge is located in the Walkenried monastery district on the southern outskirts, next to the former monastery domain and the Walkenried manor house .
The district road K 424 / L 603 leads past the property from Walkenried to Wiedigshof on the state border with Thuringia (K 15 in the Nordhausen district ).
Building description
The castle in Walkenried is one of the few hunting lodges designed by the architect Hermann Korb that are still preserved today. The rather unadorned building has a square floor plan and a pyramid roof with a dwelling on three sides and two dormers on all four sides.
The north, south and west sides of the building have four windows and the east side has five window axes . The western side is dominated by the risalit of the staircase. The design of the facade is unusual for Korb . In the Walkenried hunting lodge, the architect did without the pilasters that are characteristic of him .
A special feature of the building can be found on the southern entrance side below the cornice , which is due to the fact that remains of the local church ruins were used during the construction . The inscription “WA-GALLIABBIS” can be found under the cornice, which is upside down but has not yet been interpreted.
Before the construction of the monastery wall moves along and framed a two hectare large park .
history
In 1720, Hermann Korb went to Walkenried, in the municipality on the southern Harz Mountains in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . The task was to inspect an old abbey that was to be demolished. In addition, a total of 220 poles and beams were to be procured, which were needed to equip for the construction of a planned hunting lodge in Walkenried. Korb assumed that a pile foundation would be necessary for the construction of the hunting lodge. However, the experienced architect was wrong here , since he had apparently only insufficiently viewed the building site and concluded from his experience alone. But the ground at the so-called Wildenhof , the selected building site outside the wall of the local monastery, was nowhere near as swampy as in the places where Korb was previously active.
Some difficulties meant that the start of construction was delayed and did not take place until March 1725. A lime kiln was needed to be able to burn the bitter lime for the shell itself. Construction was also difficult, as some beams were discovered that led through the chimneys . Due to the resulting fire hazard, this had to be changed urgently. After two years, the work on the shell came to an end, the interior work began, which was carried out by the Brunswick master builder Ernst Binteweis and lasted until 1730.
Three years after the start of construction - the scaffolding was slowly but surely rotting - the external plastering of the upper floors was still missing , not to mention the plastering work inside the castle and the plaster painting under the roof, which was still missing in 1729. In the same year some changes were made. Stone slabs were required on the ground floor, new stoves were to be installed, the doors to the bay rooms on the top floor were to be enlarged and the chimneys changed. Part of the difficulties were also due to the architect Korb, whose planning was apparently incomplete. In 1728, the master builder Ernst Binteweis drew a new crack for the stairs so that the carpenters knew how to do their work. From 1729 to 1730 the construction of the elaborate wood paneling of the upper floor and the hall, which cost 300 Reichstaler and which has been preserved until today, lasted.
The difficulties in building had consequences. The first construction defects were discovered as early as 1732. Miss von Münchhausen , who had moved into quarters on the weather side , complained about the penetration of moisture, which master builder Zwibbe stopped by adding the missing water hammer to the facade afterwards . Four years later it was discovered that plaster of paris was used to plaster the walls, which was not free of drift, which meant that it puffed up and eventually fell off.
After all construction defects could be remedied, the building was inhabited by Miss Agnese Margaretha von Münchhausen, in 1736 and 1737 it appeared as a princely house. Until the end of the 1730s it was a popular travel destination of the Wolfenbüttel rule. In 1750 the kitchen, which was not used for its original purpose, was used as an apartment for the gardener. After the young lady died in 1756, the building was occupied by a forest clerk and was the seat of the forest authority without interruption until 1966 .
For a long time, the local nobility had no interest in the castle in Walkenried. Only Duke Karl II. , Who had to flee from Braunschweig after an uprising in 1830, chose Walkenried Castle for his governmental activities. However, this plan was soon thwarted by the military . At the beginning of the 20th century the castle also housed a small boarding school for girls for some time ; it is believed that this was the sideline of a forester . In 1976 the Walkenried hunting lodge finally became the property of the Rose family, who converted it into a hotel and guest house and are still the owners of the palace today.
The stately property has been extensively renovated and lovingly cared for in recent years .
literature
- Udo von Alvensleben : The Brunswick castles of the baroque and their master builder basket. German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1937.
- Friedrich and Walter Reinboth: Walkenrieder Zeittafel - Outline of the local and monastery history from documentary and literary sources. Association for local history Walkenried and the surrounding area, Walkenried 1989
- Nicolaus Heutger : Walkenried Monastery - past and present. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86732-018-4 , p. 214.
- Fritz Reinboth: The common thread - a walk through the old Walkenried. Association for local history Walkenried / Bad Sachsa and the surrounding area eV, Papierflieger Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-86948-096-1 .
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ a b https://www.jagdschloss-harz.de/historie-jagdschloss . Retrieved July 27, 2020.
- ↑ The solid walls that encircle the park of the palace in the south and west date from the time when the Wildenhof monastery stud farm was located there before the palace was built.
- ↑ https://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/MineralData?mineral=Bitterkalk . Retrieved July 27, 2020.