Junkernhof Meimbressen

The Junkernhof Meimbressen

The Junkernhof Meimbressen (more rarely also Meimbressen Castle ) is a manor house on the outskirts of Meimbressen , a district of the municipality of Calden in the northern Hessian district of Kassel . After the water castle, originally built on the same site, was devastated during the Thirty Years' War , the complex was rebuilt as a mansion for a manor .

location

The Junkernhof is located at an altitude of 235 meters above sea ​​level in the northern outskirts near the Nebelbeeke brook and is surrounded by a small park. The previous building, which was devastated in the Thirty Years War, was probably a fortified house ; the moats , which have long been filled, were fed by the nearby stream.

history

Coat of arms stone

The Junkernhof is a former aristocratic residence of Wolff von Gudenberg , who had been one of two landlords in the village of Meimbressen since the 14th century . The farm itself is said to have been occupied since the 13th century. In the Middle Ages the Archbishop of Mainz was their liege lord . They had half of the village with sovereignty and court , according to a feudal letter from 1423. In the 16th century, the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel conquered territorial rule in Meimbressen. The castle complex was devastated to the ground during the Thirty Years' War from 1623 to 1626 by the imperial troops of Tilly .

The attachment

The Junkernhof was rebuilt between 1659 and 1667 as the manor house of a manor. A long mansion with a quarry stone substructure and a half-timbered upper floor was built on the foundation walls of the old complex . In the area of ​​the northern gate passage there is a (now one-story) small round tower with loopholes on the north corner . The barn adjoining to the east gives the property an almost L-shaped floor plan , which is only slightly broken by the south-western extension to the manor house.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Meimbressen

literature

• Marcus Anbauer among others: mansions, palaces, castles & manors, Volume 2 - Photographic walks between Diemel, Schwalm, Eder, Fulda, Werra and Weser, Verlag M. Faste, Kassel 2004, ISBN 978-3-931691-39-4 ; Pp. 60-63
• Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies eV, branch association Hofgeismar: Village chronicle Meimbressen: Festschrift for the 1100 year celebration 2006 , Hofgeismar, 2006
• Susanne Jacob, Thomas Wiegand: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Werr-Meißer circle . II. City of Eschwege. In: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-528-06241-X , p. 110-111 .

Web links

Commons : Junkernhof Meimbressen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Junkernhof Meimbressen, Kassel district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Meimbressen Castle on regiowiki.hna.de
• The Junkernhof on burgen-und-schloesser.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see www.geschichte-calden.de/ortsteile/meimbressen/index.html (author Eberhard Wolff von Gudenberg, August 2006)
2. ↑ The Wolff von Gudenberg are still based in Meimbressen today.

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 22.9 ″  N , 9 ° 21 ′ 20 ″  E