Sinnershausen

Sinnershausen Castle

Sinnershausen is the northern outskirts of Hümpfershausen , a district of the town of Wasungen in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district in Thuringia .

history

monastery

The Sinnershausen Monastery (proper name: Monastery Rosenthal ) originally located here was built on the site of a destroyed farmstead Syndeloshusen . The monastery was first mentioned on June 19, 1294. Later forms of the name were Sindelashusen (1325), Sindreßhausen (1489) and Sondershusen (1502).

The Sinnershausen Monastery was founded by a pious knight Gottfried von Katza . The monks who belonged to the mendicant order of the Wilhelmites were sent by the Weißenborn monastery near Ruhla and had set themselves the task of helping travelers and pilgrims.

The monastery was devastated during the Peasants' War, set on fire and abandoned by the last monks. As rulers, the Counts of Henneberg determined the secularization of the property, the main buildings were largely destroyed by the fire and were demolished. The residents of the neighboring village of Lückershausen , now a deserted area in the Hümpfershausen corridor, suffered particularly from the forced labor of the monasteries, so almost all the farmers spontaneously joined the Werra heap . After the uprising was put down, the Lückershäuser prisoners were sentenced to death and their settlement was cremated. In 1611 the outbreak of the plague in the area around Hümpfershausen killed almost the entire population in five weeks, in 1634 an incursion by the Croatians and in 1637 an incursion by the Swedes were recorded in the church chronicle.

modification

Later owners built a farm yard around the monastery pond. In 1763 Heinrich von Hinckeldey acquired the property and redesigned the palace and park. The Berlin General Police Director Karl Ludwig Friedrich von Hinckeldey was born here in 1805. The baroque complex was rebuilt between 1859 and 1861 for Hereditary Prince Georg von Sachsen-Meiningen in an idealizing “Swiss house style”, probably by the architect Leonhard Wilhelm Brofft jr. The court gardener Wilhelm Sell redesigned the park from 1859. The family of Konrad von Hausmann , Prussian major general from Berlin, acquired Gut Sinnershausen as the last owner in 1918 . His widow, Laura von Hausmann, sold it to Georg Hausmann zu Veckenstedt in 1943 . In 1945 the von Hausmanns were expropriated due to the land reform law in the state of Thuringia . The castle building became the property of the Hümpfershausen community. During the period from 1946 to 1989 the house was used as a state children's health home. After the fall of the Wall, a training center for youth fire brigades and a youth hostel were set up in Sinnershausen Castle.

literature

• Wolfgang Eberhardt: Brief history of the Wilhelmitenkloster Weißenborn near Thal (=  To the history of the country on the Werra and Hörsel . Volume 1 ). Self-published, Bruchsal 1979.
• Hans Maresch, Doris Maresch: Thuringia's palaces and castles. Husum-Druck-und-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Husum 2008, ISBN 978-3-89876-351-6 , p. 123.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Brückner : Regional studies of the Duchy of Meiningen. Part 2: The topography of the country. Brückner & Renner, Meiningen 1853, p. 96 .
2. ↑ Sinnershausen Monastery. In: Rhönlexikon. Retrieved July 10, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Sinnershausen Youth Hostel (castle). (No longer available online.) In: Deutsche Jugendherbergen - Thüringen. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011 ; Retrieved July 10, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′  N , 10 ° 14 ′  E