Crooked House (Detmold)

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Crooked house

The Krumme Haus is a listed secular building in Detmold in the Lippe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is located within the Detmold Open-Air Museum at the entrance to the facility.

Architecture and history

The narrow, single-storey plastered building stands on a segment-arched floor plan under a high, renewed mansard hipped roof . It formed the end of the Friedrichstal gardens on the slope of the Büchenberg south of Detmold. The facades were last changed in the 19th century. In 2000/01 the system was completely renovated and the rear annex was added.

Countess Amalie, the mother of Count Friedrich Adolf , had taken over the Pöppinghausen dairy on the site in 1681 and expanded the main building into a small castle. She had an orangery built in 1695/96 , the Crooked House that still exists today . Below the Krumme Haus, a terraced garden was built according to plans by the Hamburg painter and architect Hans Hinrich Rundt , which was to become a special design feature of Friedrichstal. The terraces of the former garden can still be seen today. Count Friedrich Adolf continued the construction work that had started. In order to equip the fountains in the ponds with the necessary water pressure, he had today's mill pond dammed in the open-air museum north of the facility. From there the water flowed over wooden and tin pipes in cascades to a second pond on the lowest terrace.

In 1774 the garden was redesigned in the English style and then overgrown. The complex used to be richly equipped with water features and a grotto . This was built by Jan Crose from 1708 to 1712 and converted into a mausoleum for the Princely House in 1856 . The construction management had state master builder Ferdinand Brune . The oldest coffins of the sovereign line were transferred from the Protestant Church of the Redeemer to the simple stone vault in 1856 . These included two magnificent lead sarcophagi from the 18th century. The niches of the right lining wall were restored in 1930.

In the 1930s, the Krumme Haus served as an excursion and dance venue for Detmold citizens. After the establishment of the Detmold Open Air Museum , it houses the administration of this institution.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 234 f.
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Ruppert: Friedrichstaler Canal in Detmold. Page 25,26.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 22.2 "  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 12.5"  E