Landsberger Hof
The Landsberger Hof is a city palace built in 1605 in the old town of Arnsberg , which today houses the Sauerland Museum .
It consists of a main building with a tower attached to the rear, a side wing and ancillary buildings. Below the courtyard there was a representative garden and a promenade, which later had to give way to the expansion of the city.
history
Elector Ernst von Bayern (1583–1612) had the building erected over a section of the medieval city wall (approx. 1240) in the area of what was then the lower town based on French models. After completion, the elector transferred the building to Gertrud von Plettenberg , who was responsible as administrator for the princely palaces in Schloss Arnsberg , Schloss Höllinghofen and Hirschberg. The countess was the Elector's mistress and possibly his secret wife. After Gertrud's death, the later so-called Landsberger Hof passed to her daughter Katharina, who, like Wilhelm von Bayern ( Landdrost in the Duchy of Westphalia from 1613 to 1624 and later Prince Abbot of Stablo and Malmedy ), came from Gertrud's connection with Ernst von Bayern . This daughter of the elector, also named by Bavaria, married a nobleman in Spanish service and therefore had to leave Arnsberg. The farm was rented to the electorate for the amount of CHF 1,000 per year. During the reign of Elector Ferdinand of Bavaria (1612–1650), the electoral state resigned the heiress Katharinas, a nun in Belgium, with 4,000 guilders. The money was to be used to build a church for the nunnery in France. In Ferdinand's time, the building was the seat of the Landdrosten, the highest electoral official in the duchy, as a residence and office.
During the reign of Maximilian Heinrich , the building was bought by the electoral state, but at the same time Drosten's office was moved to the castle itself. As an award for his services to the duchy, the estates of the duchy decided to transfer the complex to the landdrosten Daniel Dietrich von Landsberg zu Erwitte . Since then the building has been known as the " Landsberger Hof ". Until the building became the property of the city of Arnsberg in 1921, it remained in the possession of the von Landsberg family.
However, it has been used for public purposes since the 18th century. After a fire, the Landsberger Hof was rebuilt between 1733 and 1741 by the builder Michael Spanner . After the castle was destroyed in 1762, the Landsberger Hof was the residence of the Electors of Cologne during their stays in Arnsberg. After the electoral administration fled Bonn from the French revolutionary troops, the court served as the seat of the electoral state's higher appellate court from 1794 . Also in Hessian (since 1803) and Prussian times (since 1816) it was the residence and office of authorities and institutions. After Hessen-Darmstadt took possession of the Duchy of Westphalia, it was the government building and the seat of the court chamber and the war commission. When it passed to Prussia, the court had been the official and residence of the first district president of Bernuth . The royal court had been housed there since 1825. After the construction of a new courthouse, the Landsberger Hof housed, among other things, the head post office. Plans by the city of Arnsberg to set up a girls' school there in the 19th century failed because of the purchase price demanded by the von Landsberg family.
After the transfer to the city, the building became the seat of the local volunteer fire brigade and a local museum. Due to a lack of money, the system was sold to the Arnsberg district during the Second World War and later passed on to its successor, the Hochsauerlandkreis . After the war it served as a school for the children of the Belgian soldiers stationed in Arnsberg, the information point “ Die Brücke ” and the regional police. After the fire brigade moved out in 1959, the war-damaged building was carefully restored and has been the exhibition site of the Sauerland Museum of Regional History since 1964 . There is a museum café in an outbuilding .
literature
- Friedhelm Ackermann, Alfred Bruns: Castles and palaces and monasteries in the Sauerland. Strobel Verlag, Arnsberg 1985, ISBN 3-88793-006-14 .
- Karl Féaux de Lacroix : History of Arnsberg. HR Stein-Verlag, Arnsberg 1895, pp. 405-408 (Unchanged reprint. Stein, Werl 1983, ISBN 3-9209-8005-0 ).
- Uwe Haltaufderheide: The architectural monuments of the city of Arnsberg. Collection period 1980–1990. City of Arnsberg, Arnsberg 1990, ISBN 3-928394-01-0 , p. 25f.
- Thomas Spohn: On the history of construction and use of the Landsberger Hof in Arnsberg. In: Heimatblätter Arnsberg. Vol. 23, 2002, ISSN 1612-538X , pp. 9-25.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '49 " N , 8 ° 3' 54.5" E