Lersner's castle

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The Lersner'sche Schloss (also Charlottenburg ) is a modern court estate with a castle-like , baroque mansion in Nieder-Erlenbach , a district of Frankfurt am Main in Hesse . The facility is located in the vicinity of an older moated castle , almost nothing of which has survived.

Courtyard side of the baroque manor house
Side view with Lersner's coat of arms

Castle complex

Nieder-Erlenbach, first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in 779 , came under the control of the imperial city of Frankfurt in the Middle Ages . In 1376 Emperor Karl IV gave the city the right to appoint mayors and lay judges in Nieder-Erlenbach . Soon after, a castle was built, possibly in place of an older complex. It is mentioned for the first time in 1403 when the place was surrounded by a moat.

Frankfurt occupied the castle with officials from the lower nobility. Over the centuries the families von Falkenstein , Eppstein , von Elkershausen , von Günderrode , von Hattstein , von Hundheim , von Lersner , von Schönborn and von Limpurg can be found as secular landlords. The facility may have been ruined or dilapidated during the Thirty Years' War . In 1698 it was sold to Johann Hieronymus von Glauburg from an old Frankfurt patrician family. From 1700 he had a manor house built, which is now the private Anna Schmidt School .

Modern lock

In 1726 the Lersner family owned 360 acres of land in Nieder-Erlenbach. The area south of the older castle, known as Sandhof as early as the middle of the 17th century , was acquired through an exchange between Gerhard Adam v. Staffel and Johann Philipp Steffan v. Cronstetten became the property of the von Cronstetten family on October 7, 1651. Euphrosyne Margaretha (1639–1707), the daughter of Johann Philipps von Cronstetten, married the widowed Heinrich Ludwig Lersner (1629–1696) in 1668, from whose inheritance most of the Lersner property in Nieder-Erlenbach comes. In the years 1741 to 1746, Friedrich Maximilian von Lersner (1697–1753) expanded through purchase and exchange with residents of Nieder-Erlenbach and with Philipp Ferdinand v. Hundheim the property of the Sandhof. Heinrich Ludwig von Lersner had today's baroque mansion built in 1746. In the second half of the 18th century, the site was leased in three sections, as there were insufficient farm buildings available. Karl Ludwig von Lersner (1777–1847), who had lived in Nieder-Erlenbach since 1805, bought additional neighboring properties. This made it possible to enlarge the Hofreite (in Hesse, an agricultural group of buildings in the form of a three-sided courtyard ) and to cultivate the land that had previously been leased. In 1840 or 1845 Gut Charlottenhof with stables around a rectangular courtyard and a mill on the Erlenbach were built on the site. Probably under Karl Ludwig von Lersner the conversion into a family entails ( Majorat ) took place. In 1893 the castle was rebuilt. A park behind the castle was laid out by Heinrich Siesmayer as an English landscape garden. The estate remained in the family's possession until 1953 and was sold to a farmer on September 25, 1953. A professional renovation was completed a few years ago; today it is a residential complex.

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 332.
  • Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Cultural monuments in Hesse. Town Frankfurt am Main. Edited by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen and the City of Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition 1994, ISBN 3-7973-0576-1 , p. 638 ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ; materials on monument protection in Frankfurt am Main 1 ).

Web links

Commons : Lersner'sches Schloss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Codex Laureshamensis III No. 3017
  2. ↑ Squire
  3. ^ Organizing Committee for the 1200th Anniversary Celebration (ed.): Festschrift for the 1200th anniversary of the Frankfurt district of Nieder-Erlenbach . 1979, p. 46 .
  4. ^ Organizing Committee for the 1200th Anniversary Celebration (ed.): Festschrift for the 1200th anniversary of the Frankfurt district of Nieder-Erlenbach . 1979, p. 62-64 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 5.2 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 41.7"  E