Lusthaus (Rhoden)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 10 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 4 ″  E

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The pleasure house was built as a hunting lodge in the middle of the 17th century at the same time as Rhoden Palace . It was in the district of Rhoden in what is now the north Hessian town of Diemelstadt .

Geographical location

The small castle was about 260 meters above sea ​​level, about 2.5 km in the forest southwest of Rhoden.

history

The construction of the complex by Count Georg Friedrich von Waldeck took place around 1650 parallel to the construction of the palace in Rhoden. The two-storey hunting lodge had a floor area of ​​27 by 15 meters. The outdoor area had an area of ​​approx. 350 hectares and included a zoo surrounded by a wooden fence and a 150 m long water art with dammed ponds , cascades and fountains . The hunting lodge was connected to the count's residence in Rhoden by an avenue of oaks .

In 1694, the prince-bishop of Paderborn Hermann Werner von Wolff-Metternich was invited to the canal for a pleasure and water hunt in the “Lusthaus”. At the beginning of the 18th century the house and waterwork were renovated, but fell into disrepair again in the following period.

In 2012 committed volunteers from three Diemelstadt associations began to uncover the overgrown but still existing ponds of so-called "art" in the Rhoder forest. Since the completion of the measures, the view from the dams of the ponds to the former waterway and the area of ​​the former hunting lodge has been free again.

literature

  • Heinrich Bodenhausen (arr.): Neudorf, history of a village in the Red Land (the Nygge Dorp in front of the Urhanenberge), 1537–2004. Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein, Bad Arolsen, 2004, pp. 81–82

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lusthaus, Diemelstadt community. Castles, palaces, mansions (as of October 2, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 19, 2019 .
  2. ^ "Water art in the forest exposed", Waldeckische Landeszeitung , March 21, 2012 , accessed on June 21, 2019
  3. ↑ Verkehrs- und Verschönerungsverein Rhoden e. V .: "Water art in the forest exposed" (March 26, 2012) , accessed on June 21, 2019