Münchhausenhof

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Münchhausenhof with park area (2014)

The Münchhausenhof is a former Burgmannshof in Hessisch Oldendorf , whose manor house was built in 1583 by the barons of Münchhausen in the Weser Renaissance style. It is considered the largest and most important aristocratic court in the county of Schaumburg .

description

The castle-like mansion is a two-wing complex built from 1583 on an arm of the Weser . The front side of the two-story building faces the Weser. The octagonal stair tower crowned with triangular gables is older and was probably built in 1536. The portal of the south wing was built in 1585. The knight's hall inside has a door and a fireplace, each decorated with fittings . The park around the manor is open to the public.

history

The Münchhausenhof at the city wall, in the foreground a branch of the Weser, 1647

The Burgmannshof was built in the 13th century and has been owned by the von Büschen family of ministers since the 14th century . The last of his line was Claus Büschen († 1565). In 1559, with the approval of the feudal lords, he divided his property between his sons-in-law and signed over his property to them (the poet Börries von Münchhausen described the circumstances of this transfer in 1898 in his famous ballad The Last of the Sex ). In this way, the Münchhausenhof came into the possession of Börries von Münchhausen (1515–1583), Lord of Apelern and Schwedesdorf Castle in Lauenau, who had been married to his daughter Heilwig (1537–1599) since 1557. In 1583 Börries von Münchhausen began to expand the existing complex, which was completed by his widow.

Through the division of the inheritance between the sons of Börries and the daughter Heilwig, the Münchhausenhof fell in 1594 to the son Ludolf von Münchhausen , who lived in the castle until 1640 and, as a humanist and writer, brought together an important library. In 1596 he bought the sundial that adorns the building from Henning Ebbeke . From 1783 the Münchhausen, whose headquarters are in Lauenau and Groß Vahlberg , leased the Münchhausenhof, in 1947 they sold the manor house and the almost 200 hectare arable farm that is now managed by the Diers-Möller family.

literature

  • Hans Maresch, Doris Maresch: Münchhausen mansion In: Lower Saxony's palaces, castles & mansions. Husum Verlag, Husum 2012, ISBN 978-389876-604-3 , p. 132

Web links

Commons : Münchhausenhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the noble family of the bushes (with the lily coat of arms), which died out in 1565, see: Werner Konstantin von Arnswaldt : Die Büschen in der Grafschaft Schaumburg , in: Vierteljahresschrift f. Coat of arms, seal, family history, 44, 1916, 226-32; Johannes Meyer: Die Büsche im Schaumburgischen , in: FamgBll 39, 1941, 29–31.
  2. ^ Genealogy of Claus Büschen
  3. ↑ Maresch, Hans and Doris: Lower Saxony's palaces, castles & mansions as a book title with table of contents from the Husum publishing group

Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 0.3 "  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 48.4"  E