Netzer Tiergarten
The Netzer Tiergarten was an enclosed forest and meadow area northwest of Netze , a current district of Waldeck in Northern Hesse , which served the Counts of Waldeck as a hunting reserve.
The enclosure was laid out in 1651, when courtly hunting based on the French model became an important aspect of the aristocratic lifestyle. A few hectares of forest and meadows were fenced in with high oak planks and stocked with red deer and fallow deer . It was located about 5 kilometers north of Waldeck Castle , east of today's Kreisstraße 19 and north of the B 485 between Netze and Selbach , and was therefore easy and quick to reach from the count's residence.
In 1701, Count Friedrich Anton Ulrich , son of the ruling Count Christian Ludwig von Waldeck, had the Friedrichsthal hunting lodge built immediately north of the Netzer Tiergarten on the site of an old moated castle in Selbach , with a large palace garden facing the zoo. When the count's estate in Selbach was converted into a domain at the beginning of the 19th century , the hunting lodge became the estate of the Selbach domain and the former zoo became part of the domain property.
During the Seven Years' War , on March 27, 1761, a battle took place between French on the one hand and British troops on the other hand at the "Schanzen am Tiergarten", still clearly visible today, in which the majority of the British battalion was taken prisoner. During the fighting, the zoo was largely destroyed by the French, and the wooden planks of the fence were almost completely burned. In 1771 the current home of the zoo was rebuilt. Later, a small private cemetery of the chief forester family Busold was created in the ski jumps at the zoo.
Today, the name of a residential area with several houses about 2.5 km northwest of Netze is reminiscent of the former zoo, which stretched north and west from here.
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 24 ″ N , 9 ° 4 ′ 1 ″ E
literature
- Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 2nd edition, Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen, 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 (p. 133)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grand General Staff: History of the Seven Years War (p. 120)
- ↑ http://touristik.freepage.de/cgi-bin/feets/freepage_ext/41030x030A/rewrite/rseltmann/Page2.htm
- ↑ Zoo, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on October 25, 2012 .