Rodensteiner Hof
The Rodensteiner Hof is under monument protection standing cultural monument in Bensheim on the mountain road . It is an old noble court.
History and the present
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The Rodensteiner Hof is located outside the former city wall (Auerbacher Tor). It is believed that there was a residential building on this site as early as 1570. This came into the possession of the Lords of Rodenstein , who came from Fränkisch-Crumbach . The noble family died out in 1671 and the building came into the possession of the von Haxthausen family . She then sold it in 1698 to the Mainz privy councilor Johann Martin Ludwig von Schleiffras. Seven years later (1705) he sold it to Lieutenant General Johann Rudolf von Pretlack from Darmstadt . Von Pretlack stayed in Bensheim until 1733. Subsequently, the Rodensteiner Hof came into the possession of the Palatinate Privy Councilor, court chamber and forest director Franz Caspar von Überbruck and Rodenstein. The von Überbruck family came to Bergstrasse from Lorraine . She had Germanized her French name d'Oultepont . The emperor gave them permission to use the title “Noble von Rodenstein”. Nothing is known about the size and appearance of the estate at that time. It is believed that under von Pretlack or by von Überbruck a seven-axis main building was built on today's Darmstädter Straße until 1739. It is assumed that older buildings were used. Überbruck's son Johann Heinrich Adam probably had a further expansion to the south and east carried out from 1742.
In the second half of the 19th century , considerable renovation work was carried out on the Rodensteiner Hof. The imposing tower was built in 1883. After the von Überbrucks died out in 1904, the property became the property of the city of Bensheim. This tried in vain to sell the Rodensteiner Hof. In the years that followed, the Rodensteiner Hof was used in a variety of ways. From 1905 it housed the Jewish Julius Bauer banking house. Then the Hessian state domain , the railway directorate, the Reichsbank branch, the district management of the NSDAP and the savings bank. When the Bensheim town hall was destroyed in 1945, the city of Bensheim used the Rodensteiner Hof as the town hall until 1983.
From 1984 to 1989 the entire building complex remained unused. In September 1990, a private investor bought the Rodensteiner Hof and fundamentally renovated it by 1992. Today, the Rodensteiner Hof houses office space, a café and apartments.
Property and construction
The Rodensteiner Hof is a closed four-sided complex that is grouped around an inner courtyard. The large main building is located on Darmstädter Straße. It is two-story and has a hipped roof. The walls are walled in with lime and brick and have a white plaster. The building facade was divided into twelve axes and the edges are emphasized by pilaster strips . The south wing is also two-story and has eight window axes. The tower from 1883 has a round arched passage. The tower is staggered at its corners. It ends at the top with a far overhanging console-supported cornice . The top of the tower is an octagonal turret with a hood and pointed helmet.
Park
The Rodensteiner Hof has a spacious park, the Bensheimer Stadtpark. The style is reminiscent of a small English country park. Among other things, it houses a round pavilion on brick pillars. In the pavilion there is a group of figures ( Cupid and Psyche ) carved from marble, albeit damaged .
Until 2002 there was a monument made of granite blocks in the east of the park. On September 6, 1936, it was inaugurated by the Hessian Gauleiter and Reich Governor Jakob Sprenger as a memorial to the district . It was intended to commemorate the violent deaths of six National Socialists between 1929 and 1933. The monument was built on the initiative of Bensheim's mayor and NSDAP district leader Georg Brückmann. The "circle memorial" consisted of six blocks. A bronze eagle with a swastika emblem sat on a small square . The monument was designed by the Auerbach sculptor Tilman Zobel. He was advised by the Freiburg sculptor Hermann Geibel. The swastika, eagle and National Socialist inscriptions were removed by summer 1945 at the latest. It was redesigned as a prisoner of war memorial in 1953. A fire bowl was integrated into the memorial. In 1956 there was another redesign. The memorial has now been declared a “memorial for the fallen soldiers of Bensheim in all wars since 1866”. The brazier was replaced by an iron cross . A surrounding wall with an altar shrine was built around the monument. In 2002 the memorial was removed.
A number of sculptural works can be found scattered around the park. On the wall facing Darmstädter Strasse there are putti that represent the seasons, as well as vases. In the north-west behind the Rodensteiner Hof stands the figure of a dancing lady-in-waiting. The works are copies of works of art by the Bamberg court sculptor Ferdinand Tietz . In the period from 1765 to 1768 he had created it for the palace gardens in Veitshöchheim .
At an opening in the wall to the Kirchberg above the park , there are two boundary stones - probably from the 18th century. They show the Mainz Wheel or the Hessian Lion .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Cultural monuments in Hesse: Rodensteiner Hof , accessed on April 19, 2008
- ↑ The Ritterplatz and the Stadtpark ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Bergsträßer Anzeiger edition of July 28, 2007
Web links
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- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Rodensteiner Hof / Stadtpark In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 0.2 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 19.6 ″ E