Schönburg Castle

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Schönburg Castle

The Schlösschen Schönburg (formerly called Montcherie ) is an early Classicist castle in the small town of Hofgeismar in the northern Hessian district of Kassel ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The Schönburg Castle is located in the Gesundbrunnen Park, which extends on the north-eastern edge of the city center of Hofgeismar. It is located at about 150  m above sea level. NHN on an artificially raised hill. The swan pond is about 50 m south of the castle . Not far to the east, the Lempe runs along the eastern border of the park and flows a few hundred meters further west into the Esse coming from the south .

history

The castle was built from 1787 to 1790 according to plans by Simon Louis du Ry for Landgrave Wilhelm IX. , the later Elector Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel , built on the edge of the sophisticated bathing complex, which was then Bad Gesundbrunnen near Hofgeismar, which was built in various phases from 1701 onwards . The Staatsbad Gesundbrunnen was dissolved after the Prussian annexation of Hessen-Kassel in 1866, and the complex is now part of the Gesundbrunnen Park.

The small castle is a highlight of early classical architecture. The originally French name "Montcherie" was replaced in 1795 by the current name, which is reminiscent of the Schöneberg castle ruins located around 1.8 km (as the crow flies) to the north .

The castle was originally the residence of the Landgrave and, since 1803, Elector Wilhelm during his summer stays. In 1822/23, today's staircase was added by the Kassel court architect Johann Conrad Bromeis and the interior furnishings were carried out, some of which are still preserved today. The original furnishings of the electoral bathroom are still preserved today. From 2010 to 2011, with the support of the State of Hesse, the bathroom and ceiling paintings in two corner rooms on the ground floor were restored and preserved.

Since 1952 the building has been used by the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar as part of a conference center.

The Gesundbrunnen in front of it was subjected to extensive renovation by 2016. A renovation of the castle is to follow.

In 2015, Roswitha Kaiser, the state curator at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse , highlighted the little castle as an “undoubtedly outstanding monument of Kassel classicism ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leisure map of the Habichtswald / Reinhardswald Nature Park (TF 50-HR; scale  = 1: 50,000; 2003),
    publisher : Hessisch-Waldeckischer Gebirgs- und Heimatverein e. V. and Hessian Land Surveying Office, ISBN 3-89446-319-8
  2. ↑ Exemplary: The restoration of the Schönburg castle in Hofgeismar , State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, local discussion on the concept of monument preservation, April 2015, accessed on January 19, 2017, at lfd.hessen.de

literature

  • Gerhard Bott: The Gesundbrunnen at Hofgeismar. (= Great Architectural Monuments . Booklet 213). 2nd Edition. Munich / Berlin 1975, DNB 760146144 .
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 186–188.
  • Michael Frede, Götz J. Pfeiffer: The fountain temple of Simon-Louis du Ry at the Gesundbrunnen to Hofgeismar in the past and present. In: Yearbook for the district of Kassel. 2012, pp. 111-117.

Web links

Commons : Schlösschen Schönburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 22.9 ″  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 18.8 ″  E