Alverdissen Castle

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Alverdissen Castle

The Castle Alverdissen is a castle in Barntruper district Alverdissen in Lippe . A castle of the County of Sternberg was mentioned here as early as the 14th century . Princess Pauline von Lippe bought the castle in 1812 . After that, the building served as the seat of the Sternberg Office and from 1879 to 1969 as the seat of the Alverdissen District Court . From 1979 to 2008 it was used as an archive building. The current building dates from the 17th century and has been structurally changed several times over the years. It is registered with the number 1 as an architectural monument in the municipal monument list.

history

The place Alverdissen is mentioned in 1151 as the founding of the Lords of Sternberg. In 1396 the castle of the same name is mentioned as the manor of the County of Sternberg. In 1405 the castle came to the Lippe family . In 1424 the place and the castle were destroyed but restored by 1450.

From 1613 onwards, Count Philip I. zu Schaumburg-Lippe received the castle, the office and the Alverdissen area as a paragium from the ruling Detmold line. Alverdissen became part of the Grafschaft Schaumburg-Lippe from 1640 . Philip's son Friedrich Christian laid the foundation stone for today's palace in 1662. Princess Pauline acquired the castle, the office and the place Alverdissen in 1812. The castle was then the seat of the Sternberg office. The district court of Alverdissen was located in the castle from 1879 to 1969. After extensive modernization between 1977 and 1979, the castle was used as a branch of the Detmold State Archives until 2008 . The castle has been privately owned since 2009 and is not open to the public.

Building description

Alverdissen Castle around 1663

Between 1662 and 1663, a three-storey baroque building with a crooked hip roof and a raised stair tower with a curved roof was erected at the castle site. After the building was changed several times in the 19th and 20th centuries, it is now a simple, two-storey rectangular building with a gable roof. The curved northern outer wall reflects the alignment of two cellars, which probably belonged to the medieval predecessor building. The northern outer wall may contain remains of the old castle wall.

Castle Park

In the east and north the approximately 1.5 hectare large castle park is bounded by the Exter , in the south and west by a quarry stone wall. There are remarkable trees from the 19th century on the site. Today the area is partly used as a low-maintenance green area and partly as a meadow orchard.

A copper engraving from 1626 shows the image of a regular Renaissance garden. Since the castle had not yet been built at this point in time, it is probably a draft. In the middle of the 18th century, however, there was evidence of a gardener with assistants for the palace gardens, which suggests a more elaborate garden.

See also

literature

  • Ernst Maoro: Palaces, castles, mansions in East Westphalia-Lippe . Westfalen Verlag, Bielefeld 1986, ISBN 3-88918-038-8
  • Rainer Springhorn (Ed.): Burgen in Lippe, (catalog of the Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold), Detmold 2002, p. 91.
  • Volker Buchholz: Alverdissen Castle - From the residence to the archive . Lippische Mitteilungen aus Geschichte und Landeskunde No. 53, 1984 pp. 31–48 digitized

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Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '57.4 "  N , 9 ° 7' 31.1"  E