Berlepsch Castle
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 Berlepsch Castle |
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| Creation time : | 1368 to 1369, 1894 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, Gipfelburg, conversion to a castle | |
| Conservation status: | Received or received substantial parts | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Construction: | Small cuboid | |
| Place: | Huebenthal | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 23 '46 " N , 9 ° 49' 56" E | |
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Schloss Berlepsch , Berleipse, Berlepse, Berleiffen is a three-winged castle with courtyard and parking about 400 meters northeast of the joke Hausener local part Hübenthal in Hesse . The castle is only a few hundred meters from the state border with Lower Saxony and southwest of the Friedland district of Mollenfelde in the district of Göttingen and the Neu-Eichenberg district of Hermannrode in the Werra-Meißner district .
history
After their ancestral castle Barlissen was destroyed in the 14th century, the Berlepsch family settled on the Werra , where they already owned goods. At first she lived in the Landgrave Hessian castle Bischoffhausen. It was located above Bischhausen (now part of the Witzenhausen urban area on the left side of the Werra) on the Badenstein (356 m. Above sea level). A little further north, near Hübenthal , Arnold von Berlepsch had the nuwe Hus Berleybischhin built between 1368 and 1369 on the site of today's Berlepsch Castle . Since 1369 a defensive wall with a portal has enclosed the north side of the three-wing complex.
In 1369 Arnold von Berlepsch received the villages of Hübenthal and Albshausen , both of which are now part of Witzenhausen, from the Hessian landgrave Heinrich II . Furthermore, he received Hermannrode (now part of Neu-Eichenberg) and Grebenhain to fiefdom , and the family received the hereditary court office of the treasurer of the Hessian landgraves for the oldest male member . After the death of Arnold's son Hans von Berlepsch, who remained childless, the castle man Thilo von Berlepsch from Ziegenberg took possession of the castle in 1392 against the will of Landgrave Hermann II . In 1400 the castle was destroyed by Hessian troops and rebuilt. In 1461 the knight parakeet von Berlepsch was enfeoffed with the castle; he surrounded the castle with strong walls and strengthened it with towers and cages . In 1593 the stair tower with a renaissance portal was built.
During the Thirty Years' War , Tilly's mercenaries looted and pillaged the castle in 1623. In 1625 Wallenstein's troops attacked the castle, and in 1631 the castle was once again devastated by Tilly's troops. In addition to Tilly and Wallenstein, the troops of Johann von Aldringen and Otto Heinrich Fugger also haunted the area around 1631 and 1632. Villages were looted and Berlepsch Castle was devastated. Richard von Berlepsch calculated the damage to be 2813 thalers . When Braunschweig and Hessian troops fought against Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim in the area of the Leine and Diemel in the spring of 1632 , the latter took Richard von Berlepsch hostage because of unspent sums. Richard died two years after his ransom in 1635. The family's prosperity declined due to the ongoing fighting. Land could not be cultivated, buildings of the goods and farms lay partly destroyed. Berlepsch, Ellerode, Huebenthal and the Hof zu Gladebeck had been completely cremated, the family's debts amounted to 48,000 thalers, while the burden of war did not decrease. In 1636 an imperial army moved from Göttingen through the lands and provoked battles near Wendershausen . A year later, the Croats on the Werra, in the region come through the 1632 tender of Pappenheim raged arson . In 1646 new threats of war prompted the von Berlepsch family to move the rest of their archive to a safe place.
On August 14, 1801, Goethe visited Berlepsch Castle. In 1809 Friedrich Ludwig von Berlepsch lived at the castle. From 1881 to 1894, Count Karl Friedrich von Berlepsch and, from 1893, his son Hans gave the palace its present form through extensive renovations and changes, including a ceiling painting by Carl Wiederhold . These changes are exemplary of the late Hanoverian neo-Gothic and were planned by the architect Gustav Schönermark . The ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch set up an ornithological collection at the castle, and from time to time Karl von Berlepsch gathered a circle of well-known poets at the castle. The coat of arms of the two Berlepsch lines is walled into the coat of arms stone at the outermost of the three gates.
After the Second World War , Berlepsch Castle was transformed into a hotel with a restaurant by Hubertus von Berlepsch. Both were closed in 1980 when Hans-Sittich Graf von Berlepsch set up the Arvind sannyasis center for Bhagwan followers at the castle . The center was dissolved again in 1982. In 1984, Osho followers in the manor Hübenthal that belonged to the family Berlepsch, the center Parimal .
Since 2011 the castle has had tourist offers such as gastronomy, guided tours and regular events. The gastronomic offer takes up the theme of " Middle Ages ".
park
The park belonging to the castle dates back to the 18th century and has features of the English landscape garden . The castle chapel is located in it just below to the west of the medieval enclosure.
tourism
Berlepsch Castle offers two restaurants (Berlepscher Round Table, Schlosstaverne) as well as guided tours of the castle with small exhibitions from the Berlepsch family inventory.
Since August 18, 2011, tourist information boards on the A7 have been pointing to Berlepsch Castle.
The Werra-Burgen-Steig Hessen , a certified long-distance hiking trail on the Werra from Hannoversch-Münden to Tannenburg, leads past Berlepsch Castle.
Others
In the 1950s and 1960s, Berlepsch Castle was used several times as a filming location for feature films, allegedly through the mediation of the actor Tilo von Berlepsch , who took on supporting roles in these productions as a nobleman or butler (at his own family castle!). The castle served u. a. for the Heinz Erhardt film Widower with five daughters and holidays in Tyrol as a backdrop.
The Group 47 held from October 31 to November 2, 1952 its eleventh meeting at Schloss Berlepsch from.
In 2011, Berlepsch Castle was voted the most beautiful castle in Hesse by viewers of the Frankfurt Radio Television .
On September 26, 2014, the TV station VOX broadcast an episode of the program “ Das Perfekt Dinner ” (special broadcast: “100% from the region”), in which, among other things, Burgvogt Daniel cooked, who also appeared in front of tourists as the Knight Isenbard. The show shows the castle's rooms and outdoor facilities.
literature
- Eduard Brauns: Hiking and travel guide through North Hesse and Waldeck . Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen, 1971, pp. 392-394
- Klaus Gallwitz : Berlepsch Castle ( Small Art Guide for Lower Saxony , Issue 17), 3rd edition, Göttingen 1962
- Counselor Eckhardt: 700 years of the von Berlepsch family. In: The Werra Valley. Illustrated monthly books for Heimat, Kunst, and Poetry. 10th year issue 10/11 pp. 82-85.
- Heinrich Lücke: From the history of Berlepsch Castle and its inhabitants. In: The Werra Valley. Illustrated monthly books for Heimat, Kunst, and Poetry. 10th year issue 10/11 and 12, pp. 86-88, 89-96.
Web links
- Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Berlepsch in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing in the medieval state by Wolfgang Braun
- Homepage of Berlepsch Castle
- Von Berlepsch family
- Berlepsch Castle, Werra-Meißner district. Historical local dictionary for Hesse (as of January 29, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 16, 2014 .
- Berlepsch Castle on the burgen-und-schloesser.net site
- Berlepsch Castle in: Alexander Duncker : The rural residences, castles and residences of the knightly landowners in the Prussian monarchy . Volume 15, Duncker, Berlin 1878–1880 (digitized version in the Central and State Library Berlin)
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Lücke: Castles, palaces and mansions in the area of the lower Werra. Issue 2 . Published by H. Lücke, Parensen 1924, p. 64 .
- ^ Günther Kokkelink; Monika Lemke-Kokkelink: Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School 1850-1900. Hanover 1998 , p. 116.
- ^ Website of the center
- ↑ Website of the Werra-Burgen-Steigs Hessen
- ↑ The most beautiful castles in Hesse: Berlepsch Castle is Hesse's most beautiful castle