Bodenburg Castle
The floor Castle is a palace in Bodenburg , part of Bad Salzdetfurth , Hildesheim , in Lower Saxony . It goes back to a medieval moated castle that was transformed into a palace in the 16th century.
history
Bodenburg is first mentioned in 1108 in connection with Meinfried von Bodenburg. He owned Bodenburg Castle as a fiefdom of the Counts of Winzenburg . After the Bodenburg family died out at the end of the 12th century, a ministerial family was named after the castle from the beginning of the 13th century . In the middle of the 14th century, the Bishop of Hildesheim gave the castle to the von Steinberg family . In 1361 the dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg became fiefdoms and Bodenburg was a Braunschweig exclave until 1941 . With the marriage of the last heir to the Counts of Steinberg, Bodenburg Castle passed to the Barons von Cramm in 1905 , who still manage it today. With the exception of the castle park, the castle is not open to the public .
Building description
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The original castle was surrounded by a wide moat , a rampart and a dry moat. It was accessible through a drawbridge with a gatehouse and gateway. It had a square keep , which has been preserved to this day. In the 16th century the castle was converted into a palace. The west wing with a basement was retained and converted into a three-story mansion . Part of the moat has also been preserved on the west side of the castle. Worth mentioning is the stair tower in the Renaissance style with slanted windows and a Welschen dome . Some parts of the building were added in the 17th and 18th centuries and others were demolished in the 1760s. In 1985 and 1986 the palace complex was repaired and the roof of the manor house was also renovated from 2010 to 2012.
Castle Park
The palace has a park that goes back to a baroque garden created by Ernst von Steinberg . In the second half of the 18th century there was an over-planning by the royal court building and gardening director Karl von Hardenberg and his court architect Johann Paul Heumann . Around 1830, the head of the royal garden department Philipp von Steinberg and the horticultural artist Franz Christian Schaumburg designed the garden as an English landscape garden , which corresponded to the zeitgeist. Rare trees and shrubs are grouped around a central pond, on whose peninsula historical tomb relief panels have been placed around a central memorial. In 2006 the landscape park was restored.
Art building
On the site of the former outer bailey of the castle, a cattle shed was built as a farm building in 1857 that in common parlance the term bull stable wearing. The building is unusual because of its mighty arched roof. In 1998 the building was inaugurated as an art building in the courtyard of the palace in Bodenburg by the Bad Salzdetfurth art association .
Artist studio
Opposite the art building on the former outer bailey is the modern artist's studio with Corten steel facades by the sculptor Hans-Oiseau Kalkmann from 2007; The architect was the builder's son, Jens Kalkmann.
Web links
- Entry by Gudrun Pischke zu Bodenburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Description from German Foundation for Monument Protection
- Description of the palace park at the Lower Saxony Society for the Preservation of Historical Gardens
- Bodenburg Castle and Landscape Park at hildesheim.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodenburg Castle. Local curator hands over bronze plaque in Bad Salzdetfurth. Funding by the German Foundation for Monument Protection. Lottery website Glücksspirale , 2014.
- ^ K25 Brinkmann & Kalkmann Architects: Kuenstleratelier Bodenburg. In: https://k25.de . Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 36.7 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 27.3 ″ E