Brüggen Castle
Brüggen Castle is a castle in Brüggen in the Hildesheim district in Lower Saxony . Friedrich II von Steinberg had it built in 1693 in the Baroque style. Predecessors were a presumably fortified Ottonian royal court and a mansion surrounded by a moat .
description
The castle was built from 1686 to 1693 according to a design by Johann Balthasar Lauterbach by the later ducal master builder Hermann Korb as site manager. The castle complex includes the castle building, the gatehouse from 1714, the castle chapel from 1706 with a family crypt , the 44,000 m² castle park and farm buildings of the manor from the period between 1693 and 1716. Around 1800 a cavalier house was added. The buildings form an almost square inner courtyard. The gatehouse used to be the courthouse and prison cells. The palace building has a ground floor, a main floor and a mezzanine above with square windows. The hipped roof is covered with slate . The long sides of the building have 11 axes and the narrow sides have five axes. A gable-crowned risalit juts out towards the courtyard in the middle of the building . A round window in the gable area is surrounded by ornaments in the form of two lying ibexes as heraldic animals of those von Steinberg. Above it, putti can be seen holding a grape as a coat of arms emblem of the builder's wife, Gertrud Luise von Grapendorf.
Gatehouse with driveway
View through the entrance to the palace
Side view of the castle building
Castle chapel
history
The Brüggen Crown Estate was first mentioned in 936, when Emperor Otto I stayed there in his first year of reign and granted the city of Utrecht the right to mint . Further stays are documented for the years 954, 961 and 965. Brüggen was a rest stop on the way to the Dahlum and Werla Palatinates . 997 gave Otto III. Gut und Ort Brüggen to Essen Abbey . In the 11th century Brüggen was owned by the Gandersheim Imperial Monastery and remained in its possession until 1803. The lords of Steinberg, who have been in the town since 1409, received Brüggen as a fief in 1496 . In 1515 the brothers Burchard and Konrad von Steinberg built a mansion surrounded by a moat.
In 1911, after Ernst von Steinberg's death , the estate passed to his daughter Countess Jutta. Through their existing since 1905 marriage to Burghard von Cramm the estate came into Crammschen possession. It has belonged to the von Cramm-Steinberg family since then. The so-called tennis baron Gottfried von Cramm spent a large part of his youth at the castle . He celebrated his wedding to the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton here at great expense in the 1950s . In 1992 the palace complex was renovated.
literature
- Margret Zimmermann, Hans Kensche: Castles and palaces in Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim, 2001, pp. 21-23
Web links
- Entry by Gudrun Pischke zu Brüggen bei Gronau in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 33.1 ″ N , 9 ° 46 ′ 26.4 ″ E