Bredebeck Castle
The Brede Schloss Beck was 1901/1902 of the farmer built Hellberg. It is actually a mansion according to its size and function . The building stands in Lower Saxony between the former towns of Hörsten and Hohne, which disappeared in the course of the construction of the Bergen military training area . The castle grounds were also included in the area of the military training area in 1936 and are not open to the public.
history
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In old documents from 1476 and 1511 the place is called tom Bredtbeck and 1589 Bretbeck . In the vicinity of the former farm, the Liethbach, a tributary of the Meiße , led to a large forest called Breede . This explains the name Bredebeck. The document from 1476 mentions that the brothers Ernst, Gebhard and Kurt von Bothmer sold the tom Bredbeck farm to Heinrich, Otto and Lambert von Dageförde. Between 1563 and 1700, farmers with the names Bredbeck, Bredebeck, Bretbeck lived on the farm.
The farmer Gustav Hellberg had today's manor house built on the estate in 1901/1902, but on November 23, 1909 the courtyard and the castle building were sold to Major a for 160,000 Reichsmarks . D. sold by Rosen. In 1922 he sold it to the lawyer Adolf Kühling. Until then, the building consisted only of the middle section that is still preserved today, and Kühling had extensions added on both sides. In 1932 ownership passed to Ernst Kühling. In 1936 the castle was incorporated into the grounds of the Bergen military training area. From 1945 it served as the officers' mess for the British regiment that was located at the time. Most recently these were the 9th / 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) armored reconnaissance regiment. Occasionally it was also used as a guest house. As such, it served as accommodation for the British royal family when their members of the British Army paid a troop visit in Germany . The castle was returned to the German state in May 2015 on the occasion of the withdrawal of the British Army . The subsequent use, which is incumbent on the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks , has since been unclear.
description
The manor house, kept in Baroque forms, can be reached via a long avenue of lime trees that begins at a gate in the forest. The straight driveway in the central axis of the building ends in a forecourt to the east of the manor house and is led around a long rectangular water basin with a fountain . On the narrow sides of the pool, four steps lead down to it. The eastern staircase is framed on both sides by cheeks made of sandstone , each decorated with a life-size boar head and a relief in the form of a hunting horn and a boar pen . At the driveway there are two sculptures on pedestals , one in the form of a woman with a sheaf in her arm, the other depicting the goddess Diana with a bow, quiver and hunting dog. On the east side of the forecourt there are two low, segmented wall niches with benches, which are flanked by groups of putti.
The main building is a two-storey plastered building with a white paintwork and a tiled roof. It consists of an older central section with seven axes and two side projections , a southern wing with a stone parapet and portico, and a north wing connected by a short intermediate wing, which has a curved gable and an elaborately designed weather vane .
The middle part of the main building houses a baroque vestibule , the wall of which is divided by stucco elements . Its ceiling is also decorated with stucco. On the garden side in the west is the so-called garden hall in the classical style. The room has a beamed ceiling with Konsölchen fries and a current in bar height around frieze. The beams are supported by fully plastic columns of the Ionic order .
The so-called Great Hall , which takes up the entire length of the extension, is located on the ground floor of the south wing . Its walls are some with dark stained oak wood in the form of fluted pilasters with composite capitals dressed. The stuccoed ceiling of the hall shows a deer as a flat relief . The room has a parquet floor and on the west wall a fireplace made of yellow-brownish marble with the year 1926. The remaining space on the ground floor is occupied by two smaller rooms facing the garden. On the one hand, there is a library with built-in shelves and glass wall cupboards, which today serves as a billiard room, and on the other hand, a mirror cabinet in the shape of the Empire . The room is decorated in white and gold.
- Interiors 2013
vestibule
Large hall with stucco ceiling and marble fireplace
Library with pool table
Dining room with silver candlesticks and figures
literature
- Joachim Bühring, Konrad Maier (arrangement): The art monuments of the district of Celle. Text volume 1, reprint of the edition from 1970 (= art monuments inventories of Lower Saxony . Volume 38). Wenner, Osnabrück 1980, ISBN 3-87898-214-3 , pp. 225-226.
- Matthias Blazek: In 1936 the German Wehrmacht took over Gut Bredebeck from the Kühling family / building included in the Bergen military training area - after the war accommodation for the British, Sachsenspiegel 21, Cellesche Zeitung, May 21, 2016.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schloss Bredebeck is in danger of decay haz.de, May 5, 2015
Coordinates: 52 ° 47 ′ 14 " N , 9 ° 53 ′ 25" E