Christiansburg Castle (Kleinern)

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The former Christiansburg Castle , of which nothing has survived today, was located in Kleinern , a district of the present-day community of Edertal in the Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

It was built around 1662 and served as the residence of the ruling Count Christian Ludwig (1635–1706) von Waldeck -Wildungen until 1695 , then as the residence of his son and successor Friedrich Anton Ulrich until 1706 .

The castle stood south of today's Wesetalstraße, opposite the village community center that was built in 1972/73.

history

In 1511 Asmus I. von Geismar acquired a larger farm in Kleinern and expanded it into a knight's seat. In 1613 Asmus II von Geismar built a new castle south of the village. Due to the impoverishment of the family during the Thirty Years' War , the Lords of Geismar sold the castle complex in 1661 to Count Christian Ludwig von Waldeck -Wildungen. Including the Geismarschen manor, he had the Christiansburg Castle built around 1662 by Emanuel Brand , who came from Mengeringhausen . After the building was completed, he moved his residence with the court, chancellery and government from Wildungen to Kleinern. Extensions and additions were made until 1674.

After Christian Ludwig inherited the sub-county of Waldeck-Eisenberg in 1692 on the basis of the inheritance and primogeneity contract he concluded with Prince Georg Friedrich von Waldeck-Eisenberg in June 1685 , he moved his residence to Arolsen in 1695 .

His son Friedrich Anton Ulrich married Louise, Countess Palatine von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld in 1700, and the couple lived in the castle until 1706. After his father's death that year, Friedrich Anton Ulrich took over the government and also moved to Arolsen. In 1709/10, as the ruling prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont , he had Christiansburg demolished, probably also in order to obtain building material for the new residential palace to be built in Arolsen from 1710 .

investment

The palace complex had four wings, with an almost square inner courtyard, and was surrounded by a wide moat. The wing facing the street was two-story and had a gate entrance. Right and left two also two-storey wings joined, but only about half as long and with lower ceiling heights, the way each one open to the courtyard arcade in the Renaissance style had. On the upper floor of the left wing was a large ballroom with an open fireplace. The rear longitudinal wing had the same dimension as the but on the street side, had two additional projecting the park side projections on the right and left of center. All four wings were covered with tent roofs, on which there were dormers on the courtyard side and on the outside .

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 2nd Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1995, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 121.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 29 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 40 ″  E