Eggermühlen Castle
Eggermühlen Castle at Grosse Allee 1 in Eggermühlen is a moated castle in the Osnabrück region . It is owned by the Barons von Boeselager .
Eggermühlen Castle dates back to a knight's seat from the 13th century, but it has not been preserved in its original form. The baroque palace complex also includes a brick orangery by Johann Conrad Schlaun and a palace chapel. The associated lands are used for agriculture and forestry, and the outbuildings are also used as a holiday complex.
Description and history
Eggermühlen Castle consists of a two-wing and two-story assembly, in the corner of which there is a corner tower with a square floor plan and a baroque dome. The main building has a high basement; its facade is structured by a central risalit with a flat triangular gable and has a double flight of stairs.
In 1901 the head of house at the time reported to Baronesses Rose and Resi von Boeselager:
“A house chapel is attached to our castle and is visited by around 200 people every Sunday. Baroness Rose plays the harmonium there. Every now and then I take it off [...]
With some I might cause a certain creep when I [...] tell that an uncanny number of rats and mice are up to mischief here. But the castle is also an old box; I think it is from the 17th century. The wide moat around the castle is the delight of these cute little animals. But we are also happy about the Graben, because we can punt there in summer and ice-skate in winter.
The area is beautiful here, with magnificent forests, lush meadows and fields in bloom everywhere. From my window on the first floor you have a beautiful view of the garden, the mill pond with the idyllic mill and the forest behind. "
According to the presentation on www.burgen-und-schloesser.net, the Lords of Boeselager received the lands of Eggermühlen as a fief as early as the 13th century , they were later able to buy them from their fiefdom, the Bishop of Osnabrück , and began to expand the old one in 1714 Mansion to a castle. Johann Conrad Schlaun was commissioned to design the orangery. The palace chapel was built as the last part of the ensemble.
According to other sources, the first recorded mention of a taxable farm on the property dates from 1362 and it was not until the end of the 16th century that this farm became a free knight's seat, which at that time belonged to Georg von Langen, through a privilege granted by the Osnabrück bishop. According to this illustration, the von Boeselager family only came into possession of the knight's seat in 1654 through a purchase by Lieutenant Colonel Joachim von Boeselager and subsequently built the old mansion, which was preserved as a side wing of the complex that exists today. Later, a main house was added to this first mansion, into which the square tower with a baroque dome was integrated at the northeast corner of the property. In Dirk Baumgart's book The Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act in the light of the property guarantee , the following dates are given: 1583 elevation to the knight's seat, 1666 extension of the old mansion, 1714 integration of the old into the new baroque mansion with tower, 1869 construction of the neo-Gothic chapel. In particular, these changes in the course of the history of the complex should make up the “monument-relevant informational and documentation value” of the castle. The loopholes at the old manor house are specially mentioned .
chapel
The neo-Gothic chapel of St. Nicholas was, however, built in 1796 by more believable representations until 1869, according to the website of the castle and used until the 1950s for the services of the local Catholic community. In the two- bay hall there is a Rococo altar from 1755.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schloss Eggermühlen ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at www.agrarheute.com
- ↑ a b c Entry on Eggermühlen Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 17, 2015.
- ^ Berta Stahl: Communication from June 4, 1901 . In: Heinz Jansen (Ed.): Friendship over seven decades. Circular letters from German teachers 1899–1968 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-10635-4 , pp. 35 .
- ↑ a b History of Eggermühlen Castle. Burgen und Schlösser GmbH, accessed on September 17, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c Eggermühlen Castle. Tourism Association Osnabrücker Land e. V. (TOL), accessed September 17, 2015 (commercial website).
- ↑ Dirk Baumgart: The Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act in the light of the property guarantee . Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59603-6 , p. 260 ( Google Books [accessed September 17, 2015]).
- ↑ Castle Chapel. In: Eggermühlen Castle. Freiherr von Boeselager, accessed on September 17, 2015 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '52.8 " N , 7 ° 48' 54" E