Elnhausen Castle

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Elnhausen Castle
Elnhausen Castle (2011)

Elnhausen Castle (2011)

Creation time : 1707-1717
Castle type : Castle, location
Conservation status: lock
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Elnhausen
Geographical location 50 ° 48 '44.4 "  N , 8 ° 41' 15.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '44.4 "  N , 8 ° 41' 15.4"  E
Height: 225  m above sea level NHN
Elnhausen Castle (Hesse)
Elnhausen Castle

The Elnhausen Castle is a baroque palace complex in the Marburg area Elnhausen in Hessian Marburg-Biedenkopf and one of the few representative buildings of the Baroque in a circle. It is 225  m above sea level. NN Höhe on the north-western edge of the village in an estate on the sloping slope of the Stöckelsberg / Stackelberg (366 m).

history

In 1672 bought Hermann von Vultejus (Vultee) located in Marburg reigning landgräflich Hesse-kasselsche Governing Council and later Vice Chancellor of Upper Hesse (region) Upper Hesse , in the Thirty Years' War destroyed partially and since then neglected Wasserburg Elnhausen with the appropriate Country Estate of the gift-giving at Schweinsberg . Between 1707 and 1717 Vultejus, Vice Chancellor of the Upper Principality of Marburg since 1687, had the old complex demolished and an estate complex built in its place on the almost square plot of the former castle, with a baroque castle based on the French model on the west side and the farm buildings the other three sides. Since then, only a moat south of today's castle has been preserved from the former castle.

His youngest son, Johann Adolph von Vultée , member of the Electoral Palatinate government, moved in 1747 from Elnhausen to Wieblingen , where he had inherited his father-in-law's estate, and sold Elnhausen Castle and the estate. After an auction in 1750, the palace and estate came into the possession of the von Heydwolff family at Gut Germershausen near Oberweimar . As early as 1764, the castle and estate were sold on to Lieutenant Colonel Udam. Towards the end of the 18th century the estate came by way of purchase of Duke Wilhelm Joseph von Looz-Corswarem that his property in the Austrian Netherlands by the French Revolution had lost. In 1807, Elnhausen Castle and Manor fell to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia , and when it collapsed in 1813, to Electorate Hesse . The property became a state domain. A chief forester's office was later set up in the castle building. Today the facility is privately owned.

The attachment

The castle building is a two-storey, nine-axis building about 25 meters long and 15 meters wide with a hipped roof. The three-axle central buttress with a portal on the east side ends closed with a dormer with a semicircular pediment. On the west side there is a similarly designed dwelling in the middle. Both dwelling houses are flanked by a small hipped dormer on the right and left. Two more dormers of the same style are located on the two transverse sides. A two-sided flight of stairs leads up to the portal under its centrally broken round arch.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Elnhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Damm et al. (Ed.): 775 years of Elnhausen: 1235 - 2010. A village like a city. Marburg 2010.
  • Karl-Heinrich Rexroth: Short Chronicle of Elnhausen . Marburg 1972.
  • Lutz Dursthoff among others: The German castles and palaces in color . Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8105-0228-6 , p. 477.
  • Michael Losse: The Lahn castles and palaces . Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-070-9 .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Vultejus, Hermann von der Elder. Hessian biography (as of April 27, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 10, 2012 . Elsewhere, the year 1707 is mentioned, see: Elnhausen, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 10, 2012 .
  2. ↑ His uncle Johannes Vultejus , who had raised the orphaned Hermann from the age of six, was chancellor in Kassel from 1651 until his death in 1684 .
  3. ↑ Udam was the commander of a battalion of the Hanoverian Légion Britannique and became known for his unsuccessful defense of Meppen at the beginning of October 1762. In January 1763 he switched to Prussian service with his battalion and retired after the end of the Seven Years' War .