Eringerfeld Castle

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Exterior of the front

The Eringerfeld Castle is located in the same place Eringerfeld in East Westphalia . It was built in 1676 as a baroque palace and served as a residence for the Westphalian noble family von Hörde .

history

The courtyard overlooks the main building
Eringerfeld Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker Collection

After a fire in 1660 destroyed parts of the old castle or the manor, the canons Johann Gottfried and Rhabanus Christoph v. Hear the new building of the castle. The baroque palace was then built between 1676 and 1699 by the architect Ambrosius von Oelde and the builder Jobst Scheck from Störmede . In the meantime, after the death of Baron Franz Lodolf Joseph von Hörde in 1781, the possession of the castle was passed on to the ceiling and Ketteler families . The politician Friedrich Clemens von Ketteler lived there , and his grandson, Wilhelm Freiherr von Ketteler , who was murdered by the Nazis , as well as the writer Heinrich von Droste zu Hülshoff with his wife Paula, née. Baroness von Ketteler.

During the National Socialist era , Dutch missionaries were forcibly quartered. From 1945 the property stood empty and was left to decay. From 1950 to 1964 the Jesuits had a novitiate in the castle. After Wilfried and Berna Kirchner bought the castle in 1964, it was meanwhile in great need of renovation, but the thick stone walls and some of the remaining pieces of furniture, which were too heavy to remove from the castle, were in a condition worth preserving. In the years after the Kirchner family moved in, the castle was renovated for several million German marks.

From 1965 to 1987, the Eringerfeld boarding school , which was the largest boarding school in Germany at the time, was located in the castle and the newly built buildings around it . After the boarding school was closed, the castle was again extensively renovated and the castle garden returned to its original state. Since then there has been a hotel in the castle.

From 2000 to 2005, a school for the gifted was operated in the rooms of the former boarding school .

A few years ago the castle was sold to an investor from China. In addition to the hotel and restaurant operations, the castle is also to become an educational location and home for 200 to 300 students at an international boarding school.

literature

  • Karl-Josef von Ketteler: Eringerfeld Castle (= DKV Art Guide. Issue No. 387). 3rd edition, Munich / Berlin 2003.
  • Karl Eugen Mummenhoff : Eringerfeld Castle (= large architectural monuments . Issue No. 387). 2nd edition, Munich / Berlin 1989.
  • Jürgen Tommke: Modern hotel in old walls. Eringerfeld Castle was completed in 1699. In: Heimatkalender Kreis Soest 2009. ISBN 978-3-928295-44-4 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ westfalen-adelssitze.de ( Memento from May 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Mariano Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff: Memoirs. Archive Wilderich Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff.
  3. ↑ a b Highly gifted school in Geseke-Eringerfeld is about to end ( Memento from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ History of Eringerfeld on the Schlosshotel's website ( memento from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ The Patriot: Chinese entrepreneur buys Eringerfeld Castle

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 15.7 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 9.9"  E