Franzhagen Castle

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The Franzhagen Castle - also known as Franzhagen Castle , Franz garden or Franzhof - was a castle near the present-day school village in southern Schleswig-Holstein . From 1689 until the line died out in 1709, it was owned by the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg . In 1716 it was canceled.

history

The castle was based on an older complex that may have been from the Middle Ages . Under Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel one was Meierhof created and from 1608 was made by her husband Duke Francis II. Of Sachsen-Lauenburg - a son of the Duke Francis I - an expansion of the facility to a large castle with extensive gardens. The client ran out of funds during the work, so that, according to a local legend, the workers remained unpaid. Franz II used the castle until his death in 1619, when it passed into the possession of his son-in-law Philip of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg . Through him the castle came to his nephew Johann Christian, who founded the short-lived Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen line here.

The castle had to be demolished at the beginning of the 18th century due to increasing dilapidation. Nothing remains of the building today, only a street called Hofgraben, which bordered the former castle district, reminds of the complex. Some of the furnishings in the castle chapel, which had also been demolished, went to the Marienkirche in the neighboring Büchen .

owner

  • 1605–1626 Maria von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (also her Wittum )
  • 1608–1619 Franz II of Saxony-Lauenburg (Duke and husband)
  • 1626–1635 August zu Sachsen-Lauenburg (son and heir as duke, but in an inheritance dispute with the brothers, d. 1656)
  • 1635–1658 Franz Heinrich von Sachsen-Lauenburg on Franzhagen (not as a fief, but as an estate, it is part of his apanage)
  • 1658–1665 Marie Juliane von Nassau-Siegen (wife, her Wittum)
  • 1665–1709 Eleonore Charlotte von Sachsen-Lauenburg auf Franzhagen (daughter and heiress)
  • 1676–1702 Christian Adolf I of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (former Duke of Alsen, who was deposed in 1667 and is now a co-owner as a husband; both are founders of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen line)
  • 1702–1707 Leopold Christian von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen (has no children entitled to inherit, as they are from a middle-class woman)
  • 1707–1708 Ludwig Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen
  • 1708–1709 Christian Adolf II of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen (his underage son and heir)
  • 1709–1739 Anna Barbara Dorothea von Winterfeld (noble wife of Ludwig Karl and heiress; she has to move to a house in Billwerder because she cannot pay for the costs of the castle, the unequal children die young, but were inheritable for an estate) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl-Heinrich Seebach: 800 years of castles, palaces and mansions in Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd improved edition. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-529-02675-1 , p. 16.
  2. ^ Adrian von Buttlar , Margita Marion Meyer: Historical Gardens in Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd revised edition. Verlag Boyens & Co., Heide 1998, ISBN 3-8042-0790-1 , p. 401.
  3. ^ History of Schulendorf

Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 19.2 "  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 11.2"  E