Friedelhausen Castle

East side of the castle (2014)

The Castle Friedelshausen located on the Lahn between Marburg and Giessen , near the villages Fronhausen - Backs Hausen and Lollar - Odenhausen .

In the immediate vicinity of the castle is the Hofgut Friedelhausen, which also belongs to the city of Lollar and is now managed by a social therapeutic community as a Demeter business with a farm shop.

Emergence

The district Friedelhausen with old village desolation on the left bank of the Lahn east of Salzböden and northwest of Staufenberg passed as a fief in 1414 to the von Rolshausen family , which can be traced back to the 13th century and who were Burgmanns on the Staufenberg from 1358 . The manor house in Friedelhausen, built by Friedrich von Rolshausen in 1564, has been preserved to this day as a two-story stone building with a stair tower on the side. It changed hands several times and was acquired by the von Nordeck zur Rabenau family along with the courtyard buildings and the surrounding area in 1852 . As the oldest building on today's court estate, it is also known as the Old Castle .

The palace from the southeast, built in 1852 (2017)

The Friedelhausen Castle ( New Castle ), located about two hundred meters north and higher on the banks of the Lahn, had Baron Adalbert von Nordeck zur Rabenau (1817-1892) and his wife Clara, née Philipps (1826-1867) built from 1852 onwards. It was inherited from her daughter Luise (1849–1906), who married Count Karl von Schwerin from Schwerinsburg Castle in Western Pomerania in 1876 . The estate, as well as the Hofgut Appenborn and the two family castles, Burg Nordeck and the Oberburg Rabenau , still belong to the Count Schwerin.

The new castle planned by the English architect John Dobson (1787–1865) is based closely on the English, classicist form of the neo-Gothic , the Tudor Gothic . It is a two-story cubic building with a crenellated crown and a flat roof. The building corners are flanked by turrets. A type of dark basalt, the so-called Lungstein , from Londorf was used as the building material for the late Gothic building , which, unlike most other types of basalt, can be easily worked by stonemasons, which is why it has been used in the restoration of Cologne for years Doms is used.

particularities

Friedelhausen Castle as seen from the Lahntalradweg (2011)

In 1905 and 1906, Rainer Maria Rilke stayed at Schloss Friedelhausen for a few weeks at the invitation of Countess Luise von Schwerin (see web links). The castle is still owned by the countess's family and is inhabited. The interior of the castle cannot be visited.

literature

• Michael Losse: Castles and palaces on the Lahn. From Biedenkopf and Marburg via Gießen, Wetzlar and Weilburg to Limburg, Nassau and Lahnstein . Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-070-9 .

Web links

Commons : Friedelhausen (Schloss)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Friedelhausen Castle in the Hessian Bibliography
• State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Schloss Friedelhausen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
• Internet presence of Hofgut Friedelhausen , court community for healing work
• Floor plan of the old castle near Lagis
• Renate Scharffenberg: 1905 - Rilke's Summer in Friedelhausen ( Memento from March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Marburg Forum. Contributions to the intellectual situation of the present. Vol. 6 (2005), issue 5
• Christiane Rossner: Monument in Need. Friedelhausen Castle needs help . In: Monuments , June 2010

Individual evidence

1. ^ Description of the cultural monument Schloss Friedelhausen by the State Office for Monument Preservation; accessed on August 10, 2020.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 10 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 41.5"  E