Gödens Castle

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Gödens Castle
Goedens Castle46.jpg
Creation time : 1671
Place: Sands
Geographical location 53 ° 29 '7.1 "  N , 7 ° 57' 53.2"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 29 '7.1 "  N , 7 ° 57' 53.2"  E
Gödens Castle (Lower Saxony)
Gödens Castle
Entrance gate to the castle park
Country tour in the park of Gödens Castle
Christmas market in front of and in Gödens Castle

The Gödens Castle is a moated castle in the town of Sande in the district of Friesland in Lower Saxony . The castle was the ancestral seat of the Lordship of Gödens .

history

A castle stood here as early as the Middle Ages, which was the seat of chief Edo Boings in the 14th century. After an alleged construction activity between 1514 and 1517, today's north wing was built at the end of the 16th century. In 1653 (according to the chronogram ) a gate to the castle park was added to the complex . It shows the coat of arms of the lords of Frydag, who were raised to the hereditary imperial baron status in 1646. Harro Burchard von Frydag gave the moated castle its current Baroque shape: after a fire in 1669, a north wing has been attached to the north wing at right angles since 1671, which is crowned with a lantern. Another hood covers the polygonal stair tower in the corner between the two components. A splendid, two-storey, gabled portal with an outside staircase leads into the interior. Your building sculpture made of stone contrasts with the Dutch-looking brick facade of the rest of the building. The ceiling-high, picturesque decoration of the state hall with representations from Greek mythology is worth seeing .

In 1746 Gödens came into the possession of the von Wedel family through marriage . From December 5, 1867 until the revolution of 1918, the counts of the Majoratsherrn zu Gödens and Evenburg had a hereditary seat in the Prussian manor . The castle, which is still inhabited by Count Wedel, is managed by the Gödens Castle Heritage Foundation and can only be partially visited at events, especially during the country party on the Whitsun weekend and the Christmas market on the first weekend in Advent. The castle park is accessible from Monday to Friday. The castle is a listed building .

Line Frydag to Gödens

The Frydag zu Gödens family comes from the middle line of the Frydag family from Vest Recklinghausen . The first representative of the line was Franz Frydag (1555-1606), who married Almuth von Olderbockum, daughter of Almuth Boing and heiress of Gödens. He had several sons:

  1. Harro (1578–1637), Lord of Gödens, Drost von Leerort ⚭ I. Catharina Freiin von Innhausen and Knyphausen and ⚭ II. Elisabeth von Haaren
    1. Franz Ico von Frydag (1606–1652), Lord von Gödens, Drost zu Leer, converted to the Catholic religion in 1639 after marrying Elisabeth von Westerholt from the House of Hackfort in the Achterhoek , Gelderland, and was raised to the status of baron by Emperor Ferdinand II in 1644
      1. Haro Burchhard (1640–1692), builder of Gödens Castle , privy councilor, Reichshofrat
      2. Franz Heinrich (1643–1693), envoy to Berlin
        1. Burchhard Philipp (1685–1746), Reichshofrat, Imperial envoy to Sweden and Denmark -> bequeathed by Gödens to Anton Franz von Wedel (1707–1788)
        2. Franz Heinrich († 1730) ⚭ Sophia Elisabeth Countess of Aldenburg (1661–1730), daughter of Count Anton I of Aldenburg
          1. Marie Juliane Countess of Frydag zu Gödens, heiress of Gödens (1684–1727) ⚭ Erhard Friedrich von Wedel-Jarlsberg , Baron von Wedel, Count of Jarlsberg (1668–1740)
      3. Carl Philipp (1644–1698), Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in Hungary
      4. Ico Wilhelm (1649–1719), Jesuit in Maastricht
    2. Herbert (1616–1642), Drost von Emden
    3. Johann Wilhelm (1624–1674), Drost von Emden
      1. Haro Heinrich (1651–1705), Drost in Aurich, court judge ⚭ Esther Charlotte von Münchingen
        1. Haro Burchhard (1677–1757), Drost in Emden
        2. Franz Heinrich (1686–1761), Drost in Leerort ⚭ Sophie Elisabeth von Auer († April 9, 1752) adH Tirenberg
          1. Georg Wilhelm von Frydag (1712–1782) ⚭ I Johanna von Schade († 1742), heiress of House Daren , ⚭ II. Anna Elisabeth Wilhelmine von Münchhausen (* 12 May 1722; † 20 September 1789), sister of Hieronymus von Münchhausen , founded the branch of the Barons von Frydag auf Daren, which still exists today
            1. Sophie Charlotte Wilhelmine Elisabeth (1745–1801) ⚭ Karl Wilhelm Ludwig von Cornberg (born January 30, 1739 - † February 16, 1816)
          2. Christian August (* 1716), Drost von Aurich
            1. Haro Christian Wilhelm († June 10, 1804), Drost von Aurich, Prussia. Colonel
  1. Melchior Ernst (1579–1641), Lord of Uitesterwehr (near Upleward) ⚭ Beate Sophie von Boineburg adH Honstein
    1. -> Great-granddaughter Hendrina († 1748) inherited Uitesterwehr ⚭ Nikolaus Moritz Frese zu Hinte (1671–1717), administrator of East Frisia

literature

  • Johann Samuel Publication: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , S. 476ff, digitized
  • Hironimus Grestius's Reimchronik von Harlingerland , p. 40, digitized
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bremen, Lower Saxony. Munich 1992, pp. 504-505.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of Historic Places. Lower Saxony and Bremen. Stuttgart 1969, p. 171.
  2. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bremen Lower Saxony, pp. 405-406.
  3. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume GA VI, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1970, p. 491.
  4. ↑ property at landpartie-goedens.de, accessed on January 16, 2013
  5. ^ Monument Preservation , Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture , accessed on January 16, 2013
  6. ^ Hermann Schiefer: Baroque splendor in Gödens Castle . In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony . No. 4 , 2009.

Web links

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