Gebesee Castle

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Friedrich Wilhelm von Wurmb (1690–1768)
Gebesee Castle around 1860, collection by Alexander Duncker

The Gebesee Castle is in the country town Gebesee in district Sömmerda in Thuringia .

history

The first Gebesee Castle was built by Charlemagne around 772 when he was running a royal court here. In the Middle Ages , the property belonged to the Landgraves of Thuringia . During the Thirty Years' War , Rittmeister Caspar von Rahna came into possession of the castle through marriage in 1634. His descendant Georg Hartmann von Rahna died in 1703. After that, the complex fell into disrepair.

In 1712 the brothers Ludwig and Lewin Heinrich von Wurmb from Großfurra were enfeoffed with Gebesee, but fined 3000 guilders for failure to register. They were followed in 1722 by Heinrich Ludwig and Friedrich Wilhelm von Wurmb. The Wurmb brothers sold the estate in 1724 for 56,500 guilders to their brother-in-law, the Princely Brunswick Hereditary Marshal Jobst Adam von Oldershausen , who was married to their sister Sibylle Lucretia von Wurmb and died in 1726. In 1734 his sons Jobst Ludwig Adam and Burckhard Friedrich Anton shared the estate. In 1737, Burkhardt Friedrich Anton, to whom the estate had fallen to through an inheritance recession, was finally enfeoffed with the same. He had the ruins demolished and the baroque palace built in 1740 . In addition to the castle, he also built the official building and the archway house that are still preserved today. His descendant, Hans Georg Friedrich August von Oldershausen, who remained childless, signed a contract in 1845 for the takeover of the property by seven other family members entitled to succession , including the later Mayor of Erfurt, Carl von Oldershausen , who took up residence there with his family Son Jobst was born there on May 3, 1846. On February 5, 1850, two months before Hans Georg's death, the community of heirs sold the property for 182,000 Reichsthalers to the Duke of Braunschweig's Privy Chamber Council, Baron Adolph Eduard von den Brincken .

In 1918 the castle and its outbuildings were taken over by the “Stiftung deutsche Landerziehungsheime” and served as the Hermann Lietz School from 1923 to 1948/51 , and since 2008 as the “ Boarding School Gebesee Castle - Gemeinnützige GmbH” for special education. After the takeover by a local farm, holiday apartments were set up in the castle from 2011.

literature

  • Friedrich Bernhard Freiherr von Hagke: Personal code of the Weissensee district from the oldest to the most recent, Weissensee 1868, p. 15
  • Friedrich Bernhard Freiherr von Hagke: Documentary news from "Documentary news about the towns, villages and estates of the Weissensee district: Contribution to a Codex Thuringiae Diplomaticus" Weissensee 1867

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Christoph Olearius : Hall. Sax. Rerum Thuringicarum Syntagma, All kinds of memorable Thuringian histories and chronicles ... Johann Christoph Stößl, Erfurt 1704, p. 123 f . ( Digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ From Hagke p. 15
  3. ^ Castle Gebesee: The history of the castle . Retrieved December 12, 2014
  4. ↑ von Hagke 1867, p. 113

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 58.5 ″  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 59 ″  E