Gettenbach Castle

Castle Gettenbach is a palace from the 19th century in Gettenbach , a wholly Büdinger forest lying district of the municipality of Gründau in Main-Kinzig-Kreis in Hesse .

View of the castle building from the east.

history

Gettenbach is first mentioned in 1252 in an exchange transaction between Heinrich von Ysenburg and the Ilbenstadt monastery . The bonnet as the object of exchange could be identical to the property that served as a forester's equipment. The place is located in the Büdinger Forest and has been the seat of one of the forest's twelve riding foresters since the Middle Ages . The forest shows the Büdinger forest from 1380 Gettenbach is one of the villages, dye geforstes sin in the Büdinger walt .

In the late 17th century, two glassworks were operated one after the other and an iron smelter set up, which worked as a supplier for the Büdinger Hammer . At the beginning of the 19th century, the Breitenborn glass entrepreneurs Stübing and Trebing established a branch on the grounds of the castle. The older courtyard was expanded into a small castle during major renovations in the 1840s and 1850s. It served as a hunting lodge , summer residence and widow residence of the Ysenburg-Büdingen-Meerholz line , a special line of the Counts of Ysenburg and Büdingen , which had its seat in Meerholz Castle .

With the extinction of the Meerholzer line in 1929, the property fell to the entire Ysenburg-Büdingen house, but they did not use the castle themselves and rented or leased it. In 1938 the female labor service was housed here, from 1944 to 1957 the outsourced Orthopedic University Hospital ( Friedrichsheim ) of the University of Frankfurt am Main.

A hereditary building contract (until 2025) has existed with the International Federation since 1958 , which operates a care facility for people with mental and emotional disabilities (within the meaning of Section 2 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 SGB ​​IX ) under the name Margarete-Fischer-Bosch -Haus .

investment

The palace complex in the valley floor of the stream of the same name still clearly shows the original three-winged courtyard. The elongated castle building (later) with an octagonal roof turret and tower clock was erected on its west side in the mid-19th century. It is a very modest building made of unplastered quarry stone (from the Gettenbach sandstone quarries). Even at the time of the Ysenburg-Büdingen-Meerholzer line (1687–1929) it does not seem to have had any significant interior decoration or any significant furnishings.

literature

• Waltraud Friedrich: Cultural monuments in Hessen. Main-Kinzig district II.2. Gelnhausen, Gründau, Hasselroth, Jossgrund, Linsengericht, Wächtersbach. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Theiss, Wiesbaden / Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8062-2469-6 , pp. 704f. ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ).
• Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 156–158.

Web links

• Private homepage with information about the castle

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich P. Göbel, The Breitenborn glassworks . In: Between Vogelsberg and Spessart, Gelnhausen Heimat-Jahrbuch - 1998 -, Gelnhausen 1997, p. 37

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 29.8 ″  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 1.5 ″  E