Gevelinghausen Castle

Gevelinghausen Castle is located in the Gevelinghausen district in the city of Olsberg in the Sauerland ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

history

Gevelinghausen Castle from the air

The castle, built by the knights of Gevelinghausen, was first mentioned in a document in 1299. The Count von Arnsberg , Ludwig , exchanged the manor Gevelinghausen for the manor Ostwig with the Mescheder Stift in 1299 .

In the 17th century the castle chapel of St. Maria Magdalena , which was already in place in 1543, was rebuilt. In 1796, Baron von Wendt-Papenhausen acquired the castle. The poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , whose brother was married to Caroline Freiin von Wendt-Gevelinghausen, stayed in the castle as a guest in 1824 and 1831. Conrad Freiherr von Wendt was born in Gevelinghausen Castle in 1872 . In 1985 the von Wendt family sold the property for economic reasons . In the following years the new owners leased the castle to the administrative trade association , which set up a training center here, and a castle hotel was also built.

Architecture and description

From 1371 the house was fortified. The large half-timbered building clad with sandstone slabs was covered with a mansard hipped roof. The three-storey central projection is marked 1810. The main storey of the tower-like, square corner buildings was decorated with slats. A crenellated gate tower stands in the portal axis on the upstream, wide farm yard. The south and east wings were built at the end of the 19th century. There is a small landscaped park with ponds behind the manor house . The manager's house to the south-east is a single-storey half-timbered house with a mansard hipped roof, it was built at the beginning of the 19th century and expanded to the west at the end of the 19th century.

Picture gallery

Castle Hotel
Side view
Historic photo
entrance
goal
Distant view

Individual evidence

↑ Dehio, Georg , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 833

literature

Friedhelm Ackermann, Alfred Bruns: Castles and palaces and monasteries in the Sauerland. Strobel Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-88793-006-14

Web links

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

51.349722222222 8.4366666666667Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 59 ″ N , 8 ° 26 ′ 12 ″ E

[1] Dehio, Georg , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 833