Großropperhausen Castle

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Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 6 ″  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 22 ″  E

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The Castle Großropperhausen is a castle-like mansion on the southeastern outskirts of Großropperhausen , in the municipality of Frielendorf in Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse . The manor house, the farmyard and the park are listed as historical monuments.

location

It is surrounded by a large and still agriculturally operated Gutskomplexes with a 4 ha large Park and farm buildings, immediately west of the national road 3152 by Schwarzenborn according Frielendorf.

The elongated, two-storey building with a crooked roof is located in the center of the estate. The farm buildings are located to the right and left on both sides of the spacious entrance area to the estate and form a “U” with the castle.

history

In the 13th century a "Ropperhausen Castle" was mentioned. The construction of the castle dates back to 1832. It was built by Hans Ludwig (II.) Von Baumbach (1664–1734), who in 1698/99 took three quarters of the castle and court of Ropperhausen from Philipp Wilhelm and Georg Christoph von Gilsa from the Ropperhäuser Line bought by Gilsa and in 1719 also acquired the rest of the quarter from Johann Ludwig von Gilsa. Between 1711 and 1724, the new owner renewed and fortified the estate in the southeast of the village . It replaces the old castle. In 1832 he then built the small castle, which was completed in 1832. After it was sold to Baumbach, the old castle was no longer used; it was partially demolished and gradually fell into disrepair.

The castle seat, which the Lords of Baumbach acquired with the purchase, comprised two farms in 1783 with 410 Kassel acres of land, 300 acres of meadows, 30 acres of gardens, 10 acres of Driesche , 300 acres of Hutewald , Hutweide and desert areas and 1,350 acres of forest. In addition, the inn "Zum toten Ochsen", a brewery , a poor house , the bailiff's apartment and the castle mill belonged to it. In 1895, the manor district comprised 130 hectares of arable land and gardens, 60 hectares of meadows, 79 hectares of Hutung and 148 hectares of forest.

The estate has been renovated since 2010 with the support of the German Foundation for Monument Protection . The manor house is the residence of the Baumbach family. The western facilities of the facility are used by the Gutshof Akademie.

Watch house
stables
Walled baroque garden

Courtyard

The farm is the largest baroque estate in Hesse. The courtyard is surrounded by a massive stone wall. The U-shaped facility consists of several buildings (clockwise): ice cellar, clock house with baroque garden , newly built guest house (former sheepfold), former cowshed, former horse stable, tenant house, vaulted cellar. To the side there is a chapel and the shepherd's house. Until the middle of the 20th century, the farm was the town's main employer. After the Second World War , the farm was able to be brought back into operation with the help of mainly Sudeten German refugees. The management concentrated on sheep breeding until the stables and animals were destroyed in a fire in 1968. From then on, agriculture and forestry were practiced .

360 ° panorama of the estate, v. l. n. r .: guest house, stables, stables, tenant house, outbuildings, manor house, outbuildings, clock house

A walled baroque garden belongs to the courtyard. The spacious park was laid out by Wilhelm Hentze in the 18th century . Individual parts of the garden could be reconstructed by experts.

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. a b c d Stefanie Kellner: Slowing down on the estate in Großropperhausen . About the successful repair of a large courtyard. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 3 . Monuments publications, 2019, ISSN  0941-7125 , p. 20-23 .
  2. The patrimonial jurisdiction of the von Baumbach in Ropperhausen originally comprised high and low jurisdiction. In 1591 the high jurisdiction changed to the Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel and their upper court in Homberg (Efze) . The lower jurisdiction of those von Baumbach in Großropperhausen existed until 1814.
  3. 1 Kassel field = 0.23865 hectares ( historical toolbox )
  4. a b Großropperhausen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of October 16, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).