Höhnscheid Castle

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Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 51 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 38 ″  E

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Höhnscheid Castle , also Hönscheid , is a baroque castle near Wolfhagen and Bad Arolsen in Northern Hesse . It was created on the basis of a monastery that was abolished during the Reformation .

location

Höhnscheid Castle is located in the district of Bühle , a village district of Bad Arolsen , at 360 m above sea level immediately north of the B 251 ( Brilon - Kassel ) between Freienhagen (district of Waldeck ) and Ippinghausen (district of Wolfhagen ). About 3 km east-southeast, near Ippinghausen, the Weidelsberg (492.3 m above sea level) rises with the Weidelsburg . Immediately south of the castle is a large pond fed by the Georgengraben flowing by . The farm buildings of the former estate are located northwest of the castle; to the east and north is a tree-lined park. There is a hereditary burial about 700 m further north in the forest .

history

As early as 1208, the brothers Volkwin IV. Von Schwalenberg and Adolf I von Waldeck built the first monastery buildings in Höhnscheid. This monastery was first mentioned in 1230 as a donation to the Corvey monastery . An Augustinian convent subordinate to the Aroldessen monastery was founded in 1235. Count Otto IV. Von Waldeck zu Landau expelled the nuns in 1468 because of their alleged moral and moral decline and in the same year handed over the monastery to the Canons of the Order of the Cross .

In 1527, as part of the Reformation, the monastery was dissolved by Count Philipp IV von Waldeck, renovated and then used as the Count's Meiergut . The attempt to use it again as a monastery in 1630 failed.

In 1720, Prince Friedrich Anton Ulrich , who needed considerable sums of money to build his new residential palace in Arolsen , sold the property to Colonel Johann Wilhelm von Leliwa . He commissioned the lordly master builder Julius Ludwig Rothweil with the renovation and expansion. In the years 1720 to 1730, the architect gave the building complex with the two-wing, castle-like manor house its current baroque appearance. In 1811 the von Leliwa family sold the castle to Rittmeister Schenck zu Schweinsberg . In 1871 Baron Wilhelm von Gaertner-Griebenow acquired the castle and estate. In 1846 he married Dorothea Wilhelmine, the daughter of Christian Wilhelm Griebenow and owner of the Leuthen estate , who received the Leibchel manor as a gift from her father in 1852 . On November 10, 1858 he received approval to use the name of Gärtner-Griebenow. The castle and estate remained in the family's property until 1919. By way of a settlement, Höhnscheid Castle finally went to the Twiste circle . In 1960 the Waldeckische Domanialverwaltung bought the entire property. The Baltic Knighthood Association has owned the palace and park since the end of 2017 .

Conference hotel

After a renovation and a thorough renovation, Höhnscheid Castle has been used as a conference and retreat hotel and as the center of the Association of Baltic Knights since 1996 .

literature

  • Eduard Brauns: Hiking and travel guide through North Hesse and Waldeck . Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen 1971
  • Christian Paul: The former Höhnscheid monastery . (Heimat, Kunst, Geschichte; 13), Evangelischer Presseverband, Kassel 1982, ISBN 3-920310-61-6
  • Hans Ulrich Weiss: The Kreuzherren in Westphalia . Diest, 1963, pp. 166-177 et al. 287-290
  • Erich Wenneker : The Waldeckischen Kreuzherrenkloster Höhnscheid . Schieder-Schwalenberg, 1979

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Freiherr von Houwald : The Niederlausitzer manors and their owners. Volume III: District of Lübben. Verlag Degener & Co., owner Gerhard Gessner, Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, ISBN 3-7686-4109-0 , p. 125
  2. ↑ Architectural and art monuments, Circle of Twiste . 1938, p. 104 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Höhnscheid  - collection of images, videos and audio files