Hagenburg Castle

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Hagenburg Castle with the south wing in half-timbered construction

Hagenburg Castle is a small castle complex in Hagenburg / Lower Saxony , which for a long time served as the summer residence of the Schaumburg-Lippe family . It is connected to the Steinhuder Meer by the 1.2 kilometer long Hagenburg Canal on the edge of the Hagenburger Moor .

History and building history

The castle on Hagenburger channel for Steinhude leads

The Castle Hagenburg as a precursor system of the castle Hagen castle was in 1369 as Hagenborch first mentioned in documents. It is likely to go back to the Schaumburg counts when they set foot on the Steinhuder Meer in the 14th century . The castle probably served in the early 14th century to secure the settlement of Hagenburg, which was built in the second half of the 13th century. From the 14th century onwards, the castle was often pledged and later served as the administrative seat of the Hagenburg Office, whose owner was Ludolf Klencke from 1558. Klencke had a gatehouse built and the castle rebuilt in 1558 . In the living area he pulled in a spiral staircase . His son Ernst Ludolf arranged for some renovations and the construction of a sheepfold in 1574.

In 1686, under Friedrich Christian Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe, the construction was supplemented by the half-timbered south wing with stone plinth and passage. A short time later the east wing was added to it, which gave way to a classicist building at the end of the 18th century . After the castle had been damaged several times in the 1720s, major repairs were carried out in 1733. Ten years later, the Rentkammer had a new gatehouse built.

As early as the end of the 18th century, the buildings no longer seem to have met the requirements, as Princess Juliane von Hessen-Philippsthal arranged for it to be converted into a “ pleasure palace with comfort”. The first drafts of the master builder Clemens August von Vagedes are said to have been created in autumn 1791. On November 17, 1792, Vagedes submitted his architectural drawings, but the princess did not like them. It was not until the drawings submitted in January of the following year that the client approved. Construction work began in the spring of 1793. The interior was expanded in 1794, although the interior decorations were only completed after Vagedes' death in 1795. In the spring of 1798, the interior furnishings began. Princess Juliane did not see the completion of her palace because she died on November 9, 1799 at the age of 38. In 1800 the construction was largely completed.

The castle, which can only be preserved with a large financial outlay, was sold by the Schaumburg-Lippe house with its outbuildings in 2005 . Today it is an art and auction house.

Building description

The current castle building is an L-shaped complex that hardly has any medieval building fabric, but is said to date essentially from the 16th century. The castle should reflect the layout of the castle as the predecessor complex. The half-timbered south wing with a passage rises above a high stone plinth. A coat of arms attached here is labeled "1686". The slightly higher east wing also consists of half-timbered buildings on the south and east sides. However, the half-timbering on the back is not exposed: it is clad with wood. On the west and north sides, however, the corps de logis is listed in stone. The plastered courtyard front is accentuated by a three-axis central projection, to which a portico with Tuscan columns is placed in the entrance area .

The castle is located at the end of the 1.2 kilometer long Hagenburg Canal , which is a branch canal that leads to the Steinhuder Meer . It was laid out in the 1760s to transport the building material for the artificial Wilhelmstein island on boats.

park

Hagenburg Castle is surrounded by a publicly accessible landscape park with old trees; a rhododendron avenue lined with bald cypress trees leads directly to the central projection of the main building. The park provides a suitable habitat for a wide variety of forest-dwelling birds. A number of cave-breeders such as graycatchers , pied flycatchers , nuthatches and several species of titmouse have been identified as breeding birds . Furthermore were green , non-ferrous , medium and small Specht and Oriole observed. Also tawny owl and buzzard are breeding in the park. The dense undergrowth is inhabited by blackcap and garden warbler , robin , chiffchaff and nightingale . In 1964 the white stork was still brooding on the central chimney of the main building . The kingfisher can be seen more often on the Hagenburg Canal .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Husmeier, Geschichtliches Ortverzeichnis, p. 204
  2. ↑ Munk, 600 years of Hagenburg, p. 14
  3. ↑ See Munk, pp. 165/6
  4. ^ Albrecht: Vagedes, p. 50
  5. ↑ Munk, p. 167
  6. ^ Albrecht, Plans and Buildings, p. 50
  7. ↑ Information according to Dehio, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, p. 583
  8. ↑ Information from Thomas Brandt u. a .: Naturerlebnis Steinhuder Meer, Hanover 2002, pp. 73–74
  9. ↑ Weißköppel: Die Vogelwelt des Steinhuder Meer and its wider surroundings, new edition, Wunstorf 1975, p. 162

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 9 ″  N , 9 ° 19 ′ 11 ″  E