Hagerhof Castle

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Gymnasium / Realschule Schloss Hagerhof
Schloss Hagerhof 005, high school Realschule Schloss Hagerhof.jpg
type of school High school with secondary school branch , boarding school
School number 167162
founding 1960
address

Menzenberg 13

place Bad Honnef
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 37 '45 "  N , 7 ° 14' 40"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '45 "  N , 7 ° 14' 40"  E
carrier Schloss Hagerhof GmbH and Co. KG
student approx. 580
Teachers approx. 50
management Michael Laufer (managing director), Sven Neufert (headmaster), Yvonne Schmidt (boarding school director)
Website hagerhof.de
Hagerhof Palace (2008)
The Eau de Cologne family Farina in front of their country estate Hagerhof 1837: The landowner Carl Anton Farina (1770–1850) together with his wife, his son Johann Maria Farina (1809–1880) with his wife and his daughter Margarethe with husband Christian Engelbert Arndts (painting by Heinrich von Rustige 1837)
The Hagerhof in detail 1837

The Hagerhof Castle is a castle-like estate in Bad Honnef , a city in North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district , which received its present appearance in the 19th century. It is located in the southeast of the city, borders on Menzenberg to the south and is located in the former residential area Hagerhof . Since 1960 it has housed a private grammar school with a secondary school branch and boarding school , which is state-recognized and a member of the Association of German Private Schools . It is the only boarding high school in Germany that is based on the principles of Maria Montessori . Around 580 students are currently attending the educational establishment, around 100 of whom live in the in-house boarding school.

The Hagerhof Castle stands including its parks and a piece of wall as a monument under monument protection .

history

The oldest mention of the Hagerhof estate comes from 1635, when it belonged to the von der Lippe family called Hoen. The origins of the farm lie in a Freihof , so that in 1678 the estate was identified as the only tax-free farm in the Selhof estate in a land measure description of the parish of Honnef . When the estate was surveyed around 1735, the Hagerhof comprised “house, courtyard, barns, stables and wine press house” with a vineyard area of over six acres as well as five meadows with an area of ​​12 acres and over 45 acres of hedges.

From 1736 to 1803 the Abbey of Groß St. Martin in Cologne owned the estate, which was managed by various tenants, until after 1815 the Hagerhof became part of the Prussian domain. Friedrich Frembgen remained the tenant (tenant since 1749 for 60 Reichstaler and half of the wine). In 1826 the acquired cologne -Fabrikant Carl Anton Farina made Cologne the courtyard from the Treasury. The price was quite low at 5500 Reichstalers because the entire property was in poor condition. Carl Anton Farina enlarged the estate by buying additional parcels, built new, massive buildings with a stately home and created a representative park so that the Hagerhof could be used as a summer residence. After his death in 1850, his daughter Margarethe, married to privy councilor Christian Engelbert Arndts, inherited the property. At that time the estate was 120 acres in size and had buildings worth around 27,000 Reichsthalers.

In 1854 Margarethe Arndts sold the estate to Abraham Weyermann (1790–1870) , the dyework owner from Elberfeld . His son Franz Gustav Weyermann (1818–1890), owner of the Hagerhof from 1857, had the house redesigned from 1865 to summer 1867 by the architect Edwin Oppler in the English Gothic style and expanded into a mansion . Large parts of the old building from the 18th century were demolished, the cellar was preserved. Outside the manor house, a burial chapel , a horse stable with a coach house and a coachman's apartment and a gardener's house north of the complex were also built. The interior, also designed by Oppler, was based on the style of the 14th century. According to plans by the Düsseldorf garden inspector Joseph Clemens Weyhe , the gardens and the park were also redesigned and the nearby pond redesigned; the community road previously leading between the pond and the residential building was relocated and the Honnefer Graben was given an underground course in the upper part of the facility. For decades, the castle was the focus of the art-loving family. At Whitsun 1896, Walther and Emmy Weyermann, geb. von der Leyen held an intimate chamber music festival at the castle in honor of Johannes Brahms , who arrived after attending Clara Schumann's funeral . Other guests were the Bonn University Music Director Leonhard Wolf , Gustav Ophüls , Rudolf von der Leyen , Bram Eldering and other musicians from the Meiningen court orchestra , who - partly with the participation of Brahms himself - played his piano quintet in F minor, Schumann's string quartet in A major and some songs performed by the composer. In 1901 Walther Weyermann sold the Hagerhof.

The property was acquired by the wealthy merchant widow Laura von Oelbermann from Cologne for her son Alfred. In 1903 he married the 19-year-old doctor's daughter Frances Josefine Simrock from Bonn. A year later he died at the age of 29, leaving 20-year-old "Josie" as a widow. He apparently infected her with a serious illness, as she died of it five years later, in 1909. The Hagerhof, splendidly furnished by Laura Oelbermann and heavily expanded by Alfred, was sold on in 1912. The buyer was Kommerzienrat August von Waldthausen . Von Waldthausen held the estate for 13 years under the management of the later canning manufacturer Dienel and the tenant Wilhelm Vierkotten. In the spring of 1925, the Hagerhof finally became the property of the Missionary Order of the Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing am Sternburger See. Under a subsequent owner in the years 1927-39, the Barmer silk manufacturer Martin Hölken, it was expanded into an agricultural model estate.

Until 1959, the neighboring Gut Limpich riding stable with its stables from 1880 and 1904, including an Art Nouveau riding hall , belonged to Hagerhof Palace. The gardener's house, built between 1865 and 1867, was also separated from the site. The castle has been home to a private grammar school and boarding school since 1960 and , since 2007, a Montessori real school branch that is unique in Germany . Weyermannallee in Bad Honnef was named after the long-time owner family of Hagerhof Castle.

In September 1995 the Hagerhof Palace was entered in the city's list of monuments .

Gymnasium with secondary school branch

The school grounds are around 60,000 square meters and include a pond, wooded area, a park and a sports field. In addition to the newly built school and boarding wing, the site also consists of the listed manor house, which today houses the rooms of the musical school, the library and part of the boarding school.

The high school has become known for promoting talent in the fields of basketball , golf and tennis as well as music , and former students from Hagerhof are now playing in a US professional basketball league. The basketball school teams have so far won the title of German champion "Youth trained for the Olympics" in Berlin six times (2000, 2002, 2009, 2012, 2017 and 2019). In addition, Europe's largest series of basketball camps is held on the grounds of Hagerhof Palace, the “Basketball Camps at Hagerhof Palace”. In 2017, 2018 and 2019, the girls' tennis team won the title of NRW state champion. The school is a member of the school association Blick über den Fence .

The students come from all parts of Germany and numerous other European and non-European countries such as Switzerland and the USA . The headmistress from 1996 to 2018 was the Montessori educator Gudula Meisterjahn-Knebel, a long-time board member of the German Montessori Society and president of Montessori Europe. Hagerhof Castle also organizes student exchanges for young people interested in basketball. There is also a partner school in Burkina Faso , for which there is a working group on development policy. a. Conducts excursions there to help. The musical school affiliated to Hagerhof Castle has performed frequently abroad and plays regularly in the Bad Honnef Kurhaus.

Well-known former students are: Yassin Idbihi (basketball player), Johannes Lange (basketball player), Dominik Bahiense de Mello (basketball player), Emeka Erege (basketball player) and Tobias Scheiße (singer of the band Hammerhead ).

literature

  • Horst Heidermann : The Wuppertal villas and apartments - search for traces on the Rhine . In: Geschichte im Wuppertal , vol. 20, 2011, pp. 36–38. ( online PDF ; 1.9 MB)
  • Isabel Maria Arends, Hagen Blankerts, Martina Rohfleisch: Hagerhof Castle. A journey through history and architecture . Ed .: Schloss Hagerhof, grammar school, secondary school and boarding school. edition wolkenburg, Rheinbreitbach 2010. (bibliographically not recorded)
  • Hagen Blankerts: The Hagerhof and its families. 350 years of history. (Copy from the archives of the Ev. Stadtkirchenverband Köln; place and year of publication could not yet be determined).
  • State Conservator Rhineland: Bad Honnef - Urban Development and Urban Structure. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0414-5 , pp. 91-97.
  • Johann Joseph Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 40-45 . (Reprint 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef)

Web links

Commons : Schloss Hagerhof  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Management team at Hagerhof Castle. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 247
  3. ^ Adolf Nekum : The Hagerhof . In the other : a thousand years of Selhof, a hundred years of the citizens' association , Bad Honnef-Selhof 1988, p. 72-75.
  4. ↑ a b c d Horst Heidermann: The Wuppertal Villas and Apartments - Searching for Traces on the Rhine ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bgv-wuppertal.de
  5. ↑ a b c J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs: The city of Honnef and its history .
  6. ↑ Isabel Maria Arends, Hagen Blankerts, Martina Rohfleisch: Hagerhof Castle. A journey through history and architecture . Ed .: Schloss Hagerhof, grammar school, secondary school and boarding school. edition wolkenburg, Rheinbreitbach 2010.
  7. ↑ Isabel Maria Arends, Hagen Blankerts, Martina Rohfleisch: Hagerhof Castle. A journey through history and architecture. Ed .: Schloss Hagerhof, grammar school, secondary school and boarding school. edition wolkenburg, Rheinbreitbach 2010, p. 135 .
  8. ↑ Interview with Tobias Scheiße. In: Trust (magazine) # 165. April 2014, accessed July 27, 2019 .