Hamborn Castle

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Main building of the castle

Hamborn Castle is a 300-hectare castle complex in the Borchen municipality ( Paderborn district ) in North Rhine-Westphalia . The neighboring village is also called Hamborn Castle .

The complex consists of a main building, which was built from natural stone and features stylistic elements of the Weser Renaissance , as well as numerous former farm buildings that extend over the extensive area.

Geographical location

Hamborn Castle is located in Hamborn Castle in the Borchen district of Kirchborchen on the limestone ridge of the Schlossberg at 188.6  m above sea level. NN and is located about 20 to 30 m above a forest-lined loop of the Ellerbach . The Hamborn Forest Run is held every year around Hamborn Castle.

history

The first written mention of Hamborn comes from the 9th century in a document from the Corvey monastery . Between 1137 and 1140 Hamborn was given to the Paderborn Cathedral Chapter (dating of the burned deed of donation according to the Westphalian Document Book ). The result is Hamborn obedience . The origins of the castle go back to two manors that were bought by the von Hartmann family in the middle of the 19th century and combined into one estate. The family built what is now the east wing of the palace.

Via Hermann von Mallinckrodt , Carl Caspar von Droste zu Hülshoff , who bought around 750 hectares of the estate, and Heinrich von Droste zu Hülshoff , whose son Mariano Freiherr von Droste zu Hülshoff was born there, the property came to Baron Otto in 1913 from Rüxleben. This added the current north wing with hall and a second tower.

In 1928 the industrialist Johannes Leidl bought the castle and the estate. After a fire on March 6, 1929, the castle burned down and was subsequently rebuilt.

The property was in 1931 by Siegfried Pickert acquired the there, supported by Georg Moritz , a healing educational boarding on anthroposophic operational basis. In 1940, under pressure from the district farmers, the farm had to be leased and on June 9, 1941, the facility was finally closed by the National Socialists. In the period that followed, the National Socialist People's Welfare Office used Hamborn Castle as a mother and child rest home . After the Second World War, the residents of a bombed-out Paderborn old people's home were housed here.

There are suspicions that US troops murdered German prisoners of war near Hamborn Castle in 1945. The former lieutenant colonel of the Bundeswehr and military writer Ulrich Saft wrote of an eyewitness report which stated that GIs spontaneously shot eight SS soldiers who had recently been captured without a command. He mentions the death of General Maurice Rose on March 31, 1945 and high American losses in the days before as a possible motive . The Heimatverein Paderborn erected a memorial stone in 1995. The Paderborn history teacher Stefan Westhoff documented the events of that time in a book published in 2008; he found no evidence of a massacre. He did not go into the book by Saft.

After the end of the Third Reich , Siegfried Pickert's sponsors' association was able to persuade the British military government to transfer ownership of the castle back, as entries in the land register still showed him as the owner. A Rudolf Steiner School has been operating on the site since 1947 . In 1952 the agricultural property was again taken into its own management according to Demeter's criteria .

Agriculture and craft

In addition to the school, there is a vocational college , a boarding school , a kindergarten , a special needs school with a special pedagogical character, a nursing home, the rehabilitation clinic, the competence promotion with the companies fruit farm / perennial gardening, carpentry, carpentry / Two-wheeler workshop, café and a nursery. In addition, the biodynamic agriculture with bakery, butcher, cheese dairy and a delivery service. In addition, various agricultural and craft businesses and the Möllmann publishing house are located there.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  2. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
  3. ↑ contained in the list of donations from the Corvey monastery "Traditiones Corbeienses" compiled by Paul Wigand
  4. ↑ www.schloss-hamborn-chronik.de
  5. ↑ War in the homeland ... to the bitter end in the Harz , military book publisher Saft Walsrode, 2nd edition 1996. (p. 34) Shortly before, around 20 tanks and around 20 armored personnel carriers were shot down near Hamborn (p. 67).
  6. ↑ Stefan Westhoff: The end of the war in Paderborn: The last eleven days from March 22 to April 1, 1945. BoD paperback, pp. 63–70, ISBN 978-3837055870 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 44.5 "  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 15.5"  E