Hastenbeck Castle

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Hastenbeck Castle

The Hastenbeck Castle is a 1,862 to 1,869 of Adelbert Hotzen in neo-gothic built style mansion in Hastenbeck in Lower Saxony .

Building description

Hastenbeck Castle is a two-wing building with wide gable fronts and a high roof. The two wings of the building are connected by a central building and a massive stair tower . The stair tower has a large round window with an artistic rose window . The castle was built from red Keuper sandstone , which comes from the nearby elevation of the Obensburg in Schecken .

  • entrance

  • Rose window in the stair tower

  • balcony

  • Facade decoration

Castle Park

Castle Park

The castle park , which is now heavily overgrown and lined with trees, begins at the rear of the castle with a spacious lawn. The park emerged from a garden with fruit and vegetable gardens that was created in the 18th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, the gardens were converted into a landscape park, which included the remains of a fortress that was built in the 17th century . There are still earth walls, walls and corner bastions .

history

The castle stands on the site of the Hastenbeck manor, which was first mentioned in the 13th century . Originally this was a castle property of the ancient noble knights von Hastenbeke (later Hastenbeck). With the death of Hartung von Hastenbeck in 1550, the family died out. After pledging and changes of ownership, the manor came to the von Reden family in the 17th century . In 1635 they had a manor house built on the estate. In 1757 this area was the center of the approximately 6 km long defense line of the Hanoverian troops in the battle of Hastenbeck . Later the old manor house was demolished in favor of the castle, which was built in its place until 1869.

In 1952 a fire destroyed the castle's farm buildings. In 1954, the von Reden family built a new house with farm buildings on the site. In 1965, the palace and its park served as a film set for exterior shots of the Edgar Wallace film The Eerie Monk . Today the castle is owned by a descendant of the von Reden family and is used as a residential building.

literature

  • Gustav Stölting-Eimbeckhausen, Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen-Moringen (ed.): The manors of the principalities of Calenberg, Göttingen and Grubenhagen. Description, history, legal relationships ... Hannover 1912, pp. 187–190.
  • Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The Hastenbeck Castle. In: If stones could talk. Volume I, Landbuch-Verlag, Hanover 1989, ISBN 3-7842-03973 , pp. 207-209.
  • Hans Maresch, Doris Maresch: Hastenbeck Castle. In: Lower Saxony's palaces, castles and mansions. Husum Verlag, Husum 2012, ISBN 978-389876-604-3 , pp. 127-128.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maresch, Hans and Doris: Lower Saxony's palaces, castles & mansions as a book title with table of contents from the Husum publishing group

Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 38 "  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 54"  E