Hattenbach Castle

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Entrance to the manor with a view of the castle

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 33 ′ 42 ″  E

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Alliance coat of arms above the window on the first floor

The Hattenbach Castle is a now-used as a residence former noble residence in Had Bach , a district of Niederaula , 13 km southwest of Bad Hersfeld in the district of Rotenburg in northern Hesse . It is located within an estate not far northeast of the village church at the northeast end of the Schlossberg street .

history

A local noble family, first mentioned in 1235 and extinct in 1626, built a late Romanesque castle on a spur facing south-west above the village . After a 25-year loan from the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel to Siegmund von Peterswald , landgrave councilor and bailiff in Hersfeld , Friedewald and Vacha , Landgrave Wilhelm VI bought the property . the castle and the village returned in 1651 after Peterswald's death.

In 1654, Wilhelm VI. his cousin Ernst Reinhard as junior chamberlain , enfeoffed him with the castle and village of Hattenbach along with considerable accessories in goods in and around Frielingen and awarded him the vacant title of nobility of the Lords of Hattenbach. Ernst von Hattenbach (also Ernst Reinhard von Hattenbach) had a three-storey manor house built by 1672 (according to the date above the portal ) using the remains of the former castle . His son Karl von Hattenbach expanded the building in the years 1713–1715 and also had an orangery added . This second noble family of the von Hattenbach became extinct in the male line with Ernst's grandson Johann Moritz von Hattenbach in 1786.

After that, the owners changed several times. Around 1840 Eduard von Biedenfeld acquired the estate and palace, but on September 25, 1854, his widow sold the estate and palace to the former state minister of Hessen-Kassel. D. Georg Ferdinand von Lepel (1779–1873), who handed it over to his son Carl (1821–1901). This was followed by the grandson Emil (1872-1941), who in 1892 sold to his brother-in-law Robert Patry (1868-1924). His descendants are still in possession of the estate today.

The attachment

The building in its current form, which was created in 1715, is a simple, three-story, solid, white plastered mansion with corner humpback ashlars and a hipped roof . In the west, the remains of the square residential tower of the former castle are integrated into the building. It is about 24 meters long and 8 meters wide and is a four-sided built on the northeast side and still agriculturally used farmstead . A small park adjoins it to the northwest, along the southeast side of which a linden tree avenue leads to the manor. In the simple entrance area, the year 1672 is incorporated into the sandstone portal; There is a crowned alliance coat of arms above the window on the first floor .

Visiting the privately owned facility is not possible.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Dietrich Christoph von Rommel: Modern history of Hessen , first volume, Kassel 1835, pp. 405-406.
  2. ↑ Ernst Reinhard was an illegitimate son, born posthumously in 1617 , of the Landgrave Hereditary Prince Otto von Hessen-Kassel .
  3. ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse. Fischer, Kassel 1842, p. 520.
  4. ↑ His son, born here, was an agricultural functionary, NSDAP state politician, SS brigade leader and war administrator Karl Patry (1898–1958).

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