Henneckenrode Castle

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Henneckenrode Castle

Henneckenrode Castle is a castle in Henneckenrode in the municipality of Holle in Lower Saxony , which Heinrich von Saldern built in 1579 in the Weser Renaissance style. From 1838 the castle was used as an orphanage . The Caritas Association of the Diocese of Hildesheim operated a children's and youth home there until 2017 .

Castle complex

The castle building has design elements on its west-facing front with a central risalit that are reminiscent of the Weser Renaissance. The back of the building is supported by massive, towering pillars. With the three-sided farm yard, the palace forms a four-wing complex with a large inner courtyard. The castle and its facilities have been a listed building since 1988 . In addition to the palace building, the protected ensemble includes two pavilions, the farmyard, the former palace church and the landscape park with the 2.6 hectare pond fed by the Nette . Within the estate and palace complex is the St. Josephs Church, which today belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Hubertus Wohldenberg and was built in 1597 by Burchard von Saldern as a palace church.

Castle garden

The palace garden was created around 1580 in connection with the palace as a classic Renaissance garden based on presumably Italian models. This is particularly suggested by the chosen design unit of house and garden, the perfect geometric shape of the garden square and the structure and arrangement of the terrace. According to older representations, the ground floor consisted of four open spaces of the same size, bordered with boxwood, which were divided by a way of the cross. In addition to the view of a water surface, there was an attractive view of the valley of the Nette, the low mountain range and the Wohldenberg castle . The edges of the parterre garden to the water areas were formed by arcades. The center of the garden was a circular square. The shape of the garden has been preserved in the basic structure to this day, although the four-part division of the ground floor has been removed.

In 1999 and 2000 a garden area at the castle was reconstructed as a monument. In 2012 and 2013 the pond, which had meanwhile silted up, was restored and the facade of the castle building was renovated, which resulted in costs of around 800,000 euros.

history

Today's town of Henneckenrode was originally a manor , which has been documented as belonging to the Counts of Wohldenberg since the beginning of the 13th century . Towards the end of the 13th century the estate came to the Bishop of Hildesheim , who gave it to the von Heere family as a fief . After their sex died out, Burchhard von Saldern became a tenant from 1567. His son Heinrich von Saldern built the Henneckenrode Castle between 1579 and 1580. In 1588 there was a fire in the castle, which led to a reconstruction and the extent of which nothing is known.

In 1684 Adam Arnold Freiherr von Bocholtz acquired the castle of Aschwin von Saldern. In 1820 it came into the possession of the Hildesheim land rent master Friedrich Blum. In 1831 he ordered in his will that the castle should be converted into an orphanage run by a foundation . After his death in 1832, the Blum'sche Orphanage Foundation was established , the direction of which was transferred to the Hildesheim bishop on the instructions of the King of Hanover. After renovation work, the orphanage in the castle was opened in 1838 and handed over to the Sisters of Mercy in 1856 , who worked there until 1946. After that, the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis took on childcare until 2007. During the Second World War , the castle served as a Wehrmacht hospital from 1942 to 1945 .

The castle church built in 1597

Today the castle is used by the Henneckenrode child and youth welfare organization of the Caritas Association of the Diocese of Hildesheim. Around 30 children and young people live in the castle. The agricultural operation of the former estate is leased and provides the income for the Blum'schen Orphanage Foundation. At the end of 2014, the diocese of Hildesheim, as the indirect owner of the castle, announced that the facilities of the orphanage foundation would leave the castle and move to other locations. The reason given was necessary construction work on the castle building amounting to over 2 million euros, which exceeded the foundation's assets. An initiative of former residents, employees and local residents was formed against the closure of the children's home in the castle. The castle is for sale (2019).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Restoration of the castle pond in Henneckenrode as a representation of the community
  2. ↑ Restoration of the castle pond in Henneckenrode (pdf) as a representation of the engineering office
  3. ↑ Further fuss about Henneckenrode Castle at Observer-online from December 4, 2014
  4. ↑ Thomas Pohlmann: Farewell to the classic home in: KirchenZeitung of November 27, 2014
  5. ↑ Castle history at the Henneckenrode child and youth welfare organization
  6. ↑ Questions and answers about the closure of the castle in Henneckenrode ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the press release of the Hildesheim diocese of December 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bistum-hildesheim.de
  7. ^ Website against the closure of the children's home in the castle
  8. ↑ Immowelt, July 2019
  9. ↑ Reports on the preservation of monuments 2015/1

Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 32.5 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 44.2 ″  E