Hinnenburg Castle

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Hinnenburg Palace around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Today's Hinnenburg Castle is located on a 282 m high hilltop near Brakel in the Höxter district .

Castle description

The castle is a three-wing complex with a round keep , the oldest part of the castle on the southwest corner. It was built around 1600 as a three-story building from the late Weser Renaissance . Baroque outbuildings followed later. The castle has several rooms with valuable stucco decorations from the Rococo period. In 1658 a "Byzantine chapel" in the shape of an octagon was built in the outer bailey. The mausoleum as an extension of the chapel is the family burial place. A special feature is the important Asseburg family archive, which is not open to the public.

The outer bailey burned down in 1910 and was rebuilt in the historicizing Baroque style. The former servants' buildings now contain rental apartments. Another fire in 1934 damaged parts of the palace, including the state hall.

history

View of the Hinnenburg

The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1237. At that time it served as the residence of the knight Berthold von Brakel. It was one of the main residences of the von Brakel family , which gained importance above and beyond Brakel in the Paderborn monastery and in the Rhenish-Westphalian imperial district . The name is derived from "Hintere Burg". A "front castle" was in the Pahenwinkel area.

At the end of the 13th century, the castle and parts of the property were inherited by the Asseburg family , from whom it came to the von Bocholtz family through an heir in 1793 , who had called themselves Counts von Bocholtz-Asseburg since 1803 . After their extinction in 1985, the property fell to an adopted son from the line of the Counts of Asseburg- Falkenstein-Rothkirch.

The three-wing renaissance building was originally built around 1600. Around 1658 the palace chapel was added. Another expansion in the baroque style took place in the 18th century under the Electorate of Cologne Minister Hermann Werner von der Asseburg .

Todays use

The castle is privately owned by the Count von der Asseburg-Falkenstein-Rothkirch and cannot be visited. Only hiking trails around the castle complex can be used publicly.

Special events

The poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , who was related to the Asseburg family through her mother, often stayed at the Hinnenburg in her youth.

A fire on December 19, 1910 largely destroyed the farm buildings on the Hinnenburg. On November 15, 1934 another devastating fire broke out in the castle.

Personalities

Wilhelm Anton von der Asseburg , 52nd Prince-Bishop of the Duchy of Paderborn , was born in Hinnenburg Castle on February 16, 1707.

local community

On January 1, 1970, was community Hinnenburg incorporated into the city of Brakel.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 107 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '23.7 "  N , 9 ° 10' 48"  E