Holdenstedt Castle

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Holdenstedt Castle

The Holdenstedt Castle is in the Middle Ages as a castle resulting palace complex in the Uelzen district Holdenstedt in today's district Uelzen in Lower Saxony . Today's palace, a baroque mansion , was built around 1708 and houses the Uelzen local history museum .

description

Side view of the castle building

The appearance of the medieval castle as the predecessor of the castle is not known. She was from a water-bearing moat surrounded by the Hardau dined. In the last third of the 16th century, the von der Wense men had a four-wing moated castle built in place of the castle , which shows a Merian engraving from around 1654. Due to the damage suffered in the Thirty Years War , it was demolished around 1700 and replaced by today's baroque mansion by 1708 . This is a two-story, plastered brick building. According to a construction study, in some areas it stands on much older foundations made of boulders . The building has a distinctive entrance plan and a winter garden. The façade of the mansion was made much simpler between 1838 and 1840. During the renovations, the surrounding moat was also largely filled in. The castle has a spacious park , designed as an English landscape garden , through which the Hardau flows.

history

The predecessor of today's castle on a Merian engraving around 1654

The castle as the predecessor of the castle is first mentioned in written sources in 1191. According to tradition, the castle was the ancestral seat of the noble free von Boldensele, who renamed themselves to Boldensen around 1340. This family had been in Holdenstedt since around 1245, as individual members were nicknamed "von Holdenstedt" as well as "von Boldensele". The castle was first indirectly mentioned in 1266 when a castellan was named. The first explicit mention of it comes from 1319, when it was still an allodial property of the family. In 1342 and 1348 the castle was a fiefdom of the dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . According to tradition, a bailey is mentioned in 1348 . After the "von Boldensele" family died out, the fiefdom passed to the von der Wense family in 1572. They owned the castle until it was sold in 1977. In 1983 the city of Uelzen bought it and set up a cultural center in it. In 2019, plans were announced to build a retirement home in the castle park, against which a citizens' association is opposed. In the same year, the local council of Holdenstedt decided that the city of Uelzen should sell the castle to an investor from Hamburg.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schloss Holdenstedt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norman Reuter: "Castle Park is Destroyed" in Allgemeine Zeitung of February 27, 2019
  2. ↑ Local council is for sale of Schloss Holdenstedt at ndr.de from September 5, 2019

Coordinates: 52 ° 55 ′ 2 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 58 ″  E