Iggenhausen Castle

The Iggenhausen Castle is a Grade II listed secular building near the road in Sylbacher Pottenhausen , a district of location in the district of Lippe ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ). The castle is surrounded by a historical landscape park that extends to the banks of the Werre .

History and architecture

The palace complex is one of the oldest mansions in Lippe . It was mentioned in a document by 1070 at the latest as a villication of the Corvey monastery . Other sources see the first mention of Iggenhausen ( Yegenhausen ) as early as the beginning of the 10th century, Hans Kiewning as early as the 9th century at the time of King Arnulf of Carinthia . Parts of the circular wall and the moat, which was drained in 1860, are still preserved from the medieval tower hill complex in the southwest .

The chapel of the former manor in its current form dates from 1618, when the owner was the manor owner Albert von Brink. From 1769, the Barons von Blomberg first followed as owners and at the latest after the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss as owners.

From 1941 the castle was owned by Baroness Wiltrud von Eckhardtstein , née Freiin von Blomberg (1911–1999). The estate is still owned by the Barons von Eckardstein.

The mansion is an elongated plastered building with ashlar structure in neo -Gothic forms with a classicist style. It was built in 1856 under the construction management of Ferdinand Ludwig August Merckel for August von Blomberg and expanded by his brother Friedrich in 1865. The main risalit is equipped with a stone loggia and a stepped gable and adorned with corner frames and battlements. The old mansion is included as a side wing on the courtyard side. The plastered symmetrical half-timbered building stands above a high basement. On the courtyard side there is a sandstone portal , it is marked 1816 and shows the coat of arms of the von Blomberg- Iggenhausen family.

The back of the courtyard is bounded by the so-called crooked house . This is a single-storey half-timbered building from 16./17. Century. The core is from an older time. The ground plan is broken several times following the medieval curtain wall. Around 1860, an iron structure greenhouse was added to the park. The ensemble is completed by the chapel already described above.

Court chapel

There is a chapel in the inner courtyard . It is a hexagonal closed hall building made of quarry stone. It was rebuilt in its current state of construction in 1648, so that the chapel is much older and, in addition to its structural shape, also shows the north-facing altar and the altar plate. The wooden furnishings made of oak are simple and were installed around 1690. The bell from the 13th century has a majusc inscription . The tombstones with coats of arms from the 17th and 18th centuries come from the crypt of the Marktkirche in Lage, where the dead of the families living in Iggenhausen were originally buried.

Manor park

The now partially overgrown manor park was created together with the construction of the neo-Gothic manor house in the middle of the 19th century. In the approximately two- hectare park there are numerous deciduous and coniferous trees that date back to the time of origin, as well as a special feature a greenhouse from around 1860. The landscape park emerged from a smaller baroque complex. It is located in the Werreaue and is traversed by a mill moat and the drained moat .