Jühnde Castle
Jühnde Castle is a former castle in Jühnde in Lower Saxony , which is now a listed building. The building complex of the former castle and other buildings has been inhabited and managed by the Barons Grote since 1664 .
history
A Jühnde estate was first mentioned in a document by Otto I in 960 . The castle, first mentioned in 1290, was located on the military road from Münden to Göttingen . It belonged to Widekindus dictus de June (1250–1297). The von June family died out in 1463 and Jühnde fell to the von Bovenden family ; a little later to the von Adelebsen family . At that time the castle evidently developed into a robber baron's castle from which traders were attacked. In 1484 it was conquered, captured, and rebuilt from 1489 onwards by the Göttingen . The 29 meter high castle tower called Moshus also dates from this time . Its lower two storeys have groin vaults .
The castle burned down in the Thirty Years War .
In 1664, Baron Otto Grote zu Schauen (1637–1693), privy councilor of Duke Johann Friedrich of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , took over the estate and rebuilt the castle from 1668 to 1671. A descendant, Otto Ulrich Freiherr Grote (1757–1821), had the remarkable landscape park laid out in the spirit of Romanticism in 1805 after he left the Hanoverian civil service and the castle was converted from 1806 to 1807 like a castle for residential purposes.
In 1951, the archive of the writer Heinrich Sohnrey (1859–1948), who was born here, was set up in the castle tower .
Jühnde Castle with park around 1930
Gatehouse of the castle
The castle in the village
The castle tower
literature
- Georg Dehio : Jühnde in: Handbook of German Art Monuments Bremen / Lower Saxony , Munich Berlin 1977, ISBN 3422003487 , p. 536f
Web links
- Entry by Jens Friedhoff on Jühnde Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Description of the castle by the municipality of Jühnde
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '44.6 " N , 9 ° 48' 0.9" E