Jesberg Castle

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Jesberg Castle; left in the background the keep of the former Jesberg Castle

The Jesberg Castle (also Maximilian Castle or Maximilian castle called) in Jesberg in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder was in 1723 for the Prince Maximilian von Hessen built as a summer residence. Today the building, which was restored in 2006, houses senior citizens' apartments, a meeting place and a library.

description

The castle is a simple main building with a mansard roof . It is architecturally related to the Kassel palaces of the early 18th century. The central axes are elevated on the courtyard side and crowned by a round gable. On the garden side, the building juts out on three sides and supports a balcony. The name of the architect is unknown. The castle had two outbuildings, one of which is still preserved today, as well as a Dutch-style garden that no longer exists, which ended with a zoo.

history

In 1721, with the death of Ludwig Eitel von Linsingen, the Hessian branch of the von Linsingen family died out . With this, Jesberg Castle and the property belonging to it fell back to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as a settled fief . Landgrave Karl enfeoffed his ninth son Maximilian . He bought further property and had the castle built as a summer residence in the Treisbachgrund below the castle hill in 1723 . He lived there with his wife, Princess Friederike Charlotte von Hessen-Darmstadt (1698–1777), who, because of her lavish lifestyle, was displeased in both Hessian princely houses, with whom he had four daughters. Maximilian had the princess garden built for his daughters in a nearby forest .

After Maximilian died deeply in debt in 1753, Landgrave Wilhelm VIII of Hessen-Kassel acquired the palace. The remaining assets were parceled out and sold to the highest bidder. Between 1800 and 1807 the castle was owned by a citizen of Jezberg, after which it was publicly owned. In the course of time it served as a prisoner of war camp , barracks , cell wing, district court , old people's home , apartment building and asylum seekers' home.

After it had stood empty for a long time and threatened to deteriorate, it was purchased by the German Red Cross and fundamentally renovated in 2006.

literature

  • G. Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments: Hessen , edited by Magnus Backes , 1966
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 200.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 46 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 49 ″  E