Laar Castle

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The Laar castle was build around 1790 castle-like mansion in the early classical style on the site of the once stately manor in Laar , a district of Zierenberg in northern Hesse Kassel district , Germany .

Geographical location

The estate is located immediately to the east of the L 3211 state road, around 4.4 km north of the town of Zierenberg in the Habichtswald Nature Park . It is located at about 217  m above sea level. NN in a valley lined with wooded mountains on the middle reaches of the Warme , a southern tributary of the Diemel .

investment

The castle is a two-storey, originally nine-axis building with a floor area of ​​around 20 × 10 meters, with a hipped roof , at the western end of which a four-axis extension of 9 × 10 m was added in the same style, but not quite as wide. The rear of the extension is set back about 1 m behind the facade of the main building, and its hipped roof is therefore slightly lower than that of the main building. A three-axis dwelling rises above the three central axes of the main building on the front. To the right and left of it there is a single-window dormer . The portal with arbor is in the middle of the north-facing front. The south side facing the palace park is also crowned by a dwelling , but here with two axles and unplastered half-timbered construction , with two single-window dormer windows to the right and left of it. The middle part of the south facade has three windows and a door on the ground floor, and on the upper floor the two outermost of the nine windows are blind .

To the south, along today's L 3211 and between this and the warmer, stretches an almost 400 m long and 60 to 70 m wide tree-lined park with a small pond at the southern end. In the north, between the castle and the entrance, there is a generous, almost circular lawn, which is bordered on both sides by the castle entrance.

The farm buildings of the former Hofgut, some of which date from 1565 and 1599, the " Old Mill " built in 1599 and the few residential buildings of today's residents of Laar are located immediately northeast of the castle complex.

The complex also includes a small cemetery on the edge of the forest east of the estate with the grave sites of various landlords, family members and employees.

history

The culturally and historically significant in the unity of its overall assessment Good Laar originally belonged to the judicial district of on the near Malsburg -based uradeligen Herren von der Malsburg . It is first mentioned as being in their possession in 1322, but they are likely to have built it much earlier.

The Warmetal suffered a lot during the Thirty Years' War , and Laar and the neighboring aristocratic estates of Rangen and Hohenborn were not spared. As early as 1621 there was severe violence and extortion when Count Anholt and Bavarian troops moved from Liebenau up the Warmetal to Zierenberg and Ehlen . At the state parliament convened in Felsberg on November 4, 1626 , Hermann von der Malsburg apologized for his absence by stating that his houses in Laar, Escheberg , Malsburg and Obermeiser had already been looted. In 1629 Octavio Piccolomini's troops occupied and sacked the entire Warmetal. In 1636, field marshal Johann von Götzen's people plundered and pillaged the Warmetal five times when they drove Landgrave Wilhelm V of Hessen-Kassel from Westphalia . 1637 was even worse when Croatian horsemen ravaged the area.

The heirs of Rabanus von der Malsburg sold the estate in two steps in 1688 (8/9) and 1691 (1/9) to Landgrave Karl von Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel . He sold the castle and the Laar estate in 1726 to the widow of the former landgrave chancellor Nikolaus Wilhelm Goddaeus (1646–1719), Amalie Elisabeth b. d'Orville (1676–1752), who had bought the Betzigerode estate in 1723 for her son Johann Reinhard, born in 1718. Her youngest and second surviving son, Major Johann Heinrich Goddaeus (1711–1786), inherited the estate, and through the marriage of his daughter Marie Wilhelmine (1749–1788) to the retired Hesse-Kassel captain Ernst Ludwig von Hesberg in January 1773 (1737–1796) it came to this, as well as the Goddaeus'sche Gut in Betzigerode. Hesberg and his family, including his son Georg von Heßberg (1777-1852), who later became Minister of War in the Electorate of Hesse , lived on Laar until 1785 or 1786 and then moved into the Betzigerode mansion . Then the estate of 30,000 was Reichstaler Otto Philipp Ludwig von Voigt sold (1720-1794), the data collected in the Imperial nobility on December 30, 1776 former kurhannoverschen bailiff in Harste who built the present castle.

After Voigt's death, his son, an upper chamber councilor in Kassel, sold the estate in 1802 to the textile manufacturer Johann Christian Weiß (1779–1850), owner of a worsted spinning mill in Glücksbrunn , who was ennobled in 1836. After the death of his son and heir Johann Christian von Weiß jun. in Glücksbrunn in 1901, whose marriage to Caroline von Starck († 1909), daughter of Kassel's war council Wilhelm August von Starck, had remained childless in 1840, the Laar estate and the mill building, which had not been used for grinding purposes since 1844, were given to his nephew in 1902 his wife, Wilhelm von Starck . He had the castle and the mill renovated and modernized as early as 1903. The former grain and oil mill built by Hermann von der Malsburg in 1599 was then used to generate electricity for the Laar estate until 1959. Heirs were his son Karl von Starck (1867-1937), the then police chief and later district president in Cologne and state commissioner for the occupied Rhenish territories, and his wife Erna (1881-1938), whose descendants still own the castle and the estate today.

Traffic and walking

Immediately west of the castle, the L 3211 runs between Zierenberg and Hohenborn or Obermeiser in a south-north direction. Through Laar, where it crosses the road, the Fulda-Diemel-Weg leads in an east-west direction , a hiking trail between the Rivers Fulda in the east and Diemel in the northwest. The Warmetal cycle path also leads past the castle, both its main route here on the L 3211 and the alternative route from Zierenberg to this point, which is identical to the Fulda-Diemel-Weg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daughter of the council and comitial envoy Johann Joachim d'Orville (1633–1688) ( Orville, Johann Joachim d '. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).)
  2. ^ Topographical-statistical news from Niederhessen , third volume, first issue. Grießbach, Kassel 1796, p. 112 . The purchase date 1755 for the Laar estate, also in view of her death as early as 1752, cited in the historical local lexicon of Hessen ( Laar, Kassel district. Historical local lexicon for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).) Is incorrect.
  3. ^ The last birth of a Hesberg child, Heinrich Justin, took place on March 23, 1785 in Laar; Josine Luise Marie Ernestine was born on October 31, 1786 at the Hesbergschen Gut Betzigerode.
  4. ^ Topographical-statistical news from Niederhessen , third volume, first issue. Grießbach, Kassel 1796, p. 112
  5. ↑ The year 1778 is sometimes referred to as the year of sale, but this is inconsistent in view of the birthdays and locations of the Hesberg children.
  6. ↑ Annett Pfützenreuter: Garden Memorial Nursing ambition for the monument ensemble Palace and Park Brunn luck. (PDF; 36 MB) 2010, pp. 11–12 , accessed on April 15, 2017 .
  7. ↑ The history of Glücksbrunn Palace ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ Handbook of the Kurhessischen Militair-, Hof- und Civil-Staats for the year 1821. Kassel 1820, p. 69
  9. ↑ Wilhelm von Starck (1835-1913) was Schwarzburg-Rudelstadt Real Privy Councilor and Minister of State and was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on August 20, 1888 . He was married to Charlotte, b. von Baumbach (1844–1914).
  10. ↑ Since its renewed restoration in 1994, it has been generating electricity again and at the same time houses a mill museum.
  11. ↑ Old books allow a look into the past: information about the forest around Gut Laar from 200 years ago; HNA online, March 1, 2013

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 21.8 "  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 51.3"  E