Landau Castle

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Landau Castle
Creation time : 1330-1339
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Landau (Bad Arolsen)
Geographical location 51 ° 20 '39.3 "  N , 9 ° 4' 50.1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '39.3 "  N , 9 ° 4' 50.1"  E
Landau Castle (Hesse)
Landau Castle

The castle Landau is located in the north of Bad Arolsener district Landau in Waldeck-Frankenberg and comes in part from the 14th century. It is currently being extensively renovated by the new owner after a long period of vacancy.

history

Landau Castle

In the 13th century there was a castle in the same place. This was converted into a castle around 1330 by Count Heinrich IV von Waldeck , which was first mentioned in a document in 1339. From 1366 it was used by his grandson Heinrich VI. temporarily as a residence. The older Landau line of the Counts of Waldeck resided here from 1397 to 1495 and the newer Landau line from 1550 to 1597.

Towards the end of the 14th century, a chapel in Romanesque style based on the original crypt was added, which was later completed in Gothic style and served the count family as a burial chapel. This former burial chapel is now the Landau town church of the Protestant parish. While the castle is on the edge of the old town, the church stands on the highest point of the castle hill in the middle of the old town.

Extensive renovation work began on the palace from 1549: parts of the east and north wings, the large stair tower on the courtyard side and the portal to the courtyard on the east side have been preserved from this period.

From 1679 to 1683 the castle was again extensively expanded and rebuilt. The occasion was the marriage of the lord of the palace, Christian Ludwig von Waldeck, to his second wife in 1680. In the years that followed, further reconstructions of the palace were necessary, among other things because, in addition to the lord's 14 children from his first marriage, 11 children from his second marriage ended up being too were to accommodate.

In 1744 part of the east wing collapsed, so that this part of the building was completely demolished until around 1750.

1749–1763, the castle was rebuilt again after a fire in the city. Among other things, the archway that still exists today with the connecting passage between the north and south wings was created during this period. Further extensive repair work on the remaining parts of the building can be dated to the year 1818.

After the death of Prince Ferdinand Ludwig Hubert von Waldeck in 1828, the castle was first leased to the dairy owner Wilhelm von Hadel, and later to his successor. In 1849 a resident from the Waldeck princely family can be proven again.

External use in the 20th century

By the 1930s at the latest, the castle was rented out again on a long-term basis: from 1933 to 1944 the building was the seat of a farming college.

In 1948 the castle became the old people's and nursing home "Schloss Landau", a branch of the Evangelical Altenhilfe Gesundbrunnen in Hofgeismar . The castle garden with its historic stone fountain became a therapy garden. There is also an old orchard with apples, plums, raspberries, gooseberries and currants. The old people's home existed until 2012.

New owner after vacancy

Two years after the retirement home was closed, the property was sold by the Waldeckschen Dominialverwaltung to a private hotel operator. Since spring 2015, extensive renovation and renovation work has been carried out on the castle and the associated outbuildings. In addition to private rooms, a guest and seminar house as well as a representative hall in the castle for various events have been created. The former therapy garden should remain accessible to the general public.

literature

  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 20.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f The Castle: The History in Brief, www.schloss-landau.de ( Memento from November 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Church of the mountain town of Landau
  3. ↑ Homepage of the castle