Martinfeld Castle
The Castle Martin Field is located in the village of Martin Field in Eichsfeld .
The castle was built in 1611 as a mansion for the noble Thuringian von Bodungen family , who had moved to Martinfeld in 1518. It is a small castle with around 750 square meters of living space in the Renaissance style .
Building
The castle is a three-story, eaves-standing building with a crippled hipped roof . In front of the roof structure there are barrel- spanned portholes. In the middle of the southern front there is a round stair tower with a three-part French tower (covered with slate). On the ground floor there is a Renaissance portal with a volute gable and an inscription on the lintel. On the second floor, a structural framework with emphasis on the Rähm threshold zones protrudes through open beam heads. Inside there is extensive stucco work, parquet and terrazzo floors.
history
The last owner of the manor from the noble von Bodungen family was Burchard von Bodungen (1900–1976), son of Werner von Bodungen. The castle remained in family ownership until it was expropriated as part of the land reform in 1945 and was then used as a youth hostel . The last owner, Burchard von Bodungen, lived in Göttingen after the Second World War and worked in the sugar beet industry from 1947. After the reunification , a youth guesthouse of the "Westerwald Riding and Leisure Center" was temporarily housed in the castle. The regional association of Thuringia of the German Youth Hostel Association (DJH) took over the castle in 2000. After the castle was fundamentally renovated between 2001 and 2003, the hostel reopened in May 2003. In autumn 2007, the DJH ceased operations and handed it over Lease owned castle back to the owner, the Free State of Thuringia .
In August 2008 the association “Schloss Martinfeld e. V. ”, which was founded in May of the same year for the purchase of the castle by seven members of the German Scout Association , acquired the castle in order to operate it as an international scout meeting place and free youth hostel. The hostel started operating in September 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Joppich (Ed.): Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera . Volume 2: 1900–2002 Göttingen 2002, No. 989: Burchard von Bodungen became an honorary member of his corps .
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 13 ″ N , 10 ° 10 ′ 48 ″ E