Meysenbug Castle

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Meysenbug manor house

Meysenbug Castle is a castle in Lauenau in Lower Saxony that was built in 1867 in the English neo-Gothic , the Tudor style .

description

The castle's predecessor was a castrum, first mentioned in 1499 . In a town fire in 1570, the complex was destroyed and rebuilt as a moated castle by Wulfferd von Zerßen between 1604 and 1610 . He had received the estate from Count Anthonius von Holstein-Schaumburg as a fief . The complex was the manor of the von Meysenbugschen estate from the early 17th century. In 1776 a reconstruction took place in which the hexagonal stair tower , the arbor and the side gable were removed.

Driveway

On August 26, 1828, Carl Rivalier von Meysenbug was enfeoffed with the estate by the Hessian elector Wilhelm II . Carl Rivalier von Meysenbug was raised to the nobility by the elector in 1825 with the name extension of Meysenbug . The name comes from the family that died out in 1810 with Heinrich von Meysenbug .

In 1867 the palace complex was demolished and rebuilt based on the English Tudor style. The graft was also filled. In 1897 the facility was expanded with a brick building . The von Meysenbug family lived in the castle to this day (2014).

literature

  • The manors of the principalities of Calenberg, Göttingen and Grubenhagen. Description, history, legal relationships and 121 illustrations. Published by Gustav Stölting-Eimbeckhausen and Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen-Moringen at the decision of the knighthood and with the participation of the individual owners. Hannover, 1912, pp. 201-203.
  • Hans Maresch, Doris Maresch: Meysenbug Castle In: Lower Saxony's palaces, castles and mansions. Husum Verlag, Husum 2012, ISBN 978-3-89876-604-3 , pp. 150-151

Web links

Commons : Schloss Meysenbug  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The von Meysenbugs move on in: Schaumburger Nachrichten of June 10, 2014
  2. ↑ Maresch, Hans and Doris: Lower Saxony's palaces, castles & mansions as a book title with table of contents from the Husum publishing group

Coordinates: 52 ° 16'22.3 "  N , 9 ° 21'56.8"  E