Oberurff Castle

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The castle in Oberurff

The Oberurff Castle (also Hanauisches Schloss ) is located in the Oberurff district of the Bad Zwesten municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

The castle was built in 1877. The builder and owner was Prince Philipp von Hanau-Hořovice (born December 29, 1844 in Kassel ; † August 28, 1914 in Oberurff Castle), the youngest of six sons from the morganatic marriage of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hesse-Kassel with Gertrude Lehmann . Philipp, who lived with his parents in Bohemian- Austrian exile in Prague and at Hořowitz Castle from 1867 , became a cavalry captain in the Austrian service. After the death of his father (1875) and the renunciation of his agnates to the succession to the throne in favor of Prussia, he returned to Hesse and acquired the manor house of the von Wintzingerode in Oberurff, today part of Bad Zwesten in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse , as his own Residence.

The estate was originally owned by the Lords of Breidenbach called Löwenstein . Then it was bought by Carl Reinhard Goddaeus, who bequeathed it to his sister Maria Amalia (1710–1784), the wife of the Hessian Privy Councilor and Vice Chancellor Christian Heinrich von Motz (1687–1751). Their son Justin (1733-1813), Kurhessischer Real Privy Councilor and President of the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel , was raised in 1780 to the imperial nobility. When the von Motz family died out in Oberurff, the estate came to the von Wintzingerode family as a marriage property. Philipp von Wintzingerode , Prussian state director in the Kassel administrative region and former Hessen-Kassel administrative officer, died in 1871, and his widow, born von Berlepsch , sold the property to Philipp von Hanau. He had Oberurff Castle built on the site in 1877, a mansion in the neo- baroque style , along with an extensive landscaped park . Then he brought his father's library and cabinet files to Oberurff.

Most recently, the property belonged to Count Edwin von Rothkirch and Trach (1888–1980), who married Countess Albertine von Schaumburg (1902–1935), a granddaughter of Prince Philipp von Hanau-Hořovice and heiress of the castle, in 1922. In 1952 he sold it to the Christian Youth Village Association in Germany , and on March 31, 1953 the CJD Youth Village Christophorus School in Oberurff was opened in the castle .

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ All castles: Oberurff, Hanauisches Schloss
  2. ^ His participation in the occupation of Bosnia by Austria was poetically "immortalized" by Adam Trabert . Philipp was married to Albertine Hubatschek-Stauber (* December 1845 in Semlin ; † April 11, 1912 in Meran ). Albertine was made Countess of Schaumburg, and the descendants of the two were "Counts of Schaumburg".
  3. ↑ http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016336/images/index.html?seite=244 by Motz, in NDB, Volume 18 (1996)
  4. ↑ Werner Ide: From Adorf to Zwesten. Bernecker, Melsungen, 1972 (p. 367)
  5. ↑ After Philip's death, Landgrave Alexander Friedrich von Hessen , son of the titular Landgrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel zu Rumpenheim , bought the cabinet files and had them brought from Oberurff to Schloss Philippsruhe near Hanau , the seat of his main administration, in 1917 . ( http://www.vhghessen.de/mhg/1994_nf29/1994_02_016.htm (p. 16))

literature

  • Werner Ide: From Adorf to Zwesten: Local history paperback for the Fritzlar-Homberg district, Bernecker, Melsungen, 1972, pp. 366–368.
  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hessen. 800 castles, castle ruins and fortifications. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , p. 102.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 389.
  • Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf (arrangement): Hessen I: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts (Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-4220-3092-3 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 59.9 ″  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 33.5 ″  E