Ramholz Castle

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Ramholz Castle
Ramholz Castle.JPG
Creation time : 1501, 1893-1896
Conservation status: Receive
Place: Schlüchtern-Vollmerz ( Ramholz )
Geographical location 50 ° 19 '56.7 "  N , 9 ° 36' 44.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '56.7 "  N , 9 ° 36' 44.4"  E
Ramholz Castle (Hesse)
Ramholz Castle

Ramholz Castle and the historic Ramholz Landscape Park are located in the hamlet of Ramholz in the Vollmerz district of the city of Schlüchtern . The palace and park are cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

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Ramholz Castle

It was first mentioned in 1167 as the manor ( curia ) of those von Steckelberg . In 1501 a new building was erected there as the residence of the von Hutten family , who had owned the complex since 1482, the "Old Castle". The Huttenschloss has been preserved as part of Ramholz Castle and features architectural features such as a stepped gable and a stair tower . In 1698 the Counts of Degenfeld inherited the property. In 1790 the castle with 1,800 hectares of land came into the possession of the House of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Büdingen .

From 1883, the facility was owned by the Stumm family and their descendants. Hugo Freiherr von Stumm competed with his brothers Ferdinand Eduard von Stumm and Carl Ferdinand von Stumm all his life . Since the brothers built magnificent castles on their country estates ( Rauischholzhausen Castle and Halberg Castle ), Hugo von Stumm had the Munich architects Emanuel and Gabriel von Seidl add a new building to the old castle from 1893–1896 , as well as a farmyard including buildings from the 18th century Century as well as houses for the employees and a machine house to power the property. The castle with its 80 rooms is built in the style of historicism and combines elements of Gothic , Renaissance , Baroque , Classicism and Art Nouveau . A restaurant was located in the former orangery from 1997 to 2014.

The castle, which is privately owned by the descendants of Kühlmann-Stumm, was opened to the public for a short time in 2012 through guided tours. In 2012 it was offered for sale for 7 million euros. In 2014 the castle was acquired by a Chinese investor.

park

The approximately 80-hectare landscape park is one of the most important of historicism in Germany. The design comes from the Swedish landscape gardener Jens Person Lindahl (1843–1887) and the head gardener Felix Schnetzer. The entire landscape surrounding the castle including Steckelberg Castle is included in the design. Small architectural decorate the park, including one from Würzburg there translocated Pavilion from Balthasar Neumann . Stumm initially had the gatehouse (later forester's house) built on the lime tree avenue leading to the castle. This also includes the crypt chapel, which was built in the forest around 1910 and painted in Art Nouveau style .

In the early days, the park was not open to the public and was only opened in exceptional cases on certain days. In the 1960s, Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm opened the park to the public all year round. In the 2000s, a large part of the land and the third section of the park with all the buildings were sold to another private owner.

The Hessischer Spessart Nature Park and the landscape architect Hans Dorn from Frankfurt am Main occasionally offer guided tours through the remaining public part of the park. The gardens close to the castle are not accessible.

In the summer of 2013, RhönEnergie Fulda announced plans to build ten wind turbines on the crest of the basin in cooperation with a local forest owner. In contrast, a citizens' initiative had formed.

Gallery: crypt chapel

literature

  • Horst Becker: The irrigation system in the Ramholz Castle Park. A unique hydropower plant from the age of industrialization . In: Die Gartenkunst  26 (1/2014), pp. 145–163.
  • Wenzel Bratner: Ramholz Castle Park near Schlüchtern. A landscape park from the period of historicism . In: "Denkmalpflege und Kulturgeschichte 2/2002, S. 17-22.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse II. Administrative region Darmstadt . (Ed .: Folkhard Cremer et al.), 3rd edition, Munich 2008.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 317-320.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Ramholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c History of Ramholz Castle, accessed on February 26, 2013.
  2. ^ Friedrich Schunder, Günter Hollenberg [Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg]: Repertories of the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg. 1992 p. 472.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ailing fairy tale castle , Frankfurter Rundschau from February 25, 2013, accessed on February 26, 2013.
  4. ↑ Fuldaer Nachrichten of October 3, 2012, accessed on February 26, 2013.
  5. ↑ HR-Fernsehen June 14, 2016 "Experience Hessen" accessed on June 15, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ramholz Castle sold , Kinzigtal Nachrichten of September 2, 2014.
  7. ↑ "We were completely overrun" - Castle tours on Ramholz - Info Osthessen News, accessed on August 24, 2013.
  8. ↑ Administrators for Ramholz Castle - Who pays 7 million euros to buy? Osthessen News, accessed on August 24, 2013.
  9. ^ Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Hesse II. Administrative region Darmstadt. P. 786.
  10. ↑ Excerpts from various points of view: