Ricklingen Castle (Castle)
The Schloss Ricklingen is a former office building in the village of Castle Ricklingen the city of Garbsen in Lower Saxony . It is the namesake of the place.
Building description
Archival inventories of the office building, which existed between 1600 and 1750, are from the years 1664 and 1709. The recording from 1709 describes the building and the building complex of the Amtshof in the condition as Merian handed it down with an engraving from around 1650. At that time, the office building was a two-story half - timbered building with a stair tower . The rooms in the basement are known as the bread, beer, cheese, butter, kitchen and meat cellar. On the first floor there was the lower hall, the kitchen, an old woman's room, a small room, a bedroom, the Rothe Hoffstube and the Drosten-Stube. The princely apartments as well as the front hall and several chambers were on the upper floor. An extension to the east housed a prison . The other buildings of the Amtshof included a bakery and brewery , a grain barn, a horse stable, a pigsty, an outwork with an attached dairy and a two-storey gate house as the clerk's apartment and office. The building complex was delimited by wooden fences and the Moor-Beeke and Leine waters .
Today's office building, built around 1750, is a two-storey, flush timbered half-timbered building, which is based on stately buildings. The 11-axis building has a curved flight of stairs to the side of the forecourt . In the forecourt there is a round pond, which around 1900 consisted of a round lawn or a flower border. The massive building cladding was applied in the post-war period for fire protection reasons .
The office building is surrounded by an extensive park, whose ponds and curved paths were created in the 19th century. In the 1980s, the building was repaired and, from 2002, an extensive restoration. Next to the office building is a former barn, which was built in the 18th century as an elongated wall stud construction.
history
A forerunner of the Amtshaus was a moated castle , which was strategically located near the Leine. It was built around 1225 by Count Konrad II von Roden . In 1333 the castle complex came to the dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , who pledged it. In this way, it became the seat of Dietrich von Mandelsloh , whose robber barons attacked merchants and liners. During the siege of the castle in 1385 during the War of the Lüneburg Succession , Duke Albrecht of Saxony-Wittenberg was fatally wounded by a slingshot . The Herzog Albrecht monument in the village reminds of him . The castle was captured and destroyed.
In 1399 an office building was built in the forecourt of the destroyed castle. This is where the Ricklingen Office , which administered the area around today's Garbsen , had its seat . Around 1600 the building was replaced by a two-storey half - timbered building with a stair tower, which Merian handed down in a copper engraving around 1650. After being demolished around 1750, the building was replaced by the representative office building that still exists today. It served as the seat of the governor until the Ricklingen office was dissolved in 1852. From 1866 until his death in 1884, General Eberhard von Brandis, the last Hanoverian war minister of the Kingdom of Hanover, lived in the office building. During the First and Second World Wars , the building was used as a hospital . In the post-war period , the office building served as a retirement home and for around 30 years as an auction house . The building has been privately owned since 2002.
literature
- Bernhard-Wilhelm Linnemeier: The Ricklingen office and the Voigt family . Series of publications on urban history, No. 4, Garbsen 1993 ( Online , 3 MB, pdf).
- Office building. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Hanover region, part 2, volume 13.2 , edited by Christiane Segers-Glocke , edited by Carolin Krumm, Verlag CW Niemeyer Buchverlage , Hameln 2005, ISBN 3-8271-8255-7 , p. 214f.
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing of the castle as it was around 1650 by Wolfgang Braun
- History of Ricklingen Castle
- Brief description of the lock at hannover.de
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 28 " N , 9 ° 30 ′ 23.5" E