Ringelheim Palace and Park
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 4.4 " N , 10 ° 18 ′ 39.5" E
Ringelheim Castle and Castle Park are located on the Innerste in Ringelheim in Lower Saxony .
history
monastery
Ringelheim Castle is a former monastery from the 10th century that was secularized in 1803 . The baroque monastery church of St. Abdon and Sennen is known for its valuable organ and the crucifix from the workshop of Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim .
Probably during the reign of the East Franconian King Heinrich I and Mathildes von Ringelheim 919-936, a royal virgin monastery was built on the innermost, possibly not until 940 under Otto I by Count Immat from the Immedingen family .
In 1152 the abbey was converted into a Benedictine monastery for men and subordinated to the Hildesheim diocese. 1523–1641 Braunschweig and thus Protestant, the monastery was secularized in 1803 and became the property of the Prussian Field Marshal von der Schulenburg-Kehnert .
Manor house
Friedrich von der Betten bought the Ringelheim estate in 1817 and converted it into a mansion. The former convent building, the new construction of which dates back to the beginning of the 18th century, became today's castle and received a classicist facade. The library wing to the east was demolished, as was the cloister between the convent building and the church .
Subsequent use
The Reichswerke Hermann Göring bought the castle in early 1938 and set up their administrative headquarters for ore mining here. The palace and the park were leased to the Braunschweig State Insurance Institute in 1942 and used as a sanatorium for the lungs . Later a specialist department of the Lower Saxony State Hospital Königslutter was located in the castle . At the end of the 1990s, the castle residents moved into the town center. Since then, several investors have taken an interest in the castle, including a building management company, a music academy and an investor who wanted to create a luxurious residence for wealthy seniors. The castle was sold to a private investor in 2002 and has remained largely unused since then. To date (2017), the future of the castle has not yet been decided.
park
In 1848, Adolphus Graf von der Betten had today's palace park laid out as an English landscape garden on the site of the monks' old fish ponds. About 21.7 hectares in size (110 hectares with surrounding green spaces), it is crossed by a branching lake system, which is crossed by several bridges, e.g. B. the romantic sandstone bridge with a view of the castle (photo). You enter the park through a vase-crowned gate at the west entrance. There is an artificial ruin not far from the castle .
Furthermore, von der blanket had an obelisk built on an island. Away from the paths, along the lake, the park turns east into a small piece of forest. The sports facilities of the Ringelheim clubs are connected to the green spaces between the park and the forest.
In 2016, the fourth festival in the series of events "Jazz in the Park" took place in the park of the palace, an event of the Braunschweigische Landschaft and the Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz Foundation that takes place annually in a different park in the Braunschweig area .
literature
- Hans Adolf Schultz : Burgen und Schlösser des Braunschweiger Land , Braunschweig 1980, Das Schloß Ringelheim , p. 131, ISBN 3-87884-012-8
- Matthias Blazek: Genealogy on villages in the northern Vorharz - Catharine Marie Busch and Johann Heinrich Struve got engaged on September 22nd, 1757 , in: Unser Harz - Zeitschrift für Heimatgeschichte, Customs und Natur , 6/2010, p. 115 ff.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses . Part A, 111th year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1938, pp. 134, 153 f.
- Legal newspaper for the Kingdom of Hanover , thirteenth year, ed. by Dr. E. Schlüter, at Herold & Wahlstab, bookseller in Lüneburg, 1838, p. 118 (General-Feldzeugmeister Graf von der Betten zu Ringelheim, 1825)
- Rainer Schomann (Ed.), Urs Boeck : Park of the Ringelheim Palace in: Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony, catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover . Hannover, 2000, pp. 152-153.
- Jörg Leuschner, Reinhard Försterling, Renate Vanis, Christine Kellner-Depner, Walter Wimmer, Dirk Schaper: Ringelheim . Ed .: Archives of the City of Salzgitter - Editing: Jörg Leuschner, Reinhard Försterling, Gabriele Sagroske, Bettina Walter and Sigrid Lux (= contributions to the city's history . Volume 29 ). Salzgitter 2015.
Web links
- Ringelheim Palace and Park on the website of the city of Salzgitter
- Dirk Schaper: Civic Association Ringelheim Castle Ringelheim
- Ringelheim Palace, Church and Park (point 4 in the list)
Individual evidence
- ^ Dirk Schaper: Citizens' Association Ringelheim Castle Ringelheim
- ↑ Jazz im Park 2016 , accessed on August 26, 2018