Rittershain Castle

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Rittershain Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Rittershain Castle (2015)

The Rittershain Palace is a palace complex with parking in Art Nouveau . The castle complex is located in the Rockensüß district of Cornberg in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district of Hesse .

history

In 1322, a settlement near today's castle location was first mentioned in a document. But as early as 1376, Rittershain was desolate, because the Lords of Rotenburg , as a Hessian fiefdom , owned "the ulcers, fields and fields of Rittershayn". Then Rittershain became a fiefdom of the Lords of Eschwege in hersfeld , which passed to the Lords of Wehren and was finally transferred to the Lords of Cornberg in 1583 .

On Gerhard Mercator's map of 1592 is a good added that the family of Biedenfeld farmed. In 1843 Hermann von Biedenfeld built a new farm belonging to Rockensüß. Then, in 1854, today's Art Nouveau palace with park was built for the von der Recke family . Today it is owned by a family from the Ruhr area.

In the 20th century a restaurant was maintained in Rittershain Castle. The Art Back to Nature Art Trail by Austrian artist Motron A. Havelka leads past Rittershain Castle.

literature

  • Eduard Brauns: Hiking and travel guide through North Hesse and Waldeck . A. Bernecker, Melsungen 1972, p. 515-516 .
  • Monument topography Hersfeld-Rotenburg I, p. 232.
  • Reimer, Ortslexikon, p. 391.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 5.3 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 40.2"  E