Rothestein Castle
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| Alternative name (s): | Gilsaburg, Osterburg | |
| Creation time : | mentioned in 1357, castle from 1891 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Completely | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | at Kleinvach | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 15 '29.6 " N , 10 ° 1' 0.8" E | |
| Height: | 308 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Rothestein castle in Bad Sooden-Allendorf is a neo-Gothic castle plant on the western slope of the ridge Gobert in Werra-Meissner in Hessen ( Germany ). The name is derived from the red sandstone of the mountain on which the castle stands.
Geographical location
Rothestein Castle is 3.25 km southeast of Bad Sooden-Allendorf and about 1.2 km from the westernmost Gobert summit "Hörne" (approx. 515 m above sea level ) on the approximately 308 m above sea level. NHN high Schlossberg in the southern Gobert foreland natural area . About 500 m to the west, but about 150 m lower, the Werra passes with a bend in the river below Kleinvachs .
history
On August 13, 1891, Adolph Freiherr von und zu Gilsa , the director of the Kassel theater, laid the foundation stone for the palace on the site of an abandoned medieval castle , probably the so-called "Osterburg". The plans for the facility came from the Kassel architect Georg Kegel . When the construction work began, the nursery was built on the Hörnefuß and a villa with outbuildings, which the client initially lived in and was thus able to follow the progress of the work. These progressed only slowly.
In 1897 the entire property was sold to the German-born industrialist Baron von Knoop from Manchester , who had the castle expanded in 1911 with an extension. The main castle was then acquired in 1927 by the Baron von Lüninck . His family owned the entire facility until 1989. Today she still owns the nursery buildings. In 1994 the castle was bought by Theo Becker from Bergisch Gladbach, who died in 2010. He invested in both the building and the access road.
Becker had made it publicly accessible after the building could only be visited in rare cases, and in summer 2009 he opened a café with a local restaurateur. The terrace offers a view of the Werra valley and the Hohe Meißner . The castle has had a new owner since 2018. Since then, it has no longer been managed gastronomically.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the art monuments. Hessen I, administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 76.
- Georg Ulrich Großmann, Katharina Hoppe: Northern Hesse. Between Lahn and Werra, Reinhardswald and Rhön. Tours in the land of half-timbered buildings. 2nd Edition. DuMont, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-1874-X .
- 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. 55.
- Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 36–38.
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann on Rothestein in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Rothestein Castle at www.werra-burgen-steig-hessen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ TK 10 - the castle is above the 305 m height line, a little to the north is an altitude mark of 302 m above sea level. NHN
- ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
- ↑ http://www.hna.de/nachrichten/werra-meissner-kreis/witzenhausen/gondel-aufs-schloss-738067.html
- ↑ http://www.hna.de/nachrichten/werra-meissner-kreis/witzenhausen/chinesische-unternehmer-habenschloss-rothesteinim-blick-1318495.html