Schönfeld Palace (Kassel)

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Schloss Park Schoenfeld Kassel-Wehlheiden
Schoenfeld Palace, park side
Schönfeld Palace, east side

The Schoenfeld castle in Kassel in northern Hesse is a modern-day castle and was in 1777 as a summer residence built. Its numerous owners over the years included the landgraves and electors of Hesse-Kassel , the Kingdom of Prussia , the city of Kassel and a few private individuals. Today it is owned by the Schloss Schönfeld e. V. The castle is located at Bosestrasse 13 in the Kassel district of Wehlheiden on the Lengberg in the Schönfeld park named after him .

history

General and Chamberlain Nikolaus Heinrich von Schönfeld (1733–1795) had Schönfeld Palace built as his summer residence in 1777 on a piece of land donated to him by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel . Landgrave Wilhelm IX took it over in 1790 . In 1793 Andries Hendrik Thorbecke bought the castle with the plan to set up a tobacco factory there. He received no approval for the necessary additions.

Until 1806 Schönfeld Castle changed hands twice, until it finally became a meeting place for some of the most important romantics under the new owner, the Frankfurt banker Carl Jordans ("Jordis"), who married Maria Ludovica Katharina Brentano , known as Lulu, in the same year has been. In the castle met u. a. Clemens Brentano , Achim von Arnim , Ernst von der Malsburg and the Brothers Grimm .

In 1807, after the Napoleonic conquests, the Kingdom of Westphalia with the capital Kassel was created. In 1809 Jordis was forced to sell the castle to King Jérôme Bonaparte . He had it expanded by the architect Leo von Klenze and celebrated lavish parties in it.

On September 7th, 1811 the lady-in-waiting and writer Jenny von Gustedt was born in the castle.

With the end of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the restitution of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, Schönfeld Palace again fell into the possession of Landgrave Wilhelm, who had been Elector Wilhelm I since 1803 . His son Wilhelm II gave the castle to his wife Auguste after he took office in 1821 , with whom he had fallen out and had been in formal separation since 1815. This gathered around the Schönfeld circle , which was close to romanticism and was in opposition to her husband. Another construction phase took place under Auguste under the direction of the court architect Johann Conrad Bromeis . The central pavilion and the intermediate wing were created. When Auguste died in 1841, her daughter Caroline inherited the castle. During her time as the owner, the palace and park fell into disrepair .

After Hessen was annexed by Prussia in 1866, the Prussian Lieutenant General Richard von Kalkreuth (1808–1879) lived in the palace from 1866 to 1879 . In 1880 Prussia donated the system to the branch line of the House of Hesse, Hesse-Philippsthal . It was inhabited by Prince Karl until 1888. It then stood empty until it was leased in 1891 by Karl Kreibe, who set up a zoo around the castle, which however only existed for a short time.

In 1906 the city of Kassel bought the castle, renovated the building and opened the park to the public. A garden restaurant, a rifle house and a music stage were built by the city gardening director Karl Justus Engels. During the First World War , the castle served as a hospital and a military prison. After the war a restaurant and a garden restaurant were again housed in the castle. Extensive renovation work took place in 1933.

During the great air raid on Kassel during the Second World War on the night of October 22nd to 23rd, 1943, the west wing was destroyed by aerial bombs and the central wing was damaged. Some reconstruction work was not carried out until 1965. In 1967 Christine Brückner and Otto Heinrich Kühner hosted their wedding celebration in Schönfeld Palace. In 1985 a restaurant was opened again in Schönfeld Palace. During documenta 8 1987, Wolfgang Flatz 's dog Hitler made the newly renovated restaurant area very dirty . Flatz elevated the damage caused to a work of art at documenta 8.

In 1989 the Verein Schloss Schönfeld e. V. took over the buildings of the city of Kassel, and the castle was completely renovated by 1992 on a private initiative . Today the "Restaurant Park Schönfeld" and the club of the association are located in the castle.

In front of the palace is a fountain with the bronze sculptural group Hermann and Dorothea created by Johann Werner Henschel based on an epic by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

literature

  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , pp. 204–206.

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Historical views

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessische Chronik, Volume 2, 1913, p. 225
  2. ^ Hans Werner Kalbfuß: The Karlsaue and Park Schönfeld in Kassel. Lometsch 1972, p. 28 ff.

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 53 "  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 23"  E