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Castle Tribes

The Castle Stammen is a former manor house on the site of a former the manor on the east bank of the Diemel in Stammen , a district of Trendelburg in northern Hesse Kassel district . Today it is used as a privately operated care and senior citizens' home.

The building

The manor is first mentioned in 1429 than it is in the possession of Frederick the Elder (1406-1495) from the house already since the first quarter of the 14th century in the near Liebenau based baronial family Rabe von Pappenheim came. His descendant Christoph Friedrich Rabe von Pappenheim (1713–1770), landgrave-Hessian major general and senior bailiff in the Schmalkalden domain , and his wife Florentine Sophie Florentine Anna du Bos du Thil (1726–1796) left a new, castle-like structure on the estate from 1766 Erect a mansion in the classicism style. The client died on August 23, 1770 in Kassel, and his widow supervised the completion, which finally took place in 1772.

The building has a floor area of ​​around 28 × 16 m and is around 150 m east of the mouth of the Esse in the Diemel, which flows here from southwest to northeast. The orientation of its longitudinal axis is from southwest to northeast.

The two-storey building has eleven axes , with three-storey central projections on three axes and with a round arched gable on both the east and west sides, and with a two-storey mansard hipped roof . The two short sides are five-axis. The lower attic is loosened up to the right and left of the central projections with three windows each. In 1910, a portico with a balcony was added to the garden side, occupying the entire width of the central projectile . At the north end, a largely glass stair tower was added in 2001/02.

history

The younger son of the couple who built it, Wilhelm Maximilian Rabe von Pappenheim (1764–1815), Chamberlain of Hereditary Prince Karl Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , inherited the castle and the Stammen estate. In 1806, at the age of almost 40, he married 18-year-old Diana Waldner von Freundstein (1788–1844), whom he had met at the court in Weimar. Although she gave birth to two sons in 1807 and 1808, she soon afterwards helped him gain undesirable fame through her scandalous relationship with Jérôme Bonaparte , King of Westphalia , to whom she bore two daughters in 1811 and 1813. Almost three months after the birth of the first daughter, whom Pappenheim recognized as legitimate, Jérôme raised him to the Westphalian count . In view of the public disruption of his marriage and his nervous suffering, however, he largely withdrew from court as early as 1811, fell increasingly into depression , and after an unsuccessful treatment of his ailment in Paris returned to his estate in Stammen, where he mostly dawned. After the birth of Diana's second daughter, the marital separation was officially announced, and since the Kingdom of Westphalia no longer existed and Jérôme had fled to Paris, Diana went back to Weimar with her daughter Jenny.

Wilhelm Rabe von Pappenheim, whose rise in status was not recognized by the government of the restituted Electorate of Hesse , died on January 3, 1815. His son Gottfried August Maximilian (* July 6, 1807 in Weimar, † February 23, 1874 there) inherited the family property in Liebenau, the younger son Alfred Otto (born September 2, 1808 in Kassel, † December 24, 1851 in Stammen) inherited the castle and Gut Stammen.

Todays use

The estate remained in the possession of his family until 1946. During and after the Second World War , bombed-out families and refugee families were housed in the castle and in the courtyard. Then the property fell under the legal obligation to give up land for settlement purposes. The “Hessische Heimat” settlement company acquired most of the agricultural property belonging to the estate, and the approximately 130 hectares were divided into several repatriate farms as part of the "Trendelburg example measure". The castle, on the other hand, was sold on to the long-established Recknagel family, who ran a farm in Stammen. The first lease and use as a retirement home ended in 1962 with a fraud trial against the home manager, who feigned the necessary qualifications and had committed numerous other frauds.

In January 1963, new tenants took over the castle and, after renovation work, reopened a nursing home in it in the same year, initially with space for only seven residents. In 1978 they bought the property, which was gradually renovated and expanded over the years. In 1986 there was room for 22 residents. After a total renovation in 1989 there were 43 home places, and after further renovations in 2001/02 there were 55. With the reduction in the number of three and two-bed rooms, the number of places was reduced to 30 today.

The Hofgut Stammen

The farm buildings of the Hofgut, grouped almost squarely around a large courtyard between the castle and the Diemel, were repaired by a new owner from 1990 onwards and expanded into the “Hofgut Stammen” leisure facility. Milking parlors were converted into simple holiday apartments, a pigsty into a pub and horse stables into a so-called “straw hotel” for school and youth groups. Camping, canoeing and adventure tours are offered.

Remarks

  1. ↑ His older brother August Wilhelm Rabe von Pappenheim (1759-1826) was the Hesse-Darmstadt envoy in Paris.
  2. ↑ The older daughter, born on September 7, 1811, was named Jérômée Catharina. She became known as Jenny von Gustedt (1811–1890), grandmother of the women's rights activist and writer Lily Braun (1865–1916). Since Diana's marriage to Pappenheim still existed, the latter recognized the child as his legitimate daughter. ( Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser A , Volume XXI, Volume 98 of the complete series, CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn), 1990, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 , p. 216.) The second born on October 4, 1813 Daughter was named Marie Pauline von Schönfeld, was immediately and secretly brought to Paris to the Notre Dame des Oiseaux monastery, where she grew up with her mother's relatives in Alsace. She entered this monastery as a nun in 1832, became superior and died there in 1873.
  3. ↑ http://www.stammreihen.de/getperson.php?personID=I807706R&tree=tree1&PHPSESSID=f175460a027aa7f03f901253e6acf2aa
  4. ↑ http://www.stammreihen.de/getperson.php?personID=I808902R&tree=tree1&PHPSESSID=f175460a027aa7f03f901253e6acf2aa
  5. ↑ The family also owned the shrub mill and the property belonging to it at Hofgeismar .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 50.4 "  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 44.6"  E