Stockhausen Castle

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The front of the castle
The courtyard side of the palace from the palace park.

The Stockhausen Castle is a built around 1770 modern-day castle on the walls of pre-existing Hermannsburg in the village of Stockhausen , now part of Herbstein in central Hesse Vogelsbergkreis . The palace complex is used today by the anthroposophical community Altenschlirf .

location

Today the castle is located on the north-western outskirts of Stockhausen ( Müser Straße 1 ), on the left bank of the Altefeld .

history

Friedrich Georg Riedesel Freiherr zu Eisenbach , client of the new palace

In 1287 Stockhausen was first mentioned under the name "Stochusen" when goods and income were donated in Stockhausen to found the Blankenau monastery . In 1428 the Stockhausen court was taken over by the Barons von Riedesel .

From the predecessor built around 1563, the Hermannsburg, presumably a mansion or permanent house, only remnants are left in the cellar vaults in the new castle building. The Renaissance Hermannsburg was built for the 12th Hereditary Marshal of the Landgraviate of Hesse , Adolph Hermann Riedesel zu Stockhausen and Hermannsburg . Today's palace was rebuilt from 1770 by Georg Koch from Rodach , the court architect of the Riedesel, for Friedrich Georg Riedesel on the remains of the old property as a three-winged complex in the Empire style. Friedrich Georg did not live to see the completion, as he died in 1775. It was not until 1801 to 1807 that the castle was finally completed with further modifications.

Albrecht Riedesel Freiherr zu Eisenbach , who comes from an old Hessian noble family , was born at Stockhausen Castle on June 17, 1882 as the second son of August Riedesel Freiherr zu Eisenbach and his wife Anna Elisabeth Edle and Freiin von Plotho and spent his childhood there.

In 1984 the Altenschlirf community built a second community in the as yet unrenovated, gray left-hand part of Stockhausen Castle (Castle South), which was not extended until 1801. 1985 to 1987 the Michael Foundation, Darmstadt bought the Stockhausenh Castle. Presumably, this refers to the Michael-Verein, which is now part of the Association for the Promotion of Altenschlirf . Plans for renovations and conversions began immediately and were implemented from 1986. From 1988 the renovated north part of the castle could be occupied. The renovation work was completed in 1989. The current north wing of Stockhausen Castle was built in 1770. After the purchase and repair by the Software AG - Stiftung another residential group was able to move in 1987 the Community Altenschlirf. In 2006 the castle was recognized by NABU Hessen as a bat-friendly house. Further renovations to the castle were completed in 2014.

In addition to the workshops and living quarters of the Altenschlirf community, Stockhausen Castle now also houses the state-recognized college for social economy Siegfried Pickert college for curative education, in which future carers are trained in a practice-oriented manner. Since 1991 it has been recognized as a "state-approved, private supplementary school for curative education care".

description

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Side view from the southeast

The castle, a rather simple hall building with corner pilasters , consists of a very long, almost 80 m measuring, two-storey, twenty-five, on three axes north-north-west-south-south-east, almost axially symmetrical central tract, the corps de logis , which has a three-axis central projectile on both sides with ( gables ) is divided. The central projection is also designed as a gateway . The three-winged complex in the Empire style also has two west-facing, three to five-axis side wings that are very short in relation to the longitudinal part, which enclose a courtyard and open to the west to a large castle park . All wings have hipped mansard roofs . A larger, almost closed, four-sided farmyard southeast of it from the time it was built complements the complex.

Farm yard

View of the entrance to the farm yard with a view of the baroque manor house
The farm yard with the dominant manor house

Southeast is a farmyard with a elfachsigen baroque mansion ( mansion ), a five-axis central projection and an opposite gate construction with two square corner houses (wax pavilion) with curved Mansardwalmdach. They are aligned from north to south in connection with other farm buildings and in the east they form a closed area in an arch that only has an open area towards the castle to the northwest.

park

View of the castle park with the detached walls

To the west, the castle opens into a long, restored terrace garden originally laid out in the 18th century , which is closed off to the south with a pond facing the Altenfeld river. Retaining walls and staircases once divided the park into representative and functional areas. To the west of the baroque garden was a small English landscape garden .

The historical equipment of the garden with valuable plants from the time the park was built has been partially preserved. During the renovation from 2012 to 2014 by the Michael Foundation and with the support of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , grants from the federal monument protection special program and state funds, it was possible to secure the historical inventory and remove disruptive structural additions from more recent times. The terrace limitations are with cherubs and Rococo - vases created in the second half of the 18th century as ornaments. In 2015, the foundation was awarded fourth place in the Hessian Monument Preservation Prize.

literature

  • Folkhard Cremer (arrangement): Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen I: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts. Munich 1982/2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 861.
  • Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the State Chancellery's Hessian Service. Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 174.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stockhausen, Vogelsbergkreis. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of April 17, 2018). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 7, 2018 .
  2. ^ Stockhausen, Castle in the Wiki of the project renaissance castles in Hessen at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum ; accessed on November 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Master bricklayer Georg Koch built the St. John's Church (1755–1758) and the Salvatorkirche (1742–1747) in Bad Rodach near Coburg and was responsible for the planning of today's Evangelical City Church in Lauterbach (1763–1768), which his son Georg Veit Koch had already carried out realized.
  4. ↑ Bernd Modrow: Garden art in Hesse: historical gardens and parks. Werner Verlag, 1998.
  5. ↑ In close contact with the palace gardens: the lower south wing. accessed on September 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ a b Chronicle of the Altenschlirf Community ; accessed on September 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ Together for Altenschlirf: About us , website of the support group; accessed on December 12, 2018.
  8. ↑ Living in the castle: the north wing. accessed on September 10, 2018.
  9. ↑ Handbook of German Art Monuments: Hessen. P. 839.
  10. ↑ Schloss Stockhausen, Schlosspark , website of the Hessian State Office for Monument Preservation; accessed on September 10, 2018.

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '48.7 "  N , 9 ° 26" 38.8 "  E