Vinsebeck Castle
Vinsebeck Castle is a moated castle in the Steinheim district of Vinsebeck in North Rhine-Westphalia . The former summer residence of the Paderborn canons is privately owned and can be viewed from the inside and outside.
history
In 1720 Drost Johann Friedrich Ignaz left it with his three brothers Ferdinand Ernst Adam, Adolf Franz Friedrich and Mauritz Lothar von der Lippe - all of them canons in Paderborn - in the Baroque style on a square island on the Heubach, a tributary of the Emmer , by the builder Justus Wehmer erect.
1767 died with Moritz Anton Freiherr von der Lippe, the male line of the Vinsebeck family of the von der Lippe family, so that the castle fell to his sister Theresia, married to Hermann Werner von der Asseburg zu Hinnenburg . Theresa bequeathed the castle along with the other goods to her daughter Antonette, who was married to Johann Ignatz Graf Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht.
Around 1795 the Wintrup line of the Lords of Lippe sued the Count Wolff-Metternich for the rule of Vinsebeck. The plaintiff went against a family contract of 1767, which revoked the status of a man's fief and thus enabled inheritance in the female line. The unsuccessful process dragged on for 40 years. Today the castle is owned by Count Simeon Wolff Metternich.
Furnishing
The baroque moated castle Vinsebeck stands on a square island, which is surrounded by a 17-meter-wide, water-filled moat . A side bridge leads to the terraced area in front of the main front. The garden surrounding the castle with Neptune's fountain and stone figures is only partially preserved in its baroque form.
The interior of the Italian room, the Driburg room, the green room, the Moorish room and the Chinese room have largely been preserved from the construction period. The stucco work and linen wallpaper painted over the entire surface in the rooms are well worth seeing.
Trivia
The castle served as a backdrop for the filming of The Great Bomberg from 1957. Vinsebeck Castle was also the setting for Peter Beauvais' film Griseldis based on the novel by Hedwig Courths-Mahler in 1973 .
Web links
- Documents from the archive of Vinsebeck Castle / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
- burgen-und-schloesser.net
- Vinsebeck Castle in the Alexander Duncker Collection (PDF; 209 kB)
- Pictures of the castle in the picture archive of the LWL media center for Westphalia
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 '54.9 " N , 9 ° 1' 55.4" E