Welda Castle

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The Welda Castle is a baroque palace in the Warburger village Welda 18th century.

history

Welda Castle around 1840
Welda Castle, side view

The castle was built from 1734 to 1737 by the architect Justus Wehmer . The builder was Hermann Adolph von Haxthausen , the chief marshal of the Paderborn bishopric . The building resembles Vinsebeck Castle ; both are baroque castles with an H-shaped floor plan. The Kassel baroque sculptor Johann Georg Kötschau was commissioned as an artist to create the figures. The castle stands on wooden posts and is surrounded by a moat . From 1756 to 1763 an orangery and farm buildings were built around the castle in Welda . The castle park has an area of ​​about one hectare and is a historic baroque and landscape garden. The garden artist Carl Hatzel was responsible for the garden. An avenue of lime trees with a roundabout in front of the castle entrance leads from the access road from the south . The orangery is now visually separated from the garden ground floor, which still exists in outline, by plantings. A restoration of the park and the historical sight lines would be desirable.

Welda Castle entrance
Welda Castle Orangery

The castle was inhabited by the Barons von Brackel until 1932 after the male line of the Welda line of the noble von Haxthausen family had died out through the marriage of Franz Georg von Brackel . These were initially Franz Georg von Brackel's son Franz Ferdinand von Brackel (1790–1873) and grandson Georg von Brackel (1828–1883). Then the Association for Catholic Workers Colonies in Westphalia acquired the building. In 1938, Reinhard Henschel, a descendant of Carl Anton Henschel and co-owner of the mechanical engineering company Henschel & Sohn , became the owner of the castle. From 1950 the castle was inhabited and purchased by the landlord who ran a gardening shop there. In 1990 and 1996 the castle changed hands again. The current owner, Dipl. Ing. Klaus Fauerbach, has extensively renovated the building.

Today, concerts, cultural events, press conferences and civil weddings (as a branch of the Warburg registry office) take place in the castle. The property is in private hands and the palace complex is not open to the public.

Welda Castle is the birthplace of the writer Ferdinande von Brackel (1835–1905) and today it has the postal address Ferdinande-Von-Brackel-Straße 12 .

literature

  • Klaus G. Püttmann: The baroque palace buildings of Justus Wehmers in Westphalia. On conditions and paths in architectural reception. Habelt, Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-7749-2284-5 ( Monument Preservation and Research in Westphalia 13), (At the same time: Münster, Univ., Diss.).

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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 13 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 42 ″  E