Gilsa lower courtyard

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Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 50 ″  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 37 ″  E

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Gilsa lower courtyard

The Unterhof Gilsa is an estate with a manor in Gilsa , a district of the Neuental municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse .

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The facility is located immediately east of the patronage church on the northern edge of the village. She was the headquarters of the branch "Gilsa-Unterhof" of the local noble family of those to and from Gilsa that in the 16th century into two major branches, "Gilsa-Oberhof" and "Gilsa-Unterhof" parted and next to the old water castle of the family , now called Mittelhof , built the two neighboring seats, Oberhof and Unterhof .

The Unterhof is a spacious courtyard with a manor house and farm buildings, which has been converted on all four sides, and is still run today as a farm owned by the von und zu Gilsa family. The half-timbered mansion with a dwarf in the central axis was built around 1700; Noteworthy is the diagonally divided and representative carved front door from 1809.

Private cemetery

Around 1920, the barons von und zu Gilsa set up a private cemetery on the wooded slope north of the Unterhof , with a monumental staircase and cemetery portal .

literature

  • Werner Ide: From Adorf to Zwesten. Local history pocket book for the Fritzlar-Homberg district. A. Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen 1971, p. 138

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