Administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse
The administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse is a Hessian state authority and looks after almost 50 historical facilities throughout the state. The current administration is the successor to the former Prussian "Administration of State Palaces and Gardens", which was founded on April 1, 1927 after the property dispute between the House of Hohenzollern and the Prussian state. The administration is based in Bad Homburg Castle . The lawyer Kirsten Worms has been the director since 2018 .
tasks
The task of the palace administration is to preserve, research, present and convey historical heritage that is significant in terms of regional history . The communication takes place through exhibitions, guided tours, monument and museum educational offers, open days, events and numerous publications - including park maintenance works .
history
The administration can be regarded as the legal successor to the Prussian "Administration of State Palaces and Gardens", which was founded on April 1, 1927 and dissolved in 1945 after the property dispute between the House of Hohenzollern and the Free State of Prussia . The monuments formerly belonging to the State of Prussia passed into the possession of the State of Hesse after the Control Council Act No. 46 came into force in February 1947. As early as August 21, 1945, the American military administration entrusted the state curator Friedrich Bleibaum with the provisional administration of the palaces and gardens in the state of Hesse-Nassau. After the founding of Greater Hesse, this decree was extended to include the area of the former People's State of Hesse . After Bleibaum held the administration for five years in personal union with his position as the highest monument conservator, Karl Nothnagel became the first head of the state authority founded in 1951 and subordinate to the then Ministry of Culture . The office was moved from Marburg to Bad Homburg.
organization
The administration of the State Palaces and Gardens is a subordinate department of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art . Kirsten Worms is the director of the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse with its headquarters in Bad Homburg . The largest single properties and some properties that are grouped together form branch offices that ensure professional support on site in close proximity. The administration maintains the departments
- restoration
- Museums
- Gardens and garden monument maintenance
- Construction matters and preservation of monuments
- World Heritage Lorsch Monastery
There is also a central administration located in Bad Homburg.
Duration
The palace administration currently looks after over 40 historical ensembles, individual monuments, museums in castles and former monasteries, parks, gardens and ruins:
Sorted alphabetically by location
- Altweilnau : Altweilnau Castle
- Bad Hersfeld : Hersfeld Abbey Ruins
- Bad Homburg : Bad Homburg Castle
- Bad Karlshafen : harbor basin
- Bensheim : State Park Fürstenlager
- Bensheim: Auerbach Castle
- Breuberg : Breuberg Castle
- Butzbach : Princely crypt in the Markuskirche
- Cornberg : Cornberg Monastery
- Darmstadt : Prince Georg Garden
- Darmstadt: Princely crypt in the city church
- Eiterfeld : Fürsteneck Castle
- Erbach : Erbach Castle
- Felsberg : rock castle
- Fischbachtal : Lichtenberg Castle
- Friedberg : Adolfsturm
- Friedberg: St. Georgsbrunnen
- Fulda : Propstei Johannesberg
- Geinsheim am Rhein : Zeppelin monument
- Gelnhausen : Kaiserpfalz Gelnhausen
- Heidenrod-Geroldstein : Haneck Castle
- Glassworks : Kleiner Feldberg Castle
- Hanau : Wilhelmsbad State Park
- Hirschhorn : Hirschhorn Castle
- Hohenstein : Hohenstein Castle
- Kaichen : Roman fountain
- Hopfmannsfeld : Gallows
- Lorsch : World Heritage Lorsch Monastery
- Merenberg : Merenberg Castle
- Michelstadt : Einhard's Basilica
- Mühltal : Frankenstein Castle
- Munzenberg : Munzenberg Castle
- Neustadt : Junker Hansen Tower
- Oberreifenberg : Reifenberg Castle
- Oestrich-Winkel : Brentano house
- Ortenberg : Konradsdorf Monastery
- Otzberg : Veste Otzberg
- Rosbach vor der Höhe : Kapersburg Castle
- Rüdesheim am Rhein : Ehrenfels , part of the UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Rüdesheim am Rhein: Niederwald Monument and Niederwald Landscape Park , part of the UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Schröck : Elisabeth Fountain
- Seligenstadt : Seligenstadt Monastery
- Sinntal : Schwarzenfels Castle
- Spangenberg : Spangenberg Castle
- Steinau an der Straße : Steinau Castle
- Walsdorf : Hutturm
- Weilburg : Weilburg Castle
- Wiesbaden : Biebrich Palace Park
development
Time and again there have been shifts in the portfolio of properties managed by the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse . In the first few years of the 21st century, the Erbach Castle and the Brentano House were added from third parties, as well as a number of historically important properties that were previously managed in other parts of the administration of the State of Hesse.
However, the surrendered to cultural and historical sites in recent years predominate.
- to the museum landscape of hessen kassel :
- Bad Wildungen : Friedrichstein Castle
- Calden : Wilhelmsthal Castle
- Kassel : Karlsaue State Park
- Kassel: Löwenburg
- Kassel: Wilhelmshöhe Castle and Bergpark
- the Roman fort Saalburg in Bad Homburg to the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse .
Worth knowing
The administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse published a visitor magazine until 2018: SehensWerte Palaces & Gardens in Hesse , ISSN 1860-7632
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.hessen.de/pressearchiv/pressemitteilung/kirsten-worms-offiziell-als-neue-direktorin-der-schloesser-und-gaerten-hessens-vornahm-0
- ^ The National Archives and Records Administration, Friedrich Bleibaum Reports
- ↑ Patricia Fedler: Beginnings of state cultural policy in Hesse after the Second World War 1945-1955. Wiesbaden 1993, p. 240.
- ↑ The administration itself states that it was founded on April 1, 1946. Self-presentation
- ↑ State Archives Wiesbaden, W 504/142 Unit XII to the Management of palaces and gardens . After Fedler 1993.