Administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse

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Bad Homburg Palace, headquarters of the Hessian palace administration

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

Letter of the military wars from August 1945, in which Friedrich Bleibaum is provisionally assigned the castle administration

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

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

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.

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

  1. https://www.hessen.de/pressearchiv/pressemitteilung/kirsten-worms-offiziell-als-neue-direktorin-der-schloesser-und-gaerten-hessens-vornahm-0
  2. ^ The National Archives and Records Administration, Friedrich Bleibaum Reports
  3. Patricia Fedler: Beginnings of state cultural policy in Hesse after the Second World War 1945-1955. Wiesbaden 1993, p. 240.
  4. The administration itself states that it was founded on April 1, 1946. Self-presentation
  5. State Archives Wiesbaden, W 504/142 Unit XII to the Management of palaces and gardens . After Fedler 1993.