Hehlen moated castle

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Wasserschloss Hehlen, in the foreground the Weser , 2017

The moated castle Hehlen in Hehlen in the district of Holzminden is a moated castle built for representation purposes , which is one of the earliest castles in the style of the Weser Renaissance . The castle was built between 1579 and 1584 by Colonel Fritz von der Schulenburg and his wife Ilse von Saldern . It was owned by the von der Schulenburg until 1956. In 1958 it was bought by the owner of the Hanover company Machwitz Kaffee , whose family still owns it today.

Location and description

The castle is located on the northeastern edge of Hehlen, directly on the Weser, at the confluence of the Weißenwasser stream. It is a square four-wing complex with a closed inner courtyard. The three-storey building is made of limestone, the facade of which was originally plastered . Today the exterior surfaces are exposed as unplastered quarry stone masonry . The regularly lined up and coupled windows, wide tow hatches in the roof and small dormers are characteristic of the building . The high hip roofs are covered with Solling panels. There are several lavatory bays on the facade .

On the outside of the castle, in the southeast and northwest corners, there are two round towers with a Welsch roof hood . Inside the castle courtyard there are two polygonal stair towers at the same corners . The castle is surrounded by a moat. A bridge over the moat in the southwest allows access to the castle courtyard. In the north-west of the castle there is an outside staircase that was built at the end of the 19th century and leads over the moat to the meadows on the banks of the Weser. Originally, a stone bridge on the west side allowed access to the castle.

Located on the sprawling castle grounds to the east of the castle grounds . To the south and west of the castle is the economic area of ​​the former estate with stone farm buildings, including a massive barn from 1564. A restaurant-café is located in a renovated farm building from 1898.

  • Street side

  • Outside stairs to the Weser

  • Facade with domed windows and lavatory bay, in the roof are tow hatches

  • Which roof hood

history

Hehlen moated castle as a Merian engraving around 1640, the Weser in the foreground
The castle around 1910, in front of it the Loschwitz paddle steamer

The village of Hehlen, first mentioned in a document in the 9th century, belonged to the noble lords of Homburg , who had received it as a fiefdom from the Brunswick dukes . After the Homburg family died out in 1409, the fiefdom passed to the Lords of Frenke ; after it expired in 1558, Duke Heinrich the Younger of Braunschweig-Lüneburg re- awarded it . The duke enfeoffed the mercenary leader Fritz von der Schulenburg with the village of Hehlen and granted him the fortification rights that allowed the building of a noble residence. Fritz von der Schulenburg (1517 / 1518–1589) lived in another castle and left the construction of Hehlen Castle to his separated wife Ilse von Saldern (1539–1607).

In the years from 1886 to 1888 there were structural changes through the installation of a staircase as well as the redesign of the knight's hall and the construction of an open staircase to the Weser.

In 1956 Johann-Heinrich Graf von der Schulenburg (1916–1974) sold the castle to the Hannoversche Siedlungsgesellschaft. In 1958, the owner of Machwitz Kaffee and native Hehlener Walter Koch bought it and had it renovated, including the park.

Count von der Schulenburg as castle owners

  • Fritz VIII. (1517 / 1518–1589) and Ilse von Saldern (1539–1607)
  • Christoph V. (1513–1580) and Anna von Estorff (approx. 1537–1578)
  • Albrecht VI. (1557–1607) and Oleke Countess von Saldern (dec. 1622)
  • Achaz III. (1602–1661) and Dorothea Elisabeth von Bülow (1618–1647)
  • Friedrich Achaz Freiherr von der Schulenburg (1647–1701) and Margarete Gertrud von der Schulenburg (1659–1697)
  • Christian Günther (1684–1765) and Hedwig Ernestine von Steinberg (1692–1750)
  • Georg Ludwig I (1719–1774) and Sophie Friederike Charlotte Countess von der Schulenburg (1725–1772)
  • Werner Christian Adolf (1755–1816) and Sara Dorothea Luise von Gerstein-Hohenstein (1779–1851)
  • Achaz Ludwig Leopold (1807–1880) and Bertha Freiin von Hodenberg (1817–1847)
  • Werner Karl Friedrich Achaz (1847–1931) and Julie von Arnim (1849–1886)
  • Ernst-August Werner Achaz Alexander (1886–1945) and Freda Katharina von Schenck (1890–1946)
  • Johann-Heinrich Dedo Carlotto Bruno-Ferdinand Antonius Mariano (1916–1974) and Inge Guht (born 1920)

literature

  • Hans Maresch, Doris Maresch: Hehlen moated castle. In: Lower Saxony's palaces, castles and mansions. Husum Verlag, Husum 2012, ISBN 978-3-89876-604-3 , pp. 128-129
  • Gesine Schwarz: The knight seats of the old country of Braunschweig. Göttingen 2008, pp. 307-314.

Web links

Commons : Wasserschloss Hehlen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maresch, Hans and Doris: Lower Saxony's palaces, castles & mansions as a book title with table of contents from the Husum publishing group

Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 14.8 "  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 27.6"  E