Holzhausenschlösschen

The Holzhausenschlösschen is situated on a farm belonging to it, then north of Frankfurt am Main, a baroque moated castle, built by the Frankfurt patrician family Holzhausen. Today it is - due to the growth of the city in the 19th century - in the Frankfurt district of Northrend, surrounded on three sides by Holzhausenpark.

Prehistory

The agricultural use of the area by the Holzhausen family dates back to the Middle Ages. The area was then called Holzhausen Oed. The term " Oed " or " desolation " refers to one of his time still too far away outside the fortified city of Frankfurt Heath.

Here was a water castle in the then much larger Burgweiher, which was increased in 1540 and extended but destroyed in 1552 during the siege of Frankfurt by Protestant princes to Maurice of Saxony. From this time, the earliest known pictorial representation of Holzhausen Oed, on the plan of Conrad Faber von Kreuznach showing their fire during the siege comes. 1571, the plant was restored.

Construction

1729 was Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen on the foundations of the moated castle according to the plans of the recently deceased Louis Remy de la Fosse build a small moated castle as a representative summer residence for his family. He imitated so as a member of the top middle layer of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt a lifestyle, nursed him as the contemporary nobility.

The building appears as a simple rectangular building, which has three window bays on the wide side and five on the narrow side. The building covers a two-story mansard roof, the upper floor is a square skylight. Building is a three-arched stone bridge which was probably replaced a drawbridge from the old building and roofed before the Second World War. The round-arched portal of the building could be a remnant of the Renaissance complex. It leads into the entrance floor, above the main floor and the basement are also another full. Under the entry level, just above the water level, there is another, a " basement ".

Further use

Due to the successful in the period of redevelopment of a large part of the park area the once sweeping gesture representative of the plant is barely perceptible today. Read remnants is their spaciousness yet, about 200 meters by the position of the resultant wrought iron gate from the late 18th century Louis XVI style, the rest of the former embracing the Oeder way from the castle, connected with an avenue whose chestnut trees from around 1910 date. At that time the castle pond was reduced to 0.2 hectares.

The last male member of the family of the von Holzhausen, Captain Adolph von Holzhausen, gave the castle and the surrounding park of the city of Frankfurt am Main. This brought here under the Frankfurt department of the Imperial Archives. 1944 suffered the building during the air raids on Frankfurt damage by bombs that were eliminated after 1949.

1953 to 1988 housed the castle, the Frankfurt Museum for Pre- and Early History. The exhibition presented findings from the archeology of Frankfurt, but was spatially very limited from the outset. When showrooms initially on only the ground floor and staircase available. A permanent exhibition on the Roman town of NIDA since 1976 Heddernheim was outsourced in German religious house. It was not until the move in 1989 to the present museum building in the Carmelite monastery had improved the spatial situation of the museum.

Since 1989, the Holzhausenschlösschen seat of the Frankfurt community foundation, which in 1995 rebuilt fundamentally inside. There are regular cultural events take place.