Schloss Bredebeck

The Brede Beck Castle was built in 1901/1902 by the farmer Hellberg. It is based on its size and function actually a mansion. The building stands in Lower Saxony between the former sites of Hörsten and Hohne, who disappeared during the construction of the training area mountains. The castle grounds in 1936 also included in the scope of the training area and is not accessible to the public.

History

In old documents from 1476 and 1511 the place tom Bredtbeck and 1589 Bretbeck is called. Near the former court led the Lieth brook, a tributary of the Meiss, to a large forest with names Breede. Thus the name Brede Beck explained. In a document of 1476 mentions that the brothers Ernst, and Kurt Gebhard von Bothmer the yard tom Bredbeck to Henry, Otto and Lambert of Dageförde sold. Between 1563 and 1700 farmers were established with the name Bredbeck, Brede Beck, Bretbeck on the farm.

The farmer Gustav Hellberg had built the present mansion on the Gutsgelände 1901/1902, but already on 23 November 1909, the courtyard and the castle building for 160,000 Reichsmarks to the Major were sold ret. of roses. He sold it in 1922 to the lawyer Adolf Kühling on. The building consisted of only the central part still preserved, the left Kühling extend on both sides by extensions until then. In 1932, ownership transferred to Ernst Kühling. 1936, the castle was incorporated into the grounds of the training area mountains. Since 1945, it serves as the officers' mess of the resident at the relevant time British regiment. Currently ( 2013) this is the 9th/12th Royal Lancers Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (Prince of Wales 's). Occasionally it is also used as a guesthouse. As such, it has already served the British Royal Family as accommodation, as the members of the British army in Germany paid a visit to troops.

Description

It is decorated in the baroque- forms manor house is reached via a long avenue of lime trees, which starts at a position located in forest gate. The straight-line access to the central axis of the building terminates in a east of the manor house lying forecourt and is guided around a long rectangular water basin with a fountain. On the narrow sides of the basin four steps lead down to this. The eastern staircase is taken on both sides of cheeks of sandstone, which are each decorated with a life-sized boar's head and a relief in the form of a hunting horn and a boar spear. Two sculptures found at the entrance on pedestals, one in the form of a female figure with the sheaf in the arm, the other the goddess Diana with bow, quiver and hound representing. Two low, segmentbogige niches found on the east side of the forecourt with benches, which are flanked by putti groups.

The main building is a two-story stucco building with white paint and ziegelgedecktem roof. It consists of an older middle section with seven axes and two side projections, a southern wing building with front-mounted stone parapet and portico and a subsequent by a brief tract north wing, which has a curved pediment and an elaborate weathervane.

The middle part of the main building houses a baroque styled vestibule, the wall is divided by stucco. His ceiling has stucco. The garden to the west of the so-called garden room is in the classical style. The room has a beamed ceiling with Konsölchenfries and a bar in height around the current wall frieze. The beam position is supported by fully three-dimensional columns of the Ionic order.

On the ground floor of the south wing is the so-called Great Hall, which occupies the entire length of cultivation. Its walls are partly covered with dark stained oak wood in the form of fluted plasters with composite capitals. The stuccoed ceiling of the hall as a bas-relief shows the representation of a deer. The room has a parquet floor and a fireplace on the west wall of yellow- brownish marble with the year 1926. The remaining space of the ground floor to take a two smaller, lying on the garden side rooms. This is on the one hand a library with built-in shelves and glazed wall cabinets, which today serves as a billiard room, and on the other a hall of mirrors in the forms of Empires. The room is decorated in white and gold.

• Interiors

Big hall with plaster ceiling and marble fireplace

Library with a pool table

Dining room with silver candlesticks and figures