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| client = Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen
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The '''{{lang|de|Holzhausenschlösschen}}''' (Little Holzhausen palace) is a moated former country house built by the ] '''Holzhausen family''' on their farm, then just north of ] and now in the city's ]. The present building was completed in 1729, built for Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen on the foundations of a ] from the Middle Ages after a design by ]. Today, it serves as a venue for cultural events.


The '''{{lang|de|Holzhausenschlösschen}}''' (Little palace of Holzhausen) is a ] ], built by the ] patrician family Holzhausen on a farm belonging to it, then just north of Frankfurt. Today, due to the growth of the city in the 19th century, it is in Frankfurt's ], surrounded on three sides by the park ''Holzhausenpark''.

The present buildingwas erected in 1729 by Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen on the foundations of a moated castle from the Middle Ages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kultur-frankfurt.de/portal/en/Music/Holzhausenschloesschen/123/242/612/mod836-details1/1442.aspx?druck=1|title=Holzhausenschlösschen|publisher=Kultur-Frankfurt.de|accessdate=30 March 2013}}</ref> It was designed by {{ill|de|Louis Remy de la Fosse}}.
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== History == == History ==


The palace{{efn|In mainland Europe, the term "palace" denotes any large town house.}} was built between 1727 and 1729 by Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen (1674–1736)<ref name="Kunst" /> on the foundations of a moated castle from the ].<ref name="Frankfurt" /> The Holzhausen family, from 1245 one of the most respected families of the ] Frankfurt, owned the property called {{lang|de|Holzhausen Oed}} since 1470.<ref name="Holzausen" /> The term "{{lang|de|Oed}}" (desolation) refers to the ], then far outside the fortified city of Frankfurt. The family used the area first for farming. A moated castle was set in the then much larger {{lang|de|Burgweiher}} (Castle pond). The castle was expanded in 1540 but destroyed in 1552 in the siege of Frankfurt by ].
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 the time still located far outside the fortified city of Frankfurt Heath.


In 1727 the present building was begun, commissioned by Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen as a summer residence for his family after plans by ]. It was completed in 1729.<ref name="Kunst" />
A moated castle was here in the then much larger ''Burgweiher'' (Castle pond), which was increased in 1540 and expanded in 1552 but destroyed in the siege of Frankfurt by Protestant princes to Maurice de Saxe. From this period dates the earliest known pictorial representation of Holzhausen Oed, on the plan of Conrad Faber von Kreuznach showing their fire during the siege. In 1571 the system was restored.


Due to the growth of the city in the 19th century, the palace is now in Frankfurt's ], surrounded on three sides by the eponymous {{lang|de|Holzhausenpark}}. The pond and the surrounding park were reduced and re-landscaped in 1910, when an ] of chestnut trees was planted. The vastness of the former park can be estimated by the position of an iron gate from the late 18th century, which remains as part of the former enclosure on the street Oederweg. The last male member of the Holzhausen family, Adolph von Holzhausen (1866–1923), gave the palace and the surrounding park to the city of Frankfurt.<ref name="Holzausen" /> It then housed the Frankfurt office of the {{lang|de|Reichsarchiv}} (]).
== Construction ==


In 1944, the building suffered damage during air raids. The interior was restored in a simplified way.<ref name="Frankfurt" /> From 1953 to 1988, the palace was home to the Frankfurt Museum for Pre-and Early History. From 1989, it has been the seat of the community foundation {{lang|de|Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung im Holzhausenschlösschen}} (]) which uses it for various cultural events.
1729 Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen was built on the foundations of the moated castle designed by the recently deceased Louis Remy de la Fosse build a small surge as representative summer residence for his family. He imitated so as a member of the top middle layer of the free imperial city of Frankfurt for a lifestyle of contemporary needle as it used to.


Major reconstruction began in 2012, focussed on building a larger hall for chamber music, planned to be finished in 2014.<ref name="Michels" />
The building appears as a simple rectangular building, on the wide side of five and on the narrow side window has three axes. The building covers a two-story gambrel roof, the upper floor is a square skylight. Developed over a three-arched stone bridge, it is that 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 to the entrance floor, above which are located above, and a further full Beletage basement. Under the entry level, just above the water level, there is another, a "basement".
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Following such in the period of superstructure of a large part of the park's once sweeping gesture representative of the facility is now barely perceptible. Residues in its vastness is still readable by the position of the resultant wrought iron gate from the late 18th Century, in the Louis XVI style, the rest of the former enclosure on Oeder way about 200 meters from the castle, together with an avenue whose chestnut trees are from the period around 1910. At that time the castle pond was reduced to 0.2 hectares.


== Architecture ==
The last male member of the Holzhausen family, Captain Adolph von Holzhausen, gave the castle and the surrounding park to the city of Frankfurt. It housed then the Frankfurt office of the ''Reichsarchiv''. In 1944, the building suffered damage during air raids, which were removed after 1949. -->
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Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen wanted a summer residence for his family, similar to those of the nobility.<ref name="kultur-frankfurt" /> Holzhausen chose as his architect ] from ],<ref name="Kunst" /><ref name="Frankfurt" /> who died before the building's completion.
From 1953 to 1988, the castle was home to the Frankfurt Museum for Pre-and Early History. <!--The exhibition presented findings from the archeology of Frankfurt, but was limited from the start physically strong. As exhibition spaces were initially only the ground floor and staircase available. A permanent exhibition on the Roman town NIDA Heddernheim was outsourced since 1976 in the German monastery. It was only with the move in 1989 in the present museum building in the Carmelite monastery had improved the spatial situation of the museum. --> Since 1989, it is the seat of the the community foundation ''Holzhausenschlösschen'' which in 1995 rebuilt the inside fundamentally and uses it for various cultural events.

The architecture is a loose ] style seen throughout Scandinavia and the ], but less common in the western German states. The design is rectangular, with five bays on the longer façade and three on the narrow; the tall, narrow build, probably influenced by the constraints of the small, moated plot, shows a Dutch influence. At this time north and western German domestic architecture was influenced far more by that of the Low countries than by the ornate Baroque seen found further south, which tended to be reserved for churches and ecclesiastical buildings.<ref>Trewin, p284.</ref> The palace's hipped roof is in the Nordic style known as ], and has dormer windows on the lower of its two levels and a ] structure on the upper; this is in contrast to the crow stepped gables more commonly employed in this form of design and gives the house an uneasy northern Baroque appearance.

The principal entrance, a segmental arch, is reached by a stone bridge of three spans.<ref name="Frankfurt" /> It probably replaced a ] leading to the former building, and until World War II it was roofed. This entrance is possibly a remnant of a previous ] building. It leads to the entrance floor, above which are the ] and another full floor. An additional floor is below the entrance floor, just above the water level.

A memorial stone at the entrance, created in 1940 by Egon Schiffers, commemorates ], a private teacher of the Holzhausen family from 1806 to 1808.<ref name="Kunst" />{{Clear}}


== Literature == == Literature ==


* ]: ''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Hessen II: Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt.'' (Bearb.: Folkhard Cremer u. Tobias Michael Wolf), 3. Auflage. München 2008, S.&nbsp;281f. *{{cite book|first=Georg|last= Dehio| author-link=Georg Dehio|title=Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Hessen II: Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt|editor1-first= Folkhard |editor1-last=Cremer |editor2-first=Tobias Michael|editor2-last=Wolf|edition= 3rd| location= München|year=2008|pages= 281f|language=German|isbn=978-3-422-03117-3}}
* Heinz Schomann u.&nbsp;a.: ''Denkmal Topographie Stadt Frankfurt am Main''. Braunschweig 1986, S.&nbsp;183, 192–193. *{{cite book | last = Schomann | first = Heinz | title = Denkmal Topographie Stadt Frankfurt am Main | publisher = Vieweg & Sohn| location = Braunschweig | year = 1986 | isbn = 978-3-528-06238-5|pages= 183, 192–193|language=German}}


==References== == References ==
'''Notes'''
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'''Citations'''
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| refs =

<ref name="Frankfurt">
{{cite web
| url = http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=3866&_ffmpar%5B_id_inhalt%5D=32524
| title = Holzhausenschlösschen
| publisher = ]
| language = German
| accessdate = 2 April 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="kultur-frankfurt">
{{cite web
| url = http://www.kultur-frankfurt.de/portal/en/Music/Holzhausenschloesschen/123/242/612/mod836-details1/1442.aspx?druck=1
| title = Holzhausenschlösschen
| publisher = kultur-frankfurt.de
| language = German
| accessdate = 30 March 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Holzausen">
{{cite web
| url = http://www.kunst-im-oeffentlichen-raum-frankfurt.de/de/page150.html?id=177
| title = Gedenkstein von Holzhausen
| publisher = kunst-im-oeffentlichen-raum-frankfurt.de
| language = German
| accessdate = 2 April 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Kunst">
{{cite web
| url = http://www.kunst-im-oeffentlichen-raum-frankfurt.de/de/page127.html
| title = Fröbel-Gedenkstein
| publisher = kunst-im-oeffentlichen-raum-frankfurt.de
| language = German
| accessdate = 2 April 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Michels">
{{cite news
| last = Michels
| first = Claudia
| url = http://www.fr-online.de/frankfurt/holzhausenschloesschen-schloss-und-teich-sind-weg,1472798,20816530.html
| title = Holzhausenschlösschen / Schloss und Teich sind weg
| publisher = ]
| date = 8 November 2012
| language = German
| accessdate = 2 April 2013
}}
</ref>

}}

==Further reading==
* Cropplestone, Trewin (1963). ''World Architecture''. London: Hamlyn.
* Hannelore Limberg: Dissertation, Frankfurt, 2012.


== External links == == External links ==
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* * frankfurt-nordend.de {{in lang|de}}
* * website {{in lang|de}}

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Moated country house in Frankfurt, Germany
Holzhausenschlösschen
Side elevation of the palace and bridge from the southwest.
General information
TypeMoated country house
Architectural styleBaroque
LocationFrankfurt, Germany
Coordinates50°07′34″N 8°40′45″E / 50.126165°N 8.67914°E / 50.126165; 8.67914
Construction started1727 (1727)
Completed1729
Renovatedbeginning 2012
ClientJohann Hieronymus von Holzhausen
Design and construction
Architect(s)Louis Remy de la Fosse

The Holzhausenschlösschen (Little Holzhausen palace) is a moated former country house built by the patrician Holzhausen family on their farm, then just north of Frankfurt and now in the city's Nordend. The present building was completed in 1729, built for Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen on the foundations of a moated castle from the Middle Ages after a design by Louis Remy de la Fosse. Today, it serves as a venue for cultural events.

History

The palace was built between 1727 and 1729 by Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen (1674–1736) on the foundations of a moated castle from the Middle Ages. The Holzhausen family, from 1245 one of the most respected families of the free imperial city Frankfurt, owned the property called Holzhausen Oed since 1470. The term "Oed" (desolation) refers to the heath, then far outside the fortified city of Frankfurt. The family used the area first for farming. A moated castle was set in the then much larger Burgweiher (Castle pond). The castle was expanded in 1540 but destroyed in 1552 in the siege of Frankfurt by Maurice, Elector of Saxony.

In 1727 the present building was begun, commissioned by Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen as a summer residence for his family after plans by Louis Remy de la Fosse. It was completed in 1729.

Due to the growth of the city in the 19th century, the palace is now in Frankfurt's Nordend, surrounded on three sides by the eponymous Holzhausenpark. The pond and the surrounding park were reduced and re-landscaped in 1910, when an allée of chestnut trees was planted. The vastness of the former park can be estimated by the position of an iron gate from the late 18th century, which remains as part of the former enclosure on the street Oederweg. The last male member of the Holzhausen family, Adolph von Holzhausen (1866–1923), gave the palace and the surrounding park to the city of Frankfurt. It then housed the Frankfurt office of the Reichsarchiv (de).

In 1944, the building suffered damage during air raids. The interior was restored in a simplified way. From 1953 to 1988, the palace was home to the Frankfurt Museum for Pre-and Early History. From 1989, it has been the seat of the community foundation Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung im Holzhausenschlösschen (de) which uses it for various cultural events.

Major reconstruction began in 2012, focussed on building a larger hall for chamber music, planned to be finished in 2014.

Architecture

The principal façade

Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen wanted a summer residence for his family, similar to those of the nobility. Holzhausen chose as his architect Louis Remy de la Fosse from Darmstadt, who died before the building's completion.

The architecture is a loose Flemish style seen throughout Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but less common in the western German states. The design is rectangular, with five bays on the longer façade and three on the narrow; the tall, narrow build, probably influenced by the constraints of the small, moated plot, shows a Dutch influence. At this time north and western German domestic architecture was influenced far more by that of the Low countries than by the ornate Baroque seen found further south, which tended to be reserved for churches and ecclesiastical buildings. The palace's hipped roof is in the Nordic style known as säteritak, and has dormer windows on the lower of its two levels and a belvedere structure on the upper; this is in contrast to the crow stepped gables more commonly employed in this form of design and gives the house an uneasy northern Baroque appearance.

The principal entrance, a segmental arch, is reached by a stone bridge of three spans. It probably replaced a drawbridge leading to the former building, and until World War II it was roofed. This entrance is possibly a remnant of a previous Renaissance building. It leads to the entrance floor, above which are the bel étage and another full floor. An additional floor is below the entrance floor, just above the water level.

A memorial stone at the entrance, created in 1940 by Egon Schiffers, commemorates Friedrich Fröbel, a private teacher of the Holzhausen family from 1806 to 1808.

Literature

  • Dehio, Georg (2008). Cremer, Folkhard; Wolf, Tobias Michael (eds.). Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Hessen II: Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt (in German) (3rd ed.). München. pp. 281f. ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Schomann, Heinz (1986). Denkmal Topographie Stadt Frankfurt am Main (in German). Braunschweig: Vieweg & Sohn. pp. 183, 192–193. ISBN 978-3-528-06238-5.

References

Notes

  1. In mainland Europe, the term "palace" denotes any large town house.

Citations

  1. ^ "Fröbel-Gedenkstein" (in German). kunst-im-oeffentlichen-raum-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Holzhausenschlösschen" (in German). Frankfurt. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Gedenkstein von Holzhausen" (in German). kunst-im-oeffentlichen-raum-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  4. Michels, Claudia (8 November 2012). "Holzhausenschlösschen / Schloss und Teich sind weg" (in German). Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  5. "Holzhausenschlösschen" (in German). kultur-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  6. Trewin, p284.

Further reading

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