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| 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 |
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. It was designed by {{ill|de|Louis Remy de la Fosse}}. | |||
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| 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". | 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. |
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. | ||
| ⚫ | 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. --> | ||
| ⚫ | 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. | ||
| == Literature == | |||
| * ]: ''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Hessen II: Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt.'' (Bearb.: Folkhard Cremer u. Tobias Michael Wolf), 3. Auflage. München 2008, S. 281f. | |||
| ⚫ | 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. | ||
| * Heinz Schomann u. a.: ''Denkmal Topographie Stadt Frankfurt am Main''. Braunschweig 1986, S. 183, 192–193. | |||
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| ⚫ | 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 |
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The Holzhausenschlösschen (Little palace of Holzhausen) is a Baroque moated castle, built by the Frankfurt 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 Nordend, 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. It was designed by de [Louis Remy de la Fosse].
From 1953 to 1988, the castle was home to the Frankfurt Museum for Pre-and Early History. 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.
Literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Hessen II: Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt. (Bearb.: Folkhard Cremer u. Tobias Michael Wolf), 3. Auflage. München 2008, S. 281f.
- Heinz Schomann u. a.: Denkmal Topographie Stadt Frankfurt am Main. Braunschweig 1986, S. 183, 192–193.
Weblinks
- Frankfurt
- Das Holzhausenschlösschen auf der Website frankfurt-nordend.de
- Website der Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung