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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 Northend, surrounded on three sides by the park Holzhausenpark.
History
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.
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.
Construction
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.
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 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. Since 1989, it is the seat of the Frankfurt Holzhausenschlösschen Community Foundation, which in 1995 rebuilt the inside fundamentally and uses it for various cultural events.
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