CastleNeuenheerse

Heerse Castle (Neuenheerse)

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Heerse Castle, also known as Wasserschloss Heerse, is a historic estate in Neuenheerse, a district of Bad Driburg in North Rhine-Westphalia. It emerged from a former noble women's convent.

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The origins of the estate date back to 868, when Bishop Luithard of Paderborn and his sister Walburga founded the Heerse women's convent. King Ludwig the German confirmed the foundation in 871 and placed the convent under royal protection, granting it the right to freely elect its abbess. In 891, the foundation was confirmed by Pope Stephen V in a document on papyrus, a unique record for present-day Germany. The convent gained further privileges, including the free election of its Vogt under Otto I and the abolition of episcopal involvement in the abbess's election under Heinrich III. The Vogt's office changed hands several times, falling to the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1429 and to the Landgrave of Hesse in 1438. Until 1495, the abbesses came from high-ranking aristocratic families.

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