To be privately owned
CastleSteinheim - Rolfzen
Thienhausen Castle
Thienhausen Castle, also known as Haus Thienhausen, is a two-winged moated castle in the Weser Renaissance style located in the Rolfzen district of Steinheim, North Rhine-Westphalia. It lies in the valley of the Holmbach stream.
The castle was built in 1609 by Tönnis Wolf von Haxthausen, incorporating an older structure. In 1840, August von Haxthausen moved into the castle, which he and his brother had purchased from a dying Danish branch of the family.
From 1867 to 1887, Friedrich Wilhelm Weber lived there with his wife Anna and his two children Elisabeth and Friedrich Wilhelm, and it was there that he wrote the work Dreizehnlinden.
After a fire severely damaged the building in 1905, it was renovated in the Renaissance style, thus acquiring its current appearance. The castle remains in the private possession of the Barons von Haxthausen to this day and can only be viewed from the outside.
Description+
The castle was built in the Weser Renaissance style and has two floors. The building fabric of a predecessor complex can be found in the older north wing. In the inner corner of the two-winged complex stands a square stair tower with formerly four, but now only three floors. The outer corner is marked by a round tower with a conical roof. The south wing has an elaborately designed stepped gable, beneath which a statue of a Madonna with Child can be seen on the outer wall at the height of the second floor. A similarly designed gable on the north wing was removed in the 19th century.
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