Ehreshoven Castle - Construction Description

Construction Description

Castle Ehreshoven is valid as one of the most splendid nobility seats of the mountain broads of country. From the federal highway 55 between angel's churches and Overath a short avenue brings to the castle in the Aggertal. About a level stone bridge one reaches to the main gate of Ehreshoven. Four dull-angular colliding wings of the precastle are 2-storey and have hipped roofs which are covered with blue-glazed hollow bricks. The steinsichtigen outer walls are interrupted only by small, irregularly right windows. On both dull corners the strong 3-storey towers on about square plan which are taken with doubly drawn pentagonal bonnets come out. In the outside of the big, far very wide precastle the gate particularly strikes. The plan of the precastle causes that the gate is emphasised on the field side compared with the at an angle stepping back tracts. The creation raises this effect. Strong Toskanian pilasters with heavy Rustika bosses carry the wide frieze with the small gable about the rundbogigen way through. The main cornice is gekröpft, goes about the stepping forward pilasters. Three vases with smith-iron flowers bekrönen the gable with straight end and sloping cheeks. In the masonry of the gate the openings are to be seen for the train chain of the former bridge; the train roles are received there and then. This allows the end that the old drawbridge was removed probably in the 18th century or even only in the 19th century and was substituted with a stone bridge.

Immediately after one the splendid main gate strode through has, the space restricts itself. Here the passageway has only one simple sting curve. If one leaves resulted kennel-like small space by the construction method of the precastle, the court - so to speak, as a contrast and as a surprise opens - to his full width. The pentagonal barnyard is divided into lawns. Two pairs sedate in distance of big stone balls form mark and distance points on the way to the main castle. The walls which protect the ditch between both islands and the pillar pair at the entrance to the honourary court have the same function. The precastle encloses the prospectus of the castle vividly because it would pass in the plan by a lengthening the side wings. The distance elements of the precastle confine the look as it were one on the mansion. The courtyard side of the precastle is very simple. In the upper floor right windows with sandstone framings are used regularly. However, the ground floor is divided irregularly as it corresponds to a functional structure. The external wings have here rundbogige openings; today in the northern wing are closed by window fronts, those in southern by wooden gates. The former use than draws is still to be recognised. The entrance to the honourary court is formed by two modeled pillars between which a smith-iron gate of noteworthy art-craft quality from the time is received about 1700. In the implementation it corresponds to the gate to the park. What one ascertains in the precastle, it is confirmed in the mansion: The single forms are remarkably conservative. This is in the construction time of the castle typically for whole Rhineland and points with which temporal delay an art style asserts itself off the main ways.