Ehreshoven Castle - Mansion

Mansion

The middle tract of the castle Ehreshoven plastered today has to cour d'honneur eleven (4:3:4) axes. Two storeys proper rise about a high basement. On the sides there are two easy doors. The windows are mostly across-rectangular with a middle prop. The most striking part is dreiachsige Mittelrisalit on which from the main gate of the castle the look is aimed. More clearly than, otherwise, in Ehreshoven is to be recognised at this that the castle to the Italian mannerism is obliged, namely at a time when this style was overcome in Italy long ago. The Mittelrisalit is stressed by a strong Eckquaderung, but only slightly from the front hervorgezogen. Double-barrelled steps with imperial-decorated iron railing lead to the main main entrance. Between the rising a rundbogige door is to the basement. In the lateral projections of the stair small wall wells with lion's masks and shells from sandstone are right. The false windows beside the stair are across-oval and have rich scroll framings. The rundbogige main entrance to the main floor is framed by put a tread pilasters. In the gable window a Bracke and a lion hold the bekrönte alliance coat of arms Nesselrode-Leerodt. A segment gable with put on stone ball forms the end of the main entrance architecture. The highly rectangular windows in the storeys proper have just falls and middle props. The windows beside the main entrance are from level triangular gables bekrönt. The striking Hausteingiebel of the Risalit is divided richly. He strongly reminds of Italian constructions of the Renaissance and the baroque. The gable is divided into two zones which are connected by the pilaster order. In the upper field a clock is right. Under it a rustiziertes rectangle window is in the middle without middle prop, accompanied by Lukarnen in Hausteingewänden. Scroll cheeks and a segment gable frame the whole. As an Akrotere serve stone balls and stone vases; about the segment end a smith-iron weather vane rises. The attic has two rows of dormers. Indeed, the result is interrupted the in each case second axis beside the Mittelrisalit because there Zwerchhäuser with false gables are right in Toskanian order. The gables become from stone balls bekrönt. The only single-storey side wings have to the honourary court six window axes, to the precastle two. The frames correspond to those in the skin wing. In the basement easy doors are used in the second and fifth axis. In the side wings in particular the peculiar roof strikes. From a hipped roof with Kiel-arched-shaped dormers beschieferter upper guards rise with the small rectangle windows about which a Kiel-arched-shaped hipped roof is established. Above all the back front of the castle is of interest to the construction history of Ehreshoven. Here one can recognise by the masonry still the older components which far come out of the escape of the new building. On the northern corner the Gothic castle house has been included in the castle. One sees the irregularly right apertures. The small wooden bay window comes from the baroque construction phase. Three windows in the second upper floor were increased about 1700 and rise in the big Kiel curve roof which is provided with oval Lukarnen. The old castle house has a bell-shaped hipped roof. A wooden cornice forms the roof beginning in the mansion of Ehreshoven. Beside this component, the late-medieval castle house, one recognises the chapel construction. In the ground floor kragt about put a tread consoles the three-sided altar bay window with his big spitzbogigen windows out. In the space about the chapel the castle archive was originally. Because about the altar even no benefit space might be, many castle owners have gone over in addition instead of building a bay window of a choir which comes out of the house wall. Thus one has given to the canonical demand satisfaction without giving away valuable space in the castle. Besides the strategical one and the aporopäische meaning played a role. From a bay window one can defend a castle better, and the space in which the sanctum was kept should work, so to speak, as a shield against enemies. A known example of chapel bay window is to be seen on castle Eltz, above all in house Turnip brook. The chapel bay window in Ehreshoven has a polygonales writing desk roof which is interrupted in the upper part by a narrow cornice. The chapel construction itself disposes of a pyramid roof. The stairwell comes out tower-like of the back front of the new building. The windows correspond here that of the courtyard side. In the back the additive element typical for a castle is still received in rests, i.e. in the Middle Ages one has established only the necessary constructions. If these were not sufficient any more was grown. Compared with this medieval setting there stands the virtually modern effect of the main front from Ehreshoven. Above all in the axial arrangement and in the virtually pictorial unity of both main views is to be recognised that the whole construction complex is composed not additive. One recognises the will of the developer to establish a baroque castle instead of the medieval castle arrangement.