Schloss Ledenburg (Ledenburg manor) is a moated

Schloss ''Schloss'' (; pl. ''Schlösser''), formerly written ''Schloß'', is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house. Related terms appear in several Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the cogn ...

Bissendorf Bissendorf () is a municipality in the Osnabrück (district), district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 9 km southeast of Osnabrück. Population 14,700 (2020). It is divided into Bissendorf proper, Schle ...

-Nemden, Osnabrück district,

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

, Germany, which probably dates from the 15th century. Originally built with four wings, it was reduced to two wings during restoration after a fire in 1618. It belonged to many noble families. It housed what is called now the Ledenburg Collection, an 18th-century collection of poems by

Eleonore von Grothaus Eleonore von Grothaus, also Countess Eleonore von Münster (10 April 1734 – 26 March 1794), was a German noblewoman, a writer and poet, and a lay musician. She may have assembled a collection of writings and music, the Ledenburg Collection from ...

and a music collection, where music by

Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to b ...

Carl Friedrich Abel Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the pre-Classical period (music), Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viol, viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions for that instrument ...

and others was rediscovered in 2015 and subsequently published.

History

The castle Holter Burg of the Holten family on the site of the current palace was destroyed in 1147. It was probably rebuilt in the 15th century as a moated building with four wings, first called ''Neue Burg Holte'' (New Holte castle). When the , who also had a mansion in

Osnabrück Osnabrück (; ; archaic English: ''Osnaburg'') is a city in Lower Saxony in western Germany. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population of 168 ...

, used it as a residence, it was called Schloss Ledenburg. The building was severely damaged by a fire in 1618. Restoration was completed in 1627, now with only two wings. When the Leden family died out, it went in 1557 to the Enningloh family, also known as Pladiese. From 1622 to 1776 it was owned by the family Grothaus zu Krietenstein, then by the . The palace has belonged to the in Dissen from 1951. The buildings are a main building ("Haupthaus") with two wings and an adjacent tower, and a separate gate house. The only exterior decorations are a sandstone

bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. A bow window is a form of bay with a curve rather than angular facets; an oriel window is a bay window that does not touch the g ...

and the entrance with

pilaster In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an ext ...

s. The interior of the west wing has an

imperial staircase An imperial staircase (sometimes erroneously known as a "double staircase") is the name given to a staircase with divided flights. Usually the first flight rises to a half-landing and then divides into two symmetrical flights both rising with ...

("dreiläufiges Treppenhaus"), an early example in northern Germany of the then new design, which followed on from the spiral stairs of the Weserrenaissance. The building houses a fireplace decorated with stone figures, and several ceramic stoves. It is a registered monument. The Ledenburg Collection (''Ledenburg-Sammlung'') is the name of a collection of historic documents which was deposited at the (state archive of

) in

in 2000. They date back to

, who was a poet and a musician, married to Georg Hermann Heinrich von Münster in 1759. The collection contains handwritten poems and music in prints and copies, with a focus on music for

viola da gamba The viola da gamba (), or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played (i.e. "on the leg"). It is distinct from the later violin family, violin, or ; and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bow (m ...

by German and Italian composers. Thanks to research by the French musicologist

François-Pierre Goy François-Pierre Goy (born 9 February 1960 in Troyes) has been a conservator at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris since 1995, first in the audiovisual section, later in the Department of Music. Biography Holder of a diploma of Advan ...

, the collection was discovered and researched by musicologists, resulting in new editions of music that were assumed to have been lost, especially Telemann's ''

Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo Georg Philipp Telemann's collection of Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba Solo, TWV 40:26–37, was published in Hamburg in 1735, titled ''Fantaisies pour la Basse de Violle''. The fantasias for viola da gamba were considered lost until an origin ...

'', but also three sonatas and a trios by

. Edition Güntersberg published most of the collection, including three sonatas by Giacobo Cervetto (1681/1682–1783), two sonatas by

Giuseppe Tartini Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era born in Pirano in the Republic of Venice (now Piran, Slovenia). Tartini was a prolific composer, composing over a hundred pieces for the ...

, a sonata by Juan Bautista Pla, two anonymous sonatas, a sonata by Filippo Ruge (1722 – after 1767), a sonata by

Pietro Castrucci Pietro Castrucci (1679 – 7 March 1752) was an Italian violinist and composer. Castrucci was born in Rome, where he studied with Arcangelo Corelli; in 1715, he settled in London, where he became known as one of the finest virtuoso violinists of ...

, a trio by , and a trio by Johann Konrad Gretsch (ca. 1710 – 1778). The building is surrounded by an estate with 200 hectares of forest, of which 30 hectares were damaged by

cyclone Kyrill Cyclone Kyrill was a low-pressure area that evolved into an unusually violent European windstorm, forming an extratropical cyclone with hurricane-strength winds. It formed over Newfoundland on 15 January 2007 and moved across the Atlantic Oce ...

in 2007.

References

External links

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(in German) www.burgen-und-schloesser.net 15th-century architecture Buildings and structures in Osnabrück (district) Bissendorf Palaces in Lower Saxony