Bökerhof

En un regard

Le château en bref

In the heart of the village of Bökendorf, in the municipality of Brakel, the Bökerhof is a manor house built between 1769 and 1771 by Baron Caspar Moritz von Haxthausen for his son Werner Adolph, on the foundations of a 15th-century moated castle. The Hildesheim court architect Anton Went designed a plain building of plastered half-timbering, flanked by two tower-like wings and roofed with Solling sandstone slabs. In the 19th century the Bökerhof was the centre of the "Bökendorf Romantic Circle" (1810–1834), which brought together Jenny and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, the Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano and Joseph Görres. Still inhabited, the estate can only be viewed from the outside, but the hornbeam hedge walk, the Laubengang, is freely accessible.