Holzhausenschlösschen
Holzhausenschlösschen stands in Frankfurt’s Nordend as a former moated country house surrounded by Holzhausenpark. A stone bridge leads across the water to its principal entrance. Built between 1727 and 1729, the summer residence was designed by Louis Remy de la Fosse for Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen. Its rectangular form carries a Nordic hipped roof, dormer windows, and a belvedere in a loose Flemish style.
A medieval moated castle first occupied the site, expanded in 1540 before destruction during Frankfurt’s siege in 1552. The present building later served as the Frankfurt Museum for Prehistory and Early History. Since 1989, the Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung has used the rooms for cultural events, while reconstruction begun in 2012 added a larger chamber-music hall.
Holzhausenpark received a new landscape design in 1910, including an avenue of chestnut trees. The entrance bridge likely replaced the drawbridge that once crossed the castle moat.
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