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Obelisk honoring Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff

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Obelisk honoring Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff

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Obelisk honoring Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff

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Location: Bad Driburg, Höxter, Detmold District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Heinz K

April 6, 2023

Baron Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff was born on May 19, 1750 in Hildesheim. He was a Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel statesman who worked primarily as a senior huntsman and forester. He founded the spa business in what was then Driburg.
After studying in Erfurt and Leipzig, which he completed in 1772 with a doctorate in Leipzig, he spent some time in Regensburg at the court of the Elector of Mainz and at the Munich court.

Acquisitions in Driburg
In September 1779, Caspar Heinrich von Sierstoppf visited the sources in Driburg: "J'arrivais le lendemain entre 11 et midi in the divine Dribourg, vous n'avez point l'idee, cher ami, comme il m'encharme." Signed in early 1782 Prince-Bishop Wilhelm Anton acquired the hereditary interest agreement on the rights and obligations of Baron von Sierstorpff to the sources that were within "an hour of Driburg and subsequently may still be found and discovered." In September, von Sierstorpff acquired the land between the city and Bad situated Drostenhof of the family von der Lippe zu Vinsebeck as an apartment and bath hotel. - Difficulties for the development arose from the bad road conditions and the dispute with the citizens of Driburg, who saw their free creative rights restricted. The new layout of the avenues based on the English model, a coffee house, and later the new bathhouses got the summer season going. A library and casino were set up to entertain guests, and traveling theater companies and music bands were hired. From 1783 the owner of the spa shared his whereabouts: he spent the summer months in Driburg and the winters in Braunschweig.

The development of the Driburg baths
In the meantime, the first bathhouse with 40 rooms was built in Driburg in 1784, followed in 1785/86 by the society and dance hall with a gallery as a connection to the bathhouse, and then in 1789 the "lodging house for the poor". Driburg was known for the "Monumenta Paderbornensia" of Prince Bishop Ferdinand II. In order to promote the bath, Caspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff made contact with doctors, including the famous professor Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland. The picture gallery was also important, for which Sierstorpff collected 170 pictures by important artists and wrote an art-historical guide. Among others, Cranach, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthonis van Dyck, Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael and Caravaggio were represented. The pictures were auctioned in Berlin in 1887, with the exception of a few pieces.

The consolidation of the bath
During his stay in Paris in 1802, von Sierstorpff was granted an audience with the then First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte. Known for his forestry activities and his forest literature, von Sierstorpff was appointed "external member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts and Mechanical Sciences" in 1805. After the death of his first wife and only child, he married Charlotte von Vincke (1780-1833) on October 25, 1810, the sister of Ludwig von Vincke, who later became President of the Prussian Province of Westphalia. They had the son Ernst Graf von Sierstorpff (1813–1855). In Prussian times, von Sierstorpff became one of the largest landowners in the region (2,500 hectares) by purchasing the Driburg forests, the Rothehaus estate south of Bad Driburg and the Gehrden monastery domain (1826). In 1828 the Prussian government renewed the inheritance contract for the former prince-bishop's sources. C.H.v. Sierstorpff took on the duties of public access to the main fountain, the employment of a licensed spa surgeon, the establishment of a pharmacy and other requirements. Since 1829 the possessions were entailed with the stipulation that the owner bore the name of Siertorpff. The inheritance contract expired by law in 1850, so that the sources became free property. Since the property came to Wilhelm Graf von Oeynhausen in the line of succession, the family has carried the name "Graf von Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff" (1909) with imperial approval.

Source: Wikipedia (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Heinrich_von_Sierstorpff)

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Karl-Heinz

April 9, 2023

The obelisk is up in Bad Driburg, only about 1 km from the Rosenberg rehabilitation clinic. A nice destination to go for a walk.

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Wandertourist

February 19, 2024

The Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff count family contributed a lot to the development of the spas. So she not only indirectly founded the spa business in Bad Oeynhausen (which was named after this family), but also the spa business in Bad Driburg. The local founder was buried on the Rosenberg and this memorial stone was dedicated to him. Unfortunately, there is no information on site that sheds light on and explains all of this.

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