The information board is unlikely to survive the near future. I thought I would record this current event - very interesting in my opinion. 😃
The Dietrichsberg suffered severe damage when the Napoleonic troops withdrew in 1813. Soldiers coming from Eisenach plundered the farm and took possession of the von Herda family
a large part of their possessions.
Rent manager Simon 1813 said:
"Not much was stolen from the Privy Councilor's house, but the Dietrichsberg is ruined and most of the furniture, porcelain and the like, all the doors are broken in half, the good sofas are on the street."
Mrs. von Herda left the following:
I have lost everything that made up my time.
The Dietrichsberg farm is devastated, beds, furniture and doors burned. They loaded the things onto four wagons. The loss is 3,000 thalers or more and is irreparable.
(Source: "The Retirade" by H. Stölten)
The access road to the idyllic property is still intact. Two rounded curbstones and an avenue of mighty white pines line it.
We enter the dilapidated estate park: wild garden flowers, a cornelius cherry hedge, a remarkable two-stemmed hemlock, a huge poplar, a beautiful tulip tree, copper beeches, western arborvitae, magnificent spruces and firs and, above all, four magnificent, richly branched, delightfully even male yew trees form a square. That must have been a wonderful arbor!
In general, something like the afterglow of a fine, comfortable gentleman's life still hovers over the whole thing.
The entire area around it belonged to a single long-established family, the von Herda family. But with the death of the last Baron von Herda (1892), the family unit dissolved and the property in question passed into less than caring hands...
A pile of reddish sandstones is a reminder of the beautiful...
Also gone are the park's obelisks, one of which bore the inscription: "Think about tomorrow - Enjoy today - Don't forget yesterday!"
(PARK DESCRIPTION ...from “Kreuz & Quer durch Thuringia” 1926 by Wilhelm Schöne)