Forsthaus Pfaffenkopf
Forsthaus Pfaffenkopf stands in the Saarkohlenwald, on a hill between Altenkessel and Riegelsberg near Saarbrücken. The former hunting lodge dates from 1727. The single-storey, single-wing building has plastered walls and a mansard hipped roof. A round-arched gate marks its barn and stable section.
The lodge belonged to the Princes of Nassau-Saarbrücken. An eighteenth-century fence enclosed the Köllertal forest to protect wildlife and trees from poachers. Friedrich Joachim Stengel possibly remodelled the building in the Baroque style during that century. An early nineteenth-century extension preceded its forest-house service, which lasted from 1815 to 1972.
The ensemble also contains a woodcutter’s house and a sleeping house for forest workers. A wood storage house completes the group beside the former residence. The building has stood in private ownership since 1983. Its nearly unchanged form connects a hunting estate, Prussian forestry, and the Baroque Route Saarpfalz.
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