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Hubertus Castle (novel)

1895 novel by Ludwig Ganghofer

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ86009476 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hubertus Castle (German: Schloß Hubertus) is an 1895 novel by the German writer Ludwig Ganghofer.

Adaptations

It has been adapted for the screen three times:

Hubertus Castle (1934) directed by Hans Deppe

Hubertus Castle (1954) directed by Helmut Weiss

Hubertus Castle (1973) directed by Harald Reinl

References

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

Editorial summary

“Hubertus Castle (novel)” enters the record as 1895 novel by Ludwig Ganghofer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hubertus, Castle and novel can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1895, 1934, 1954, 1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1895. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hubertus, Castle and novel.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hubertus Castle (novel)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hubertus, Castle and novel provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q86009476. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1895, 1934, 1954 and 1973.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Hubertus Castle (novel)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.