Monbrillant Castle

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“The Montbrillant pleasure palace near Hanover” around 1850;
Colored steel engraving by Ludwig Rohbock after Johann Friedrich Lange , printed and published by Gustav Georg Lange in Darmstadt

Monbrillant Castle (also Montbrillant Castle , Castle am Sandberge and Mummerjan ) was a royal pleasure palace from the first half of the 18th century in Hanover , which was part of the Electoral Hanover . After it was demolished in the middle of the 19th century, it was rebuilt in today's town of Georgsmarienhütte as a residence for the directors of the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein and finally demolished in 1925.

history

Montbrillant Castle 1720
Plan of the palace and park in 1763 on Herrenhäuser Allee, on the right the hill from the Jewish cemetery on Oberstrasse
The castle as a lithograph after Wilhelm Kretschmer

Thanks to the favor of King George I, Countess Sophie von Platen-Hallermund acquired the site of the later Welfengarten . On their behalf, the French architect Louis Remy de la Fosse designed the summer palace in 1713, which was built between 1717 and 1720 by Johann Christian Böhme on the Puttenser Berge .

After the Countess' death in 1726, the Welfenhaus bought the castle, which was then used as a guest house. From 1814 to 1837 it was used by Duke Adolph Friedrich , the son of King George III. , as a residence. Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves rebuilt the palace for him in 1816. King Ernst August I and Georg V , the last king of Hanover, used it as a summer residence. Here Georg V met his wife Marie on July 14, 1839 , who was 21 years old at the time.

Montbrillant Castle 1846
Montbrillant Castle in Georgsmarienhütte before 1922

In 1857 the palace was demolished and gave way to the Welfenschloss , planned as a new residence and partially completed by 1866 , today the seat of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover .

The demolition was bought for 5010 thalers by the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein founded in 1856 with the support of King George V and his wife Marie . He wanted to build a steelworks in the Malbergen peasantry near Osnabrück , today part of the town of Georgsmarienhütte, in order to make the Kingdom of Hanover independent of iron imports from the Ruhr area and England. Because there was no adequate living space for managing the plant in the agricultural region, Monbrillant Castle was rebuilt there in a slightly different form. The term castle was also used for the building now inhabited by the bourgeoisie; the local population also called it Mummerjan . It was lived in by the works director and directors of the hut until 1924. At times it served as a middle school.

When the iron and steel works, which became the property of Klöckner-Werke in 1923 , expanded, the castle was finally demolished in 1925. Only a copper beech remained at the site. It was felled in the 1950s when a sintering plant was built there. In Georgsmarienhütte, Schloßstraße is still reminiscent of the former Montbrillant Castle. The sandstones were used in 1935 in the construction of the current Herz-Jesu-Kirche on Ulmenstraße, where Some can still be seen today unplastered.

See also

literature

  • "Hoeltje", p. 48 and so on.
  • Bernhard Dörries , Helmut Plath : Das Schlößchen Monbrillant ... , in this: Old Hanover / The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900 . Heinr. Feesche Verlag Hannover, fourth improved edition 1977, ISBN 3-87223-024-7 , p. 72
  • Werner Beermann, Dieter Görbing: The hut - work and life in the region around the plant in Georgsmarienhütte . Georgsmarienhütte 1988, ISBN 3-926131-02-0
  • Günther Kokkelink : The Monbrillant pleasure palace, predecessor of the Welfenschloss , in Sid Auffarth , Wolfgang Pietsch (ed.): The University of Hanover: its buildings, its gardens, its planning history , ed. on behalf of the President of the University of Hanover, Petersberg, 2003, ISBN 3-935590-90-3 , pp. 74-76 (with floor plan and architectural drawings)
  • Arnold Nöldeke (edit.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover , issue 1, part 2: Region of Hanover. City of Hanover , part 2 (= booklet 20 of the complete works), pp. 89–94
  • Helmut Knocke : Monbrillant. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 449.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Monbrillant  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke: Monbrillant. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 449

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '59.1 "  N , 9 ° 43' 11.9"  E