Röhrsdorf Castle

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Carl Julius Möckel (1801–1863): Klein-Röhrsdorf (castle and place Röhrsdorf near Dohna), 1840
Palace building photographed from the west in 2016

The Röhrsdorf Castle is a castle expanded from a manor and is located in the Röhrsdorf district of the city of Dohna in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district in Saxony in the middle of one of the largest and most important fruit-growing areas in the Free State of Saxony between Lockwitz and Müglitztal on a high plateau at 238  m above sea level. NHN .

location

The castle and town are about 15 kilometers southeast of Dresden's old town and the Elbe valley , about 10 kilometers as the crow flies west of the district town of Pirna and about 4 kilometers west of the city center of Dohna. The village of Röhrsdorf itself is a few meters south of the castle and is divided in the middle by the Briese brook , which flows eastward into the Rietzschke and drains over the Müglitz into the Elbe, which flows north again to the west . The place and castle are now on the southern city ​​limits of Dresden, with, due to its location on the plateau above the Elbe valley, the best view of the Eastern Ore Mountains and Saxon Switzerland .

history

Coat of arms of the von Neitschütz , first known owners of the estate

The property was built as a manor in the 16th century and was first mentioned in a document in 1436 or 1583. It is unclear whether the place gave rise to the manor or whether residents were settled for the operation of the manor.

Coat of arms of the von Carlowitz family , owners from the 18th to 20th centuries and builders of the castle

One owner of the estate was the electoral secret and war councilor Rudolf von Neitschütz auf Borthen, Röhrsdorf, Tronitz (1614 - 1682), in the years 1649 to 1682. He is often confused with Rudolf von Neitschütz (d. 1703), lieutenant general in the electoral Life guard in Saxony, father of Magdalena Sibylla von Neitschütz , the lover of Johann Georg IV , Elector of Saxony . The owner of Röhrsdorf was married to Magdalena von Osterhausen and had 13 children with her.

The next owner of the manor was Christoph Vitzthum von Eckstädt . In January 1668 he married Johanna Helene von Neitschütz , Rudolf von Neitschütz's second daughter. The marriage produced 17 children.

In 1741 the manor came to Carl Adolph von Carlowitz (1684–1748) (* July 20, 1684 in Ottendorf , † October 30, 1748 in Röhrsdorf), governor of Hohenstein , Lohmen and Wehlen . He was also the patron saint and had the dilapidated church of the place demolished in 1748 and a new building built for exactly 1429 thalers , twelve groschen and one pfennig , which was inaugurated a year later. In the church there is the patron s box with the coat of arms of the von Carlowitz family.

In the 18th century, the manor was expanded to include a manor , the actual Röhrsdorf Castle . In 1771, Georg Heinrich I von Carlowitz (born November 14, 1737 in Ottendorf, † April 24, 1816 in Dresden), the seventh child of Carl Adolph and founder of the Röhrsdorf line of the von Carlowitz family , was given a walled park extended in the English style in Röhrsdorfer Grund and erected in 1787 the orangery building in the castle park , which was decorated with the figures "Bacchus" and "Flora" by the Dresden sculptor Johann Gottfried Knöffler . After the orangery building was demolished in 1970, the figures were probably brought to the Gamig estate park in 1980 . Since then they have been considered lost. From 1780 a portrait of the newly built castle “Prospect des Schloß zu Röhrsdorf bey Dohna” , which is attributed to Christoph Nathe , dates from 1780 .

After a fire in 1890, which completely devastated the castle, it was rebuilt slightly modified and extended by the four-storey stair tower leaning against the building . At the beginning of the 20th century, the breeding garden is mentioned several times, in which, among other things, the Pirna rye was bred.

Until the end of the Second World War in 1945, the castle remained in the possession of the von Carlowitz family. The last owner was Frieda von Carlowitz (1866–1956). The estate of the manor is given as around 290 hectares .

After the war it was taken over by the Soviet army and in 1948 became public property .

In the GDR era it was used as an agricultural school (training center for agricultural apprentices) until 1989. After the fall of the Wall , an investor bought the building in 1990 and converted it into a country hotel . However, the hotel went bankrupt five years later . In 1999 the castle came into the possession of the main creditor , the Sparkasse . In 2002 the hotel was closed and subsequently reopened by another operator.

Building history

Changed and schematized Carlowitz coat of arms on the outbuilding
Palace, courtyard side (east) 2014
View from the north over the courtyard entrance with the coat of arms on the castle, on the left the old defensive wall with loopholes
View from below the castle hill from the direction of the town: on the left the remains of the castle garden wall, in the middle the castle building, on the right side building of the former manor

The castle was originally built as a simple, rectangular three-storey, seven-on-eleven-axis structure with a hipped roof . The edges were decorated with large corner blocks over the entire height, the building itself still had a small baroque bell tower .

In 1890 it was rebuilt after the fire and given a wider tower. The main building today consists of two rectangular adjoining structures , while the north-south oriented main building is a seven-by-four-axis three-storey building block with a hipped roof and the baroque four-storey bell tower with a bell cage in the middle on the west side . The north-east-west oriented cross bar adjoining the main house to the north-west is today only a seven-axis two-storey building and also has a hipped roof. The buildings and former stables surrounding the manor are mostly modern. Only the single-storey building with a split hipped roof and windows with sandstone walls adjoining the courtyard entrance to the west still shows Baroque forms. Driveway entrance and the abutting the driveway building carry a slightly modified crest of those of Carlo wit , in which the triple cloverleaf flipped horizontally and above the capital letter C is provided. The colors of the coat of arms at the courtyard entrance are heraldically incorrect.

The estate surrounds still today in some old wall, some still with vertical loopholes ( arc slits provided), the archway of the entrance portal on the south end of the enclosure bears the year 1599. The castle building was extensively restored and houses many paintings of their owners and the Saxon history .

Todays use

Pedestal in the Röhrsdorf Castle Park

Acquired in 2008 by the Canadian businessman and co-founder of Club Penguin , David Krysko, the castle today serves as the domicile of an artist community , is inhabited by them and is used for exhibitions and events. Seven themed rooms and a recording studio are rented at the castle as a band hotel . The castle can also be used for weddings .

Around the Röhrsdorf Castle and the Saxon - Bohemian farmers' market , which has been held since 2001, the flower festival is celebrated every first weekend in May . On a newly roofed open-air stage in the castle park of the castle various events are held.

The "Röhrsdorfer Grund" landscape park is open to visitors today. Among other things, you can visit the staffagebau called the Temple of Friendship , as well as several small monuments and sandstone formations. An interesting detail is that a visit to the park is popularly referred to as " let's go to the Anton ".

See also

literature

  • Matthias Donath : Castles in Dresden and the surrounding area. Art guide. 3rd, revised. Edition. Meißen 2012, DNB 1067081305 , p. 74 f.
  • Anja Eppert: The Röhrsdorfer Grund: in the footsteps of one of the oldest landscapes in Saxony. (= Communications from the Pückler Society . NF 27). Pückler Society, Berlin 2013, DNB 1033822132 .
  • Kirsten Krepelin and Thomas Thränert: The dedicated landscape - walks and beautified landscapes around Dresden , Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2011, pp. 98-108.
  • Thank God Immanuel Merkel: Earth description of the Electorate of Saxony and the countries belonging to it. III. Volume, Dresden / Leipzig 1804, p. 257 f.
  • Albert Schiffner: Description of Saxony and the Ernestine, Reuss and Schwarzburg lands. 2nd edition, Verlag HH Grimm, Dresden 1845, p. 413 ( online )
  • Kraushaar Lieske Freiraumplanung GbR: Schlosspark Röhrsdorf: Overall concept for the maintenance and development of the historical garden , on behalf of the city of Dohna, January 4th, 2019, 30 pages (with information on the history of the manor)

Web links

Commons : Schloss Röhrsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Röhrsdorfer Grund  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the Röhrsdorf Castle website : An early connection to the nobility on www.castle-rohrsdorf.com is given as the 14th century as the date of construction.
  2. ↑ Entry on Röhrsdorf Castle (see history ) in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved February 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Castle Röhrsdorf on the website Sachsens Schlösser www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  4. ↑ a b Röhrsdorf Castle: An early connection to the nobility on www.castle-rohrsdorf.com
  5. ^ History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and its goods, p. 242 [digitalisat http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/content/pageview/8992247 ]
  6. ^ A b Johann Samuelansch, Johann Gottfried Gruber: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts. Volume 21 + 22, Leipzig 1830, therein: Supplements to C: Carlowitz. P. 10 bottom left (online)
  7. ↑ From the history of the church and parish Röhrsdorf , website of the Schlosskirchgemeinde Lockwitz , accessed on March 7, 2016.
  8. ^ Church Röhrsdorf on the website of the city of Dohna, accessed on March 7, 2016/13. May 2019
  9. ↑ The figures: Bachus and Flora in front of the old orangery building
  10. ↑ Anke Fröhlich: Christoph Nathe: 1753–1806: monograph and catalog raisonné of hand drawings and prints. Lusatia Verlag Dr. Stübner & Co., Bautzen 2008, p. 229.
  11. ↑ As an example: Paul Parey: Journal of Plant Breeding. 1915, p. 33.
  12. ↑ Agnes and Hennig von Kopp-Colomb (eds.): Book of Destiny II of the Saxon-Thuringian nobility: 1945 to 1989 and from the turn of the century to 2005. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 2005, p. 382.
  13. ↑ The Saxon-Bohemian Farmer's Market
  14. ↑ Röhrsdorf locality with its districts ( memento of the original from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the city of Dohna www.stadt-dohna.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt-dohna.de
  15. ↑ Hikes through the Röhrsdorfer Grund landscape park ( memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from 2014/2015, accessed on March 7, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bluetenfestverein.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 56.6 "  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 28.1"  E