Alexandru Ghica Palace

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Alexandru Ghica Palace, 2009
Winter view of the rear part of the castle

The Alexandru-Ghica Palace (also palace Alexandru Ghica , Palace Ghica-Blaremberg or only Ghica Palace ) is a former under monument protection standing castle in the former village and today the district Caciulati the community moara vlăsiei in Ilfov county in Romania .

location

The entire facility is located between the Cociovaliştea brook and on the DJ 101 district road (drum județean) about 1.3 kilometers west of the A3 motorway and about 30 kilometers north of Bucharest .

history

Alexandru II Ghica, client of the summer residence

Under Alexandru Ghica - a former commander in chief of the people's army of Wallachia - the palace complex was built from 1830 to 1834 as his summer residence on a total area of ​​around 15 hectares. At the same time the church , the rest of the grounds and the palace gardens were built. After Ghica left Wallachia in 1859, the castle was inhabited by relatives of Ghica and various personalities from the region.

In 1924 the palace was donated to the Romanian Academy by the hereditary families (Moret de) Blaremberg , Filipescu and Mavrocordat .

During the turmoil of the Second World War it was used as accommodation for members of the Romanian government and French diplomats.

After the Second World War , some of the castle's furniture was stolen. From 1949 the Ilfov County Securitate and the UTM (Union of Young Workers) had their headquarters here, and from 1951 the castle was used again by members of the Romanian Academy .

In 1983 and 1992 three skeletons were found during excavation work on the area of ​​the castle, a year later in 1993 a further 311 skeletons - men, women and children - in a mass grave. The skeletons were found at a depth of about 60 cm, without clothing and with gunshot wounds. Since a railway line passes in the area of ​​the municipality, it is assumed that the 300 bodies are deportees from the Banat .

The castle, a chapel, the Church of Adormirea Maicii Domnului ( Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary ) and the castle park are listed and are listed as a group of historical Romanian monuments ( architectural monuments ) with the number IF-II-mB-15268 .

description

Room in the rear central part of the castle
The fountain on the reception side

The former castle, which is centrally located in the village, is reached from the main street via a long tree-lined avenue . Of the neo built style storey, basement, elfachsige construction with extremely shallow saddleback roof is centrally through a two-level three-axis central projection with an attached flat triangular gable increased (a dummy gable). The visible side rectangular with upstream double staircase , the back of the middle part is worked out semicircle to the park and has a terrace with double-sided curved stairway on. In the single-storey part normal rectangular windows in sandstone frames, the windows in the middle part are marked as arched windows on both sides . The palace is partially restored and parts of the interior are from the time and French style of Napoleon III. could be obtained. In the vault-like cellar there are multiple coat-of-arms-like representations of animal figures.

In front of the double flight of stairs at the entrance there is a bronze fountain , the group of figures depicting three children playing, holding a flower bowl from which the water pours into the fountain. Another simple fountain has been created between the stairs of the rear terrace, which connects to the terrace as a shell-like basin.

The church, built in 1832, was restored in 1890 by the then owner of the estate, Maria Blaremberg, born Băleanu (1840–1924) and widow of the officer Constantin Moret de Blaremberg (1838–1886). The church was last restored in 1931.

To the northeast of the palace are the remains of other buildings and a greenhouse .

literature

  • Dana Harhoiu: Ansamblul recidențial de la Paşcani (Ilfov). O analiză arhitecturală și ambientală , RMI 1/1990, pp. 36-45
  • Ioan Opriș: Monumente istorice din România (1850–1950) , Editura Vremea, Bucharest 2001, p. 564

Web links

Commons : Alexandru Ghica Palace  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Palatul Ghica din Caciulati ; accessed on December 29, 2017
  2. ↑ Dumitru Manolache: Palatul familiei Ghica de la Căciulați. ziarullumina.ro, September 4, 2013, accessed December 29, 2017 (Romanian).
  3. ↑ List of historical monuments of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 12.7 MB; Romanian)
  4. ↑ Eugen Marola: Cine au fost Blarembergii? Historia.ro.
  5. ↑ Alexandru Ghica Palace ( Memento from May 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Centrul Județean pentru Conservarea și Promovarea Culturii Tradiționale Ilfov (CJCPCT)

Coordinates: 44 ° 37 ′ 44.8 "  N , 26 ° 10 ′ 16.3"  E