Baroque Seusslitz Castle
The Baroque Seusslitz Castle is located in Diesbar-Seusslitz , a part of the municipality of Nünchritz in Saxony .
history
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The first mention was made in 1205, according to which there was a moated castle in Seusslitz . Around 1250 to 1265, the Margrave of Meißen , Heinrich the Illustrious , had a country palace built in Seusslitz. He is said to have had the intention of setting up his residence entirely in Seusslitz, but this was not realized. In 1268 he donated the castle to the Poor Clares as a nunnery of St. Afra, after which it was rebuilt until 1272. At the same time, the Margrave left the Dresden Church of Our Lady together with the patronage of the Dresden parish and the Maternispital there to the Seusslitz Monastery.
The monastery was mediatized like the Meissen monastery Heilig Kreuz and fell into compulsory administration after the Reformation in 1541 . In 1545 it was acquired as a preliminary work by the Electorate of Saxony, Chancellor Simon Pistoris , and was first notarized as a manor in 1552 . His descendants, who carried the name Pistoris von Seuselitz , owned the estate until 1720.
In 1722 the Saxon Chancellor Heinrich Graf von Bünau bought the property. He had a baroque three-wing complex built on the foundation walls of the monastery according to plans by the councilor carpenter George Bähr . The triangular gable above the portal in the central wing contains a cartouche with a Latin inscription. In the vestibule , behind an arch, an elegant tripartite staircase leads to the upper floor, the balustrades of which are decorated with stone vases, while Baroque figures stand in the wall niches.
The mansion, which was completed in 1724, is adjoined by two side wings that border a narrow courtyard. In the south wing there is a vaulted hall and a large hall that extends to the top floor, to which the castle church adjoins. For this, Bähr used the outer walls of the Gothic monastery church of the 13th century from 1725-27, but gave it the same facade design as the castle; A Gothic tracery window has been preserved on the west wall . The flat-roofed interior is surrounded by galleries, the pulpit altar, behind which the organ is located, is richly decorated with colored marbling. Opposite is the patronage box. In the churchyard behind it there are old grave monuments from the monastery church, some of which date back to the 13th century. Count Bünau and his wife Augusta Helene von Döring are also buried in two sandstone sarcophagi. Today's bells in the former castle church consist of five bronze bells, some of them from the 13th century, which date from the beginning of the monastery era. More details:
| No. | Casting date | Caster | diameter | Dimensions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | around 1270 | Bell founder unknown | 520 mm | 89 kg |
| 2 | 1537 | Bell founder unknown | 786 mm | 270 kg |
| 3 | 1956 | Schilling bell foundry | 637 mm | 150 kg |
| 4th | 1956 | Schilling bell foundry | 507 mm | 75 kg |
| 5 | 13th century | Bell foundry unknown | 385 mm | 45 kg |
The castle fits into the lovely garden and vineyard landscape of the Seusslitzer Grund , a side valley of the Elbe, which is now a nature reserve. The palace garden is in the French and English horticultural style with sculptures that symbolize the seasons and the months. The figures come from Balthasar Permoser's workshop . On the south side of the castle and the church, the French garden style determines the picture. A 15-meter-wide terrace lined with plane trees and bordered with sandstone figures and stone flower vases runs here. The garden parterre below her is bordered by flower beds and trimmed hedges. At its end, four stepped terraces rise like a pyramid, on the corners of which there are sandstone figures as allegorical representations of the twelve months. At the side a double staircase leads upwards. On the plateau, Bähr had a small, elegant two-story garden house built in 1725-26, named after Heinrich von Bünau Heinrichsburg . From there you have a view of the Elbe valley upstream to Zehren and downstream to Boritz . The mirror-image, but one-story winegrower's house on the castle vineyard opposite to the west is called Luisenburg and was built after 1725. The English landscape park extends east to the end of the village. It has a rich population of ginkgo , bald cypress, ornamental oak, silver maple and other species. A pond with an irregular shoreline is included in the park.
Corp de Logis
French garden with the Heinrichsburg
Heinrichsburg
Castle Church and Luisenburg
Pond in the English part of the garden
In 1799 the merchant Johann Christian Clauß became the owner of the palace. From 1880 to 1928 the Leipzig art collectors Julius Harck and Fritz von Harck and from 1928 the manufacturer Willi Böttger owned the palace.
From 1945 the castle was in municipal ownership and was used as an after-work home, in 2000 the senior citizens moved out.
The owner has been the Munich architect Stephan Braunfels since 2001 , who bought it at an auction in Leipzig in 2000 for 715,000 DM (360,000 €). Since then, the property has been an object of speculation and is becoming increasingly dilapidated. The palace garden is freely accessible.
See also
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Munich, Berlin (Deutscher Kunstverlag) 1996. pp. 90–93 ISBN 3-422-03043-3
- Matthias Donath : Castles between the Elbe and Elster . Meißen 2007, p. 57 .
- GA Poenicke: Seusslitz . In: Album of the manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony. II. Section. Meissner circle . Sturm and Koppe, Leipzig 1856, p. 33 ( online ).
- Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth. Edited by the Evangelical Regional Church Office of Saxony . With a foreword by Jochen Bohl and photographs by Klaus-Peter Meißner. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 366.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dehio, Sachsen I, 1996, p. 91
- ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig: ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 : p. 108
- ↑ [1] The castle is to be sold for 1.5 million euros, SZ, July 3, 2010
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 27.8 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 3.5 ″ E