Brockdorff Palace
The Brockdorff Palace in Glückstadt in Schleswig-Holstein is a former aristocratic court. The palace, which dates from the 17th century, is one of the most important secular buildings in the city, along with the Wasmer-Palais . With the “Detlefsen Museum” it houses a collection on the history of Glückstadt and its surroundings.
The palace
History of the building
The Brockdorff Palais was built during the Thirty Years' War for the Glückstadt fortress commander Christian Graf von Pentz . Pentz defended the city successfully 1627/28 before the troops of Wallenstein and thus stand in the favor of the Danish King Christian IV. , Who to this with one of his daughters from the Count left-handed marriage with Kirsten Munk , Sophie Elizabeth, married. The palace served the count as a befitting town house of the then flourishing Glückstadt, but due to his drunkenness he was later dismissed from all offices and died imprisoned at the age of 51.
In the period that followed, the house changed hands several times and was converted by its new owners from a late Renaissance townhouse into a modern baroque palace. It came to the Rheder chancellery in 1727 and was owned by the noble Holstein family Brockdorff for three generations from 1802 to 1877 . The head of the Schleswig-Holstein law firm in Glücksburg and later President of the Higher Appeal Court in Schleswig Cay Lorenz von Brockdorff gave the house its current name. From 1900 the palace was used by the Glückstadt district court for 35 years. Due to increasing deficiencies in the building fabric, there was a threat of demolition in 1962, followed by the first renovation. Today's museum found its place from 1969 in the house, which was restored again in 1992.
Building history
The palace was built between 1631 and 1632 by the builders Willem van Steenwinckel and H. Bolten. It is one of the oldest surviving houses in Glückstadt, where many buildings from the time the city was founded - including the Glückstadt Castle - later had to be removed due to a lack of foundations in the damp building site. The palace is an elongated, dreizehnachsiges house with its eaves side to the Fleet is aligned. The building was originally completely unplastered, the walls made of alternating layers of red and yellow bricks are only visible today on the courtyard side.
In 1727 the originally nine-axis building was extended to the west by four window axes, the rear wing was added and a chapel facing the courtyard and the stair tower were demolished. Instead of the stair tower, a representative staircase with a wooden staircase was added behind the main portal, the portal received its baroque decoration. On the canal side, there are three enfilade -lined rooms with painted wooden ceilings from 1695.
The museum
The museum's collections were created in 1893 at the suggestion of the Glückstadt teacher Detlef Detlefsen , who also gave the house its current name. They contain evidence of the founding of Glückstadt and its development. Among other things, a preserved farmhouse parlor, the former city pharmacy and rooms of upper-class living are exhibited. There are also evidence of the economic sectors that were once leading here, such as agriculture, herring and whaling.
See also
A wing of the Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen is also named Palais Brockdorff after the Brockdorff family .
literature
- Franz Michaelsen: The Brockdorff Palais in Glückstadt. In: Heimatverband für die Kreis Steinburg (ed.): Steinburger Jahrbuch 1964. Itzehoe 1963, pp. 106–110.
- Carl-Heinrich Seebach: The Brockdorff-Palais. In: Heimatverband für die Kreis Steinburg (Hrsg.): Steinburger Jahrbuch 1970. Itzehoe 1969, pp. 119–124.
- Tatjana Ceynowa: The Detlefsen Museum in the Brockdorff Palais in Glückstadt. In: Heimatverband für die Kreis Steinburg (Hrsg.): Steinburger Jahrbuch 2003. Itzehoe 2002, pp. 131-138.
- Catharina Berents, Christian Boldt: The Detlefsen Museum and the city archive in the Brockdorff Palais in Glückstadt. In: Heimatverband für die Kreis Steinburg (Hrsg.): Steinburger Jahrbuch 2009. Itzehoe 2008, pp. 218–231.
- C. Boldt / KJ Lorenzen-Schmidt (eds.): Detlefsen on the 100th anniversary of death: A colloquium of the Detlefsen Society Glückstadt , Glückstadt 2014.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 20 " N , 9 ° 25 ′ 19.3" E