Hohenthurm Castle
The Hohenthurm Castle in Saalekreis in Saxony-Anhalt is a palace complex on the site of the castle in Hohenthurm . The keep and the church have been preserved from the castle . There may be other remains of the medieval castle in the buildings. The development on the edge of the house is easy to understand.
history
The Hohenthurm Castle originally belonged to the Landsberg region . It was owned by ministerials who were Burgmen of Landsberg. Its first representative was an Arnoldus de alta turri mentioned in 1244. The Thuringian Landgrave, Albrecht the Degenerate , pledged the rule as part of the Margraviate of Landsberg to the Ascanian Margrave Heinrich of Brandenburg , from whose hands it came in turn as a pledge to Duke Magnus of Braunschweig. Friedrich II. , The serious one, Margrave of Meißen, bought back the Mark Landsberg in 1347 for 8,000 shock groschen . Hohenthurm was added to the Reideburg castle district and finally remained with the Archbishopric of Magdeburg . The last ministerial, Hans von Hoen Torn, was enfeoffed in 1385 by Archbishop Albrecht with court, church and all rights, fiefs and interests. In 1398 the von Hohenthurm family died out. The completed fiefdom was reassigned to Leonhard von Steuben in 1398 . He sold it to Otto von Dieskau in 1418, the latter to Klaus von Trotha , from whom Hans von Rauchhaupt took over in 1438. Until 1653 the von Rauchhaupt family owned Hohenthurm almost continuously. In 1570 the historian Torquatus described the castle as derelict.
In 1683 the castle burned down. As a result, a new residential building and new farm buildings were built, which were surrounded by a high curtain wall. The tower received the brick cornice and a new roof.
Various owners of Hohenthurm are known in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1653 Nikolaus von Zastrow bought it for 22,000 thalers. In 1671 it was owned by Mathias von Beck, in 1675 by Hans Christoph Rauchhaupt auf Trebnitz, in 1711 by war councilor Friedrich Franz von Schwartz , and in 1732 by Johann Jacob von Lüdecke .
Today's castle in the west of the area is essentially from the 18th century. It was built in 1736 on the foundations of the medieval brewery building. However, its appearance is shaped by the neo-renaissance renovation from the end of the 19th century.
In 1836 the Saxon chamberlain Karl Adam Traugott von Wuthenau (died 1862) bought the combined goods of Rosenfeld (belonged to the Wettin office of Delitzsch) and Hohenthurm from chamber councilor Otto Rudolf von Wülcknitz, who had inherited it from the Rühling family a year earlier, for 66,880 Valleys. The Rühling family acquired Hohenthurm in 1836.
Traugott von Wuthenau was an energetic modern entrepreneur. Using modern methods in agriculture, he became a great agrarian. The Hohenthurm estate became a model agricultural estate.
In 1852 the gardener's house was built in the castle park. In 1857 the baroque dome of the tower had become so dilapidated that it had to be torn down and replaced by a flat conical roof. In 1859 the elongated horse stable began to be built. Traugott's son, Max Heinrich Adam von Wuthenau-H. married Countess Pauline von Württemberg . To practice their faith, he had a Catholic chapel set up in the former knight's hall in 1912 . Like his father, Count Max Heinrich ran his large farm very successfully. Among other things, around 1100 acres of land were purchased for Gut Hohenthurm from 1864 to 1910. The economic success made it possible to build a representative residential building. In 1892/93 the baroque palace was converted into a neo-renaissance building based on the model of the Dresden palace .
In the 1920s, the flat roof on the tower was replaced by the high conical roof that still exists today. In the tower room, the eight walled-in Gothic windows were opened and a heavy beamed ceiling was installed. A part of the historicist ornamentation was removed from the castle, so that the overall impression approached the baroque. In 1945 the property was expropriated. The palace complex became the Institute for Plant Breeding of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .
The medieval castle formed an irregular pentagon, in the north-eastern corner of which was the keep, the "high tower" as part of the inner castle. The high Romanesque keep was built in connection with the 12th century church. It is characterized by a relatively poor wall quality. The entrance to the tower was originally on the south side. The entrance floor has an eight-part vault. From this floor, a spiral staircase runs as thick as the wall up to the top floor. The vault and the spiral staircase were made of brick and both date from the late Gothic period. As in the Krosigk keep, there is also a separate basement level here. The access seems to have been broken into here later.
literature
- Dehio: Handbuch der Kunstdenkmäler, Der Bezirk Halle , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976
- Handbook of the historical sites of Germany, Province of Saxony Anhalt, Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1987
- Plathner: Early medieval castles in the Saalkreis , home calendar for Halle and the Saalkreis, Karras & Konnicke, Halle 1922
- Graf von Wuthenau-Hohenthurm: The family of the Lords of Wuthenau and the Counts of Wuthenau-Hohenthurm , Verlag CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1969
- Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra : Walks through the Saalkreis , Vol. 4, Verlag von Karras & Koennecke, Halle ad Saale 1921
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 20 " N , 12 ° 5 ′ 45" E