Rogätz Castle
| Rogätz Castle | ||
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 Anco Wigboldus (1935): Reconstruction of Rogätz Castle around 1895 |
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| Creation time : | 10th century | |
| Castle type : | Border castle | |
| Conservation status: | destroyed. preserved keep | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Place: | Rogätz | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 18 '41.3 " N , 11 ° 45' 49.3" E | |
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The castle Rogätz in Rogätz in the district Borde in today's Saxony-Anhalt was a strategically important city on the western bank of the Elbe between Magdeburg and Tangermünde . It was owned by the von Alvensleben family from 1369 to 1850 .
Location and early history
Rogätz is located on the western steep bank of the Elbe , above the confluence of the Ohre , halfway between Magdeburg and Tangermünde, the former residence of Emperor Charles IV . and the first Hohenzollern from Brandenburg . As the only remnant of the Rogätzer Burg, which was built under the Saxon emperors in the 10th century as a border bulwark against Slavicism , the Klutturm, a primeval monument, now towers over the river and land. The first document about the place comes from the year 1144, in the King Konrad III. confirmed that Count Otto von Hillersleben gave the village of Rogätz to the Bishop of Havelberg . In the years that followed, sovereignty over the castle remained controversial between the Margraves of Brandenburg and the Archbishops of Magdeburg, until it was finally awarded to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg in the Treaty of Zinna in 1449 .
Rogätz under Alvensleben rule
In 1369 Archbishop Albrecht sold the castle and rule to the Alvensleben of the Red Line. The associated fiefdom was in and around Magdeburg on both banks of the Elbe and comprised significant parts of the Colbitz-Letzlinger forest districts. In 1516 Rogätz had property and rights in 54 localities. One of the castle's customs and stacking rights stated that every ship had to pay its duty on a chain stretched through the Elbe, and that the goods had to be unloaded and put up for sale here. The legend of the golden chain that is supposed to wrap around the tower foundation is a reminder of this. In 1553 the Alvensleben Red Line died out and Rogätz fell to the Black Line. A generous expansion of the castle followed, which from 1570–1582 under the humanist Joachim I von Alvensleben, like the neighboring Erxleben , experienced a heyday of humanistic culture within its walls. In the Thirty Years' War in 1625, the imperial family conquered the castle, which was then recaptured the following year by the Danes under General Hans Philipp Fuchs von Bimbach and Ernst von Mansfeld . The buildings went up in flames except for the Klutturm. The castle was not rebuilt.
The administration of the Rogätz rule, which was mostly jointly owned by several houses of the von Alvensleben family, was carried out by bailiffs until 1796. In that year Werner Friedrich Udo von Alvensleben (1775–1807) took over the property as the sole heir and moved to Rogätz in 1797 after his marriage. However, he died at the age of 32 and left two underage sons. The heir sold the estate to Count Schwerin-Putzar in 1850, who in 1871 to Reinhold Himburg, who was followed by his son-in-law Julius Schwechten († 1917). In 1898, Himburg built a new manor house. The last owner from 1918 until the land reform in 1945 was the manufacturer Carl Still . From March 1, 1943 until the end of the war, the Max Planck couple, who lived in Berlin, were able to find accommodation in the estate at the invitation of Still.
Reconstruction image
The destruction of the Thirty Years' War was so great that the appearance of the four-winged Renaissance castle and the other castle buildings can no longer be fathomed. It can be assumed with certainty that the architecture of Rogätz was reminiscent of the neighboring archbishopric Wolmirstedt Castle , which was expanded around the same time and of which a view from 1655 exists. The reconstruction image created by Anco Wigboldus in 1935 shows the state around 1895 - i.e. H. without the manor house built in 1898 next to the keep and after its fire in 1893. The background is the confluence of the Ohre into the Elbe; in the distance the cities of Burg and Magdeburg: a majestic landscape. The remains of the fortifications on the stream side are not visible. The commercial courtyards occupy the area of the upper and outer bailey. The tower of the former castle chapel, which became the parish church of the village when the Reformation was introduced in 1558, dates from 1700 with its baroque dome. Inside, tombstones and an ornate baptismal font are reminiscent of the former gentlemen who still live on today in hauntedness and legend.
literature
- Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück: Historical news of the Gesschlechts of Alvensleben and its goods . Three volumes, Berlin 1819, 1829
- Willy Schulze: From days gone by in the village of Rogätz on the Elbe . Printed and published by Ab.Brenzau Wolmirstedt 1924
- Udo von Alvensleben-Wittenmoor : Rogätz . Unpublished manuscript. Warsaw 1940, 37. <?> P.
- Udo von Alvensleben-Wittenmoor: Alvensleben castles and country houses . Dortmund 1960
- Armin Hermann: Max Planck . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1973/1984. (Quartier in Rogätz, pp. 103–116).
- Willi Zähle: Rogätz Castle, the Klutturm and its owners . Rogätz 2000
- Willi Counting: Chronicle of the community Rogätz . Published by: Rogätz Municipality, 2004.
- Udo von Alvensleben-Wittenmoor: The Rogätz Castle and the Alvensleben (1369–1850) - written in 1940, edited by Reimar von Alvensleben and published by the von Alvensleben eV family, Falkenberg May 2012, 32 pages (self-published).