Schneidlingen Castle
| Schneidlingen Castle | ||
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 South view of Schneidlingen Castle |
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| Creation time : | around 1325 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Preserved essential parts | |
| Standing position : | Clerical | |
| Place: | Cutters | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 53 '37.6 " N , 11 ° 26' 43.9" E | |
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The castle Schneidlingen is a moated castle in the village Schneidlingen in Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
The Schneidlingen moated castle, which is one of the so-called fort castles , was probably built at the beginning of the 14th century on the eastern edge of the village. In 1324/25 the first documentary mention was made, in which it was designated as belonging to the possession of the Halberstadt diocese . In the course of the 14th and 15th centuries, the complex was often pledged and, according to contemporary sources, fell into a poor structural condition.
In 1604 the cathedral chapter of Halberstadt acquired the office and castle of Schneidlingen because of the location in the particularly fertile Magdeburg Börde through an exchange from the Protestant administrator of the diocese, Duke Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . In particular, from 1611 to 1620, the core facility and the large outer bailey were under the direction of the church politician and economist Matthias von Oppen , the long-time dean of the cathedral chapter, extensively redesigned and transformed into an agricultural model estate. First bailiff of Schneidlingen was Michel Heyne, who had previously worked at the Gröninger court of Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the progenitor of the Heyne / Heine family, who later became important for the region. a. Gröningen with Vorwerk Heynburg owned, also Hakeborn , Hedersleben Monastery and St. Burchardi Monastery (Halberstadt) .
In addition to the actual facility, the castle then also included a mill and a network of various outbuildings . During the GDR era , the facility served as a kindergarten and a home for the elderly and then fell into disrepair. The complex has been maintained and restored by a castle association since the mid-1990s.
Structure
The main castle was protected by a moat that can still be seen in traces today , which was fed by a branch of the local Goldbach. The Gothic complex comprised three wings of the building, extensive remains of which have been preserved, as well as a central keep . Thus the designation as "fort castle" is only partially applicable. The west wing was originally used as a residential and representative building, while the northern and eastern wings were used for commercial and storage purposes.
The late medieval structures were expanded or redesigned in the Renaissance style at the beginning of the 17th century and still show large gables with a curved structure . The small transverse building that bounds the courtyard to the south was not added until the 18th century. Before, there was a wall with a gate here. Also worth seeing is the renovated, 21-meter-high, four-storey keep with a baroque hood and coats of arms of the canons of Halberstadt who were involved in the renovation between 1611 and 1620 .
From the former outer bailey to the south , only a few elements can be seen due to the construction of new farmer's houses after the Second World War and the demolition of the baroque economic buildings at the end of the 2000s. The nearby castle mill has now also been closed.
literature
- Bruno J. Sobotka: Castles, palaces, manor houses in Saxony-Anhalt , Stuttgart 1994.
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan Lexicon, Bechtermünz, licensed edition Weltbild 1996, ISBN 3-86047-219-4 .
- Heiner Schwarzberg : Investigations into the castle Schneidlingen. In: Castles and Palaces in Saxony-Anhalt 6. Communications from the Saxony-Anhalt regional group of the German Castle Association, 1997, pp. 90–111.
- Heiner Schwarzberg: "Wollgebeßert" - The redesign of two late medieval castles in the Halberstadt cathedral chapter into agricultural goods by the cathedral dean Matthias von Oppen. In: Adolf Siebrecht (Ed.), History and Culture of the Diocese of Halberstadt 804-1648. Symposium on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the founding of the Halberstadt diocese, March 24th to 28th, 2004. Protocol . Halberstadt, pp. 643-657.
- History and stories between Harz and Börde (2003–2004), Das Edelherrengeschlecht those von Schneidlingen , pp. 56–61.