Dohna-Schlösschen Mohrungen
The Dohna-Schlösschen in Mohrungen (Polish: Morąg , Powiat Ostródzki , Warmia-Masuria Voivodeship ) was built between 1572 and 1571 as the city residence of the Prussian noble family von Dohna . The Johann Gottfried Herder Museum, a branch of the Museum for Warmia and Masuria in Allenstein, is located in the small castle .
history
The members of the noble family von Dohna, who came from Saxony, came to Prussia in the middle of the 15th century as knights of the Teutonic Order . Stanislaus von Dohna (1433–1504), burgrave and lord of Donen is considered the founder of the Prussian line . For his services to the order he received the goods Deutschendorf and Karwinden . His son Peter von Dohna (1483–1553), captain of Braunsberg and Mohrungen , acquired the village of Schlobitten in 1525 . Peter's son Achatius von Dohna (1533–1619), ducal-Prussian councilor and governor, built his house in Schlobitten, but it was his descendant Abraham who built the residence in Schlobitten in the 17th century. In the meantime, the von Dohna family acquired the village of Mohrungen.
Around 1561 Achatius zu Dohna bought a piece of land in Mohrungen with a section of the city walls and bastions. Using these walls, he built the Dohna castle. In 1697 the castle fell victim to a major fire. In the years 1717 to 1719, a baroque residence was built from the ruins according to a design by the architect Johann Caspar Hindersin (1677–1738). In 1731 two gateways were built. In 1741 a sundial in the form of a column was set up in the palace garden . In the last months of the Second World War , the building suffered a lot of damage. It remained unused until 1975. In the period 1975 to 1985 the castle was thoroughly renovated with the help of documents and tips from Alexander Fürst zu Dohna-Schlobitten, since 1986 it has been a branch of the Olsztyn Museum for Warmia and Mazury . The Johann Gottfried Herder Museum was set up in the castle in honor of the city's most famous citizen. The museum is also the meeting point of the local association of the German population "Herder". The palace was visited in 1990 by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker .
architecture
The current state of the castle corresponds to the appearance from the 1st half of the 18th century. The two wings of the building are at an obtuse angle to each other, with a tower in the middle. The left wing is two-story, the right three-story. The facades are practically unadorned. On the garden side, part of the outer wall is unplastered in order to show the Gothic city wall with a decorative ornament made of clinker bricks.
A sundial in the shape of a column crowned with a ball was erected in the garden in 1741. The course of the shadow was probably marked on the ground.
Herder Museum
The Johann Gottfried Herder Museum is located in the castle. In addition to the permanent exhibition, temporary exhibitions are also arranged. I.a. Rooms with historical furnishings are shown, such as a baroque hall from the beginning of the 18th century, a Biedermeier salon from the 19th century, a cabinet in the style of the Second Empire and an Art Nouveau boudoir .
The exhibition “Art of the Duchy of Prussia ” with a collection of coffin portraits from this country is located on the 2nd floor .
In the ballroom, with the original decoration still preserved, portraits of important personalities from the 16th to 19th centuries are shown.
Next to it is the collection of Dutch art from the Orange-Nassau dynasty.
The chateau was entered on July 27, 1953 under no. 66 in the register of architectural monuments of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Fürst Dohna-Schlobitten: Memories of an old East Prussia , ISBN 3-8003-3115-2 , pp. 354–355
- ↑ http://www.nid.pl/pl/Informacje_ogolne/Zabytki_w_Polsce/rejestr-zabytkow/zestawienia-zabytkow-nieruchomych/stan%20na%2030.09.13/WAR-rej.pdf
Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 42.6 " N , 19 ° 55 ′ 32" E