Gohliser Schlösschen
The Gohliser Schlösschen is a late baroque building built as a representative bourgeois country house in the Leipzig district of Gohlis . It is one of the city's attractions.
location
The area of the Gohliser Schlösschen extends between Menckestrasse (courtyard side) and Poetenweg (garden side) in Leipzig-Gohlis. It is about two kilometers from the city center and only 200 meters from the Rosental via Turmgutstrasse and the Parthen Bridge .
history
In the years 1755 / 56 , the Leipzig councilor and councilor architect was Johann Caspar Richter a summer (1708 to 1770) in the north-westerly village of Leipzig Gohlis palace built. The plot of land on which the building was erected was created by merging two adjoining farms belonging to Christiana Regina Richter , the client's wife. From comparative studies it is assumed that the Leipzig urban master builder Friedrich Seltendorff, influenced by the Dresden master builder Johann Christoph Knöffel , provided the design.
Because of the high contributions that Richter, as a wealthy Leipzig citizen, had to pay during the Seven Years' War , the interior work was delayed. After Johann Caspar Richter's death in 1770, it was completed by the next husband of Richter's widow, Johann Gottlob Böhme (1717–1780), professor of history at Leipzig University. The Leipzig painter and sculptor Adam Friedrich Oeser created the paintings in the ballroom of the palace. The castle can be seen as a spiritual center during this time. Georg Joachim Göschen and Christian Gottfried Körner are said to have been guests, as was Friedrich Schiller during his stay in Gohlis in 1785.
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In 1793 the Gohliser Schlösschen fell to the city of Leipzig in a will. In the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , it initially provided high-level military quarters, and finally served as a military hospital. In 1832 the city council sold it to the von Alvensleben family , from whom it came in the next generation to the Leipzig businessman Christoph Georg Conrad Nitzsche. In 1906 the city finally became the owner of the building.
After a renovation in 1934/35, it was opened to the public as the “House of Culture” and used for cultural events. The Leipzig Bach Archive was also located here from 1951 to 1985 .
During the general renovation from 1990 to 1998, the building was returned to its 18th century state. From 1998 the cultural office of the city of Leipzig operated the house. At the end of 2003, austerity measures forced the closure. The Freundeskreis Gohliser Schlösschen eV has been the operator of the facility since 2004 . The rooms are used for concerts and theater events as well as exhibitions. The Oesersaal on the upper floor is available for civil weddings, while the stone hall, accessible from the garden, provides a worthy setting for funeral ceremonies. There are guided tours and some rooms are used as a café and restaurant.
architecture
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The main building of the Gohliser Schlösschen is an approximately 40 meter wide three-wing complex with only four meters long side wings facing the courtyard. The risalit on the central part is flat on the courtyard side and arched outwards on the garden side and is slightly divided by pilaster strips . Above it rises a 56-meter-high tower-like structure, which is why the facility was formerly known as the Turmgut. Because of the hillside location, there is a basement level on the garden side in addition to the ground floor and upper floor on the courtyard side. On the risalits and the tower structure there are decorative elements of the Rococo ( rocailles ).
The middle section contains three representative rooms on the garden side. The stone or garden hall, a vaulted room that is now used as a restaurant, is located in the basement. Above this is the salon and on the upper floor the ballroom. The ceiling painting of this room shows a representation of the "Life Path of the Psyche " by Adam Friedrich Oeser. Next to the door are two evening fantasy landscapes by the same painter. Concerts and other cultural events take place in the ballroom.
The rooms next to the halls are each reached via a simple corridor on the courtyard side and contain exhibits on the history of the house and sample furnishings, because not much of the original furnishings of the house has been preserved in its eventful history. As a bourgeois country house, the castle has no representative entrance rooms and no magnificent staircase. Because of the long period between the construction and the interior of the house, the latter is no longer influenced by the Rococo, but rather by the classicism .
The main building is followed by two 50-meter-long single-storey extensions after the garden. In the east, which now serves as a café, there used to be a bowling alley and a billiard room. The western one was the orangery . The garden contains a central ornamental fountain and several statues, including the statue of the first Saxon King Friedrich August I , also a work of Adam Friedrich Oeser, which was located on Königsplatz (today Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz ) until 1937 .
Of all the upper-class palace and manor complexes of the Baroque period that were scattered in and around the rich trading city of Leipzig, the Gohliser Schlösschen is the last remaining one because it did not - like many magnificent Baroque buildings in the city center - fell victim to property speculation around 1900.
literature
- Martin Eberle: Gohliser Schlößchen. (= Art Guide 2416), Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2000, ISBN 3-7954-6258-4 .
- Hans-Reinhard Hunger: The renovation of the Gohliser Schlößchen in the period from 1991 to 1998. (= communications of the Freundeskreis Gohliser Schlösschen eV 4), Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-935443-04-8 .
- Sabine Hocquél-Schneider: The Gohliser Schlößchen in Leipzig , in: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Saxony. Announcements from the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in 1999 , bequeathed by the publishing house, Halle / S. 1999, pp. 89-101
- Sabine Hocquél-Schneider, Alberto Schwarz a. Brunhild Vollstädt: The Gohliser Schlösschen in Leipzig. ed. from the Freundeskreis Gohliser Schlösschen eV, Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-361-00511-6 .
- Horst Riedel (Red .: Thomas Nabert ): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-82-6 , p. 190
- Werner Starke: The Gohliser Schlößchen. (= Architectural monuments 11), 2. alter. Edition EA Seemann, Leipzig 1976.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 24.3 " N , 12 ° 21 ′ 51.2" E