Grotenburgschlösschen

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The Grotenburgschlösschen in the Krefeld district of Bockum is a small castle-like building in the middle of the Krefeld Zoo and today houses a café-restaurant. The castle was built as a summer house in the middle of the 19th century and is a listed building .

history

The building takes its name from the farming family Grotenburg, on whose former ground the little castle stands. In 1840, the Krefeld silk manufacturer Moritz de Greiff bought the Grotenburg farm, including the farmland and fields, from their descendant Peter and had a summer house built there for his family in 1846. The former farmhouse, an 18th century hall house in the Lower Rhine region , has been converted into a farmyard. De Greiff had the surrounding lands redesigned into a spacious park , the so-called Grotenburgpark, which at that time stretched from today's Violstrasse to Kaiserstrasse. Later owners were Justus Christian Waldhausen, Johann Heinrich Schilbers and his cousin Johann Becker.

In 1914 the Grotenburg area came into the possession of the city of Krefeld, which opened the Krefeld Zoo there in 1938 . This was in an old tradition, because there had been a private zoo there since 1877. The Grotenburgschlösschen was rebuilt in the 1950s and has been used as the zoo's café since 1955.

description

The small classicist building may have been built according to plans by Adolph von Vagedes , while the designs for the park may have come from Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe .

The building consists of a slightly protruding, octagonal tower with three floors, to which two short, lower side wings adjoin to the west and east. The Grotenburgschlösschen has a length of about 22 meters and a maximum depth of 17 meters. Its masonry is painted white and the tower has a striking eaves cornice .

literature

  • Regine Zweiffel, Felix Burandt: 66x Krefeld. Places, people, trees . 1st edition. Self-published, Krefeld 2013, pp. 62–63.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d R. Zweiffel, F. Burandt: 66x Krefeld. 2013, p. 62.
  2. ↑ Photos and information about the Krefeld Zoo at zeitspurensuche.de ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Information about the Grotenburgschlösschen on the website of the city of Krefeld ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Information according to the cadastral map for Krefeld available online

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 27 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 6 ″  E