Gut Schirgiswalde
The Schirgiswalde estate , Am Hof 2 in Schirgiswalde , is a former manor that has belonged to the St. Petri Cathedral in Bautzen since 1628 . Today the complex consists of the former manor house , the forester's house , two outbuildings, a pigeon house , remains of an enclosure wall and the park with a statue of the Virgin Mary . It stands together with the park and parts of the interior under monument protection .
description
The mansion is a three-storey, solid, plastered house in the late Baroque style with a mansard roof hipped on all sides . The facade consists of six window axes along the length and four axes across. Inside there is valuable wallpaper. The forester's house at Bahnhofstrasse 3 is a two-story plastered building with a half-hip roof and 10 or three window axes. One side building (Bahnhofstrasse 5) served as a gatehouse , the other side building housed a kindergarten. Opposite the manor is a small park with a statue of the Virgin Mary.
history
The place belonged to the Rumburg rule in Bohemia in the 17th century and was settled with Catholics as part of the Bohemian Counter-Reformation . In 1628 the property, then called Oberhof, came to the Catholic Cathedral Monastery of St. Petri in Bautzen. After the transfer of the surrounding Upper Lusatian areas to the Electorate of Saxony as a result of the Peace of Prague in 1635 , Gut Schirgiswalde remained an exclave of the Kingdom of Bohemia within the Electorate of Saxony. In 1665 the Schirgiswalde settlement was elevated to a town.
On January 19, 1681, Franz Eusebius von Pötting sold the entire Rumburg rulership, including the town and the Schirgiswalde estate, to the imperial court master Anton Florian von Liechtenstein . Before he left for Spain, he sold the area on October 2, 1703 to the wealthy cathedral monastery of Bautzen, which then held the land and judicial rule over Schirgiswalde until the middle of the 19th century. The island location of the Bohemian city in the middle of the Saxon area remained until 1809, after which Schirgiswalde was militarily occupied by the Kingdom of Saxony as a result of the Napoleonic Wars . In the following 36 years the state affiliation of the city remained unclear because lengthy diplomatic negotiations between Austria and Saxony about an exchange of territory did not lead to the goal. It was not until 1845 that the handover of the Schirgiswald to Saxony was finally contractually regulated and carried out.
As the owner, the cathedral monastery of Bautzen initiated continuous management of the property as early as the 18th century. The existing manor house was built at the end of the 18th century. In 1800 the forester's house and other outbuildings were added.
In 1833, under the dean of the cathedral and Bishop Ignaz Bernhard Mauermann , it was converted in the classicism style as an episcopal summer residence. The mansion was raised by one storey and given the still existing mansard roof and mid-level houses. In 1838, some rooms were furnished with the painted wallpaper, which was produced by the well-known manufacturer Zuber & Cie in Rixheim , Alsace , and an illusionistic coffered ceiling. The garden was redesigned like a park. Mauermann died in Schirgiswalde in 1841. The use as the summer residence of the apostolic vicars in the Saxon hereditary lands or bishops of Meissen was retained until 1945.
In 1848 the Countess von Thun-Hohenstein auf Teschen and her family were granted asylum in the manor house for one year . In 1893 a Marian column was erected in the park. After 1922 the property was used as a church music school. Bishop Petrus Legge lived in the house during the Second World War until June 26, 1945.
From 1970 the manor house served as St. Pius House for Catholic welfare for children and women and later as a kindergarten, until it was moved to the renovated barn across the street in 2006. The property has been available for sale since 2017.
literature
- Steffen Zimmermann: Former summer residence of the Meißen bishops is being auctioned - who will buy the Saxon Castel Gandolfo? in: kathisch.de , Schirgiswalde-Kirschau online on February 13, 2019
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments Saxony online No. 09252355, accessed on February 15, 2019
- ^ German property auctions, SAG, catalog item no. 094 of auction S19-01 Former episcopal summer residence “Piushaus” in 02681 Schirgiswalde-Kirschau
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 44.3 " N , 14 ° 25 ′ 43.9" E