Rehefeld hunting lodge
The Rehefeld hunting lodge is located in the Rehefeld-Zaunhaus district of Altenberg in the Ore Mountains in the Free State of Saxony ( Germany ).
history
The hunting lodge was a gift from the Saxon Crown Princess Carola to her husband, the Crown Prince Albert . In 1870 Carola bought an area of around 5000 square meters from the state treasury in Rehefeld. The margravial administration in Dresden stated the value of the property at 36,960 marks. During the war of 1870/71, the Crown Princess had a hunting lodge with a cavalier house and outbuildings built on this site and gave this hunting lodge to her husband, who was returning from the field. On July 19, 1873, Carola transferred the property to her husband Albert. In the course of the 1880s, a few more plots were acquired so that the property increased to a size of 6,700 square meters with a fire cash value of 76,000 marks.
In 1924 Friedrich August von Sachsen sold the hunting lodge for 72,000 marks plus 6,650 marks for furniture and ancillary buildings to the "Schwerter Genosenschaft". This subsidiary organization of the Dresden Freemason Lodge To the Three Swords built the hunting lodge into a rest home for its members and set up a conference center. A dining room with kitchen was added. Furthermore, electricity, central heating and drainage were installed at the expense of the lodge. Overall, the investments of the Schwerter cooperative amounted to 87,000 marks.
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Due to the anti-lie attitude of the National Socialists, the Dresden Freemasons 'lodge Zu den Drei Schwertern was forced to lease the hunting lodge to the combatants' organization Stahlhelm in 1933 . This operated the hunting lodge as a "front fighter home" under the direction of the managing director Walter.
On July 31, 1935, the Dresden Freemason lodge To the Three Swords was banned by the Nazi regime. The Schwerter-Genossenschaft was then forced to offer the hunting lodge to the von Sachsen family for repurchase. On October 1, 1935, Prince Friedrich Christian von Sachsen bought the hunting lodge back for 65,000 Reichsmarks plus 15,000 Reichsmarks for furniture, well below its actual value.
From 1935, the new lord of the castle, Prince Friedrich Christian von Sachsen, initially operated the hunting lodge as a guesthouse. The von Sachsen family left the management of the pension business in the hands of the managing director Walter, who had already managed the front combatants' home for the Stahlhelm .
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In 1936 Prince Friedrich Christian von Sachsen developed the plan to convert the hunting lodge into an exclusive hunting hotel. In order to test whether this plan was economically viable, a partial renovation of the hunting lodge was carried out in autumn 1936 before the German Ski Championships in Altenberg in February 1937 . Three guest rooms in the front part of the hunting lodge were set up as common rooms and six rooms in the Kavalierhaus were converted into guest rooms. The success exceeded expectations. Numerous well-known leadership cadres of the National Socialists and the Wehrmacht poured into the Jagdschloss during the ski championships in 1937 and sales in January and February 1937 were considerable.
Then Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony decided to completely rebuild the hunting lodge according to the plans of the architect Ulrich and the painter Heinrich Bickel from Garmisch . After four months of renovation, the hunting lodge was reopened on July 28, 1937 as an exclusive hunting hotel. The guests include numerous celebrities, members of the European nobility and leadership cadres of the National Socialists, including Otto Meißner , Gretl Theimer , Harry Piel , the Lord Mayor of Dresden Ernst Zörner , Lída Baarová , Wolf Neumeister , Wolfram Humperdinck , Ruth Eweler , Peter Igelhoff , Prince Friedrich von Hohenzollern and Princess Ileana of Romania . The operation of the hunting lodge was initially left in the hands of the previous managing director Walter. In view of the high investment costs, however, he was assigned a steward of the margravial administration as director. The collaboration between the two was fraught with conflict from the start and considerable tensions arose, which escalated in December 1937. On December 31, 1937, in the midst of the winter high season and with the house full , Prince Friedrich Christian von Sachsen terminated Walter's lease and director Meinert's contract without notice. As a result, Dr. Schmid and the administrator Poeschmann from the Margravial Administration took over provisional management.
The Jagdschloss Rehefeld-Hotel-Betriebs-GmbH was founded on February 5, 1938, a lease agreement was signed with it and management was transferred to a new director. The hotel business continued to flourish under the new management.
On February 6, 1942, the hunting lodge was confiscated by the Wehrmachtsinspektion IV in Dresden as a reserve hospital for 120 wounded, as extensive new hospital capacities had to be created quickly due to the winter campaign in Russia. The director and most of the staff of the hunting lodge were conscripted for services in the hospital.
After the expropriation in 1945, the hunting lodge served as a vacation home and since the fall of the Wall as a training and conference center for the State Police School of Saxony (today the training and further training institute of the Police of Saxony, based in Bautzen). On January 1, 2003, the State Property Office of Saxony took over the hunting lodge and offered it for sale. Since then, the building complex has stood empty and increasingly deteriorated. For a long time the site was for sale in vain.
In April 2012, the castle was surprisingly sold to a private person in Radebeul, whose intentions for the castle building, the connecting structure built around 1930 and the garages as well as a two-storey residential building at the entrance that were also built during this period are not yet known.
architecture
The picturesque hunting lodge, situated high above the right bank of the Wilder Weißeritz at the edge of the forest, was used for hunting purposes well into the 20th century.
It is a two-and-a-half-storey building with a rectangular floor plan and a hipped roof , to which a three-storey tower with a pointed pyramid helmet is attached on one narrow side . The long side facing the valley is accentuated as the main view of the castle by a central risalit , which is flanked on the upper floor by two small rectangular oriels set diagonally on its edges . The oriels also have pointed pyramid helmets, between which a roof house with a crooked roof and trusses emphasize the central axis.
The ground floor originally housed a dining room and the smoking room with oriental wallpaper. The reception room and cabinet of the Crown Princess and later Queen were on the upper floor .
Several gifts that the childless couple Carola and Albert had received on their silver wedding anniversary in 1878 were exhibited in the castle, including several valuable pictures. The small chapel belonging to the hunting lodge was only built in 1879 according to plans by an art institute in Munich . In the absence of the royal couple, the hunting lodge could be visited by the population against payment of a tip.
literature
- Rehefeld hunting lodge and the valley of the upper Freiberg Mulde. In: Leipziger Zeitung , 1894, No. 181.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Records of the Margravial Administration, Dresden
- ↑ Entries in the land register for the Rehefeld hunting lodge "Schwerter-Erholungsheim", Saxon Main State Archives Dresden
- ^ Records of the Margravial Administration, Dresden
- ^ Records of the Margravial Administration, Dresden
- ^ Excerpts from the guest list of the hunting lodge in the years 1938–1941
- ^ Records of the Margravial Administration, Dresden
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '49.7 " N , 13 ° 42' 9.2" E