Marcolini House

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The Marcolini House, in the foreground the east wing
Aerial view of the Marcolini house (left behind) with the lighthouse and the pheasant castle

The Marcolinihaus , built in 1771/72 , is located in the Moritzburg community near Dresden . It is located in the pheasantry established in 1728 , part of a spacious landscape park .

History and equipment

18th century: Count Marcolini's residence

Shortly after the construction of the pheasant castle on the Niederen Großteich Bärnsdorf , the Marcolini house was built in the economical style of the Saxon late baroque in 1771/1772 . Count Camillo Marcolini had a house built from an existing pheasant keeper's house. The appearance determined a simple structure of pilaster strips and a mansard roof .

In 1787 the house on the upper floor and the western wing of the building were expanded, as his family needed more space after his wedding in May 1778.

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The pheasant castle (left), the Marcolini house (red roof), the lighthouse (center) and two keeper's houses (right)
Former main building, partially renovated in 2015

1818 to 2007: forester's house and companionway

After Marcolini's death in 1814, the house was redesigned and served as a forester's house from 1818. Numerous smaller renovations have been carried out since the beginning of the 20th century. An entrance door was moved, changes were made to the windows, a porch was built and dormer windows were removed. Central water heating was installed in the mid-1920s.

The house survived the Second World War unscathed and remained in the possession of the State Forestry Administration. Due to the lack of housing, the Marcolini house was then converted into six apartments, rooms for forest workers and apprentices, as well as offices. In the winter of 1946, due to a lack of other fuel, the floorboards from the attic of the northwest wing were used as heating material. The condition of the building deteriorated in the years to come. In the 1980s, part of the living space was converted into a forest archive, which had to move out again after eight years due to its poor condition. Since then, the building was mostly empty and became a turning point in the management of Treuhandliegenschaftsgesellschaft transferred (TLG). While the house was still up for sale, TLG had two apartments rented out, which made it very difficult for a potential buyer to renovate or change use. The tenants then improperly renovated the apartments. In doing so, floors were removed, walls broken and parts of historical outdoor facilities removed without an inventory and without permission under monument law.

Between April 1999 and March 2000, the Free State of Saxony, together with the Moritzburg municipality, carried out a study on the long-term revitalization of the Moritzburg cultural landscape using the example of the pheasantry. In the following year 2001 the building rights for a renovation were created. Two years later, a preliminary study of the historically valuable substance of the Marcolini House was carried out, sponsored by the Free State of Saxony.

There was only one applicant for the 2001 sale. His first plans to demolish three quarters of the building were not implemented. The residents of the Marcolini house were forced to move out with complaints. The new owner's redevelopment plans aimed at installing up to 25 apartments, but could not be implemented due to a lack of capital. At the beginning of 2007, the Moritzburg municipal council requested that the district instruct the owners to secure the building. This, however, pointed to failures of the Moritzburg community.

Since 2007: reconstruction and tourist use

In December 2007 it was sold to a Moritzburg restaurateur who has been gradually renovating the building since then. First, he had the dilapidated wing of secure, with new trusses provided (the old beams were of the house borer infested) and re-stock up. In addition, the house received new windows and dormer windows based on the historical model. In order to avoid car traffic in the pheasant garden, the restaurateur decided in 2008 to pay a transfer fee of 42,000 euros for 14 designated parking spaces.

Since 2009 the house has had a powerful water connection and a sewer pipe. In an initially provisional way, a café was opened in the east wing. A chimney was built here, in which old bricks from the time the house was built could be used.

Exposed paint on the back of the main house

When examining the facade of the Marcolini house in 2008, under a cement plaster and several monochrome paints, at least the upper floor was almost completely painted from the time it was built. Only a few examples of the baroque facade structures found exist in the Saxon cultural area. The facade was originally painted in a light ocher color, on which light and shadow lines of an illusionistic coffered structure showed. In the base area, the state of preservation hardly allowed any conclusions to be drawn about the original design.

The color scheme of the stairwell on the ground floor was modeled on the version from 1823, with the elaborate lines that existed at the time being almost entirely dispensed with.

With the support of the special monument protection program III from the federal and state governments, the roof of the central building could be renewed in 2012 and 2013. The roof joist, on which there is a painted ceiling, was preserved in situ by means of a complex construction process . The roof structure had previously been eaten away by pests at an advanced stage and threatened to collapse.

The valuable ceiling painting in the attic from the time it was built was examined, restored and integrated into a reconstructed room setting. The ceiling and wall paintings on the first floor were partly exposed, secured and completed under several layers of paint that were later painted over them. This was done with the cooperation of students from the HfBK Dresden . The removal of the oil paints turned out to be very difficult and could be accomplished by means of solvent-gel compresses.

The original windows from the 18th century that still exist have been refurbished. A new fir wood floor was laid in the newly created hall .

The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media provided support of 90,000 euros for this renovation phase, and the Free State contributed a further 80,400 euros. In addition, the owner received almost 78,000 euros. The aim of the renovation is to restore the Marcolinihaus from the outside as it was the apartment of the royal chief forester in the 19th century. Inside, however, the main building should reflect the time of Count Marcolini.

Web links

Commons : Marcolinihaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ralf-Peter Pinkwart: Moritzburg, Marcolinihaus . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (Ed.): The rich Saxon monument landscape . Selected funding projects. Dresden September 2014, p. 46–47 ( online at denkmalpflege.sachsen.de (pdf, 5.37 MB) [accessed on February 22, 2016]).
  2. ↑ a b c Construction of the Marcolinihaus 1769 to 1771. (No longer available online.) Www.marcolinihaus.de, archived from the original on April 8, 2005 ; accessed on January 27, 2015 .
  3. ↑ The location of the Marcolini house. (No longer available online.) Www.marcolinihaus.de, archived from the original on April 8, 2005 ; accessed on January 27, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Werner Peters: Monument preservers fear for a "jewel of Saxon culture" in Moritzburg . In: Dresdner Latest News . March 7, 2007 ( paid online [accessed January 27, 2015]).
  5. ↑ Birgit Andert: Rescue for monument . In: Saxon newspaper . February 28, 2007 ( paid online [accessed January 27, 2015]).
  6. ↑ Sven Görner: Historical paintings are threatened . In: Saxon newspaper . May 4, 2012 ( paid online [accessed January 27, 2015]).
  7. ↑ Sven Görner: Moritzburger Marcolinihaus will soon be open to the curious . In: Saxon newspaper . May 9, 2008 ( paid online [accessed on January 27, 2015]).
  8. ↑ Sven Görner: City council votes for installment payments . In: Saxon newspaper . December 20, 2008 (for a fee online [accessed January 27, 2015]).
  9. ^ A b Sven Görner: Nice details for the Marcolini house . In: Saxon newspaper . September 25, 2009 ( paid online [accessed January 27, 2015]).
  10. ^ Martin Lehman: Marcolini House in Moritzburg, facade. Investigation and creation of a concept for the conservation. www.ml-restaurierung.de, accessed on January 27, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Moritzburg Marcolini House is being renovated in keeping with its status. State Office of Saxony , November 5, 2012, accessed on January 27, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Susanne Dommel: Exposure of baroque paintings in the Marcolini house in Moritzburg. Dresden University of Fine Arts, accessed on January 27, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Udo Lemke: crystal chandelier and fir wood floor . In: Saxon newspaper . December 8, 2014 (for a fee online [accessed January 27, 2015]).
  14. ↑ Sven Görner: The Marcolini house climbed on the roof . In: Saxon newspaper . November 19, 2012 ( paid online [accessed on January 27, 2015]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 9 ″  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 27 ″  E