Mausoleum in Bukowiec
The mausoleum of Count von Reden in the landscape park of the Buchwald Castle (Polish : Pałac w Bukowcu ) in Bukowiec in the rural community of Mysłakowice ( Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf ) in the Lower Silesian Hirschberg Valley was laid out from 1802 to 1815 as a so-called "abbey ruin".
history
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Reden (1752–1815), owner of Buchwald Palace, had an artificial ruin built on a hill in his extensive landscaped park by the Berlin architect Martin Friedrich Rabe and other builders , which he and his wife Friederike von Reden considered Burial place should serve. Since his burial in 1815, the building's crypt has actually been used accordingly. Initially, a gardener lived in the tower to oversee the complex. In the course of time the complex fell into a ruinous state, in the 1920s it was looted, the bones were reburied in nearby earth graves, around 1934 the vaults and the tower stairs collapsed. The south facade fell over after 1970. It has now been rebuilt. Detailed information boards, also in German, explain the history of its origins. In 2018, restorations were in progress on the tower.
architecture
At some distance from the village and the castle, the ruins were built on a ridge in such a way that, when viewed from the lowlands, they are presented against the background of the edge of the forest and from the chapel you have a clear view over the sloping meadow slope to the ponds and the hilly landscape of the Hirschberger valley. The building made of stone and brick consists of a rectangular chapel room with three bays, a tower with a pyramid-shaped helmet and walls of ruins attached to the side. A basement-like base or crypt storey made of quarry stone forms the grave vault. The furnishings included wall paintings and hanging copperplate engravings.
meaning
Since the second half of the 18th century, after the English model, artificial ruins in the Gothic style were occasionally built in Germany . The turn to Gothic corresponded to the romantic longing for an idealized Middle Ages, ruins were often used for burial as a symbol of transience, and the conscious embedding of the architecture in a landscape that was perceived as harmonious was part of the increased perception of nature at that time. The ruins of Buchwald are one of the earliest of their kind in Silesia, only the (not preserved) one in Brzeg ( Brzeg Dolny ) was built as early as 1789.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isabella Czartoryska: With the carriage through Silesia. The travel diary to Bad Warmbrunn in 1816 , Breslau 1869.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 38.9 ″ N , 15 ° 48 ′ 22.1 ″ E