New Castle (Nejdek)

Neudek Castle

The new castle ( Czech Zámek Nejdek ) is located on ulici Karlovarská in the Czech town of Nejdek ( German Neudek ) in the Ore Mountains .

Building history

Moritz von Königswarter had the castle rebuilt in the neo-renaissance style

After the old castle in Nejdek had become dilapidated and uninhabitable, Count Humprecht Czernin ordered the construction of a new castle building around 1652, probably using building materials from the old castle. It is possible that construction began under his father, Count Hermann Czernin . The originally simple two-storey building, which was provided with a clock and bell on the outer facade, housed twenty rooms. The complex also included an Oberburggrafen office building with a side wing, a farm building and a manorial brewery with stables and a castle chapel. Pastor Kirchner reports in a document about it: “The present manorial castle was built by Humprecht Czernin; There was a little bell and a clock on it, then the Oberburggrafenamtshaus and brewery. ”A new Schlossgasse was laid out next to the castle, the so-called“ manorial Humprechtsfeld ”. The new settlement which the count left to his subjects as building land with interest payments formed the castle district.

In 1786 a renovation was carried out by Count Johann Nepomuk von Hartig , after the castle was sometimes called "Hartigsburg". His successor, Count von Stiebar , had the free land below the castle built with new wooden houses. From 1817 to 1833 the building was owned by Jakob Veith , who bequeathed it to his son-in-law, Baron Heinrich von Kleist . This initiated a renovation in 1841. On June 26, 1857, a fire broke out in the castle. Since large parts of the building were made of wood and there was no fire water available, the roof structure and the ceilings burned down completely. Due to the threat of collapse, the building finally had to be demolished completely. Only the cellar vaults remained. The castle was rebuilt in the same year in its approximate current shape. In 1881, the Jewish banker Moritz Freiherr von Königswarter , who lived in Vienna , acquired the palace and rule from Anna von der Asseburg , the only daughter of Freiherr von Kleist. In 1889 he had the castle building built over in the neo-renaissance style and given a new roof and a portal with beams built on the north side. In 1908 the building and its rulers came to the Bohemian Religious Fund , which sold the old and new castle and farm buildings to the North German wool combing & worsted spinning mill in 1909 .

The farm buildings and the old brewery were demolished between 1912 and 1913. The large beer cellar, which served as an air raid shelter during World War II , was preserved.

Castle chapel

A chapel originally belonged to the castle , consecrated to the Immaculate Conception of Mary, which has been traceable since at least 1787 and which had become dilapidated at the beginning of the 19th century. It stood on the site of the Kunzmann villa that was later built there and was connected to the castle building by a vaulted underground passage.

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literature

Johann Schreiber: Alt-Neudek (3rd continuation) The new castle, the old castle buildings and the former Meierhof. Edited by Neudeker Heimatbrief, volume 30, January 31, 1952
Josef Pilz: History of the City of Neudek. 2nd edition, publisher: Stadtgemeinde Neudek 1923.
Jürgen Peter Sandner: Neudek Elbogen Karlsbad. Beautiful cities in the Ore Mountains and Egerland Chronicle and illustrated book. 1st edition, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-923914-70-9
Paths of Cultural Heritage: A travel guide through the important mining monuments of the western Ore Mountains (The Path of Mining Monuments). Nat. Monument Institute of the Czech Republic, Polypress Karlovy Vary, 2013, ISBN 978-80-87104-73-6

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50.320394 12.737506Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 13.4 ″ N , 12 ° 44 ′ 15 ″ E