Oberrennersdorf Castle
The Oberrennersdorfer Schloss is a baroque building in Rennersdorf in Upper Lusatia on a hill at the foot of the Eichler .
The so-called manor house is a stately baroque building with a flat mansard roof over the upper floor. The three-branched central projection has a pointed gable. The windows are pleasantly curved, have a keystone and are vaulted. At the corners of the building and on the central projection, square pilaster strips . The front side faces the courtyard. In the middle is a pretty rectangular entrance door with diamond-shaped wings made of pounded boards. The spacious vaulted hall supported on two pillars is on the ground floor. The designs refer to the time around 1740.
history
In Reinherstorf, named after its founder and locator Reinhers, from 1480 a double row of owners of the manors of Ober- and Niederrennersdorf can be recognized. But already a century earlier, until 1413, individual names were emerging without being able to make a clear assignment of which part of Rennersdorf they now owned.
From the von Radeberg family, a Hans zu Reynersdorf in 1413 is named as sat, who handed over to Ulrich von Heinrichsdorf (Reynersdorf) in 1422 and who in 1428 joined the alliance of the nobility in Görlitz against the Hussites and joined forces in Görlitz Defense of the city. He belonged to the von Gersdorf family, whose members often only named themselves after their knight seats. At this point you can see what a branched Upper Lusatian noble family the von Gersdorf family were and how they branched out into numerous "lines".
From the year 1480 a double row of owners by Heinrich and Wilhelm von Heinersdorf on Rennersdorf emerges, whereby Wilhelm probably owned Oberrennersdorf. In 1491 both manors returned to the von Gersdorf family. Thereafter, Oberrennersdorf came by marriage to the von Metzradt family and finally in 1526 again in the possession of the von Gersdorf family. In 1580 Joachim von Klüx acquired Oberrennersdorf. After his death, his son Bernhard von Klüx inherited the estate. After his death, his three sons initially had it together, after 1630 only one son, Joachim von Klüx, became the sole owner, who led the estate through the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War and took over Niederberthelsdorf in 1635. In 1651 Oberrennersdorf went to Herrmann Hull. After just one year, the Oberrennersdorf manor came back to the von Gersdorf family in 1652 and they sold it to Pastor Dr. Wolfgang Caspar Troppanneger. After his death, his widow Friedericke Sophie, née Zittmann, sold Oberrennersdorf in 1732 to Wolf Rudolph von Ziegler und Klipphausen. This sold against the unsuccessful objection of the estates to the Marienthal monastery. In 1759 the monastery exchanged Oberrennersdorf with Sophia Christiane von Heynitz, née von Damnitz, for Nieder-Leuba. In 1765 Henriette Benigna Justina acquired Baroness von Wattewille, née Countess von Zinsendorf and Pottendorf, Oberrennersdorf. She died in 1789 and so the estate went to her sister Elisabeth Freifrau von Wattewille, who died in 1807. Her widower Friedrich Rudolph Freiherr von Wattewille was enfeoffed with Oberrennersdorf in 1807. In 1811 Miss Charlotte Sophie became Countess von Einsiedel and sold Oberrennersdorf in 1844 to the Brothers' Union by means of a traditional contract.
The Oberrennersdorf castle and estate was sold to the Wehrmacht in 1937 and, towards the end of the war, was temporarily used to accommodate over 1000 prisoners, twelve of whom died. A memorial stone from 1950 commemorates the eleven victims buried in the Rennersdorf cemetery.
After 1945 the manor was structurally retained and continued to function as a public property after the land reform. Up until 1962 Gut Oberrennersdorf was a branch of the Moritzburg State Stud and was used to raise foals and then joined the local cooperative until it was dissolved.
Today, Oberrennersdorf Castle is privately owned.
literature
- Karl Gustav Maximilian von Mücke: The manor to Nieder-Rennersdorf and its owners . A contribution to the local history of Upper Lusatia, Mr. Gustav Adolph Maximilian von Mücke Majoratsherr von Nieder-Rennersdorf for the jubilee consecration of the 25-year-old property on October 13, 1843. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1843, DNB 361238347 .
- Knothe, Herrman Friedrich: History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and its goods, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1879
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony : Amtshauptmannschaft Löbau . CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1910, p. 488–489 ( digitized version of SLUB Dresden [accessed on November 15, 2016]).
- Boetticher, Walter von: History of the Upper Lusatian Aristocracy and its Goods 1635–1815, Volume 3, pp. 408–409, Oberlößnitz near Dresden 1919, self-published by the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Görlitz, digital copy from the University of Düsseldorf [accessed on November 15, 2016] .
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 10.7 ″ N , 14 ° 47 ′ 18.4 ″ E