Orangery (Wernigerode)
The orangery in the pleasure garden of the city of Wernigerode , Lindenallee 21, was laid out by Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode in the 18th century . Today the building is used as the location of the Magdeburg Department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
history
When the young Count Christian Ernst moved the residence of the Counts zu Stolberg -Wernigerode from Ilsenburg back to Wernigerode, he had numerous orange trees and other subtropical plants purchased from 1713, which he had set up in the pleasure garden , which had been converted into the French style . To accommodate these plants in winter, he had a building made of Rogenstein built from 1728 on the northwest side of the garden . This rock was extracted in a quarry on site. The orangery building was inaugurated in 1731 with a sermon given by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf from Herrnhut . At the end of the 18th century, Count Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode sold the plants and used the building as a concert hall and summer residence for his family. In 1826 the count's library moved into the orangery. The reopening in the newly furnished restaurant took place on Wednesday, May 23, 1827. With over 100,000 volumes and its valuable Bible collection, the library was one of the most important private libraries in Central Germany. Valuable parts of the Bible collection were sold at a profit from 1929. After the Second World War, the library was confiscated by the Soviet occupying forces and brought to the USSR as so-called looted art . Remnants of the book stock expropriated by the land reform ended up in the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Saale) . The building, which had been abandoned for many years to decay, was expanded from 1963 to 1967 to become a location of today's Saxony-Anhalt State Archives.
literature
- Jörg Brückner : From the orangery to the archive: the history of the building that is today's branch of the Magdeburg State Archive in the pleasure garden of Wernigerode. In: Castles and palaces in Saxony-Anhalt. 6, 1997, pp. 160-175
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 5 ″ N , 10 ° 47 ′ 44 ″ E