Order castle St. Georgen

Ordensschloss Sankt Georgen

Order castle around 1910

Copper engraving of the north side of the castle and the Brandenburg pond

The Ordensschloss St. Georgen is a palace complex in Sankt Georgen , a district of Bayreuth .

As the Hereditary Prince of the Principality of Bayreuth , Georg Wilhelm founded the suburb of St. Georgen am See from the house of the Franconian Hohenzollern family . Streets with representative buildings were built in strict baroque symmetry .

The Knights of the Order of the Sincérité met on St. George's Day and at other festivities in the Order Castle of St. Georgen .

The first castle only existed from 1701 to 1724. After it became dilapidated, it was demolished. The quick construction time and the high proportion of wood used instead of more suitable solid stone structures were probably responsible for the short service life. The successor building, which fits into the side wings of the previous building, was started immediately after the previous structure was removed and completed in 1727. The builder Georg Wilhelm did not live to see the completion, he died in 1726.

Until the end of the margraves' era , the order palace was a pleasure palace and the venue for many large events.

One of the main attractions was the Brandenburg pond . This was originally created for fish farming and was used in the course of the representative redesign for staging lake games. In the period from 1695 to 1722 six larger sailing ships were built. They were luxuriously furnished and crews were available for their entertainment. The pond was closed in 1775, today only street names and terrain differences in the course of the road remind of it.

During the First World War , the building served as a reserve hospital . Today the castle is part of the St. Georgen-Bayreuth correctional facility . A visit to the elaborately restored order hall is therefore only possible in exceptional cases.

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  Georg Wilhelm

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  Main hall, around 1910

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  Ceiling painting of the main hall, 1902

literature

• August Gebeßler : City and District of Bayreuth . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , VI. Band . German art publisher . Munich 1959. p. 35.
• Friedrich H. Hofmann: Bayreuth and its art monuments . Munich 1902, pp. 30-34.
• Christoph Rabenstein, Ronald Werner: St. Georgen - Pictures and Stories . Bayreuth 1994, pp. 23-42, ISBN 3922808387 .

Web links

Commons : Ordensschloss St. Georgen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of the Order Castle on the homepage of the Freundeskreis Schloss St. Georgen eV
• Aerial view of the castle with the BayernViewer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arno Kröniger : Bareith is copper! Akron, Bayreuth 2011, ISBN 3-9808215-6-0 , p. 31 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 21 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 30.8 ″  E