Minckwitz Palace
The Palais Minckwitz is a city palace from the mid-18th century in the new town of Dessau . It is named after the sixth owner, a member of the von Minckwitz family .
background
The city of Dessau lost almost all of its historical building stock in the nights of bombing in the Second World War. Ideologically justified demolitions of the few remaining monuments in the city center created space for a new socialist city. In the city center, Johannisstrasse alone had survived all changes almost unscathed until 1990. The Bose Palace (Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff, 1800–03) and the Minckwitz Palace on the former Neumarkt have been preserved there. It is now the oldest completely preserved house. It is located in the New Town, which began at the end of the 17th century, opposite the Lutheran St. John's Church, built from 1688 to 1702 according to plans by the Dutchman Cornelis Ryckwaert .
The Neustadt should document the modern, baroque Dessau with magnificent buildings. However, while the princely buildings predominated in Kavalierstrasse, Johannisstrasse and Neumarkt were designed with smaller palaces and town houses in the extension. The princely building yard provided a facade scheme, which envisaged a two-story, five-axis building with an adjoining gate between pillars decorated with sculptures. Four large pilasters divided the facade. The design probably comes from Christian Friedrich Damm .
history
A late liaison of the " old Dessauer " (1676 to 1747) made it necessary to quickly marry the lady concerned to a suitable husband. This was found in a Prussian nobleman who received the hand and dowry of "the Fraulein". For this reason, the small palace was built from 1745 onwards according to the given scheme , “ out of special interest ”. The sovereign had already acquired the site of the later buildings No. 1–11 in 1708. Soon after the Prince's death, the couple moved to other Prussian countries to Aken, only 13 kilometers away, and sold the property to forestry expert Friedrich Wilhelm Bock. After his death in 1800 it was bought by the chief bailiff Ernst Holzhausen. Shortly before his death, he expanded the building by building over the passage, creating a small theater hall on the ground floor and two large salons on the upper floor. The facade lost the pilasters and was designed uniformly in the manner of Erdmannsdorff .
In 1820 the court sculptor and Schadow student Ludwig Nicolaus Friedemann Hunold (1773–1840) acquired the palace and used the back building as a workshop and as a production facility for his innovative stoneware items in the style of Josiah Wedgwood . After his death in 1840, the von Harling family bought the building as a dowry for their daughter, as their inheritance it was passed on to the von Minckwitz and Digeon von Monteton families until 1993.
Acquired in 2004 by Carl Ludwig Fuchs , an art historian from the family of the first owners, the building was professionally restored and is now back in its 1819 form. The building also serves as the Dessau residence of the head of the ducal house of Anhalt-Askanien. The hall is used for small public concerts and readings.
literature
- Franz Brückner: House Book of the City of Dessau No. 14, Dessau undated (1950–60), p. 1263
- Erich Paul Riesenfeld: Erdmannsdorff, the builder of Duke Leopold Friedrich Franz von Anhalt Dessau, Berlin 1913
- Erhard Hirsch: Dessau-Wörlitz / Zierde and epitome of the 18th century, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-30736-1
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Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 13.8 " N , 12 ° 14 ′ 31.8" E