Quinter Castle

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Quinter Castle, north side

The Quinter Castle is a baroque castle on the left side of the Moselle in the Trier district of Quint . It was around the year 1760 by the owners of Quinter hut built of posts originating from Lorraine family Pidoll and stands today as a cultural monument under monument protection . It can only be viewed from the outside.

history

One of the two possible builders of the castle: Franz von Pidoll

The name Quint is derived from the Latin ad quintum lapidem ( German  at the fifth milestone ) and thus refers to the location on the Roman road from Trier to Andernach . In 1683, the former Lorraine officer Franz Pidoll and his father-in-law Jean Pierre de Thier founded an ironworks on the Quintbach , which flows there, shortly before its confluence with the Moselle , which later became the Quinter Hütte. On May 18, 1714, Emperor Charles VI. Franz Pidoll with the name "Pidoll von Quintenbach" into the hereditary nobility . Either he himself or his son Johann Franz had today's castle built as the residential and administrative building for the ironworks in 1735 / around 1760. The plans for this came perhaps from the Electorate of Trier court architect Johannes Seiz , who was possibly supported by the sculptor Ferdinand Tietz with the sculptural decoration .

After French revolutionary troops occupied Trier in 1794, the occupiers expropriated the von Pidoll family and closed the ironworks. However, operations were resumed in 1808. The symmetrically laid out baroque garden of the palace was transformed into an English landscape garden in the second half of the 19th century . The former Walzweiher was included in the redesign. This happened when the family of the ironworks owner Heinrich Adolf Kraemer owned the castle. She still owned the facility in the 20th century. In the 1950s, Klöckner Werke AG operated a factory for cast iron ovens on the castle grounds . The former buildings of the iron and steel works were demolished in the early 1980s and a new building area was built in their place. The castle building, which had fallen into disrepair when the plant closed, was extensively restored in the 1980s and then used by the Institute for Labor Law and Industrial Relations in the European Community (IAAEG) from the University of Trier . When it moved out in 2003, the building was empty. From time to time art exhibitions were held there. A community of owners had the castle managed by a company.

In 2011, the property was then sold to a construction company and a Luxembourg investor who want to convert Quint Castle into condominiums as well as offices and medical practices.

description

Quint Castle is a three-wing baroque complex, the wings of which enclose a rectangular courtyard . The fourth side of the courtyard is closed off by a low wall with a Gothic iron grating. In 1825 it replaced a previously existing, higher wall. In the middle of the lattice is a gate with two cast iron griffins on the pillars . They come from the same period as the iron grating.

Castle gate and iron bars

The castle building has plastered masonry made of quarry stone with divisions made of red stone . Its two storeys are closed by a dormer-covered mansard roof. Unusually, it lacks the raised central pavilion that was common in baroque castles of that time. The courtyard-facing facade of the central wing is divided into seven axes by windows, the central axis being particularly emphasized by pilasters and a segmented arched gable . There you can also find the sculpted coat of arms of the von Pidoll family on the upper floor. The two side wings are each four-axis on the courtyard and the front. In front of the eastern side wing are two single-storey pavilions, which served as a porter and office room. The two floors of the castle have a total area of ​​2800 m². The interior also includes a large hall on the first floor.

The south facade facing the garden is 17-axis, the three central axes are accentuated by pilasters like risalit . A balcony on the first floor is supported by atlantic pilasters. The three central axes are crowned by a round gable , which is flanked by two allegorical figures. They represent agriculture and industry. In the pediment there is Chronos . Prometheus is enthroned with a torch on the gable . This sculptural jewelry corresponds to the style of the sculptor Ferdinand Tietz. A wide flight of stairs leads from the garden-side portal into the spacious palace park with old and exotic plants. These include a ginkgo tree , a plane tree , a bald cypress and a lily magnolia , all four of which are protected as natural monuments. There are also the remains of two bridges.

literature

  • Michael Losse : The Moselle. Castles, palaces, aristocratic residences and fortifications from Trier to Koblenz. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-240-6 , pp. 129-130.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1683 Franz Pidoll built the first blast furnace on Quintbach, Bernhard Peter, Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 554 Trier - in the vicinity of Germany's oldest city, In: Welt-der-Wappen
  2. ↑ a b c d M. Losse: The Mosel. Castles, palaces, aristocratic residences and fortifications from Trier to Koblenz. 2007, p. 129.
  3. ↑ Information about the castle and the Pidoll family on Bernhard Peter's website , accessed on November 1, 2015.
  4. ^ History of the Pidoll family , accessed November 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Informational directory of cultural monuments, district-free city of Trier. General Directorate for Cultural Heritage, Rhineland-Palatinate, February 11, 2014, p. 42 ( PDF ; 1.5 MB).
  6. ↑ Magnus Backes: Castles and palaces on the Moselle and Saar. A castles and travel guide from Koblenz to Saarbrücken. Strüder, Neuwied c. 1960, p. 44.
  7. ↑ Specialist for young academics. Professor and institute director Dieter Sadowski is retiring with a lecture. In: Trierischer Volksfreund . Online edition of June 29, 2011 ( online ).
  8. ↑ a b Gabriele Böhm: (Not) a Sleeping Beauty. In. Trierian friend of the people . Online edition of August 17, 2015 ( online ).
  9. ↑ a b c d M. Losse: The Mosel. Castles, palaces, aristocratic residences and fortifications from Trier to Koblenz. 2007, p. 130.
  10. ↑ Michael Losse: Castles and palaces in the Eifel. Regionalia, Rheinbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-939722-44-1 , p. 176.
  11. ↑ List of natural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate on naturschutz.rlp.de ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed November 1, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.naturschutz.rlp.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 27.5 "  N , 6 ° 42 ′ 27.5"  E