Robber barons gate
The Raubrittertor is originally in 1700 and in the blade in the Lower Lausitz erected archway with three arms trophies . It was the entrance gate to the Klinge manor . In 1973 the archway was destroyed in an accident and was not rebuilt due to the planned devastation of the site for the extraction of brown coal by the Jänschwalde open-cast mine . The three knight trophies on the gate were secured.
Replicas of the gate were set up at two locations. One was built in the 1980s in Groß Schacksdorf, about ten kilometers away . In 2001, another replica of the gate was built in Klinge, south of the original location, and provided with the original figures.
The figures on both replica gates are on the Brandenburg State Monument List .
location
The original gate stood at the north entrance to the Klinge manor, about eight kilometers west of the town of Forst (Lausitz) ( location ) . Most of the village, including the estate, was excavated in the 1980s for open-cast lignite mining, and today the Klinger See is located there . The southern part of the village with the Klinge train station, about one kilometer south-southwest of the estate, has been preserved. The location of the new gate in Klinge is about 400 meters north-northeast of the train station at a vantage point on the edge of the remaining open pit ( Lage ) . The area belongs to the municipality of Wiesengrund in the Spree-Neisse district . The copy of the gate is in the place Groß Schacksdorf (community Groß Schacksdorf-Simmersdorf ) also in the district Spree-Neisse, about five kilometers south of Forst (Lausitz). It was set up to the east on the edge of the estate there ( Lage ) .
history
The original gate is dated to the late 17th or early 18th century. Presumably the shape of the three knight trophies on the gate led to the name "robber barons gate". However, at the time of the gate building, there had long been no robber barons in the region.
The last noble owner, Waldemar von Treskow , acquired the property, which was rebuilt after a fire in 1896, in 1914, but sold it again in 1918.
During the Second World War, the grounds of the property in Klinge remained undamaged and the manor house was used as a school. In 1973 an agricultural vehicle crashed into the gate and severely damaged it, the busts of knights fell down and were damaged. The gate was demolished in the same year. A reconstruction of the plant did not take place, because in the long run the demolition of the village for coal mining had already been decided. In 1980 the municipal administration finally approved the demolition of the village.
After the accident, the figures were handed over to a company in Dresden, which had them restored by students during an internship. They also made copies of the figures. At the instigation of the preservation authorities, an identical gate was built in Groß Schacksdorf, about ten kilometers from Klinge, and copies of the figures were placed on the gate. The gate in Groß Schacksdorf is dated to 1984 in the list of monuments. The original figures were placed in the rose garden in Forst for several years .
Original plans to excavate the southern part of the village of Klinge with the station for open-cast lignite mining were no longer pursued after the fall of the Wall in the GDR. The pit that emerged from the Jänschwalde opencast mine has been flooded since the early 2000s, and this is where the Klinger See is created . At the edge of the lake a lookout point was built, in the area of which a second robber baron gate was built by 2004 and provided with the original figures and also entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.
investment
The original gate from around 1700 was plastered white, as was the replica of the gate in Klinge, but not the Groß Schacksdorf replica. The original gate, like the replicas, was about four meters high and seven meters wide. It had two arched openings, a larger one for vehicles and a smaller one for pedestrians. The latter is only hinted at in the Groß Schacksdorf version. On the upper edge there were three baroque trophies made from Saxon sandstone .
The knight trophies are pegs, each with a helmet and a cuirass in the middle . Such figures were considered victory trophies when the building was built. Their shape is reminiscent of human figures who lack the lower jaw. A local legend tells that in earlier times the robber barons of a medieval castle in Klinge would have cut off the lower jaws of their victims if their relatives did not pay a ransom. The last three robber barons were also thrown into the castle dungeon, and their jaws were cut off.
The new robber barons gate in Klinge is integrated into a landscaped green area at the lookout point in the former opencast mine, the gate in Groß Schacksdorf is opposite the manor house on the edge of a residential property.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg (Raubrittertor Klinge)
- Entry in the monument database of the state of Brandenburg (Raubrittertor Groß Schacksdorf)
- Website of the von Treskow family, the last noble owners of Gut Klinge
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Heinrich Jerchel (Ed.), The Art Monuments of the Province of Brandenburg: Part 6. Sorau District and the City of Forst , Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin 1938, p. 141.
- ↑ a b c d Hans-Joachim Schulz: The legendary knight's gate in blade reminds of an old community . In Lausitzer Rundschau , December 8, 2007, online
- ↑ a b Entry in the monument database of the state of Brandenburg (Raubrittertor Groß Schacksdorf)
- ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg (Raubrittertor Klinge)
- ↑ Entry: War equipment . In: Jacob von Eggers , New War, Engineering, Artillery, Sea and Fleet Lexicon. Dresden 1757, p. 1385.
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