Großmühlingen Renaissance Castle
The renaissance castle Großmühlingen is a castle in the village of Großmühlingen in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
A Niederungsburg has probably existed here since the 12th century. It is possible that there were also older predecessor buildings. The first documentary mention comes from the year 1318. It was, however, by the Archbishop of Magdeburg Burchard III. destroyed in the course of a feud with the Ascani . It is believed that Eike von Repgow stayed in the castle several times between 1219 and 1233 and wrote parts of the Sachsenspiegel here . The reconstruction was carried out on behalf of Albrecht Count von Arnstein with the help of Magdeburg citizens.
Today's appearance as a palace in the Renaissance style goes back to buildings commissioned by Count Wolfgang I around 1530. From 1531 the castle served as the residence of the Counts of Barby . In 1585 the west wing was badly damaged, presumably by fire. The re-equipment was then carried out by Wolfgang II. In 1602 the knight's hall in the basement, with a ribbed vault , was provided with stucco reliefs . During the Thirty Years War , the castle was badly devastated by Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim's troops . This ended the time as the residence of the Counts of Barby.
In 1669, Prince Anton Günther von Anhalt-Zerbst had the building rebuilt as his residence. The north wing of the castle, the so-called staircase, was inhabited from the 16th to 18th centuries by the castle captain, who was in command of 20 to 30 castle soldiers. The pavilion-like central building was built from 1705 to 1714, which involved a redesign of the overall picture with influences in the Baroque style .
In 1797 the castle was converted into an official residence. The initially still existing, water-filled moat was drained in 1875. The buildings were reconstructed between 1981 and 1993.
Current condition
The castle has been privately owned since 1994 and was temporarily used as a house for the professions . Concerts and exhibitions took place. The building has been vacant since 2014 and is offered for sale, so far (May 2020) without success, so that it now looks "more or less dilapidated".
architecture
The castle is a small three-wing complex. A very narrow courtyard is closed to the south by a wall with a gate passage. The gate leads to the former castle moat. The wings of the building extend asymmetrically to the west, north and east of the courtyard. The east and west wings are parallel to each other. There was originally a wooden gallery on the north side of the courtyard.
The lower floors of the west and east wings have ribbed vaults from before the mid-16th century. The upper floors are dated to the beginning of the 17th century. There is a wooden gallery with a baluster parapet . The south gables of the side aisles were designed as magnificent volute gables , that of the east wing has been preserved.
The round arch portal from the courtyard to the west wing is remarkable, with ornamentation in the style of the early Renaissance. There are also portrait medallions from 1540 of Count Wolfgang von Barby and his wife Agnes von Mansfeld as well as their coats of arms dated 1531. The knight's hall in the west wing has been richly decorated with stucco on both the walls and the ceiling since 1602. Hunting scenes are depicted here between angel heads and garlands.
There are still some old farm buildings in the vicinity of the castle.
literature
- Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt I. District of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 293.
- Corinna Köhlert, Jürgen Blume: Of palaces and fortresses in Saxony-Anhalt. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-89812-058-9 , p. 166.
- Katja Pürschel: The renaissance castle in Großmühlingen . In: Burgen und Schlösser in Sachsen-Anhalt, Vol. 18 (2009), pp. 412-460, ISSN 0944-4157 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Großmühlinger Castle without buyers , Volksstimme from May 31, 2020, accessed on June 3, 2020
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 29.1 ″ N , 11 ° 42 ′ 13.4 ″ E