Neunkirchen Renaissance Castle

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Drawing of the castle by Heinrich Hoer from the 17th century

The renaissance castle Neunkirchen was a hunting lodge of the princes of Nassau-Saarbrücken in Neunkirchen , of which only small remains have survived. It was demolished in 1752 in favor of a new building in Schloßstraße.

history

Count Albrecht had the palace built from 1575 to 1585 by the master builder Christian Stromeyer . It was a castle-like square building with an area of ​​57 by 41 meters. The art historian Walter Zimmermann described the castle: “Here too (as in Ottweiler and Philippsborn ) an inner courtyard was surrounded all around by building wings, the corners of which were occupied by round towers. While the rear building and the adjoining wings were about two-thirds of their extension high on two floors, the rest of the complex remained one-story and was covered with a terrace ( arbor ), which offered the court society the opportunity to stroll. The cruciform pleasure house above the entrance passage of the front building served the same purpose. Stromeyer is far ahead of his time in the open horseshoe shape of the main building. As far as I can see, the generosity and grace of the invention are beyond comparison in the architecture of the time. Neither in Germany nor in France, which at that time had a well-developed castle-building industry, did I come across a facility that could be cited as a direct model. ”In the square in front of it, three markets were held a year from 1752 onwards.

With the construction of the Baroque Jägersberg Palace in 1752, the old palace complex lost its function and was largely demolished. The remains of the building were then used as barracks with horse stables. Later the Neunkirchen synagogue , a residential building and the Burgkeller restaurant were built on the same site .

Remains of the south-west corner tower in the Irrgartenstraße

Today only a few remains of the castle are preserved on the Upper Market between Irrgartenstrasse and Rödelsgasse. Synagogenplatz is a reminder of the former synagogue. The former Burgtheater and the Hotel Burgkeller are reminiscent of the castle with the word "Burg". The Gasthaus Burgkeller is currently (2019) an Irish pub . There are remains of the cellar vault. Other remains are in Rödelsgasse 3a under a residential building. During construction work in the Irrgartenstrasse in 1989, the substructure of the southwest corner tower was found, and in 1995 a part of the water pipe was exposed. The remains, which were put together to form a collage in the Irrgartenstraße, can still be viewed today. All remains of the castle are now a listed building .

literature

  • Armin Schlicker: Street Lexicon Neunkirchen. Streets, squares and bridges in the past and present. Edited by Historischer Verein Stadt Neunkirchen eV Neunkirchen 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-027592-0 , pp. 330–331.

Web links

Commons : Neunkirchen Renaissance Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Zimmermann, quoted from Armin Schlicker: The two Neunkirchen castles . Historischer Verein Stadt Neunkirchen eV, pp. 8–9, November 15, 2015 ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 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. , in: es Heftche , March 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nk.es-heftche.de
  2. ↑ a b Armin Schlicker: Street Lexicon Neunkirchen. Streets, squares and bridges in the past and present . Published by Historischer Verein Stadt Neunkirchen eV Neunkirchen 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-027592-0 . P. 329
  3. ↑ Sub-monument list district Neunkirchen. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: List of monuments of the Saarland. May 19, 2010, accessed April 6, 2011 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 34.7 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 49.1"  E