Ermlitz manor

Mansion

The Rittergut Ermitz is a historic estate in Ermlitz , which has been a district of Schkopau in Saxony-Anhalt since 2004 .

history

Restored gouache wallpaper

The place Ermlitz was mentioned for the first time in 1428 and belonged to the Hochstiftlich-Merseburgischen office Schkeuditz until 1815

In 1764 the estate was fundamentally redesigned under Carl Hieronymus von Bose the Elder (1718–1797). A two-storey baroque mansion with a mansard roof was built and surrounded by a park.

The Gutportal

The former cowshed

In 1771 the estate was sold to the Leipzig mayor Heinrich Friedrich Innocentius Apel and has since been called the Apel'sches Gut. His son August Apel wrote the novella Der Freischütz , which provided the librettist with the material for the opera of the same name by his friend Carl Maria von Weber . On apel rule fortepiano , which still stands in the music room of the mansion today, wrote Weber overture to his opera. August's son Theodor Apel was also a writer, who was friends with Richard Wagner , who stayed in Ermlitz several times.

After the Apel family was expropriated in 1945, the “Clara Zetkin” children's home was housed in the manor house in 1949, and in 1999 it moved to new premises. In 1998 the last descendant of the family, Gerd-Heinrich Apel, bought the house back and began to renovate it in 2002. The greatest treasure of the house are the canvas wallpapers painted in gouache technique, which - partly outsourced, partly covered - have meanwhile been restored in the in-house workshop. Concerts are a continuation of the estate's musical past.

literature

• Anja Schmidt: The baroque mansion in Ermlitz , in: Castles and palaces in Saxony-Anhalt . Announcements from the Saxony-Anhalt regional group of the German Castle Association, Issue 7, Halle (Saale) 1998. pp. 186–201.
• Gerd-Heinrich Apel, Irene Roch-Lemmer: Manor house and cultural estate Ermlitz . Förderverein Kultur-Gut Ermlitz eV, Schkopau-Ermlitz, 2006.

Web links

Commons : Rittergut Ermlitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• On kultur-gut-ermlitz.de: Rittergut Ermlitz. Baroque gem in the Elsteraue. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
• Apels Gut auf Saalekreis in the picture

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas. Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 , pp. 84 f.
2. ↑ Castles of Central Germany: Manor Ermlitz

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '23.6 "  N , 12 ° 9' 37.3"  E