Roseburg (castle)
The Roseburg is a new castle built in 1908 by Bernhard Sehring on Landesstrasse 242 between Ballenstedt and Rieder in Ostharz , Harz district , Saxony-Anhalt .
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Early history
The castle on a shell limestone ridge on the Altstrasse to Goslar was first mentioned in a document as Rudeloffsburg / Rolevesborch 963. It was a donation from Margrave Geros to the women's foundation Gernrode . Bernhard Sehring dug the foundation walls of the fort in 1929.
Henry III. donated it in 1056 to the Ballenstedt monastery ('Rothallasburg'). In the 13th century it was again in the possession of the Gernroder monastery, which in 1207 Pope Innocent III. and in 1227 Pope Gregory IX. confirmed. They soon fell to the askanische Principality of Anhalt , the order, together with the village, two woods, a farm, a mill and 23 hooves , Albrecht II. Of Regenstein belehnte . In 1477 an Ascanian (Woldemar zu Anhalt) enfeoffed a count (Ulrich von Regenstein) with the castle 'and accessories'.
The village was no longer mentioned from 1563, like the castle before. In 1579 a trial was called By de Roseburg, where a piece of wall can still be seen and where the fox is hunted. In 1801 it is recommended to 'strike out' the Rudolfsburg from the cards as it no longer exists. As was recorded in 1835, the Regenstein Counts had pledged the castle to Quedlinburg citizens.
In 1905 Sehring, who had planned the construction of a private castle complex near Stettin as early as 1893 , acquired the site on the recommendation of Prince Friedrich von Anhalt-Dessau.
New construction
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In 1907 Sehring a Palas , the gatehouse and a watchtower with ascending battlements build. About a staggered Vorburg one was keep with battlements , numerous annexes, a residential tower in the style of Norman Donjon and several courtyards after the model (other) old castles.
After 1945
The client died in 1941, his wife in 1950. The Sehring collections, as far as they still exist, were taken over by various museums. During the war, the Roseburg was the seat of Junkers General Director Leo Rothe until the end of June 1945 . In 1955 the plant was taken over by the LPG '7. October 'took over Rieder, who used the large orchard to raise chickens and produce eggs. The buildings were used as training facilities for poultry farmers. Between 1967 and 1984 the Kulturbund der DDR (Society for Monument Preservation) managed and restored the castle and park.
With the end of the GDR, the Steyler missionaries managed the castle on behalf of the Sehring heirs, on which there were also land register safeguards in the land register through investments made by the predecessors of the agricultural cooperatives Rieder, Ballenstedt, Badeborn and Ditfurt . In 2005 it was sold to a Berlin entrepreneur and is accessible all year round (as a non-profit GmbH ). Since July 2006, the water axis has been in operation again from April to October.
architecture
The castle complex has no role model in the Harz landscape. It is a reminder of the 11th to 13th centuries and at the same time Sehring's private synthesis of stylistic pluralism with the typical elements of Romanesque architecture (hall of the palace) and medieval (battlements) and late medieval structural elements (Georgsturm, castle chapel).
The castle park is an English garden from the early 19th century merged with an early Baroque Italian garden . A 100 meter long, terraced water cascade as the main axis is crossed by an avenue of lime trees .
Many of the park's structural elements are originals from Italy, such as a Gothic fountain column (11th century) from the 'Palazzo Malatesta' in Rimini , two marble columns from the 'Palazzo Malaspina' in Bologna , and marble busts from Senigallia . At the top of the water cascade, a lookout tower was built, which in the lower part contains a grotto as a mausoleum , which was intended as the final resting place.
literature
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- Berlin architecture world. 18/1916, pp. 110-113.
- Ralph Berndt: Bernhard Sehring and the Roseburg . An ensemble of late historicism in the Harz. In: Die Gartenkunst 11 (1/1999), pp. 22–29.
- Bulletin 11/85. Kulturbund der DDR. Society for the preservation of monuments. Quedlinburg district
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Dietrich Wilde : In those years. Volume 1, pp. 47–48, p. 7 4 Books on Demand 2011 (contemporary witness report).
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 38.2 " N , 11 ° 11 ′ 42.2" E