Roter Hof (Sohland on the Spree)

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The castle around 1859
Sohland Castle 1915
View of Sohland (1915), on the left the manor and castle

The Rote Hof , also known as Schloss Sohland or Schloss Mittelohland , is a manor house built in 1747 in the Saxon community of Sohland on the Spree . It initially served as the seat of the Mittelohland manor and from 1854 was the sole manor in Sohland. After the expropriation of the von Nostitz-Wallwitz family in 1945, the building was used for various social purposes until 1998.

geography

The Rote Hof is located north of the Hohberg ( 368  m ) on an elevated place above the valleys of the Spree and the Sohlander Dorfbach am Friedenshain in the Mittelohland area. The Oberoderwitz – Wilthen railway line runs across the Sohlander Viaduct to the north below the castle .

history

From 1487 onwards, the Sohland manor, which has been documented since 1404, began to split up, reaching its peak in the middle of the 17th century with eight mansions. One of these goods was the Mittersohland manor, which belonged to the Lords of Metzradt until 1679 and then to the Lords of the Sahla.

In 1747 the owner of the Ober- and Mittelohland estates, August Siegmund von der Sahla auf Schönfeld (1708–1768), had the Mittelohland manor converted into a castle. The next owner was his son Christoph August von der Sahla (1749–1802). The widow Ernestine, nee von Burgsdorff, then managed the property for her only son Ernst Christoph August , who became known for his plans to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte and who died in Paris in 1815 at the age of 24 . After his death, his sister Henriette Magdalene von der Sahla (1793-1891) took over the Ober- and Mittelohland goods. She remained unmarried and earned the reputation of a benefactress of Sohland. Henriette von der Sahla sold the goods in 1854 to Gustav von Nostitz-Wallwitz , who had already acquired the Wendisch- and Niedersohland goods in 1842, and moved to Dresden .

Gustav von Nostitz-Wallwitz united all Sohlander manors, the sole manor became the Rote Hof, which he had redesigned. The von Nostitz-Wallwitz family held the Sohland manor for almost a century. After the end of the Second World War, Benno von Nostitz-Wallwitz was expropriated during the land reform in 1945 . The 128 hectare area of ​​the manor was confiscated.

After the war, the castle was initially used as a refugee home. It then served as a convalescent home for lung patients and in the 1980s as a convalescent home for pregnant women. Between 1994 and 1998 a specialist clinic for alcohol addicts was housed in the Roten Hof, and in 1995 the house was renovated with the installation of gas central heating.

From 1999 the Rote Hof stood empty and has been exposed to vandalism since then. The leaky roof drainage also caused water damage. In December 2008 the Rote Hof was auctioned for € 54,000. The new owners have started to renovate the house.

description

The Red Court was laid out as a four-winged courtyard open to the northwest, with the manor house forming the southwest wing. In the meantime, after part of the farm buildings have been demolished, the mansion has been freestanding; parts of two wings of the outbuildings have only been preserved on the eastern side of the courtyard. At the back of the mansion there is an extensive castle park, which is maintained by the community, to the southwest as far as the cemetery. The Strickhäusel, a Biedermeier-like half-timbered building from the first half of the 19th century, stands on the edge of the castle park. On the slope north of the Red Court, the community had the peace grove laid out as an extension of the castle park, and the castle pond northwest of the manor house was also drained.

The mansion is an elongated two-storey building with a mansard floor and a half-hip roof with bat dormers. The entrance in the gabled middle risalit of the northeast facade is preceded by a flight of stairs and a terrace, on the upper floor there is a balcony above the entrance. On the back there is also a gabled central projectile facing the park, on which the von Sahlasche coat of arms is attached above the upper floor. The manor house has cross-vaulted ceilings, a fireplace in the entrance area and a dining room with wood paneling and parquet.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sohland on the Spree with its districts Sohland, Taubenheim and Wehrsdorf. Info. (PDF) In: total-lokal.de. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Henriette Magdalene von der Sahla. In: Frauenwiki Dresden. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Former Sohland Castle auctioned for 54,000 euros. In: Saxon newspaper . December 19, 2008, accessed January 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Residing in the castle with park: Monument from 1747 in Sohland on the Spree. In: Saxon newspaper . July 3, 2009, accessed January 21, 2017 .
  5. ↑ New lord of the castle wanted in Sohland (Spree). In: Saxon newspaper . November 21, 2008, accessed January 21, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 48 ″  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 58 ″  E