Alt Warthau Castle
Alt Warthau Castle ( Polish : Pałac w Warcie Bolesławieckiej ) is a castle in Warta Bolesławiecka (German Alt Warthau ) in the Powiat Bolesławiecki ( Bunzlau district ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. The addition "Old" has been documented since 1786.
history
In "Warte", which was first mentioned in a document in 1217, there was a ducal customs post, which was probably built to secure the high road . To the west of today's complex, there is archaeological evidence of a medieval castle , which was secured with a rampart and moat . Their owners were Lorenz von Stiebitz in 1237 and Burgold von Stiebitz in 1406. From 1426 the castle was owned by von Zedlitz , who gave it up in the 1530s because they built a new castle in the Renaissance style (presumably with the help of Wendel Roskopf ). This was rebuilt several times and expanded into an irregular two-storey three-wing complex. The east side received distinctive tail gables .
From 1550 the castle was owned by Hans von Glaubitz , who had an administrator's house built northeast of the castle, which was connected to the castle by a covered corridor. From 1588 the von Sommerfeld owners, from 1651 the barons of Hohberg . In 1683 it came to Hans Wolfgang von Frankenberg by marriage , whose descendants from the Frankenberg-Ludwigsdorf sidelines were lords of the manor and castle until the end of the 19th century. During this time, a baroque portal was built that was accessible via a bridge over the moat. After Johanna von Frankenberg-Ludwigsdorf's marriage to Klemens August von Merveldt , the facility was rebuilt in 1897 and the sgraffito decorations on the outer facade were covered with cement plaster. The heiress was their daughter, who was married to Count Erich Franz von Hacke . Both managed the estate until the end of the war in 1945.
After the transition to Poland in 1945 was dominion of a state-owned agricultural cooperative manages the castle accommodations have been set up for the estate workers. Since it was not maintained, it fell into disrepair from the 1960s onwards. After the political change in 1989, the castle ruins came into private ownership in 1994 and were subsequently partially rebuilt and restored.
Building
The outside of the building complex is characterized by original sgraffito decorations or those restored in the 19th century. On the north wing there is a tail gable and a two-storey corner bay facing west. The inner courtyard between the wings of the building had an arcade in the Baroque era that was removed in the 19th century. The pieces of equipment from the construction period are noteworthy, e.g. As the inner portals with inscription " God Vord abide Evig - by Chri [sti] birth in 1540 ".
The associated landscape park was laid out at the beginning of the 19th century with oak and hornbeam avenues. The ruinous mausoleum of von Merveldt from the 1920s stands near the castle .
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, p. 79-80 .
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 5f.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 58 " N , 15 ° 39 ′ 14.5" E