Altengottern Castle
The Castle Altengottern is a Grade II listed former manor in Altengottern , in the municipality of Unstrut-Hainich in Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis ( Thuringia ). The building is currently used by the AWO as a children's and youth home.
History and architecture
The complex was originally built as an enclosed moated castle; it is documented as the property of the Lords of Gods from 1180 to 1316. It came into the hands of the von Hagen family around 1440 and was owned by the von Marschall family from 1634 to 1945 . The Swedes destroyed the moated castle and the von Marschall family had the complex rebuilt as a castle in 1652 . A thorough renovation and refurbishment was carried out in 1824. At the beginning of the 20th century, a residential and utility wing was added to the west and a water tower was built up in the south-east . The upper floors of the east wing were demolished from 1995 to 1996 and then rebuilt. The von Marschall family was expropriated in 1945 and the castle became state property as a public property.
The facility is laid out around a rectangular courtyard that is open to the south-west. The four-storey and four-sided group of buildings is structured by four towers of different heights. The cellar vaults and the foundation walls of the eastern wing are still preserved from the medieval complex. The year 1673 can be seen above the entrance on the south side. Inside, the dining room as a so-called ballroom and the fireplace room have been preserved. The paneling on the walls dates back to the renovation in 1905.
Description in the Duncker collection
In the Duncker Collection , the castle is described as follows:
"The Altengottern Castle - called the" Rund-Bau-Schloss "in an old document because it formed an oval, including a courtyard - was a real Thalburg, which made the surrounding waters almost inaccessible. Its original owners were the Lords of Gods, the last of whom, Eckard, appears in a document as early as 1187.
In the thirteenth century Altengottern came to the Lords of Hagen (from Indagine), perhaps by marriage, as the composite coat of arms of this family suggests. The same thing bloomed in several generations:
Rudiger. Kerstan (Christian) I. Kerstan II. Jobst. Adolph Georg,
with which the male line of this line became extinct. The last daughter, Anna Gertrud, married the Thuringian Hereditary Marshal Rudolph Levin von Herrngosserstedt, The Electoral Saxon loan letter granted to him in 1652 reads: "The Altengottern Castle and the villages there," Colonel and Niederst, with all feuds, spiritual and "secular, both all Hufen, Land, Andes, vineyards, pastures and meadows, with the Fluhren and Courts, Colonel and Niederst, over neck and hand, belonging to the line Ebersberg-Holzhausen, of the Elector Johann Georg the First and the Change Chamberlain, in 1633. When he was married, he had already received the entitlement to old gods from his father-in-law, which he took possession of after his death. “Interest, pensions, projectiles, mills, etc., the forest to cleared fencing and Flarchheim, besides many other accessories and justice. "The landlord's rights, which were gradually loosened in the second decade of our century, have completely abolished, but it is thanks to more recent legislation that here too the fields, which have been cut up into the smallest parcels, are united in a single plot of around 1500 acres, and the forest belonging to this complex was made more productive by liberation from casual servitutes. In the possession of the Thuringian nobility since time immemorial, whose ultimate thought stood at the cradle of the Saxon dynasty and is mentioned by the history among the dynasts of the country, the castle came Altengottern and accessories from generation to generation to the current owner, the royal chamberlain and legal knight of the St. Johanniter Order Julius August Marschall, the next candidate for the office of Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia. "
literature
- Dehio, Georg , edited by Stephanie Eißling, Franz Jäger and other specialist colleagues: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6
- Friedrich Adolph Schumann and Albert Schiffner Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony ..., Volume 14
Web links
- History on the pages of the Thuringian General
- Outline of the history in the Duncker Collection (PDF; 246 kB)
- Brief outline of the story
- Pages of the children's home
Individual evidence
- ↑ Use as a children's and youth home ( memento of the original from August 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Stephanie Eißling, Franz Jäger and other specialist colleagues: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 31
- ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Stephanie Eißling, Franz Jäger and other specialist colleagues: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , p. 31
- ↑ Duncker Collection ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2012 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. (PDF; 246 kB)
- ↑ Google books
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 50.8 ″ N , 10 ° 34 ′ 26.3 ″ E