Bärenstein Castle
| Bärenstein Castle | ||
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.jpg) Bärenstein Castle |
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| Creation time : | 14th Century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg in local location | |
| Conservation status: | well preserved | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Bear stone | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 48 '11.8 " N , 13 ° 48' 11.8" E | |
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Bärenstein Castle is a complex that emerged from a hilltop castle in the Altenberg district of Bärenstein in the Eastern Ore Mountains . The castle is located on the edge of the town center on a mountain spur above the Müglitztal .
Building description
Today's castle emerged from a medieval hilltop castle and forms an irregular system in the shape of an angle hook. The oldest part of the building is the south wing with a round tower from the 14th century. In 1489 this was increased and has had a flat conical roof since the 16th century . Another round tower connects the two castle wings. On the east wing there are two round arch portals in the Renaissance style , which are dated to the year 1522 by a coat of arms inscription.
Little of the historical structure has been preserved inside the palace. Noteworthy is a ballroom with large arched windows, a gothic star vault on the first floor of the round tower and some wooden ceilings with marbled paint from the 17th century on the second floor.
history
The castle was first mentioned in 1324 as Bärenstein Castle and was the ancestral seat of the von Bernstein family. However, the complex was probably built much earlier, as a knight Albrecht von Bernstein can be documented as early as 1165. The castle was used to monitor the Saxon-Bohemian border area and was strategically located on a hill above the Müglitz valley. From here in the 14th century the settlement of the upper Ore Mountains and the opening up of the region for mining began. In 1348 knight Walzko von Bernstein received the castle from Margrave Friedrich the Elder as a fief. From the early days of the castle, a Gothic pointed arch portal has been preserved, above which the Bernstein coat of arms is located. The castle tower with a star vault in the basement also dates from this time.
The old castle was largely destroyed by a major fire in 1576 and then rebuilt as a residential palace. The families von Lüttichau (from 1675) and von Schönberg (1699) belonged to the changing owners . In 1711 Christian Gottlieb von Holtzendorff took over the reign of Bärenstein. He was made Imperial Count in 1745; he had previously sold the Oberlichtenau Castle , which he had built, to the Saxon Prime Minister Count Heinrich von Brühl . Countess Friederike Christiane von Holtzendorff married Count Friedrich August von Cosel , an illegitimate son of Augustus the Strong, with his mistress Constantia von Cosel in 1749 . He built the Coselpalais in Dresden, but lived mainly at Sabor Castle in Silesia. Since their sons Gustav Ernst (* 1755) and Sigismund (* 1758) von Cosel both died unmarried, a daughter, married Countess von Bünau , inherited Bärenstein Castle in 1795. In 1816 Hanns Friedrich Curt von Lüttichau (1783–1864) became Bärenstein enfeoffed, which he had bought from his mother-in-law Countess Bünau, whereby Bärenstein Castle again belonged to the Lüttichau family from 1816 and remained in their possession until the expropriation in 1945.
Conversions took place around 1880, whereby the castle lost much of its well-fortified appearance. A small palace park was built next to the west wing. Hannibal von Lüttichau -Bärenstein was expropriated by the land reform of 1945 . Until 1991 the castle was used as a training and vacation home for the NDPD . Today it is privately owned.
literature
- Hans and Doris Maresch: Saxony's palaces and castles , Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH u. Co. KG, Husum 2004, ISBN 3-89876-159-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments in the Free State of Saxony, Part 1 Elbe valley landscape between Torgau, Saxon Switzerland, Eastern Ore Mountains , Saxon Printing and Publishing House GmbH, Dresden 1991, ISBN 978-3-929048-10-0
- ^ André Glöckner: vom Schloß, Städtlein and Dorffe Bärenstein in: Saxon Latest News, January 1983
- ↑ The Cosel's heirs
- ↑ The company "Falstaf Vermögensverwaltung AG" based in Dresden and Berlin or their representative, the Austrian " castle collector" Georg Thaler, also owns the castles Strehla , Schenkendorf , Zichow and Teupitz .