Berleburg Castle

Berleburg Castle, gatehouse from the 16th century

Court of honor

The Castle Berleburg in Bad Berleburg , a town in the Siegen-Wittgenstein in NRW is continuous from the family for over 600 years Sayn-Wittgenstein inhabited. One area is the museum, in which hunting equipment, uniforms, weapons, glasses, porcelain and parts of the princely art collection are shown.

history

The castle was built as a hilltop castle in 1258 by Count Siegfried I and the monastery bailiff Adolf I. The dual power in Berleburg ended in 1332 when Widekind von Grafschaft renounced his rights to the city in favor of Siegfried II von Wittgenstein . After he was the last of the Wittgenstein Counts to die, his son-in-law Salentin von Sayn took over the inheritance. He founded the Sayn-Wittgenstein house . The Berleburg served as a hunting lodge, in front of which a small urban settlement extended.

In 1506 the County of Wittgenstein was divided and Count Johann moved into the old Berleburg hunting lodge, laying the foundations for the subsequent expansion into a residential palace. In 1531 he personally laid the foundation stone for a new building. In the years from 1555 to 1557, Count Ludwig d. Ä. the two-storey north wing of the castle expanded. In 1585 the gatehouse was built .

During the reign of Count Casimir , the three-storey central wing was built from 1731 to 1733 and was rebuilt in 1902. From 1732 to 1739 the corps de logis of Berleburg Castle was built according to the plans of Julius Ludwig Rothweil . Friedrich von Thiersch added the flanking towers during a renovation in 1912 and changed the stairwell. The castle was owned by Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg until his death in 2017 .

literature

Herbert Koch : Berleburg Castle ( large architectural monuments , issue 217). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1968; 13th edition, Munich / Berlin 1997.

Web links

Commons : Bad Berleburg Castle - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Berleburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Berleburg Castle on the website of the city of Bad Berleburg
Wittgenstein-Berleburg'sche Rentkammer - Berleburg Castle - official website
Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe: Bad Berleburg Castle Park in LWL GeodataKultur
360 ° panorama picture of Berleburg Castle in the Westphalian Cultural Atlas (requires Flash player )

Individual evidence

↑ http://wittgenstein-berleburg.net/familie-schloss/
↑ Hans Wied: Berleburg und seine Bürger in the oldest pension bills from the first half of the 16th century. In: Wittgenstein Vol. 62 (1998), H. 3, S. 91-104, here S. 92.
^ Friedhelm Ackermann, Alfred Bruns: Castles, palaces and monasteries in the Sauerland . Strobel-Verlag, Arnsberg 1985, ISBN 3-88793-006-14 , p. 54.

51.048768 8.389844Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 55.6 ″ N , 8 ° 23 ′ 23.4 ″ E

[1] ttp://wittgenstein-berleburg.net/familie-schloss/

[2] Hans Wied: Berleburg und seine Bürger in the oldest pension bills from the first half of the 16th century. In: Wittgenstein Vol. 62 (1998), H. 3, S. 91-104, here S. 92.

[3] Friedhelm Ackermann, Alfred Bruns: Castles, palaces and monasteries in the Sauerland . Strobel-Verlag, Arnsberg 1985, ISBN 3-88793-006-14 , p. 54.