Berleburg Castle (Schlitz)

The Berleburg Castle , and Villa Wittgenstein or Berleburg called, is a modern-day mansion in Herrngarten street 24 of the city slot in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse .

history

In 1859 Franz von Sayn-Wittgenstein -Berleburg , the brother-in-law of Count Carl von Schlitz, called von Goertz , commissioned the architect Hugo von Ritgen ( restorer of the Wartburg ) to build the palace .

The villa was used as a forester's apartment and retirement home for members of the count's family. In the 1930s the villa functioned as a sports school for the SA and as a youth hostel and school camp . During the Second World War , French prisoners of war were housed there and the opposite kitchen wing housed the vocational school for housekeeping for a long time .

Building description

The villa, now privately owned, consists of a magnificent half-timbered building in the style of historicism over a massive ground floor with decorative elements based on the Gothic style, such as St. Andrew's crosses , nose trimmings and three-pass inserts. On the south-eastern side, two stepped porches (two-story and one-story) are connected in half-timbered houses. On the south-western side there is a polygonal oriel tower with a slate , pointed tower dome. The house in east-west direction is a dwarf house with a dwarf roof and with offset north / south covered triangular gables, to the south this is protruded as a loft and a balcony on the first floor ; both gable ends are decorated. The dormer windows on both sides are designed as Gothic tracery windows in the shape of a nun's head . The roof is interrupted by twenty other small dormers .

Two additional outbuildings, to the northeast the elongated former kitchen wing, also in half-timbered construction, and to the southeast a small building, complement the main house.

The park, which was laid out in baroque forms around 1709 (remains in the northwest and east) was Anglicised around 1800 and the orangery was built after 1802.

Todays use

The building is privately owned.

literature

• Folkard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf (arrangement): Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments , Hesse I: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts , Munich 2008
• Rolf Müller (Ed.): Palaces, castles, old walls. Published by the Hessendienst der Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89214-017-0 , p. 315.

Web links

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

• Photos of the Berleburg on frank66furt.de
• Photo of the Berleburg from the holdings of the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Palaces, castles, old walls. P. 315
2. ^ Berleburg in Schlitz on the side fachwerkfreunde.de
3. ^ Entry on Villa Wittgenstein in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 15.4 "  N , 9 ° 33 ′ 29.5"  E