Biendorf Castle

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Biendorf Castle
Main building of the castle

Schloss Biendorf is a 1720 built and 1759 to 1784 in late Baroque advanced lock . The castle with orangery and the attached park are located in Biendorf , a district of the city of Bernburg in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt . Today it is almost a new building from 1927, on the north side of which is a square area with a strictly structured baroque garden . From this garden only the wall and the sandstone portal on the north side are preserved, which are now under monument protection . The castle was also home to a private museum owned by the current Dutch owners, the van de Merwe.

history

Documented sources for an estate in the village of Biendorf go back to the year 1488. In addition to the manor , there were also free saddle houses . In 1623 the goods came into the possession of Sigismund von Hagen "Lord of Biendorf with Wohlsdorf and Preußlitz ". He arranged for a thorough renovation of the estate and the outbuildings. Around 1720 Busso von Hagen built a country palace on the estate.

In 1759, Prince Carl Georg Leberecht von Anhalt-Köthen (1730–1789) , who had ruled since 1755, acquired the manor complex, which he had converted into a representative late baroque summer palace in the style of his time by 1784. With him also began the construction of the tower house and the orangery (1760–1763), at the same time he had the palace chapel built for his wife Charlotte Louise Fredrike (1749–1812) , which was inaugurated in 1789. After his death in the same year, the castle was used as a widow's residence until 1812 . In 1813 the construction of a park began, which was attached directly to the castle. When Biendorf was connected to the railway in 1846, the citizens of Köthen and Bernburg used the park as a recreational area.

After the end of the German Empire in 1918–1919, the palace and estate were transferred to the Dessau Foundation in 1918 and acquired in 1919 from the former tenant Lampe. In 1919 a strong fire devastated a large part of the facilities and buildings, only the gatehouse and the orangery remained undamaged. The landlord, Lampe, suddenly began to rebuild and expanded the park to include an English garden , which was linked by a gate to an avenue and a landscape park. As a result of the owner's personal bankruptcy in 1927, the state bought the facilities and had them managed by a trustee . The buildings were then bought by the National Socialist government in 1935 and converted into Germany's first rural school for women . From 1949 to 1992-based Biendorf the College of Agriculture and Education Center, which had been set up on the castle grounds. In 1992 the technical college for agriculture and home economics was established, which ceases teaching in 2004. In 2005 the entire infrastructure was acquired, renovated and restored by the van de Merwe family, converted into a hostel and expanded with a private museum.

The von Hagen noble family in Biendorf

Sigismund von Hagen (1564-1651) is named as the first gentleman in Biendorf with Wohlsdorf and Preußlitz , who was married to Anna Margarethe von Kotze (* 1588).

Van de Merwe private museum

Entrance to the Museum van de Merwe

The owner family runs a private collector's museum on the castle, which was inaugurated on September 29, 2012 by the Dutch Minister for Integration Gerd Leers . In his 25-year passion for collecting, the lord of the castle Erik van de Merwe has collected exhibits from Europe and bought them on collectors' fairs. The extraordinary exhibits include around 75,000 thimbles , in 2015 1,500 visitors were enthusiastic about the extraordinary collection.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Biendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biendorf Castle complex on the official website of the Anhalt-Dessau-Wittenberg World Heritage Region ( memento from March 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ): "The Biendorf Castle, which was built around 1720 by Busso von Hagen, heir of Biendorf, awaits you here."
  2. ↑ Schloss Biendorf on sachsen-Anhalt-abc ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2017 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. : “Between 1759 and 1784 (late baroque) the castle was built from a house of the heir of Biendorf, Busso von Hagen. When Prince Carl Georg Leberecht von Anhalt-Köthen (1730-1789) took over the estate and country castle Biendorf in 1759, the temporary country castle was converted into a late baroque castle complex. " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sachsen-anhalt-abc.de
  3. ↑ Michael Karkosch: The fruitful pleasure garden in Köthen and the Anhalt orangery culture . In: Die Gartenkunst  22 (2/2010), pp. 177–207 (195).
  4. ↑ Subsection 2 ( 18th century ) in the history section on the official website of Schloss Biendorf : "After the Prince's death, the summer palace served as a widow's residence until 1812"
  5. ↑ a b c Hans Wätjen: History of the families united in a family association von dem Hagen vom Hagen, von der Hagen, von Hagen . Hagen'scher Familienverband Hannover eV, Hannover / Bremen 1991.
  6. ^ Hagen Anton August Graf von Oberstleutnant, Royal-Polish-Saxon Chamberlain, married to Eleonoare Friederike v. Waiting life, mother Dorothea Henriette von Schöning, daughter of Field Marshal General [1]
  7. ↑ Erik van de Merwe [2]
  8. ↑ Prime Minister in the largest thimble museum in the world in Biendorf. . In: Stadtmagazin Bernburg (BBGLive) of September 29, 2012, accessed on April 7, 2016
  9. ↑ Around 1500 visitors to the private museum Schloss Biendorf. . In: Die Welt - Regionales of December 27, 2015, accessed on April 7, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 8.7 ″  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 7.7 ″  E