Blankenhain Castle
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The blankenhain castle in Blankenhain near Crimmitschau (in Zwickau , Saxony ) once belonged to a manor and today, together with the on-site facilities to German Agricultural Museum is unique in Germany Museum complex . It combines the museum types castle museum , open-air museum , technology museum and folklore museum with 80 exhibition buildings and structures on an area of 11 hectares .
history
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The history of the building probably goes back to the 12th century. In 1316 a Ludewik von Blanchenhain is mentioned in the register of the bailiffs and in 1423 a Sophie Blangkynn. Later on, the owners change very often, but one gender of the "Blanken" does not appear again.
It was first mentioned in documents in 1423 as a moated castle , built from an earlier fortification. Half of the castle burned down in 1661; it was rebuilt until 1699, other sources speak of 1700. The mansard roof from 1765 with the baroque tower domes is still there.
In 1699 a pre-castle was added as a farm building parallel to the castle. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this preliminary castle was rebuilt several times and in 1949 it was split up into two new farm buildings.
Until 1774 the manor belonged to noblemen, later to middle-class families and wealthy manufacturers. One of them was Carl Gottlob Scheuereck, owner of a bobbin lace manufacture in Annaberg-Buchholz, who had a hereditary burial place built in the form of a mausoleum in the Byzantine style in the Blankenhain cemetery in 1785 . The heirs sold the property in 1861 to the Hof factory owner Gustav Münch-Ferber. Under his direction, the manor experienced an upswing that lasted until the First World War. Ferber had the property renovated and the equipment brought up to date.
In 1924 Friedrich Wilhelm Zacher, a manufacturer from Leubnitz, bought the property and lived there from 1925 to 1945. After the end of the Second World War , the castle was to be demolished on the orders of the Soviet occupation , but this was prevented by the use of courageous Blankenhainers could.
museum
In 1981 the then agricultural and agricultural museum Schloss Blankenhain was opened. Since then it has been steadily expanded and expanded. On 7./8. In October 2006 it was opened with a new exhibition as the “German Agricultural Museum Schloss Blankenhain”. It currently contains 100 thematic exhibitions , several display areas with historical crops, meadows and pastures, the pond area in front of it and an extensive castle park.
In Blankenhain and the surrounding area there are additional museum parts, for example the rectory with the rectory , a mausoleum with a crypt , a barn with an exhibition of historical hearses , a morgue and the graves of former manor owners.
See also
literature
- Jürgen Knauss (Hrsg.): A journey through pictures through the German Agricultural Museum at Blankenhain Castle - from the manor to the museum. Crimmitschau 2014.
- Jürgen Knauss (Hrsg.): A historical journey in pictures and text through the manor Blankenhain. The origins of the German Agricultural Museum at Blankenhain Castle. Crimmitschau 2016.
- Matthias Wagner: The manors Blankenhain, Berga and Trunzig. Examples of the history of the manor between Elster and Pleiße. Blankenhainer reports, vol. 5. Blankenhain 1999.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Nicole Eichmann: Lots of animal stuff to start with. German Agricultural Museum Schloss Blankenhain starts the new season. In: WochenSpiegel Werdau / Crimmitschau, No. 6 of February 6, 2008, p. 1.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 59.8 " N , 12 ° 17 ′ 4.2" E