Burgk Castle (Freital)
The Burgk Castle is a former stately home in Freitaler district Burgk in Saxony . Today it is home to the Freital City Museum Haus der Heimat with the “Freital City Collections”. The castle is located at the foot of the Windberg on the edge of the Döhlen basin in the Großburgk district and is a listed building .
history
On the basis of certain structural findings of the castle, parts of the ground floor and the cellar vaults can be classified in the Renaissance period (around 1580). The noble family von Zeutsch acquired the castle and exercised the jurisdiction in Großburgk from 1507 to 1742 . Christine Eleonore von Zeutsch, wife of Prince Johann Ludwig I of Anhalt-Zerbst, was the grandmother of Tsarina Katharina II , whose ancestors are remembered in the memorial hall of the Döhlen church . The entire manor burned down on June 26, 1707, but was rebuilt in 1708 and 1709 by Caspar Heinrich von Zeutzschen.
In 1768, the Secretary of the Saxon Commerce Deputation and Senator Carl Gottfried Dathe (1722-1802) acquired the manor with the associated coal fields , which had been known since at least 1542. The mansion and surrounding buildings were rebuilt around 1800. The Baron von Burgker Steinkohlen- und Eisenhüttenwerke , founded in 1819, led by Dathes grandson Carl Friedrich August Freiherr Dathe von Burgk to modernize and expand the coal mining industry in the Döhlen Basin . The ballroom from 1828 is furnished in the classical style. Dathe von Burgk had the manor house rebuilt again in 1846, adding delicate gables and a slim roof turret. The garden room is decorated with wallpaper from Zuber et Cie .
After Dathe's death, the castle was no longer permanently inhabited. Until the company's bankruptcy in 1930, the coal works were based at Burgk Castle. As a result of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone , the last owner, Elisabeth von Boxdorf, b. Baron Dathe von Burgk, expropriated.
After the city was founded in Freitals in 1921, the city parliament decided in 1923 to build a museum. The painter Karl Hanusch was involved in building the museum . After the location of the museum changed several times, the premises of Burgk Castle were moved into in 1946 after the end of the Second World War .
Castle Park
The castle park with a small pond surrounded by larches, plane trees and ginkgo trees is located south and east of the manor house. The mouth of today's visitor mine is also located in the castle park. In addition to many sculptures, there is also the Rotkopf-Görg Monument in the Burgker Palace Park, which was inaugurated in 1861.
It is dedicated to the legendary figure Rotkopf Görg, to whom a mountain spirit is said to have appeared on the Windberg. He asked the poor musician Rotkopf Görg to play to dance in the castle of the mountain spirit, hidden in the nearby Windberg. He agreed, and as a reward he got his hat filled with coal from the mountain spirit. Rotkopf Görg didn't know what to do with it and poured it out in front of his house. The next day he noticed that a small lump of coal had gotten caught in his hat and had turned to gold overnight. The remaining coals that he threw away, however, have turned to ashes.
In 1904 the monument by Cornelius Gurlitt was mentioned in the descriptive description of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony as follows: A strange work […] is the larger than life group of a minstrel and the gnome seducing him with money scattered in his hat .
Daily route Upper Revier
From 1828 to 1832, the Upper Revier daily route was driven in the palace gardens . The 1300 meter long route served as a driving and weather tunnel for the hard coal works of the Upper Revier of the Baron von Burgker hard coal and iron works . In 1835 it was extended to the base of the Fortunaschacht and shortly afterwards to the Neuhoffnungsschacht am Windberg. Until 1870, the tunnel was the only drive for the shafts, some of which were far away, through which the entire workforce had to enter and exit on foot. They used a steep stretch in the herb garden that is now in safekeeping. Cost reasons are likely to have been decisive in the fact that no driving skills had been installed in the shafts . The Upper Revier day route was also of great importance as a catchment route for fresh weather in the mine buildings. In the firedamp explosion in the Segen-Gottes- und Neuhoffnungsschacht on August 2, 1869, the three miners Carl Eduard Hermann, Wilhelm August Brückner and Robert Büttner came out unharmed through the daily route Oberes Revier .
Todays use
In addition to information on the city's history and life at Burgk Castle, the “Freital Municipal Collections” also contain the municipal art collections , which document art developments in the Dresden region between 1890 and 1950. The collection includes nine classic paintings by Otto Dix as well as works by the artists Willy Kriegel , Wilhelm Lachnit , Wilhelm Rudolph , Pol Cassel , Otto Lange , Curt Querner , Christoph Voll and Ewald Schönberg . Long-term director of the city museum and the art collections was Hellmuth Heinz , who donated his private art collection to the city before his death. Friedrich Pappermann's art collection has been in the palace since 1993 , which the Dresden artist donated to the museum in 1993 and for which he was granted honorary citizenship in Freetal in 1994 .
From the castle park, it is possible to drive into the visitors ' mine “Upper Revier Burgk”. In a related exhibition on mining in Plauenschen Grund , among other things, “Dorothea”, the world's first electrically operated mine railway , is on display. It was built in 1882 by Siemens & Halske for the Oppelschacht in Zauckerode . The mining exhibition includes a technology garden, which shows the equipment required for mining in the immediate post-war period .
Burgk Castle can be used as a conference and event center, for example the “Steigersaal” with space for around 100 people and the smaller “Knappensaal” for around 50 people. There is a wedding hall for weddings at Burgk Castle. Since 2011, the " Freital Wedding Fair" has been held at Burgk Castle every October . In August the "Burgker Schlossnacht" takes place in the castle courtyard and at Easter the "Burgker Medieval Spectacle" takes place. During Advent there is a Christmas market on the castle grounds.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtverwaltung Freital (Hrsg.): Monuments in Freital - workshop report 3 of a municipal working group against forgetting . Freital 2013.
- ^ City of Freital: On the history of the castle
- ↑ a b c Cornelius Gurlitt : Burgk. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 24. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1904, p. 19.
- ↑ City of Freital: The legend of Rotkopf Görg: The magic castle on the Windberg (PDF; 210 kB)
- ↑ Eberhard Gürtler, Klaus Gürtler: The hard coal mining in the Döhlen basin, part 1 - shafts on the right of the Weißeritz , Haus der Heimat Freital 1983, p. 16
- ^ Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt und Geologie / Sächsisches Oberbergamt (ed.): The Döhlener basin near Dresden . Geology and Mining (= mining in Saxony . Volume 12 ). Freiberg 2007, ISBN 3-9811421-0-1 , p. 204 .
- ↑ a b Saxony's museums: Freital Castle Burgk Municipal Collections ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wedding fair Freital | The wedding fair at Burgk Castle. Retrieved October 9, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Open Air & Concerts
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 12.3 " N , 13 ° 40 ′ 9.9" E