Choren Castle

Castle in Choren

The Schloss Choren in Choren in Döbeln in 1755 to designs by Samuel Locke in the style of Dresden rococo built.

history

facade

The palace was built in 1755 for Carl Leonhard Marschall von Bieberstein (1705–1777), the Electoral Saxon and Royal Polish Postmaster General. The Marschall von Bieberstein family owned it until 1818 when a Major Sahrer von Sahr bought it. In 1846 it was bought by Wilhelm Oehmichen, who later became a member of the state and Reichstag . His heirs sold the property to an architect from Dresden in 1933.

After the expropriation through the land reform, resettled families moved into the castle, and in 1955 a school was housed in it. In 1997 an architect bought the property, renovated the dilapidated building and sold it again. There were plans to renovate the dilapidated side buildings and set up apartments there. Meanwhile the castle is again for sale. The romantic castle park, which was once one of the most beautiful in the area, has remained in the municipal property and continues to be neglected.

description

Ornamental vase on the gable

The two-storey building is covered by a mansard roof. The facade is divided into 13 window axes and shows a Knoeffelian design, for example in the form of the pilaster strips .

On the central axis there is rich architectural decoration, there rococo decor was attached over the segmental arched portal lintel . On the first floor there is a basket arched window , above is a large cartouche with the coat of arms of Marshal von Bieberstein under a baron's crown, flanked by chains of flowers. There is an eaves cornice on the central risalit, which serves as a cornice. It bends up along the central axis in a concave-convex-concave curve and accommodates the window below with its ornament. In this way, it leads over to the window on the floor above. According to Stefan Hertzig , this motif was “typical of Locke's architecture and should be found in the portal design of numerous townhouse buildings”.

Stefan Hertzig recognizes a stylistic relationship to works by Johann Christoph Knöffel and Julius Heinrich Schwarzes . The convexly bulged component in the middle part of the building and raised by a gable can be seen both at Knöffels Hubertusburg and Schwarzes Palais Moszinska .

literature

• Stefan Hertzig: Samuel Locke . In: ders .: The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V. , Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 234-241, here pp. 234-235 .

See also

• List of castles and palaces in Saxony

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Keller: Messages from all artists living in Dresden , Leipzig 1788, p. 105: “Furthermore, Hr. Locke of the General Post Director Marechal de Biberstein built all the Ritterguth buildings in Choren bey Nossen ”.
2. ^ Sächsische Zeitung of March 23, 2018
3. ↑ Hertzig, p. 235
4. ↑ Hertzig, p. 234

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 56.7 "  N , 13 ° 14 ′ 33.4"  E