Colmdorf Castle

Colmdorf Castle or Carolinenruhe Castle is located in the formerly independent Colmdorf district in Bayreuth .

Colmdorf Castle in winter

Colmdorf Castle in May

main building

history

The place Colmdorf, then called Kolbendorf , was first mentioned in the Landbuch A of the Bayreuth office from 1386. As early as 1421 it was only called Colmdorf. The wooden predecessor of today's castle stood a little further south and was mentioned in the documents from the middle of the 16th century. This wooden castle burned down in 1620. In 1662 Margrave Christian Ernst gave the palace to his wife Erdmuthe Sophie as a gift.

In 1754 the margrave minister Freiherr von Reitzenstein acquired it and had it rebuilt in its current form after the demolition in 1754/55 by the court building inspector Rudolf Heinrich Richter. Just a few years later, Margrave Friedrich bought it back and gave it to his second wife, Sophie Caroline Marie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . After this it was also called Carolinenruhe . In the following years up to 1886 the owners changed frequently. The gardener Johann Friedrich Popp bought it in 1886. His descendants ( community of heirs ) still own the castle today.

architecture

The castle faces a large garden. There is no access from the rear. It is a five-axis building with two three-axis side wings. A balcony with a wrought-iron railing and the initials of Sophie Caroline is attached to the main wing.

In front of the side wings are two ornate sandstone portals at the former driveway. One of them is built with a barn.

A gardener's house is located in front of the property border with Königsallee. This little house was used as a primitive apartment until a few years ago and was becoming increasingly dilapidated. The decay was stopped by emergency safety measures (new roof) by the lower monument protection authority (City of Bayreuth).

Famous residents

Margravine Erdmuthe Sophie, wife of Margrave Christian Ernst
Sophie Caroline Marie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , second wife of Margrave Friedrich III.
Hofkapellmeister Franz Beidler with Isolde Wagner (daughter of Richard Wagner )
Herbert Barth (press spokesman for the Bayreuth Festival, 1910–1998)