Cotta Castle

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Cotta Castle, on the right the archway to the church (2008)
View of Cotta Castle on the park side in Gustav Adolf Pönicke's album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony , around 1855

Schloss Cotta is after repeated remodeling a neo - Castle in Great Cotta at Pirna on the edge of the Saxon Switzerland .

history

The castle has its origins in an estate district founded by the Burgraves of Dohna around the year 1000. The beginnings of the castle are to be found in a preliminary work mentioned in a document in 1307 , which its owners, the lords of Kospoth , expanded into a manor in the 16th century . In 1661 Carl Freiherr von Friesen acquired the manor and from 1662 had a new castle built next to the church , the previous manor castle became a brewery.

The Leipzig bookseller Gottfried Christoph Härtel bought the Frisian estate at auction in 1821. Under his daughter Elwine Freifrau von Leyser, b. Härtel, from 1833 onwards it was redesigned in the classical style based on designs by Woldemar Hermann . Through her second husband, Eduard von Burchardi (1840), the estate came to the Bohemian Baron Franz Victor Ritter Bradský von Laboun in 1868. It became the residence of his daughter Dorothea von Eschwege, née Bradsky-Labounska.

Under Dorothea von Eschwege, the property was again rebuilt and expanded in the neo-renaissance style in 1895 . Various bay windows, ornamental gables, turrets and balconies were added and the facade was decorated with coats of arms and sandstone reliefs. To the north of the castle, an approximately 3/4 hectare park with a small pond was created.

Dorothea von Eschwege committed after the end of World War II in 1945 on May 9 suicide . In the course of the land reform , the property belonging to the castle was given to new farmers , and the castle itself was used as a training restaurant by the Dresden consumer cooperative . The use ended in the course of the German reunification .

The municipality of Cotta took over the castle, which had been vacant since 1991, in 1995. As a result of the incorporation of Cotta, the municipality of Dohma had been the owner of the castle since January 1, 1998 . Plans for a comprehensive renovation and utilization of the castle could not be implemented. In addition to maintenance, only individual rooms of the castle were used. At the end of 2016, the Dohma municipal council decided to sell the castle to a real estate company from Freital. The purchase price is € 350,000.

Others

The filming of the film adaptation of the novel The Tower also took place in Cotta Castle in 2011.

literature

  • Matthias Donath : Castles in Saxon Switzerland and in the Eastern Ore Mountains. Edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dohma: Cotta Castle. In: Sachsens-Schlösser.de. Retrieved October 26, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Großcotta in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ Cotta manor house. In: Castles, palaces & mansions in Europe. January 10, 2010, archived from the original on September 12, 2012 ; Retrieved October 29, 2013 .
  4. ^ Dohma: Cotta Castle. In: Sachsens-Schlösser.de. Retrieved October 29, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Mareike Huisinga: What will happen to the ARD film set? In: Sächsische Zeitung (Pirna edition). September 23, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Mareike Huisinga: silence to Schloss Cotta. In: Sächsische Zeitung (Pirna edition). January 20, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
  7. ↑ 'The Tower' is being filmed in Schloss Cotta near Dresden. In: Dresden television . September 29, 2011, accessed January 22, 2017 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 16.6 "  N , 13 ° 57 ′ 55.4"  E