Döben Castle

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Döben Castle (1915)
Döben Castle before the fire of 1857 (around 1836)
Carl Gustav Carus , view of the inner courtyard of Döben Castle

The Döben Castle , located in Döben , a district of Grimma , is a former manor that has its origins in the 10th century.

In the early 10th century, the conquered Slavic settlement area was fortified by German Burgwarde along the Mulde . The Döben burgraves secured a hollow crossing on behalf of the king. Wiprecht von Groitzsch probably conquered this Burgward in 1117 and destroyed it in the process. A good 150 years later, Döben came under the rule of the Margraves of Meissen in 1286 .

Around 1500 a manor was built in the area of ​​the castle . The von Luppa family lived here until around 1440, after that the von Maltitz, von Hirschfeldt, von Canitz, von Schönfeldt, von Arnim families and from 1783 to 1945 the von Böhlau families.

The castle gradually turned into a palace . A major fire in 1857 almost completely destroyed the building, and it was rebuilt in the neo-renaissance style . Until it was expropriated after the Second World War , Döben was owned by the von Böhlau family.

During the capture and occupation of Saxony at the end of World War II, the castle was destroyed by American artillery fire in April 1945 and its ruins were blown up in 1971 for security reasons.

In 1945 some of the buildings in the ensemble served as apartments for refugees and displaced persons and the land was used by new farmers after the land reform . The grounds of the castle courtyard are currently being managed by the “Dorf und Schloss Döben e. V. ”and the von Below family were revived. With funding from the EU and the German Foundation for Monument Protection , donations from private individuals and private funds from the owners, the former brewery was rebuilt and historic moats were exposed. In 2007, a bust of the Japanese military doctor, poet and translator Mori Ōgai was installed in the palace garden in memory of his stay in Saxony . In the spring of 2012, the ruins of the western ruins of the castle were exposed by felling trees, which represented a significant encroachment on the Döben forest nature reserve.

  • Castle ruin

  • Entrance to the manor

  • The estate grounds

  • Manor house

  • Former brewery

References and comments

  1. ↑ Poenicke: Album of the manors and castles of the Kingdom of Saxony. Leipzig 1854.
  2. ↑ Döben on grimma.de , accessed on November 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ Manfred Berger : Die Muldenthal-Eisenbahn , page 104. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70907-0 .
  4. ↑ The von Belows family line is identical to that of the von Böhlau family. See history of the castle , accessed April 15, 2010.
  5. ^ Frank Pastille: Brochure of the Friends of the "Dorf und Schloss Döben e. V. " .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 28.6 "  N , 12 ° 45 ′ 37.8"  E