Dermbach Castle
The Dermbach Castle is a monument in the municipality Dermbach in Wartburgkreis , located in the northern part of the local situation. The Franciscan monastery with a representative church is located across the street from the courtyard.
history
On May 25, 1707, the Fulda abbot Adalbert von Schleifras came to Dermbach for a tribute ceremony. The new, old territorial lords of the Fulda Monastery began building the Dermbach Castle. The people of Fulda needed the building as an office building. Konstantin von Buttlar, who moved there in 1717, had a massive sandstone wall with strong supports built around the building and the spacious garden. The castle is a three-winged complex in the baroque style, in the center there is a wide, rectangular courtyard. The interior of the main building, which housed the chapel of the Franciscan monastery opposite and the Catholic school until 1736, contains a spacious staircase and ceilings with decorative ornaments. As early as 1802, with the dissolution of the clerical principalities dictated by Napoleon, the Fulda rule in Dermbach ended. The castle experienced four other owners in just 10 years, and from 1815 it became part of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . After the First World War, this state no longer existed, now the state of Thuringia took over the official palace and made it the seat of the district administration in 1920, as a forestry office, police station, and at times also used as a youth hostel. In 1932 a "Local History Museum for the Eisenacher Oberland " was set up in some halls and rooms . The collections were later taken over by the Dermbacher Heimatmuseum. The Second World War had brought many refugees to the Rhön , and the castle was still used as refugee accommodation in the 1950s. In 1952 the GDR border police and later the "Florian Geyer" border regiment of the GDR National People's Army took over the building. In 1994 the municipality of Dermbach bought their castle from the Thuringian state real estate administration. The municipality of Dermbach received urban development funds for the comprehensive renovation of the monument. Since 1999 the castle has been the main building of the municipal administration of Dermbach with library, registry office and club rooms.
Cultural use
The Dermbacher Kunst- und Kulturverein uses the palace area for events throughout the year, and the musical Rhönpaulus is also performed here. On a meadow there was also a medieval festival with a knight tent camp.
literature
- Adalbert Schröter: Country by the road. The history of the Catholic parishes in the Thuringian Rhön . St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7462-0430-5 , p. 77-80 .
- Bruno Kühn: The history of the Dermbach district . In: Journal of the association for Thuringian history and antiquity . tape 1 , 1854, ISSN 0943-9846 , p. 249-296 .
- Information brochure from the Dermbach municipal administration
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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 3.3 ″ N , 10 ° 7 ′ 1.2 ″ E