Ehrenberg Castle (Altenburg)
| Ehrenberg Castle | ||
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 Ehrenberg Castle |
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| Creation time : | 1244-1878 | |
| Castle type : | Spurburg | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Construction: | stone | |
| Place: | Ehrenberg | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 57 '23 " N , 12 ° 27' 35" E | |
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The Schloss Ehrenberg as a spur castle in eastern Thuringia Ehrenberg , near the residence of Altenburg , was mentioned 1244th The current complex was mainly built in 1878 in the neo-renaissance and neo-baroque styles .
history
In a document from 1244, a Sifridus de Herinberc is mentioned for the first time. With the extinction of the burgraves of Altenburg in 1329, the Wettins were the feudal lords of the Pleißenland and thus also of Ehrenberg . They often pawned the castle to various noble families. The manor of the descendants of the electoral Saxon court master Hannibal Germanus von Schmertzing , which was burdened with debts , was auctioned by the ducal chamber in 1785 . The chamber property was administered with the one in Zschechwitz . In the surveying register of 1787, the manor covered an area of 104.23 hectares.
The Altenburg merchants Schönherr and Möller relocated a cotton mill from Burgstädt to the Ehrenberg castle complex between 1805 and 1816. On June 4, 1813, the farm buildings burned down. With the new buildings, the courtyard area was expanded considerably. Stables and tenant house were combined under one roof. This and the barn were rebuilt, while washrooms and table houses were demolished without replacement, as was the brickworks in 1848. Other parts of the building were added in 1839, and a pheasantry was built eleven years earlier, in 1828 , which is still the street name in the village remind. An extension to the brewery took place in 1863 and after 1896 at regular intervals. In 1849 the Kammergut became a Dominialgut, in 1874 a state estate.
The ducal Saxon-Altenburg state estate came into the possession of the Altenburg wool manufacturer Bernhard Schmidt on July 1, 1878. He died in 1883 and two years later his widow married the chamberlain Hermann von Bloedau, who also ran the estate in Priefel. He withdrew there in 1921. Gottlieb Franz had managed the manor since 1925 and continued to run the brewery, a canning factory and the mushroom cultivation in the rock cellars, which had existed since 1913. The company JG Schmidt jun. Söhne AG from Kotteritz leased the castle on February 11, 1942 for recreational purposes for employees, but it was already confiscated by the Altenburg Army Site Management as an alternative accommodation in the summer. The manor was expropriated in 1945 as part of the land reform . Partial demolitions of some farm buildings followed by 1948 in order to obtain building materials. A machine lending station (MAS) for the repair and lending of agricultural equipment and machines was housed in the intact farm buildings. Today the castle is being privately restored, the courier , the weekly newspaper for the greater Altenburg, Schmölln and Meuselwitz area, has its headquarters in an outbuilding .
architecture
Hannibal Germanus von Schmertzing , who lived here from 1690 to 1715, rebuilt the castle for the first time. The later owner, Bernhard Schmidt, had it converted into a historicist castle in the neo-baroque and neo-renaissance styles from 1878 to 1880 . Older components such as the round tower from the 16th century were included. Further renovations took place in 1892 in the form of an extension and in 1925 on the south wing of the palace.
garden
With the renovation of the palace around 1880, the garden was also redesigned into a park-like complex with a garden house, fountain and grotto. The park was expanded in 1908 and 1909. Today it is still clearly recognizable as a spacious park.
literature
- Klaus Hofmann, Gustav Wolf, Sabine Hofmann: We can still see the old castle today ... (From the history of the manors in Altenburger Land; Vol. 2). Museum Burg Posterstein 2010 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, 29 August 2010 to 31 January 2011).
- Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia. 430 castles, castle ruins and fortifications . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 .
