Eichenbarleben Castle
The Eichenbarleben Castle (also known as the Eichenbarleben manor) is located in the Eichenbarleben community on the road from Magdeburg to Braunschweig in the middle of the fertile Magdeburg Börde .
history
It was owned by the von Alvensleben family from 1453 to 1858 .
With the Castle Hundisburg purchased together, it was from 1565 by Joachim I of Alvensleben from Erxleben applicable to a self-rule and expanded as a spacious castle with round corner towers for his youngest son. Here, too, Joachim founded a Latin school, which, however, did not survive the Thirty Years' War .
The successor, Gebhard Johann I. von Alvensleben , set up an observatory with an astrolabe . Residential buildings and corner towers of the castle had to go to war destruction 1654 / 55 will be restored. In 1703 the palace , which was built in 1654 on the north side of the castle courtyard, was given up in order to move into the mansion built between 1701 and 1703 opposite , which still exists today. Some of the interiors were decorated with rococo stucco decorations . Details suggest that the Brunswick court architect Hermann Korb was also active in Eichenbarleben, just as he had recently in nearby Hundisburg.
Helene von der Schulenburg, the builder's widow and sister of the mistress in Hundisburg, had the corner tower next to the gate and the adjoining building redesigned for herself as the most attractive part of the whole. Since 1700 Eichenbarleben was the headquarters of a branched line in which higher military talent emerged again and again. The Prussian generals Gustav and Constantin von Alvensleben were born here. Purchased by the Erxleben II family in 1813 , the castle property was inherited in 1858 by the von Krosigk family , who held it until 1945 .
The reconstruction corresponds to a condition that existed from the beginning of the 18th century to 1870 . At that time the main gate was relocated, most of the moat was closed and the formal garden was laid out as an English layout up to the house. The castle, which was destroyed in the Thirty Years War, must have had a keep and a mansion with Renaissance gables . The church visible in the background , built by Margaretha vd Asseburg, Joachim's widow, and renovated in baroque style by Helene vd Schulenburg, has interesting tombs from the 16th - 18th . Century. They give a good idea of the castle's importance at the time.
In 2003, the run-down castle was offered for € 15,000 at Deutsche Grundstücksauktionen AG. It was acquired privately, but has not yet been refurbished.
Personalities
- Andreas I von Alvensleben (1495–1565) was lord of the castle of Calvörde and lord of Eichenbarleben and Randau .
literature
- Udo von Alvensleben : Alvensleben castles and country estates. Dortmund 1960
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Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 51.5 ″ N , 11 ° 23 ′ 50.6 ″ E