Eltz Castle (Vukovar)
The Eltz Castle ( Croatian : Dvorac Eltz ) is located in the Croatian town of Vukovar . The castle is one of the most representative buildings from the Baroque era in Croatia. The Vukovar City Museum has been located in the building since 1968 .
history
Building history
The Mainz Elector Philipp Karl von Eltz , whose family has their ancestral home at Eltz Castle on the Moselle , bought the Vukovar estate in the eastern Croatian historical region of Slavonia in 1736 . 35 settlements also belonged to the rule . The construction of the palace began in 1749 under the building owner Anselm Kasimir von Eltz . First the middle section was completed. Later the castle was expanded several times.
The Eltz-Kempenich line, which had its main residence in Vukovar as early as the late 18th century , was given the opportunity to expand the estate after the peasant liberation had ended , around 1848. It became a real model business in the second half of the 19th century through the creation of large-scale drainage measures and the use of new cultivation and animal breeding methods.
The palace got its current appearance at the beginning of the 20th century when it was largely designed by the Viennese architect Viktor Siedek .
The building was badly damaged during the Serbian attacks on the city in 1991 during the Croatian War.
Expropriation and restitution process
After the end of the Second World War , the branch of the Eltz family in Vukovar was expropriated and expelled by the Yugoslav communists due to the AVNOJ resolutions . In the treasury of Eltz Castle , some furnishings from the former Vukovar family property that were exempt from expropriation at the time, for example a dinner service from the Vienna porcelain factory .
After Croatia's state sovereignty, the owner Jakob von und zu Eltz returned to his old home in 1990 and became a member of the Croatian Parliament in Zagreb. After his death in 2006, his heir, Georg Graf von und zu Eltz-Vukovar, continued the restitution process against the Croatian state.
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Coordinates: 45 ° 21 ′ 18 ″ N , 19 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ^ Ute Ritzenhofen: Burg Eltz , Deutscher Kunstverlag (2010), 3rd edition, ISBN 978-3-422-02226-3