Erdmannsdorf Castle

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Erdmannsdorf manor around 1859

The Erdmannsdorf Castle is a castle in the style of historicism in the same place Erdmannsdorf in the Erzgebirge . The facility stands in the south of the village on a mountain spur facing south-east over the Zschopau and emerged from a medieval castle complex .

Description and history

A weir system, probably built around 1160, was first mentioned in 1191 as the manor of Werner de Ertmarsdorf . This Werner is also considered to be the builder of the former Nidberg Castle near Zöblitz. Due to its location, the complex of that time can be counted as a spur castle type and comprised an area with a diameter of around 30 to 40 meters.

During later conversions into a manor and then into a castle , most of the old building fabric was leveled, but the oldest part of the castle, the so-called stone house , has been preserved to this day. Medieval buildings can be found in the basement of the castle.

The families von Erdmannsdorff , von Schütz and von Könneritz can be named as owners . Under Hans Heinrich von Könneritz , the conversion to the castle in its present form began in 1843. The castle has been growing in the style of Tudor Gothic executed its decorative elements, but in 1965 the renewal of the external plaster were destroyed. As early as 1829, the old economy located on the castle grounds was demolished because it had been replaced by new farm buildings built in 1822.

In 2000 the outbuilding was restored. In addition to four apartments, club rooms and an exhibition room were created on the ground floor.

In the painting Garden Terrace (which is also known as “Castle Terrace” or “View of Erdmannsdorf Castle”) the ambience of the castle around 1811 is shown by the important painter of German Romanticism Caspar David Friedrich. This oil painting on canvas (with the dimensions 53.5 cm × 70 cm) is in the "New Pavilion" of the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin.

literature

  • Volkmar Geupel : The protected ground monuments in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district (= small writings of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. H. 3, ISSN  0232-5446 ). State Museum for Prehistory, Dresden 1983.

Web links

Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Erdmannsdorf  - sources and full texts
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Teichgräber: Erdmannsdorf Castle. Eduard Pietzsch, Dresden 1842, ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volkmar Geupel: The protected ground monuments in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district. 1983, p. 38.
  2. ↑ Erdmannsdorf ( Memento from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ H. Brösch-Supan / KW Jähing: Caspar David Friedrich - paintings, prints and pictorial drawings . Ed .: German Association for Art History. Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1975, p. 312 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 4.6 ″  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 37 ″  E