Freudenberg Castle (Rotkreuz)
| Freudenberg Castle | ||
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 Freudenberg Castle viewed from two |
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| Alternative name (s): | Country house Freudenberg | |
| Creation time : | 1929 | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Place: | Red cross | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 9 '15.7 " N , 8 ° 27' 20.3" O | |
| Height: | 431 m above sea level M. | |
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The Freudenberg Castle , originally cottage Freudenberg is a castle in Rotkreuz in the Swiss canton train , which was built from 1929 to 1933. It is located on a slight hill on the old country road from Buonas to Cham with a view of Lake Zug . The general director Erwin Hürlimann ordered the construction on the property of the former farm of the same name. The palace and its park have been privately owned since construction and are not open to the public. The complete documentation about the construction (plans, contracts, accounts, correspondence) is kept in-house. It is part of the BLN project 1309 «Lake Zug» landscape.
The construction of the castle
General director Erwin Hürlimann left for himself and his English wife Eleanor, b. Ridge (later Lady Glover), set up an estate on the area of several farms that he had bought and then partially demolished. The road Buonas - Cham was moved inland to around the construction site on the hillside above Lake Zug round off ; it forms the western border of the extensive property. The planning was carried out by the British architects Howard Robertson and John Murray Easton ; the gardens by Russell Page .
The palace complex
From the street embankments , forest and walls prevent the view of the property. Only the gatehouse and the orangery can be seen from the train.
The gatehouse
A high wall with an embedded gate and a baroque porter's house, which was built in 1931, surround the property. The gatehouse itself has a striking partial hipped roof with an apis-like, two-storey porch. These two parts marked the driveway, which leads to the entrance of the castle like an avenue with tall trees. In front of the castle, the street divides to end like a ring to the left and right of the entrance.
The manor house
The castle itself is slightly elevated above the landscape gently sloping towards the lake. The optically symmetrical, two-storey complex under a high hipped roof consists of a south- facing, wide central building and two wings that are winged at an obtuse angle on its northern front. Like a baroque palace, Freudenberg Palace has a garden and courtyard facade. The wings, together with the semicircular protruding, axial stair tower under the conical roof, form the three-sided, recessed courtyard front. In the garden view, the Corps de Logis acts as an independent block. The middle seven of the nine window axes are raised by a flat, closed attic storey , which ends at the side in tight volutes . A pillar-supported balcony emphasizes the center as a floor plan counterpart to the stair tower; two more balconies in the separate, outer window axes. The rectangular openings under blind arches on the ground floor and arched openings on the upper floor and the attic are relatively small compared to those in the middle salon. The facades are covered with a reddish plaster. There is no jewelry or further structuring. A large number of chimneys point to the chimneys in the common rooms facing the garden. Inside, the original, neoclassical furnishings have largely been preserved. In two of the rooms there is antique English paneling from the first half of the 18th century.
The gardens
The actual garden area includes a nursery, which is located on the southern slope of the villa hill. In the nursery there is an elongated, pent-roof- shaped greenhouse, which is reminiscent of an orangery . In the nursery there are also two-story wing structures under hipped roofs, which can be seen from the street and also from the railway line. To the east of the castle there are also large lawns and groups of trees, which are also part of the garden. The gardens extend to Lake Zug .
Trivia
Margaret Thatcher was the guest of Lady Glover on the estate for a summer vacation and planted a tree here with the help of Russell Page.
literature
- Josef Grünenfelder: The former bailiffs of the city of Zug. New edition (= The Art Monuments of Switzerland. 108; The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zug 2). Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-906131-83-1 .
- Howard Robertson : Modern Architectural Design. 2nd edition. Architectural Press, London 1952.
- Suzanne Kappeler: A Garden by Russell Page. In: Ideal home. 12, 1990, ZDB ID 1164605-6 , pp. 98-102.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Grünenfelder: The former bailiwicks of the city of Zug, Zug 2006, published by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences Canton Zug. Pages 424 and 425 and 546.
- ↑ Federal inventory of landscapes and natural monuments of national importance: List of objects by area and canton. 1998.
- ^ Community of Risch: Gut Aabach. Report according to Art. 47 RPV. Risch community, Rotkreuz, September 20, 2011 (PDF; 6.2 MB).
- ^ Marina Schinz, Gabrielle van Zuylen: The Gardens of Russell Page. Francis Lincoln, London 2008, 50.
