Frohburg Castle
The Frohburg Castle is a building complex in the Saxon town Frohburg in the district of Leipzig . The oldest building in the city, representing several hundred years of building history, served until 1945 as the administrative and representative seat for one of the largest manors in Saxony. Today it houses the city's museum.
Location and description
Frohburg Castle is located on Florian-Geyer-Straße about 300 meters south of the market square on a flat hill between the castle pond in the west and the river Wyhra in the east, which passes a weir near the castle . The palace park adjoins it to the southeast .
Cellar vault
Stone hall
Picture room
The castle is a four-wing complex around an irregularly shaped inner courtyard, to which a gate through the south wing leads. The buildings have two and three floors. They come with a ocher roughcast provided and indicate the corners of the building glow quaderung from smooth plaster . Light-colored plaster predominates in the courtyard. Next to the entrance there is an arbor on four pillars. Most of the windows are framed by a Baroque ear drapery , but also two by a late Gothic curtain arched drapery on the southwest corner . After the courtyard, the window frames are made of Rochlitz porphyry . The roofs are covered with slate.
The cellar vaults partly go back to the Romanesque . Of the restored rooms, the stone room and the picture room are particularly worth mentioning. In the park is the garden house , which has yet to be restored .
museum
The Museum of the City of Frohburg was founded in 1921 and was initially located in various parts of the city until it moved to the castle in 1974.
Ceramic fireplace by
Kurt Feuerriegel
Mural Nemisee by
Karl Ludwig Kaaz
The permanent exhibition focuses on art ceramics by Kurt Feuerriegel (1880–1961), historical toys and classicist interior design using the examples of the Stone Hall and the Picture Hall. The ceramist Kurt Feuerriegel worked in Frohburg during the first half of the 20th century, promoting the local pottery trade and creating works on a high artistic level himself. There are pottery , terracotta sculptures , stove tiles shown in baked clay and facade decorations. The total area of the toy covering collection presents exhibits from the beginning of the last century to the 1970s, such as toy shops , dolls , doll houses , doll carriage , horse stables, steam engines, railways, puppet shows and more. In the classically designed halls from the beginning of the 19th century, the romantic mural of the Italian Nemisees by Karl Ludwig Kaaz (1773–1810) in the stone room and the coffered ceiling in the picture room, painted with rosettes of different shapes , are particularly impressive .
The museum also holds special exhibitions every year. From 2015, the themes were “History of Fashion”, “Consumer Advertising” and “Teddy Bears”.
Special offers for children are the “historical school lesson” in a classroom around 1900 and with the teaching materials and teaching material provided at the time, as well as various activities in the castle and park.
Examples of different construction phases are demonstrated on the building itself, such as the Romanesque cellar vault in the west wing, a colored wooden beam ceiling from the Renaissance in the north wing and the representative baroque staircase in the west wing.
history
The castle developed from a castle, which in the 12th century consisted of three stone buildings (about two towers and a palace ) and was surrounded by a wall. The frequent change of ownership led to brisk construction activity. Around 1500 the building in its current layout and appearance was completed as a four-wing complex, the gables were designed in the Renaissance in the middle of the 16th century. The following centuries were characterized by changes in the internal and external appearance, such as the plaster and paint, window and door shapes as well as the floor plan situation in the interior and the decorative design of various rooms.
In 1649 Colonel Sergeant August Friedrich von Kötteritz († October 26, 1668) bought the castle. He does a lot for the rebuilding of the devastated castle and the city, after his death he is buried in the local church. His wife Anna Elisabeth von Loeben († October 1680) received it from him and, after her death, their sons Casper Sebastian and August Friedrich. Casper Sebastian died shortly after his mother. His brother August Friedrich sold the castle to the barons and banner lords Friedrich von Born in 1681 . He exchanged the castle with Carl Haubold von Bose († January 26, 1721) for Gut Großhermsdorf . After the death of the widow Christiana Hedwig von Bose, b. von Bünau († May 3, 1726) the heirs sold the building to the Privy Councilor Philipp Adam zu Eltz († October 21, 1727). His nephew Philipp Adam von Hardenberg († May 20, 1760) inherited it from him . He let his son the Canon Georg Ludwig von Hardenberg (1720–1786) live there with his wife Marie Anna Dorothes von Cronberg . He went into debt heavily, plus the Seven Years' War and his divorce. He went bankrupt in 1765, the settlement of which lasted up to 1777. The castle was auctioned and on September 26, 1777, the Leipzig district administrator Johann Gottfried Blümner (1724–1798) bought the estate and castle Frohburg from the bankruptcy estate. After his death, the children Heinrich (1765–1839), Ernst and Caroline inherited in equal parts. In 1801 Heinrich and Caroline left their shares to Ernst, so that he became the sole owner of Frohburg.
Under Ernst Blümner, the castle achieved its national cultural and art historical importance. From 1801 to 1804 he went on an educational trip to Italy, among other places, which made a great impression on him, and he had numerous contacts with the Dresden art scene. In addition to external alterations, he had the picture hall with the barrel vault designed by the Dresden architect and painter Johann Gottfried Klinsky (1765–1828), whom he designed with works by, among others, Philipp Hackert (1737–1807), Dorothea Stock (1760–1832) and from the Dresden romantic circle of the landscape painter Johann Christian Klengel (1751–1824) and the painter Anton Graff (1736–1813) filled. The mural by Karl Ludwig Kaaz in the stone hall was created in 1805.
After Ernst Blümner's early death, his son Ernst August (1815–1832) inherited. After his death, the inheritance fell back to the siblings. Heinrich died childless in 1839 and when Caroline died in 1853 as a married Gruner, the castle remained in the family, but the name Blümner had expired. After further marriages, the names of Falkenstein , Krug von Nidda and finally “Krug von Nidda and von Falkenstein” were added after Gruner . After the expropriation in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945 and the division of the 977 hectares of land to farm workers and poor farmers, the kindergarten, school and daycare center moved into the castle from 1946 to 1974, until the museum followed. The restoration, which had already begun in the GDR era, was extensively continued after 1990.
literature
- Sabine Schneider, Konstanze Jurzok: Frohburg Castle. Edition Leipzig, 2002, ISBN 3-361-00562-0
- Frohburg . In: GA Poenicke (Ed.): Album of the manors and castles of the Kingdom of Saxony. Leipzig district. Leipzig 1860, pp. 97–99, (online)
- Archive for Saxon History, Volume 4, History of the Owners of Frohburg, pp.251ff
Web links
- Museum Schloss Frohburg. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
- Frohburg Castle. In: Burgenwelt. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Building history. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
- ↑ The garden house in Frohburg Castle Park. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 30, 2017 ; accessed on October 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Special exhibition. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
- ↑ For children. Retrieved October 27, 2017 .
- ↑ see http://www.schlossarchiv.de/ → güterlexikon → Frohburg
- ^ Axel wing: Bourgeois manors: social change and political reform in Electoral Saxony (1618-1844) . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-35681-1 , p. 157 (online)
- ↑ Picture room. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 29, 2017 ; accessed on October 29, 2017 .
- ^ Frohburg Castle. In: Leisure Objects Castle Catalog. Retrieved October 29, 2017 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 15 ″ N , 12 ° 33 ′ 30 ″ E