Glückstadt Castle

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A copper engraving by C. Danckwerth shows the castle district in 1652 with the stylized castle building (in the middle of the left third of the map)

The Glückstädter Castle , at that time also Glucksburg , or Glyksborg or Danish. Called Lyksborg , it was the city residence of the Danish king in the Schleswig-Holstein city ​​of Glückstadt . The castle, which was probably completed in 1631, had to be demolished in 1708 due to its dilapidation. The stair tower and the castle church were initially preserved, but were later also demolished. From the former castle district only the structurally heavily modified so-called provision house is preserved today.

history

The Glückstadt Palace was built on behalf of the Danish King Christian IV , who marked out the building site himself on August 29, 1629. Until then, the king lived in the so-called royal court during his stays in Glückstadt . The location of the castle at Glückstädter Hafen was roughly on the site between today's streets Am Hafen / Am Proviantgraben.

The castle was to serve as the city residence in the planned city founded by the king in 1617 . Willem van Steenwinckel was hired as a builder . The castle was a two-storey building with two large gables on the front and two smaller gables on the long sides. A helmeted stair tower preceded it on the courtyard side. The building was built in the style of the Nordic Renaissance , as can be found, for example, in an elaborate variant at Rosenborg Castle, which was also built by Christian IV . Due to insufficient foundations in the damp building ground, the dilapidated castle had to be demolished again in 1708. No new building was started under the reigning King Friedrich IV . The government chancellery had been housed in the house of the Chancellor and Baron Andreas Pauli von Liliencron, Am Hafen 15/16, and at the latest in 1720/21 in the house Am Hafen 46, the Palais Quasi non Possidentes , since 1700 . The office moved to the Wasmer-Palais in 1752 , where an apartment was again set up in Glückstadt for members of the Danish royal family. The law firm in Glückstadt was subordinate to the German law firm in Copenhagen

The provision house, the former farm building of the castle district

Nothing has been preserved from the castle itself. On the former castle grounds, however, there is still the so-called provision house from 1705, the successor to an auxiliary building of the castle complex built in 1633. The baroque building was erected under Friedrich IV. The king's monogram originally adorned the north gable. The former farm building was heavily changed by renovations in the 19th and 20th centuries - including a factory. During the Schleswig-Holstein War from 1848 to 1851 and during the Franco-German War of 1871 the provision house served as a war prison. The building is currently in need of renovation and is partially used by an artist initiative. A demolition was discussed several times, but could be prevented. The Association Provianthaus in Glückstadt e. V. founded.

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  • Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1994. ISBN 978-3-422-03033-6
  • Peter Hirschfeld: Mansions and castles in Schleswig-Holstein . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 1980, ISBN 978-3-422-00712-3

Web links

literature

  • Franz Michaelsen: The Glücksburg Castle. In: Glückstadt through the ages. 2. Glückstadt 1966. pp. 128-139.
  • Gerhard Köhn: The population of the residence, fortress and exile town of Glückstadt from the foundation in 1616 to the final expansion in 1652. Neumünster 1974. (Sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein. 65.)
  • Gerhard Köhn: On the building history of Glückstadt Castle. In: Steinburger Jahrbuch (Itzehoe) 1974, pp. 107–116.
  • Gerhard Köhn: The royal palace Glücksburg and the aristocratic palaces in the royal seat of Glückstadt. (Steinburger Hefte. 8. Itzehoe 1984.)
  • Gerhard Köhn: The Glückstadt Castle Glücksburg - Its decay around 1700. In: Lectures of the Detlefsen Society . 9. Glückstadt 2006. pp. 21-25.
  • Gerhard Köhn: The Glückstadt Castle Glücksburg - Its decay and its demolition around 1700. In: Lectures of the Detlefsen Society. 10. Glückstadt 2007. pp. 22-29.
  • Sven Wiegmann: The Provision House of Fortress Glückstadt. In lectures by the Detlefsengesellschaft. 11. Glückstadt 2008.

Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 10 "  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 56"  E