Gleina Castle

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Gleina Castle (park side), 2011

Gleina Castle is a listed building in the municipality of Gleina in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is registered as a monument in the local monument register with registration number 094 82205 .

history

Gleina Castle in its current form was built in the Baroque style by the chief hunter Hans Dietrich von Geißmar between 1689 and 1739, probably according to the plans of the Leipzig engineer Dörffler. A horseshoe-shaped, two-storey complex with a mighty mansard roof was created .

In 1830 the chamberlain Bernhard Heinrich von Helldorf bought the castle from Princess Luise Henriette Reuss. It was primarily used for parties and hunting trips before Bernhard Heinrich von Helldorff and his wife Luise moved in permanently on June 10, 1893. Bernhard Heinrich died on May 19, 1918 and the castle was leased to Thyssen-Werke Hamborn.

On February 15, 1927, his son Bernhard took over the management of the property. The first floor served as the living area and the library was housed in the street wing. The 1st large hall (red hall) was the piano room, the 2nd hall (blue hall) was the dining room of the manor, and the 3rd hall (yellow hall) was used for celebrations, where the hunting party ate. The family slept in the park wing. The castle, the manor house and the manor house were the seat of the lords of Helldorf until 1945.

At the end of the Second World War , on April 12, 1945, the Americans came to Gleina and the last owners were expropriated and the manor house plundered. The building was then used by the Soviet military administration as a subsidiary headquarters. Since 1947 there were plans to use the building as a retirement home, which was inaugurated on April 14, 1948. Walls were pulled in to create smaller spaces and toilets were built in. The first 40 seniors could move in. In 1954 there were already 52 residents. There was also a rural outpatient clinic and a day nursery on the premises of the castle.

Until 1996 the castle was used by the state of Saxony-Anhalt, which owned it until 2000. In 2000, a building company from Plauen bought the building and wanted to use it as living space. In 2002 there were three options for a new retirement home, but the company went bankrupt. In 2007 the Dutch Hilbert Tjalkens and Vera Teunen bought the building, which has been gradually renovated since then. In Eidhofen they had created a meeting and work center for 24 designers and other artists in a former church and wanted to apply this concept in Gleina as well. However, the geographical distance to Holland meant that the project could not be realized.

In 2013 the castle became the property of the Swiss cultural worker and sociologist Felix Schenker in order to launch a social experiment. The castle he said in reference to Joseph Beuys to social sculpture . It is therefore open to everyone who wants to realize cultural projects there. The cultural association Schloss Gleina , founded in 2018, realizes several cultural events per year.

description

The courtyard and park of the palace are connected by a passage in the central wing of the building. The dining room on the ground floor and the salon with anteroom on the upper floor are decorated with rococo stucco , as are numerous other rooms. The library is on the upper floor, with a wooden beam ceiling and paneled walls. To the east of the building is the landscape park, in which fragments of baroque sculptures have been preserved. The portal of the park consists of a wrought iron grille, next to which there are some vase attachments.

Web links

Commons : Gleina Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hans and Doris Mares, Saxony-Anhalt Schlösser, Burgen & Herrensitze, Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 2015, pp. 87/88
  3. ↑ gogol medien GmbH & Co KG: Gleina Castle for the Open Monument Day 2012! Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The castle | Gleina Castle - your castle. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Constanze Matthes: Schloss Gleina: historical ensemble as social sculpture. November 1, 2018, accessed on March 4, 2019 (German).

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 29.6 ″  N , 11 ° 43 ′ 19.5 ″  E