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Glossen Castle is a building that was created as the seat of a manor in Glossen , a district of the Saxon town of Löbau in the Görlitz district . The castle was built in the 18th century and is now the seat of a rehabilitation clinic.
Building description
The castle is located on a small hill above the Löbauer Wasser and is designed as a three-wing complex. The exterior has a simple baroque facade design. A two-storey building rises above a rectangular floor plan, which is covered by a mansard roof with small roof houses. The gate walls of the main entrance are made of local granite and frame a carved entrance door with a skylight. Inside, an inscription with a monogram and the year 1791 indicates that the palace was rebuilt by Carl Adolph Siegfried von Gersdorff. On the first floor there are balconies with sandstone parapets on both wings of the building.
The complex also includes various ancillary and farm buildings, which were built in the 19th century and were previously used as stables, barns and storage rooms. In 1994, next to the old castle, a modern building for the rehabilitation clinic housed here was built on the grounds of the manor.
history
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Glossen was already the seat of a manor in 1440, which later developed into a manor . In 1688 a baroque castle was built for this, which was owned by the noble family von Gersdorff from Upper Lusatia . The exact circumstances of the creation of the palace complex have not been clearly clarified. The builder was probably Christian Ludwig von Gersdorff. After his death in 1723 his son Johann Adolph von Gersdorff took over the manor. In the first half of the 18th century, the castle was damaged in a fire, but was restored a little later.
With the death of the childless lord of the castle, Carl Adolph Siegfried von Gersdorff, Glossen Castle came by inheritance to his wife's family, who sold it to Johann Friedrich Schmaltz in 1827. In 1879 the textile manufacturer Reinhold Hoffmann from Neugersdorf bought the property. His daughter Martha was married to the Berlin police chief Bernd Freiherr von Lüdinghausen . In 1913/14 the couple had various alterations carried out, which gave the palace its current neo-baroque appearance. Her eldest son, Reinhold Freiherr von Lüdinghausen, owned it until 1945 and was then expropriated as part of the land reform .
Initially apartments for resettlers were housed here before the newly founded Free German Trade Union Confederation took over Schloss Glossen as a training center. A children's health home was set up in the early 1960s. In 1992 the descendants of the previous owners of Lüdinghausen founded the Rittergut Glossen GmbH. Since 1994 Schloss Glossen has housed a rehabilitation clinic for psychosomatics and motor skills . The clinic belongs to the Klinikum Oberlausitzer Bergland gGmbH and is dedicated to the treatment of psychosomatic and psychomotor disorders in children and adolescents.
Web links
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , Volume 19 (Amtshauptmannschaft Löbau), Dresden 1910
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of the Rehabilitation Clinic Löbau - accessed on November 1, 2012
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '24 " N , 14 ° 41' 37.9" E