Gröba Castle
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The Gröba Castle is a Baroque mansion and a landmark of the Saxon town of Riesa . Today it is a listed building .
Location and surroundings
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The castle is located in the Gröba district , north of the Döllnitz estuary and the entrance to the Riesa harbor. In the east the park of the palace borders on the Elbe. The castle is surrounded by a park with 300 year old trees. The historical and therefore listed building also includes the farm building and other outbuildings as well as an archway, a stone bench, a fountain and a grotto . The address is Kirchstrasse 46, 01591 Riesa.
history
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Since the 15th century the manor Gröba was the center of a respectable manor of the von Nitschwitz family. From 1692 to 1783 it was owned by the von Arnim family . During this time (1707) the castle in its present form was built by Johann Georg von Arnim, who had acquired the castle by marriage in 1696. In 1783 the castle became the property of Johann Carl Benedict von Wacker, in 1814 to the Rüssing family, in 1855 to the von Kommerstädt family and from 1919 to the von Altrock family . The last owner, Wilhelm von Altrock, was expropriated in 1945. In the following years the tower was demolished. From 1949 to 1975 the castle was used as a retirement home. From 1983 to 1990 it then served as the seat of the Riesa district council and district office . Between 2001 and 2005 the castle was owned by the Werner family, who ran a café there and had a partial renovation carried out in 2003. Due to the failure of the private owner's concept, Gröba Castle stood empty after 2005 and was offered for sale again in 2008. The Berlin company advita has been using the property for assisted living since April 2012.
Due to its proximity to the Elbe, the castle was badly affected during the Elbe floods in 2002 and 2013 .
architecture
The lock is a three-storey building comprising a high base level , the one and two upper floors mansard - hipped roof is provided. The castle has Dutch influences, which can be seen in the alternating plastered facade structure and the roof house with the curved gable in the middle of the roof. A characteristic feature of the castle is the balcony porch, a three-axis central buttress with Altan on four Doric columns and forged balcony railing in the classical style, but this was not added until the 1820th The roof turret, which was demolished in 1945, but can still be recognized on old records, also belonged to the same architectural style. Striking is the Hood Mold from sandstone to the central window of the first floor, the two arms of a tympanum of the coronet shows a count. The coats of arms represent the builders of the castle, Johann Georg von Arnim (left coat of arms) and his wife Magdalena von Nitzschwitz (right coat of arms).
owner
| owner | Period |
|---|---|
| Von Nitzschwitz family | 1484 to 1691 |
| Arnim family | 1696 to 1783 |
| Johann Carl Benedict von Wacker | 1783 to 1814 |
| Rüssing family | 1814 to 1855 |
| Von Kommerstädt family | 1855 to 1919 |
| Von Altrock family | 1919 to 1945 |
Many of the former owners are buried in the neighboring church of Gröba .
literature
- Matthias Donath : Castles between Elbe and Mulde , Meißen 2007, p. 126 f.
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Amtshauptmannschaft Grossenhain (Land) , Dresden 1914, pp. 87–97.
- MG: Gröba , in: Gustav Adolf Poenicke : Album of the manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony . Volume 2: Meissner Kreis, pages 159–160, Leipzig 1856
- Bruno J. Sobotka (Ed.): Burgen, Schlösser, Guthäuser in Sachsens , Konrad Theiss Verlag, Witten 1996, p. 659
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Castle Gröba in the castle archive
- ↑ Pictures from the Elbe flood in June 2013 ( memento from July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the company homepage of advita GmbH, accessed on June 16, 2013.
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 14.5 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 20.6 ″ E