Grobers Castle

Gröbers
Villa Knauer Castle

The Gröbers Castle is a stately home in the community Kabelsketal belonging district Schwoitsch the former rural community Gröbers in Saxony-Anhalt . The property is also known as Villa Knauer or Herrenhaus Gröbers . In the local register of monuments , the building is listed as a monument under registration number 094 55132 .

location

Gröbers Castle is located to the west of Schwoitsch, on the east side of Lindenstrasse leading from Gröbers in the direction of Osmünde at the address Lindenstrasse 8 .

history

The house was built in 1857 in neo-Gothic style for Ferdinand Knauer , who worked as a beet sugar manufacturer , after whom the building is named. During a partial renovation in 1999, the interior of the castle was gutted. The buildings are now (as of 2011) empty and threatened with decay. The park is partly overgrown.

description

Above the main entrance of the listed building is a medallion in which a sugar beet and the inscription You owe this house is depicted. The property is surrounded by a park. The former laboratory is located in the park . Noteworthy is the material used for construction, silicified wood, which was a waste product in the mining of the area.

The building had 30 rooms with a total of 1500 m² of living space, as well as an octagonal tower with a Gothic vault .

literature

Sabine Meinel, Birthe Rüdiger (edit.): Hall circle. (= Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 5.) Fly Head Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1997, ISBN 3-910147-64-X , p. 50 f.
Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Sachsen-Anhalt II, administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , p. 228.

Web links

Commons : Villa Knauer (Kabelsketal) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 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 . (PDF) State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on October 15, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Hans and Doris Maresch: Saxony-Anhalt's palaces, castles and mansions . Husum, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-776-7 , pp. 92 .
↑ ^a ^b Villa Knauer. rottenplaces, accessed October 15, 2019 .

51.437363 12.118156Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '14.5 " N , 12 ° 7' 5.4" E

[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 . (PDF) State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on October 15, 2019 .

[Husum-2] Hans and Doris Maresch: Saxony-Anhalt's palaces, castles and mansions . Husum, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-776-7 , pp. 92 .

[Places-3] Villa Knauer. rottenplaces, accessed October 15, 2019 .