Grüningen Castle (Thuringia)

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Grüningen Castle in April 2010

The Schloss Grüningen in the district Grüningen the city of Greußen in Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia was mainly because known that the early romantic writer Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) there in 1794 his future fiancée Sophie von Kühn met, whose memory after her early death in 1797, he in preserved many of his works. A medallion with a small picture of Sophie and the text: “Sophie von Kühn, née rests on this churchyard, rests in the wall of St. Petri Church in Grüningen. March 17, 1782, d. March 19, 1797 at Grüningen Castle. The bride of the poet Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis). “The grave itself can no longer be found.

The castle stands on a south-sloping terrain on the eastern edge of the place, surrounded on two sides by the Schwarzburger Helbe . The previous castle in the same place, from which the rampart, moat and some remains of walls still come, was first mentioned in 1198. It was probably built by the Lords of Grüningen, from whose line Dietrich von Grüningen came, a later German master of the Teutonic Order . The building was expanded in the first half of the 16th century and practically rebuilt by the father of Sophie von Kühn in 1772 as a two-story plastered building with a mansard roof . In 1903 an extension with a bay window was added.

Around 1900, the Nette family took over the castle and manor. She was expropriated in 1945 and went to West Germany . However, the couple was buried in the Grüningen churchyard during the GDR era. The accountant of the manor Maria Magdalena Paul (1885–1965), a daughter of the Leipzig mission director and honorary professor Carl Paul, lived and worked at Grüningen Castle for decades until 1945 . After the war, a nursing home was set up in Grüningen Castle. Today - after a fundamental renovation in 1998/99 again in a very good structural condition - it is used as the “Schloss Sophie von Kühn” nursing home of the Novalis Diakonie Society. In addition to events organized by the Novalis Society , literature evenings and concerts take place in the castle.

There is a park at the castle

literature

  • Michael Köhler: Grüningen . In: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig, 2003, ISBN 3-910141-56-0 .
  • Otto Zimmermann: Greußen / Thuringia. A reflection from old and new times. Starke-Druck, Sondershausen 2003, ISBN 3-9808465-3-9 .
  • Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the province of Saxony and adjacent areas, Weissensee district . Volume 6th edition 1882, p. 24.

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 46.4 "  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 29.1"  E