Groß Germersleben Castle

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Kindergarten group in front of Groß Germersleben Palace (1952)

The Castle United Germersleben is to ruin derelict Grade II listed castle in the village of Great Germersleben the city of Oschersleben (Bode) in Saxony-Anhalt . It was considered to be one of the oldest and best preserved castles on the Magdeburg Börde . On November 3, 1999, most of the castle burned down due to arson. A short time later, the roof structure of the previously largely intact stair tower in the castle courtyard was also destroyed by smoldering fire.

history

In the year 937, at the time when Groß Germersleben was first mentioned under the name Germesleva , there was probably already a low castle in the village . The castle was first mentioned in writing in 1286. At that time it was owned by the Archbishop of Magdeburg and was used, among other things, as a dwelling for the wife of the knight Erich von Esebeck. In the following century and into the late Middle Ages , the Magdeburg archbishops used Germersleben Castle several times as a pledge. In 1489, Archbishop Ernst von Magdeburg enfeoffed his court marshal Hans von Kotze with Germersleben Castle. As a man fief, the castle remained in the possession of the Magdeburg noble family von Kotze in the following years .

Between 1536 and 1601, the von Kotze family had the castle complex rebuilt in the style of the Renaissance . The result was a regular three-wing complex with four three-quarter-round corner towers and an additional stair tower with a spiral stone in the courtyard. In 1596 the Wendelstein was still under construction, and in 1601 the water art was put into operation.

Due to financial difficulties, the von Kotze family sold the palace complex in 1830. The new owners arranged for a modernization with partial rebuilding of the facility. The last owner before the expropriation by the land reform in autumn 1945 was H. von Byern. After that the castle was used for community and residential purposes as well as a kindergarten.

During the Second World War, a part of the Magdeburg City Library was relocated to the palace .

In the mid-1990s, the community of Groß Germersleben sold the castle to a private person who, with public funding, had the castle roofs renewed and the exterior facade renovated in 1996. In 1999 the castle was auctioned again. After the fire, the new private owner from Bavaria received an insurance sum of over DM 2 million that was not invested in the reconstruction.

In March 2013, a right-wing rock organizer bought Germersleben Palace for € 12,000 in order to organize Nazi rock and skinhead concerts on the associated site. However, he could not meet the requirements of the city of Oschersleben (Bode), and so the castle changed hands again in February 2014. Since then it has belonged to a private person from Groß Germersleben.

Monument protection

In the local register of monuments , the ruin of the castle is listed as a monument under registration number 094 12010 in the Groß Germersleben district under the name of Boiren Castle (instead of Byern ).

Personalities

The castle is the birthplace of various personalities. These include:

  • Jacob Kotze (1590–1606) died as a student of chickenpox in Tübingen, which is remembered by a valuable epitaph in the church there
  • Hans Wilhelm von Kotze (1802–1885), Prussian civil servant and district president of Köslin
  • Gebhard von Kotze (1808-1893), Prussian officer, most recently in the rank of lieutenant general

park

Groß Germersleben Palace has a park with a pond, which was added to the list of historic parks and gardens in Germany in 1992.

literature

  • Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer (edit.): Handbook of German art monuments . Saxony-Anhalt, Volume I: Administrative region of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002.
  • Bruno J. Sobotka (Ed.): Castles, palaces, manor houses in Saxony-Anhalt. Stuttgart 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Calendar sheet 2014: November 3rd
  2. ↑ Helmut Harnisch: Peasants, feudal nobility, urban bourgeoisie: Investigations into the connections between feudal rent, peasant and manorial goods production and the goods-money relations in the Magdeburg Börde and the north-eastern Harz foreland from the early bourgeois revolution to the Thirty Years War. Weimar: Böhlau, 1980, p. 146.
  3. ^ Peter Petsch: books as booty. On the history of the Magdeburg City Library between 1925 and 1999. Magdeburg: MDV, 2000, p. 111f.
  4. ↑ Right-wing rock organizer buys castle. TAZ , April 9, 2013
  5. ↑ 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 , Magdeburg.pdf

Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 5.8 "  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 57.4"  E