Guteborn Castle
Guteborn Castle was a castle in Guteborn in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in southern Brandenburg .
history
The Gersdorff family resided in Guteborn since 1397 , although nothing is known about the existence of a mansion building at that time. The rule spread from Ruhland over Guteborn, later also over the places Schwarzbach , Biehlen , Grünewald and Sella . From 1529 Guteborn became the seat of power, after which the castle was built. The builders were probably the Gersdorffs in the main line, to whom Guteborn apparently only had their previously extensive possessions after the sale of Frauenfeld in 1566.
The exact start of construction of the castle is not known. The first mention of this manor house as a castle is the renovation in 1564–1575. Before that one can only read about a knight's seat, seat or estate. A 50 centimeter wide, flat Seiger bell was cast according to its inscription in 1567 by Wolff Hilger in Freiberg, while inside the bell, beautifully decorated with arabesques with vine leaves, the number 1577 was written in slightly raised, blue-colored German numerals.
After the death of his father Heinrich von Gersdorff in 1557, Rudolph von Gersdorff became the owner of Doberlug Castle . After ten years of his reign he had made so much money that he inherited the Gutheborn estate. In the church in Doberlug he damaged and destroyed the altar and the corpse stones of other noblemen, which he then put back in place and walled up in Guteborn. Stones from the Ruhland Castle and from the quarry of the current castle pond were also used for the construction. The castle has been surrounded by a moat since 1622.
The Guteborn manor was owned by Carl Siegfried von Hoym until 1738 . His daughter-in-law Charlotte Sophie acquired Hermsdorf Castle in 1756 , which became the main residence until their son Adolf Magnus von Hoym died in 1775. Guteborn then falls to the last male representative of the Saxon line, Gotthelf Adolph von Hoym (1731–1783). In the 19th century - like Hermsdorf - it came to the princes of Schönburg-Waldenburg . Prince Ulrich von Schönburg-Waldenburg , who wanted to take up permanent residence at Guteborn Castle with his family, had essential repairs carried out in the castle in 1906.
During the 1918 revolution, the castle was a refuge for the Saxon King Friedrich August III. He abdicated on November 13, 1918 at Guteborn Castle. In 1945 the Schönburg family had to leave the castle. The castle was blown up on August 8, 1948. The stables used by an LPG, the rotunda of the chapel and the castle pond have been preserved.
The remains of the building ensemble and the moat are under monument protection with the village center.
architecture
The castle was a four-storey high building, flanked by four three-quarter circular cylindrical domed corner towers, stretched almost exactly in a north-south direction and surrounded by a moat some distance away. A wall stretched within the ditch, with a low, circular-cylindrical turret built in each of the four corners in the 18th century. The ground floor enclosed a spacious hall and other vaulted rooms on Tuscan columns; the two following upper storeys had more storey heights than was otherwise customary for simpler aristocratic castles in the era of the German Renaissance; The opening ratio of the windows is also Italian. The openings were framed by fasciae with a moving cross-section, one third of the total height of which ended on a slope, similar to the castle in Dobrilugk in the Brandenburg Lausitz, built almost a century later.
Literature (selection)
- Steffen Ziegert (Ed.): The Schönburg-Waldenburg family and the Guteborn estate , Verlag am Ilsesee, Großräschen 2010
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Guteborn Castle near castles and city walls in Europe
- ↑ List of monuments of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district (PDF; 128 kB)
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '9.9 " N , 13 ° 55' 35.4" E