Gutenbrunnen Castle
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 39.2 ″ N , 7 ° 18 ′ 7.2 ″ E
Gutenbrunnen Castle (actually Louisenthal Castle ) is a castle from 1723. Gutenbrunnen Castle and Courtyard are located in the local area of Wörschweiler , which belongs to the city of Homburg in Saarland .
location
Gutenbrunnen Castle is located in the Gutenbrunner Tal, a small tributary valley of the Blies , which branches off from the "Pfalzstraße" L 111 between Wörschweiler and Bierbach . North of the valley on the "Klosterberg" lies the ruins of the Wörschweiler Monastery .
Caption: By Gustav die Capell .a. Founded in 1725 in honor of St. Walpurgis, inaugurated in 1726. Lusthaus .b. between 1728 and 1730. died September 17th, 1731 .c. Wörschweiler Monastery .d. Paper mill .e. Black Field .f. Schwartzebach .g. Caninichenberg .h. Chaussée to Homburg .i. New bridge
The healing spring
Under Duke Johann II of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Veldenz , a healing spring was discovered in the Gutenbrunn Valley in 1624. Dr. The source studied by Le Pipre and Michel Judex was quickly forgotten in the turmoil of the Thirty Years War .
In 1671 Gutenbrunnen started talking again. People came from far and wide to seek healing from the water. Dr. Welcker in Zweibrücken was commissioned to examine the water in its components and healing powers. After "diligent and frequent research, he found that it carried sulfur (sulfur), ferrum (iron), nitrum (lye salt), vitriolum and salfixum (salt) with it and cured almost all internal and external diseases". After Welcker's investigations, Duke Friedrich Ludwig gave the order: “It should be kept at Gutenbrunnen as in Wiesbaden and Schwalbach.” The Gutenbrunnen was unrestrained in 1671; In the winter of 1671/72 plans were drawn up for the first expansion of the well system. Wooden barracks for the bathers were made and a well master was hired, but he gave up his position before the time because his income was too low. There was also a desire for prayers or sermons to be held at the well.
In 1712, Aegidius Sartorius, a bath house owner from Wiesbaden, showed great interest in the Gutenbrunnen. He drew up plans for a spa building based on the model of Schlangenbad . He acquired the Schwarzenacker Hof and Gutenbrunn with 70 acres of meadows and 170 acres of arable land and had the foundations for the new bathhouse raised a few feet above the ground. After his money was spent, he ran away. The two subsequent owners could not finish the construction either.
Afterwards it became quiet around the bath and the healing spring has dried up. From August 25, 1722 there is another mention of the Gutenbrunnen water. The landlord Calmus announced that he came every day with fresh water from “the true spring” and gave the jug of water for 6 pfennigs.
History of the castle
From 1723, Duke Gustav Samuel Leopold of Pfalz-Zweibrücken built the little Luisenthal castle with its chapel in Gutenbrunnen Valley . On May 13, 1723 he morganatically married Luise Dorothea, Countess von Hoffmann (1700–1745), the daughter of the Gutenbrunnen hereditary master and hunter Johann Heinrich Hoffmann. He gave her the entire Wörschweiler ban as a morning gift: "... the Gutenbrunn and Schwarzenackerhof along with the Swiss and dairy farms, as well as the brick and glass works not only ad dies vitae [for life], but the right of inheritance with the condition that for Subsistence of a Catholic priest, who would like to serve the chapel we built on the Gutenbrunn in honor of St. Walburgis, should pay 100 guilders every year so that Holy Mass can be read there at least 3 times a week ”.
The chapel dedicated to St. Walpurgis was built in 1725. Its foundation stone dates from April 27, 1724. From 1786 to 1798 it was the church of an independent Catholic parish, to which the settlements Schwarzenbach, Schwarzenacker, Einöd and Ingweiler as well as Webenheim, Mimbach, Bierbach, Kirkel, Neuhäusel, Eschweilerhof, Abstäberhof, Bliesberger- and Audenkellerhof belonged.
The palace was largely destroyed by French revolutionary troops in 1793: The central building was demolished in 1802, only the chapel and a side wing of the palace remained.
Gutenbrunnen Palace and Farm have been owned by the Lilier family since 1827.
description
The castle is only partially preserved. It is privately owned and cannot be viewed. The original facility was built in 1723/25 by Charles (Jean?) François Duchesnois, who represented the builder Jonas Erikson Sundahl at the ducal building administration of Pfalz-Zweibrücken from 1725 to 1731 . Of the buildings from this time, the following have been preserved:
- the baroque Walpurgis Chapel
- the western farm wing of the castle with vaulted cellar , farm building with stables and servants' apartments, today the “manor house” of the court
- the eastern farm wing of the castle, head pavilion and the southern half of the central wing, farm buildings with stables and servants' apartments
There are also buildings and facilities on the farm, some of which date from the second half of the 18th century:
- the so-called "old brewery", the distillery of the Gutenbrunner Hof with vaulted cellar
- Farm buildings, smithy, storage hall, stable
- Embankment wall, slope support wall, wall niche well, well room, trough
as well as an English park with pond , pond island, cast iron statue, boundary wall with corner posts and iron grating.
The entire “Schloss und Hof Gutenbrunn” building ensemble is protected as an architectural monument.
Porcelain factory and paper mill
From 1765 to 1767, the porcelain manufacture of the Zweibrücken dukes was housed in Gutenbrunnen . In 1767 the manufacture was moved to Zweibrücken , where it was continued until Christian IV's death in 1775. The porcelain was labeled PZ (Pfalz Zweibrücken). One of the products from Gutenbrunnen is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The company Villeroy & Boch made replicas of individual parts of this fine porcelain tableware .
The Gutenbrunnen Castle owned a mill on the Blies, which was later converted into a paper mill and cardboard box manufacture. In 1793 the manufacture was confiscated as part of the possession of Gutenbrunnen Castle and declared a French national property. The entire property was auctioned. In December 1854 Peter (III.) Adt bought the paper mill from landowner Georg Lilier and converted it into a factory in 1867. The factory was in operation until 1948.
Trivia
The Wörschweiler painter and draftsman Karl Hussong (1892–1966) lived at Gutenbrunnen until 1939. He described himself with a lot of self-irony as a “painter and tramp”.
literature
- Alfons Gebhardt: The Gutenbrunnen to Wörschweiler. Theological and structural aspects. In: Blätter für Geschichte und Volkskunde , Saarpfalz-Hefte, editor: Saarpfalz-Kreis , year 1987, no. 1, pp. 31–42
- Stella Junker-Mielke: The dreamy park of Luisenthal / Gutenbrunnen Castle, Homburg. In: Stella Junker-Mielke (Hrsg.): Baroque garden pleasure. In search of traces along the BarockStraße SaarPfalz. 1st edition, Regensburg: Schnell and Steiner, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-1851-9
- Ralf Schneider: Palaces and country houses of the dukes of Pfalz-Zweibrücken in the upper offices of Zweibrücken and Homburg in the 18th century. Self-published, 2003
- Heribert Feldhaus: Cistercian monastery and castle Louisenthal / Gutenbrunnen , Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7954-7019-7 .
Web links
- Plans of Luisenthal Castle on schloss-carlsberg.de
- Louisenthal Castle (Gutenbrunnen) old lithography, plan of the entire complex and photos of the castle on saarlandbilder.net
- Website of the Walpurgis Chapel
Individual evidence
- ↑ see A. Gebhardt: Der Gutenbrunnen zu Wörschweiler , p. 31
- ↑ see A. Gebhardt: Der Gutenbrunnen zu Wörschweiler , pp. 31–36; On p. 33 Duke Friedrich Ludwig is confused with Duke Johann II
- ↑ see A. Gebhardt: Der Gutenbrunnen zu Wörschweiler , p. 40 f.
- ↑ a b see A. Gebhardt: Der Gutenbrunnen zu Wörschweiler , page 42
- ↑ Erich Bollinger and Ludwig Persch: 16th calendar for Wörschweiler , 2009.
- ↑ Historical Guide 24 - Gutenbrunnen Wörschweiler ( Memento from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the city of Homburg
- ↑ Erich Bollinger and Ludwig Persch: 14th calendar for Wörschweiler , 2007.
- ^ Gerhild Krebs: The Adt companies on the Saar and in Lorraine (1739-1969) , section Schwarzenacker paper and cardboard factory (1867-1948) .
- ↑ 12. Wörschweiler calendar, 2005