Halbau Castle
Halbau Castle ( Polish Pałac w Iłowej ) is a castle in Iłowa (German Halbau ) in the Powiat Żagański ( Sagan District ) of the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland .
history
Since the High Middle Ages , there has probably been a residential tower on site that was owned by the von Kottwitz family . In 1440, the residential tower was destroyed by robber barons from the city of Görlitz . In 1626 Christian von Schellendorff had a late renaissance castle built on an island in the Tschirne ( Czerna ) with three storeys, a raised risalit and a tower tower. The main entrance was remarkably designed with three arched portals.
From 1682 the barons of Promnitz were the owners, who redesigned the palace in Baroque style in 1712 and had a west wing added in 1720. After several changes of ownership, the castle was u. a. owned by von Kospoth , von der Recke and von Holleben . From 1902 Friedrich Maximilian von Hochberg was the owner, who in 1905 had the palace redesigned according to a design by Robert Weber. The central tower was given an onion helmet , the facade was redesigned in neo-baroque style, a reinforced concrete vestibule was placed in front of the portal, and the west wing was given a ballroom extension.
Inspired by a trip to Asia, Friedrich Maximilian von Hochberg had the garden redesigned with several partial gardens. A Japanese garden with small watercourses and bridges between islets was created on an island in the Tschirne . From the castle to the west, the Chinese garden extends as a further partial garden, bounded by two backdrop-like clinker walls on a curved floor plan with round and oval window openings that are supposed to be reminiscent of Chinese moon gates . A path leads to the border of the garden, where a staircase and pagoda architecture as a pedestrian bridge leads over a street. Another area was the rose garden enclosed by an ornamental wall. From 1919 the von Alvensleben were the owners. Today the palace park has been extensively renovated.
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, p. 231 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 7 ″ N , 15 ° 12 ′ 21 ″ E