Hecklingen Castle

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Hecklingen Castle

The Hecklingen Castle , also called Gutshaus Hecklingen or City Palace , is a listed building in Hecklingen , a district of the unified municipality of Hecklingen in the Salzland district in Saxony-Anhalt . In the local register of monuments , the castle is listed as a historical building under registration number 094 10120 . The partially overbuilt castle complex under the castle is designated as a ground monument under registration number 428310105 .

history

In 1559, on the site of today's castle, there was a farm yard of the secularized Benedictine and later Augustine convent Hecklingen, which emerged from a medieval castle complex . The Hecklingen monastery was first mentioned in a bull to Pope Innocent II from 1140 and came into the possession of the Dukes of Anhalt after the Reformation and the death of the last nun . In 1571 Christoph von Trotha acquired the site and the building from Prince Joachim Ernst von Anhalt . In 1617 Wolf-Friedrich von Trotha had a castle built, including a monastery building. The renaissance wing with the small tower was built. The baroque wing with its eleven axes and the ballroom was built under Thilo Lebrecht von Trotha in 1721. In 1757 a two-storey baroque extension was added to the building. The main wing was renewed in 1887. The castle was owned by the von Trotha family for almost 350 years until it was expropriated by the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945. Fritz von Trotha was arrested and died in 1947 in the Soviet Buchenwald special camp . The castle was used as a nursing home and apartments were built in it. Today the building is used as a hotel .

description

The entrance portal with a set of stairs is on the courtyard side. A spacious staircase is inside. The ballroom from 1721 on the first floor is richly decorated with stucco ornaments and ceiling paintings and can be used for events today (as of 2015). The side wing with its stair tower on the courtyard side has a standing bay and Renaissance window on the front side .

location

The castle is located at Hugo-Gast-Siedlung 4 in the center of the city. To the west is the church of St. George and Pancratius , which also belonged to the monastery complex. South and east of the river flows Der Beek , who in Mühlengraben finally and in the Bode flows. The park belonging to the castle is located southwest of the building.

literature

  • Bednarz, Ute / Cremer, Folkhard (arrangement): Saxony-Anhalt I: Magdeburg district. Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments, Munich 2002

Web links

Commons : Schloss Hecklingen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 . (PDF) State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on October 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture February 25, 2016 Printed matter 6/4829 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt . (PDF) State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on October 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Hans and Doris Maresch: Saxony-Anhalt's palaces, castles and mansions . Husum, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-776-7 , pp. 111-112 .
  4. ↑ Hecklingen Manor. alleburgen.de, accessed on October 22, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 46.6 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 3.1 ″  E