Hue de Grais Castle
The Hue de Grais Castle , also known as Neuwilckesches manor known, is in Wolkramshausen in the district of Nordhausen in Thuringia .
history
The manor house of a small manor with 300 Mg of agricultural land was originally built around 1680. Around 1720 it was rebuilt on the remains of the old wall by order of an ennobled farmer's son, Walrad Ludwig von Wilcke (1687–1747). From 1752 to 1754 there was a renovation with changes to the room layout and construction of the dwelling houses by his son Wilhelm Ludwig von Wilcke (1721–1785), during which the manor house was furnished in the Rococo style. In 1764 he had the baroque library built on the north side at right angles to the main house.
In 1782 the estate came into the possession of this family through the marriage of Wilhelmine von Wilcke (1758–1826) to Achilles François Ursin Hue de Grais (1734–1799), in which it remained until 1956. The Counts Hue de Grais are a Norman noble family who fled France during the French Revolution and found refuge at the court of Hessen-Kassel . The best- known resident was Count Robert Hue de Grais (1835–1922), district president of the Potsdam administrative district and author of the 26-edition handbook of the constitution and administration in Prussia and the German Empire . After the death of his unmarried daughter, Elsa Countess Hue de Grais, the castle stood empty from 1956 to 1990. From 1980, the first extensive maintenance work on the building and park was carried out by the Kulturbund der DDR .
After the political change
From 1990 to 1993 the current owners carried out renovation work. In 1997 the manor house with library, courtyard and park was returned to the Hue de Grais community of heirs and has since been inhabited and renovated by Robert's great-grandson Manfred von Werthern .
The legally responsible G. & H. Murmann Foundation, administered by the German Foundation for Monument Protection (DSD), provided 35,366.80 euros in 2017 for the conservation and reassembly of the canvas covering the so-called ship's room on the upper floor of the building. In 2018, the DSD will continue its decades of support for the Hue de Grais. Additional funds are to follow for the restoration of the wall coverings in the landscape room.
Buildings, courtyard and park
The three-sided courtyard with the two-storey baroque mansion in simple half-timbered construction and broken stone plinth as well as the crooked hipped roof outshines the agricultural outbuildings. The east facade is adorned by a dwelling house, on the courtyard side an outside staircase leads to the terrace in front of the house. The library was built as a solid structure with a mansard hipped roof and a facade structured by pilasters. A segment-arched ornamental gable frames the von Wilke / von Wurmbsche alliance coat of arms .
The interior of the castle documents the artistic sense and taste from the time of Augustus the Strong and the following decades; the portrait of the king adorns the wood-paneled dining room. Due to the position of Wilhelm Ludwig von Wilcke as colonel in the Saxon service, artists of the Dresden Rococo were significantly involved in the interior design of the house. The walls of almost all rooms were covered with painted panneaux on canvas in the Dutch style, adorned with classic landscapes, seascapes and scenes from Watteau . The house has been decorated with paintings, stoves and valuable furniture.
The farm buildings on the south side from the 17th / 18th centuries Century are simple half-timbered buildings on partially massive ground floor. The courtyard, which is closed on three sides, is separated by a trellis fence from the baroque park, which was reconstructed in 1992 and which has fundamentally changed in its structure since 1720. In this there are water areas and a fountain , hedges , old rose bushes, terraces and arcades . Originally there was still a summer house in the south-east corner of the park, but it was demolished in the 1950s.
literature
- Wolfgang Braun, Bernd Sternal: Castles and Palaces of the Harz Region, Volume 4 . 2nd Edition. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7322-9149-6 .
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
- Udo von Alvensleben : Visits before the fall, noble seats between Altmark and Masuria . Ed .: Harald von Koenigswald. Frankfurt / M.-Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-548-35641-9 .
- Susanne Hinsching: Castle "Hue de Grais" Wolkramshausen: Art-historical analysis of a noble residence from the 18th century . Nordhausen 1994, ISBN 3-929767-08-2 .
Web links
- Website castle Hue de Grais. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
- Manor house "Hue De Grais". In: German Foundation for Monument Protection . Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hue de Grais Wolkramshausen - Schiffszimmer is accessible again nnz-online.de May 20, 2018.
- ↑ Entry on Castle Hue de Grais in the private database "All Castles". Retrieved September 17, 2015.
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 18.4 " N , 10 ° 44 ′ 19.4" E