Juditten Castle
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| place | Juditten |
| Client | Von Kuenheim family |
| Architectural style | Neo-Gothic and Classicism |
| Construction year | 1862/63 |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 19 '26.9 " N , 20 ° 53' 40.7" E |
The Juditten Castle (Palace of Kunheim) is a castle with a park complex and formerly numerous outbuildings in the village of Judyty ( German Juditten ) in East Prussia . It is located on the territory of the municipality of Sępopol ( German Schippenbeil ) in the powiat Bartoszycki in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
location
The palace is located in the village of Juditten, about 18 km northeast of Bartenstein and six kilometers from the border of Kaliningrad Oblast . It is located near Voivodship Road 512 in the Bartenstein- Schönbruch section . The castle was built in 1862/63 in the neo-Gothic and classicism style as the seat of the von Kuenheim family.
history
The place Juditten originally belonged to the noble family von Lesgewang, who came from Prussia . In 1711 it passed into the possession of the von Kuenheim family .
A first building on the site of today's palace, which Maria Elisabeth von Kuenheim had built in 1733, was destroyed in the Napoleonic era and replaced by a classicist building. This, located on a small lake, was rebuilt to its present form in 1862/63 under Wilhelm von Kuenheim, married to Fanny von der Groeben from Groß Schwansfeld. A relief on the south wall of the carriage house with the initials M. E. and the year 1733 still reminds of the old house. The castle estate served as a family seat until the Second World War .
Juditten was one of the oldest stud farms in East Prussia. It was famous for its breeding of purebred Trakehners . Until the end of World War II, a portrait from the late 18th century of Johann Ernst von Kunheim (1730–1818) hung in the palace . The painting was cut up and riddled with holes during the takeover by the Soviet Army in early 1945. The portrait has been restored in recent years. It is shown in the collections of the Regional Museum in Rastenburg.
In 1928 Eberhard von Kuenheim , who was Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG from 1970 to 1993 , was born on the estate.
The castle building survived the war and was then used by government agencies and the Trakehner stud in Liski ( German: Liesken ). In 1998 it was bought by a private person along with the park and farm buildings. The castle building is in relatively good condition, some of the outbuildings were removed in 2014 because they were in disrepair.
architecture
The palace complex consisted of a palace and a large number of buildings for agricultural use, many of which were demolished due to disrepair. The castle stands by a pond in the park, which has two entrances. A large garden was laid out in the park. The old system of paths with different types of trees and plants and the old oak alley are very overgrown.
The palace itself, built in the Gothic and Classicist style, was built on a rectangular floor plan . It is a two-story building over a high vaulted cellar with two terraces. The almost flat roof is designed as a hipped roof , the facades are made of clinker .
Left and right of the stairways to the main entrance are two lions - sculptures that in the 1889 World Exhibition in Paris were acquired. These bronze lions, a sleeping lion and a waking lion were cast in Gleiwitz in 1822 according to a design made in Berlin by Christian Daniel Rauch . Six of the waking lion were made, three of which remained in Poland, in Starościńskie Skały and in the Museum Villa Caro in Gleiwitz, the others are in Germany. Christian Daniel Rauch in Berlin made 15 of the sleeping lions in collaboration with Theodor Kalide .
Due to the risk of theft, the lions were temporarily kept in the stud in Liesken and later returned to their original location.
Numerous portraits of the Kunheims from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries were given to the Masurian Museum in Olsztyn ( Polish: Muzeum Mazurskie w Olsztynie ), today's Museum of Warmia and Masuria .
monument
The palace complex was entered in the register of architectural monuments of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The entire facility is registered under number 774 from February 8, 1968, the park under number 3612 from September 11, 1984.
Web links
- Manfred E. Fritsche: Culture is when someone lends a hand. A “cosmopolitan” like Jan Niezwiestny doesn't need noble resolutions to implement ideas - at Juditten Castle. In: kulturportal-west-ost.eu. Retrieved January 1, 2020 (edition 1362).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The noble family Kunheim-Kuenheim. In: rambow.de. August 3, 2009, accessed May 26, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c Judity - Juditten. In: ostpreussen.net. Retrieved May 25, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Małgorzata Jackiewicz-Garniec, Piotr Matwiejczuk: Mapa miejsc odnalezionych: Judyty i Liski. polskieradio.pl, September 14, 2008, accessed May 25, 2015 (Polish).
- ^ A b Portret Jana Ernesta from Kunheim. Cymelia Muzealne; Muzeum w Kętrzynie, accessed May 25, 2015 (Polish).
- ↑ Zabytki nieruchome woj.warm-maz– pow. bartoszycki. In: Rejestr zabytków nieruchomych. Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa, accessed May 25, 2015 (Polish).