Katzdangen Castle

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Katzdangen Castle

Katzdangen Castle is located in Kazdanga Municipality , Hasenpoth District , Latvia . The castle is considered to be one of the most magnificent buildings in the historical Courland of Latvia. It is surrounded by Latvia's largest park. 127 exotic plants have made their home on the 173 hectare area.

architecture

The architect Georg Berlitz designed the palace on behalf of Baron Karl Gustav von Manteuffel in 1800. The architectural style is strongly reminiscent of the style of the Italian master builder Giacomo Quarenghi (1744–1817). The two-storey monumental building is in the Palladian style , consisting of the ground floor, first floor, representation floor and attic floor. There is a round domed hall on the arbor side of the palace. The so-called Kavaliershaus and a farm building fit into the composition along the longitudinal axis.

history

According to a legend, the name Katzdangen comes from a little goat ("kaza" in Latvian) that was enclosed in the walls of the former order castle.

During the revolution of 1905, Katzdangen Castle was sacked by insurgents. The then lord of the castle, Carl Baron Manteuffel-Szoege , who had studied political economy in Bonn, had tried social reforms with the Latvians and promoted Latvian artists. The destruction of his castle so embittered Manteuffel that from then on he devoted himself to the German national cause.

The restoration of the palace after its destruction in 1905 was carried out according to plans by Paul Schultze-Naumburg . During the First World War , the castle was devastated again and then rebuilt. The Katzdangen vocational school for agricultural trade has been housed in the castle since 1930.

Web links

Commons : Kazdanga Palace  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kazdanga Palace and Estate .
2. ↑ Udo Bongartz: Baltic mansions today - social center or luxury hostels? .
3. ↑ Elita Grosmane, Brigitte Hartel, Juta Keevallik, Bernfried Lichtnau (eds.): Architecture and fine arts in the Baltic region around 1900 (art in the Baltic region) . Peter Lang GmbH, International Publishing House of Science, ISBN 978-3-631-33090-6 .

Coordinates: 56 ° 44 '2 "  N , 21 ° 43' 57.9"  E