Klippenstein Castle
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| place | MUSEUM SCHLOSS KLIPPENSTEIN, Schloßstraße 6, 01454 Radeberg 
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| opening | December 20, 1953 |
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Large district town of Radeberg
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Katja Altmann
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The clip flintlock is located in Radeberg in Dresden . The listed castle has housed the "Radeberg Local History Museum" since December 1953 (the museum reopened in 1994 as part of the comprehensive renovation of the castle) and since April 2015 the "Permanent Exhibition on Radeberg Industrial History".
history
The first documented mention of the Radeberg Castle known today comes from the year 1289. The castle on a cone made of granodiorite originally consisted of a stone residential tower with at least three floors, the 70 ells (about 40 meters) high round donjon , a two meter thick and up to 12 meters high defensive wall and another smaller building (kitchen). The historic castle gate was in the southwest wall. With the later construction of an additional outer wall, the lower courtyard and the Zwinger as well as another entrance to the northeast were created. To protect this new entrance, the castle was given a defensive tower (wall tower) on a smaller rock spur , which was used as a prison from 1715 to 1810. This was later colloquially called the “owl or hunger tower” and is now accessible. With the construction of the outer wall, the conditions for the later gradual construction of the outer bailey, west of the historic main castle, arose. The Hofegrundbach (also known as the Käsebach) and the Große Röder , which ran directly below the eastern outer wall, also protected the castle.
In the loan book of 1349/1350 of Margrave Friedrich the Elder , four outworks were mentioned in the Districtus Radeberg . In 1391 the river Pulsnitz became the border between the Bohemian Upper Lusatia and the Margraviate of Meißen for more than 250 years , and the strategic importance of the Radeberg Castle in the series of eastern fortifications of the Margraviate of Meißen in the border region to Bohemia grew.
During the Hussite Wars , the fortress was destroyed around 1430, but then rebuilt. In 1463, Elector Friedrich the Meek sought refuge from the plague in Radeberg Castle .
From 1543 onwards, Duke Moritz had the castle expanded by Hans von Dehn-Rothfelser into the Klippenstein official and hunting lodge. This should give this strategically important place better military security. Further palace buildings were built in Moritzburg and Tharandt . The castle renovation was completed in 1546. The result was a three-wing complex with characteristic renaissance gables and dwarf houses . The sword-side applied Prince equestrian staircase with low and very low levels leads from the lower to the higher courtyard main castle - it allowed to ride up to the top courtyard.
On the orders of Elector Moritz, the official inheritance book for the Radeberg office (part of the Meißnische Kreis ) was created in 1551 . Elector "Father" August stayed at Klippenstein Castle in 1554. On the orders of Elector August, more than 100 hunting dogs were kept for the princely hunts (1590: 120 dogs). The dog stalls were on the opposite side of the Großer Röder. For this reason, the bridge that exists at this point today is called the Hundestallbrücke . Oberlandbaumeister Wilhelm Dilich drew the oldest surviving view of Klippenstein Castle and the city on behalf of the Elector in 1627. Landbaumeister Ezechiel Eckhardt redesigned the castle in 1628. After the Thirty Years War, the castle only served as an administrative center.
The poet August Friedrich Ernst Langbein was born in the palace in 1757. Father Ernst Ludwig Langbein was a judicial officer and grandfather Johann Balthasar Langbein was a bailiff of the Radeberg office, whose seat was in the castle.
A major renovation of the main castle took place between 1772 and 1776, which gave it its present form. Since this time at the latest, the castle has mainly been used by the official administration with the rent office (financial administration) and the judicial office (including the official prison). The Amtsburglehen came to the city of Radeberg in 1840. In 1856 the court office was established in the castle. The conversion from court office to district court took place in 1879.
Younger story
The district court was dissolved in 1952. The museum of local history was opened in December 1953, initially in some of the rooms vacated by the dissolution of the local court. A youth club was established. The Princely Equestrian Staircase collapsed in 1985. The resulting cone of rubble destroyed the lower courtyard.
The town of Radeberg became the owner of the castle in 1993 and extensive renovation work began. On June 16, 1993 the Verein Schloss Klippenstein eV was founded, which emerged from the Kuratorium Schloss Klippenstein formed in 1990 . The purpose of the work of the association is to promote the restoration and the historically accurate restoration and preservation of Klippenstein Castle.
The permanent exhibition on Radeberg's industrial history was opened in 2015.
Structural extensions
On April 6, 2016, the city council proposed the construction of an outside elevator as a draft resolution under the title “Klippenstein Castle - barrier-free tourist development”. Construction began at the end of 2017. In connection with this construction measure, the renovation, redesign and partial replanting of the castle garden with the creation of a new event area took place by mid-2019. At the location of the earlier, heavily weathered western external staircase between the outer and main castle to the former castle entrance and the current southern entrance, a new external staircase has been built as part of the overall renovation.
literature
- Katja Altmann: Klippenstein Castle in Radeberg - an interesting building with a museum use. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter issue 1/1995, pp. 36–38
- Katja Altmann, Angela Stuhrberg: From the castle to the palace - A building history of the cliff stone. in: City of Radeberg / Museum Schloss Klippenstein: Castle and office of Radeberg. Radeberger Blätter zur Stadtgeschichte Vol. 1, Radeberg 2004, pp. 33–48
- Friedrich Bernhard Störzner : The castle of Radeberg , in: What the home tells . Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1904, pp. 13-15. ( Digital full-text edition in Wikisource , digital copy of the SLUB Dresden )
- Radeberg cultural life : local script for Radeberg and the surrounding area
Web links
- Site of Klippenstein Castle
- Klippenstein Castle, Hüttertal Radeberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Architectural cultural monuments of the core town of Radeberg. (PDF; 113 kB) Radeberg City Administration, June 14, 2007, p. 25 , accessed on August 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Website Museum Schloss Klippenstein
- ↑ Hartmut Olbrich: The castle complex at Radeberg. On the building history of the Klippenstein. In: Radeberger Blätter zur Stadtgeschichte; Volume 10, p. 17 ff. Ed. Large district town of Radeberg 2012
- ↑ Chronicle of Klippenstein Castle
- ^ Website Verein Schloss Klippenstein eV