Liebieg Castle
The Niederburg in Gondorf in Rhineland-Palatinate on the Moselle has been known as Schloss Liebieg (also Liebig Castle ) since the end of the 19th century . According to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG), the castle is a protected cultural monument and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
history
The knight Marsilius von Gondorf, mayor in Trier and Münstermaifeld , probably had a castle built between 1255 and 1272 on the site of today's palace. Marsilius from the Koblenz patrician family von der Arken acquired the complex in 1322/36. From 1493 to 1762 the Eifel noble family Muhl von Ulmen owned the castle before it was bequeathed to the Lords of Hees.
After the castle ruins were nationalized by the French administration at the end of the 18th century, the property was auctioned off to the Koblenz merchant Haßlacher and, in 1830, to the Koblenz banker Simon Clemens. Johann Peter Clemens had it converted into a neo-Gothic country house in 1859/60 by the Cologne architect Vincenz Statz . Around 1900, the von Liebieg family added a neo-Romanesque extension.
Johann Peter Clement's daughter Angelika had in 1879 to from Reichenberg in Bohemia originating Baron and Reichsrat Theodor von Liebieg married. Through them the so-called Niederburg came to the von Liebieg family and was later given their name. At the end of the 19th century, under the management of Theodor's younger brother Heinrich, the company, including textile, porcelain, chemical and mechanical engineering factories, was the largest in the Habsburg Danube monarchy . The Liebiegs, ennobled in 1868, belonged to the very rich families of Europe and have become known as art collectors and patrons (see also Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main). Together with his wife Angelika, Theodor was a sponsor and member of the Rheinisches Geschichtsverein , a society of the Rhenish nobility and bourgeoisie to strengthen the Rhenish identity in the Prussian- dominated Rhineland .
Angelika von Liebieg was a committed amateur archaeologist and collector of works of art from the Middle Ages . Large parts of their collection of excavation finds housed in the castle (around 1400 graves of the Roman-Germanic mixed population from the time of the migration and the early Middle Ages were uncovered in the castle park in 1878/90 ) and works of art (handicrafts, sculptures, glass paintings ) from the 13th to 18th centuries. Century were sold from the 1930s, among other things to the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt . The last pieces of the collection and interior furnishings were sold in the art and antiques trade in 1972. After the economic decline of the von Liebieg family, especially due to the expropriation of their possessions in former Czechoslovakia , the castle was subjected to changing uses.
The facility has been privately owned since the early 1990s and is used for events and the presentation of antiques, modern furniture and art.
The chapel built in the park in 1892 originally served as the burial place of the von Liebieg family. In 2010, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the prohibition of the demolition of the castle chapel, which was outsourced under ownership law, was legitimate for reasons of monument protection .
Building development
The appearance of the medieval property before the redesign in 1859/60 is based on a drawing made by archivist Leopold von Eltester in 1841 . After that, the side facing the Moselle had a three-story main building above a cellar. This was immediately followed by a narrow, square tower, which was given an upper floor with a hipped roof and a gallery during the renovation in 1859/60 .
literature
- Hanna Adenauer u. a. (Ed.): The art monuments of the offices of Mayen-Stadt and Mayen-Land, Münstermaifeld, Niedermendig and Polch (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 17, Section 2, half volume 2). Reconstruction based on the status of 1943. Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-590-32144-X , pp. 96-113.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1985, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 , pp. 320–321.
- Martina Holdorf: Castles and palaces on the Middle Rhine . Görres, Koblenz 1999, ISBN 3-920388-71-2 , pp. 30-33.
- Udo Liessem: Comments on the architectural and art history of the defense structures of Kobern-Gondorf . In: Ortsgemeinde Kobern-Gondorf (Ed.): Kobern-Gondorf. From the past to the present . Local community Kobern-Gondorf, Kobern-Gondorf 1980, here pp. 145–152.
- Udo Liessem: Liebig Castle in (Kobern-) Gondorf . In: Jens Friedhoff, Olaf Wagener (ed.): Romanticism and historicism on the Moselle. Transfigured Middle Ages or dominated modernity? Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-518-6 , pp. 155-172.
- Michael Losse : The Moselle. Castles, palaces, aristocratic residences and fortifications from Trier to Koblenz (= castles - palaces - mansions . Volume 3). Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-240-6 , pp. 64-65.
Web links
- Entry on Schloss Liebieg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Internet presence with pictures of the interior and a short story
Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Mayen-Koblenz district. Mainz 2020, p. 38 (PDF; 5.8 MB).
- ↑ Erhard Marschner: Liebieg von, Theodor Freiherr. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 495-497 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm: The late Roman and early medieval grave fields of Gondorf (= Germanic monuments of the migration period . Volume 14). Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-04994-0 .
- ↑ BVerfG, 1 BvR 2140/08 of April 14, 2010, paragraph no. 1–27 , accessed August 21, 2014.
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 38 ″ N , 7 ° 27 ′ 39 ″ E