Lieser Castle
Lieser Castle is a historicist- style castle in the eponymous wine village of Lieser on the Moselle near Bernkastel-Kues , on the opposite bank of Mülheim . Along with the parish church of St. Peter, it is the most striking building in town and has been a listed building since 1981 .
history
The building was built from 1884 to 1887 on the site of the courtyard house of a church estate built in 1710 or a former courtyard in Trier . The Frankfurt architect Heinrich Theodor Schmidt , who also supervised the building, was responsible for the design and planning .
Lieser Castle was the family seat of the industrialist Eduard Puricelli (1826-1893), who was active in the gas business, was a co-owner of a metallurgical company and had branches in Trier and Rheinböllen . Eduard Puricelli was politically active for the Conservative Party and was elected to the German Reichstag in 1867 for the Rhine Province . After winning the Franco-Prussian War , he voted for the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to the German Empire , probably mainly for economic reasons .
Puricelli's two sons died early, his daughter Maria married the high Prussian civil servant Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser in 1880 . The name of the castle, which Maria inherited in 1895, also comes from him. After Schorlemer's move to Koblenz in 1905, they had it extensively rebuilt and expanded. Today the building is divided into two parts: the older part, on the right when viewed from the Moselle, in neo-renaissance style and the younger, somewhat smaller part in art nouveau style . The architect responsible for the renovation and extension, who can no longer be determined today, paid great attention to a uniform appearance by choosing the building material. The different building eras can only be identified by looking at stylistic details.
Kaiser Wilhelm II valued Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser very much and visited Lieser Castle in 1906, 1911 and 1913. Crown Prince Wilhelm and Prince Oskar were also guests there several times.
In 1981 the municipality of Lieser bought the property for 600,000 German marks from the Schorlemer-Lieser family. The last resident was the widow Baroness von Schorlemer-Lieser, Marliese Rheinen. The building then stood empty for ten years, but was used once a year for the Whitsun Castle Festival. In February 2001 an investor from Bad Salzuflen bought the house for two million euros. Since 2007 it has belonged to the Killaars family who, in addition to the purchase price of 1.2 million euros, are investing a further 12 million euros to safeguard the existing building and to convert it into a castle hotel. One of the largest sequoias in the area had to be felled for the associated underground car park. The hotel was scheduled to open in December 2016.
After no operator was found for the planned luxury hotel, the castle is up for sale again.
On April 25, 2018, the daily newspaper "Trierischer Volksfreund" reported that Lieser Castle will now open as a luxury hotel in October 2018. The operator, the Dutch Odyssey Hotel Group, operates under the Autograph Collection brand. The head chef is the former sous chef of the three-star Aqua restaurant in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Wolfsburg, Wolfgang Preßler . After more than ten years of renovation and renovation work, the opening did not take place until summer 2019.
construction
The building is located between the Uferstrasse and the Lieserer Schlossberg in the back and extends almost in an east-west direction. All rooms on the different floors have access through the central hallway, a typical feature of English country houses. The ground floor was built in reddish sandstone , the floors above were built with slate stone typical of the region. The window frames of the upper floors are made of Udelfang sandstone , all pillars of the castle were built with Burgpreppach sandstone . The roof is also covered with slate, the material of which comes from the Cauber tunnel.
In order to reduce possible flood damage to the Moselle, which at that time was not yet canalized , there were only utility and storage rooms on the ground floor at the time of construction, where, for example, the wine was bottled; These were architecturally designed accordingly restrained. The upper floors, which were extremely richly designed, were different. Various stylistic devices such as tiled stoves, lead glazing and door fittings are still preserved and should retain their function even after the planned renovation. The castle had its own power station since 1901.
First floor
The first floor represents the bel étage of the house with many halls of different sizes and was intended for representative purposes. The design elements are correspondingly complex. The central room is the octagonal ballroom, which has direct access from the central stairwell. It has wood paneling , sculptures and a ceiling painting , and the other rooms are also paneled with wood. In the central stairwell there are large-scale wall paintings by the Frankfurt painter C. Grätz, on which many well-known monuments on the Moselle are depicted. In addition, the 19 m² chapel was set up in the east , the floor tiles of which were made by the Mettlach ceramic manufacturer Villeroy & Boch according to the architect's plans . There were also numerous guest rooms, a billiard room and a kitchen.
Numerous individual elements are worth mentioning. For example, comes a larger than life Madonna figure at a corner near the palace chapel in the east of the building complex by the sculptor Peter Fuchs (1829-1898), the long time at the Fabric of the Cologne Cathedral worked. The pictures on the main facade, which idealize the life of industry and agriculture, are equally important.
Second floor
The second floor was reserved for the castle owner's family. Here was the living room with a large marble table and marble fireplace, the bedrooms, other private guest rooms and the rooms for the domestic servants. The copper plate of the fireplace is a work of art by Hubert Salentin from Düsseldorf .
Planning
When converting to a hotel, it is planned to set up the reception on the first floor next to the foyer , a library, a breakfast room and other rooms for the restaurant in the middle and left-hand third of the building, as well as the kitchen as an extension adjacent to the park. Guest rooms are to be accommodated throughout the house. Due to the multiple structure of the building, the room size is between 30 m² and almost 100 m².
Lieser Castle Winery
During Schorlemer's time, a wine press for the company's own wines was attached to the castle . In the 1970s, the 8.5 hectare vineyards were sold several times, the name was damaged during this time, but was continued. The winery includes the well-known individual layers Juffer and Juffer Sonnenuhr (Brauneberg), Himmelreich (Graach), as well as Niederberg-Helden and Schlossberg (Lieser), which are exclusively planted with Riesling . A specialty of the house are sweet predicate wines.
Trivia
The castle with the castle garden was one of the backdrops for the film Moselle trip out of lovesickness from 1953.
literature
- Michael Losse : Puricelli family home - Lieser Castle on the Moselle. In: Burgen und Schlösser , Volume 34, No. 2, 1993, ISSN 0007-6201 , pp. 99-106 ( excerpt ).
- Michael Losse: Lieser on the Moselle. Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-88094-740-6 , pp. 12–19 ( Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 384).
- Franz Schmitt: Chronicle Weindorf Lieser. Paulinus Druckerei, Trier 1988, pp. 456-490.
- Heinrich Theodor Schmitt: family house of Mr. Eduard Puricelli to Lieser ad Mosel. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . Volume 23, No. 36, 1889, pp. 209–210 ( PDF ; 122.3 MB).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry on Lieser Castle in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ F. Schmitt: Chronik Weindorf Lieser , p. 458.
- ^ History of the castle. ( Memento from October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ F. Schmitt: Chronik Weindorf Lieser , p. 474.
- ↑ Article at AHGZ, accessed on December 7, 2016
- ↑ Winfried Simon: Luxushotel Schloss Lieser is for sale . Trierischer Volksfreund from January 31, 2018
- ↑ Wilfried Simon: Luxury hotel Schloss Lieser on the Moselle should open in October . Trierischer Volksfreund from April 25, 2018.
- ↑ Schloss Lieser: It’s finally going , Trierischer Volksfreund from April 3, 2019
- ↑ M. Losse: Familienwohnhaus Puricelli , p. 102 ( excerpt ( memento of the original from 19 July 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. )
- ↑ Website of the castle. Retrieved February 3, 2016 .
- ↑ F. Schmitt: Chronik Weindorf Lieser , p. 487.
- ^ Entry on Peter Fuchs in Art Encyclopedia , accessed on May 30, 2010.
- ↑ wein-plus.eu , accessed on September 6, 2012.
Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '2.5 " N , 7 ° 1' 10.1" E