Lomnitz Castle
The Lomnitz Castle (Pol. Pałac Łomnica ) located in the district Łomnica (dt. Lomnitz ) of the community Mysłakowice (German Ziller-Erdmannsdorf ) in Jelenia Góra County (District Hirschberg) in the Province of Lower Silesia .
history
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In the Middle Ages there was a moated castle at the confluence of the Lomnitz and the Bober, which belonged to the Lomnitz manor. From 1475 to 1654 this was owned by the Silesian noble family von Zedlitz . From 1654 to 1737 it belonged to the Thomagnini family, who lived in Bohemia, and in the 1720s they had a baroque palace built in place of the castle. The famous Silesian Baroque master builder from Liegnitz, Martin Frantz , who, among other things, also built the Gnadenkirche in Hirschberg , is believed to be the master builder . The most important owner of the estate was the Hirschberg linen dealer ("Schleierherr") Christian Mentzel (1667–1748), who bought the castle in 1738 and had the master builder Martin Frantz rebuilt it. This Christian Mentzel was a generous patron for Hirschberg and Lomnitz, he was u. a. financially involved in the construction of the Gnadenkirche in Hirschberg and donated the baroque organ for this church. His crypt is located in a burial chapel at the Gnadenfriedhof in Hirschberg. Around 1800, Mentzel's son had another building built in the early Classicist style next to the castle, the so-called "Widow's Castle" (small castle).
The castle remained in the possession of the Mentzel family until 1811. Afterwards it belonged to Johann Georg Flack from Schmiedeberg from 1811 to 1820 and to Baron Moritz von Roth from 1820 to 1835. In 1835, the Prussian legation councilor Carl Gustav Ernst von Küster bought the castle and the Lomnitz rule from his heirs. In the years 1828–1844 he had the palace rebuilt in the Biedermeier style by the architect Albert Tollberg, a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel ; the monumental staircase was created. Only the baroque entrance portal with the balcony above remained of the baroque style elements. The current condition goes back to this last renovation.
The last owner, Mark-Albrecht von Küster, died in a plane crash in 1941. His widow Constanze von Küster, b. von Schweinichen, fled to the west in 1945. The Lomnitz estate and castle remained in the possession of the von Küster family until 1945 and was then expropriated and nationalized. The large castle was used as a school until 1979, then stood empty until 1992 and fell into ruin. The administration of the state agricultural property was housed in the small castle. The park was no longer maintained and overgrown.
Lomnitz Castle was entered on August 27, 1980 under 653 / J in the register of architectural monuments of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
Reconstruction after 1991
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The grandson of Mark-Albrecht von Küster, Ulrich von Küster (born 1963), founded a limited liability company with a Polish partner and bought the ruinous Great Castle in 1991 in order to subject it to a total renovation and to restore it as a family seat. In 1995 he also bought the widow's castle and about ten hectares of park and meadow. Together with his wife Elisabeth von Küster (née Ebner von Eschenbach) it was possible to renovate the widows' castle by 1996 and to expand it into a hotel with a restaurant. The large park was gradually cleared and restored. In the park there is a memorial in memory of the writer Stefan Andres , whose wife came from Lomnitz and who wrote his novella El Greco paints the Grand Inquisitor here .
Cultural and educational center
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Private donors, foundations and associations also contributed to the restoration of the Great Palace. It is now used for cultural events and educational purposes. In the Great Palace, the ballrooms on the ground floor were restored and the old wall paintings and marble imitations were restored to represent the former splendor of a baroque country palace. The association for the care of Silesian art and culture, founded by Klaus Ullmann in 1993 . V. (VSK) has its seat in the castle. There is also the permanent exhibition Castles in the Hirschberg Valley . The old storage facility has also been renewed in recent years. A Silesian prayer house (copy of the Schönwaldauer prayer house) is currently being rebuilt in the park.
Since March 2019 there has been a permanent exhibition on three floors in the museum, "Three Centuries of Life in Lomnitz Castle". On display are furniture from different eras, a tea salon from the Biedermeier period, the office of the previous owner, a rich linen dealer as well as the historic castle kitchen in the vaulted cellar and a classroom from the times of the Polish People's Republic.
literature
- Wojciech Kapałczyński, Piotr Napierała: Zamki, pałace i dwory Kotliny Jeleniogórskiej. Wrocław: Fundacja Doliny Pałaców i Ogrodów Kotliny Jeleniogórskiej, 2005, pp. 94-102. ISBN 83-92292-21-9 .
- Arne Franke: The Silesian Elysium . Potsdam 2004
- W. Kapalczynski: Castles, palaces and manor houses in the Hirschberg Valley. Jelenia Gora 2005.
- Arne Franke among others: The valley of the castles and gardens . Berlin / Jelenia Gora 2003
- Alexander Duncker : The rural residences, castles and residences of the knightly landowners in the Prussian monarchy along with the royal family, house fideicommiss and casket goods in lifelike, artistically executed, colored representations and accompanying text , 1857–1883.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument Protection Register
- ↑ Lutz Schulmann: Former Wiesbadeners Elisabeth and Ulrich von Küster have created a tourist gem with Lomnitz Castle. In: Wiesbaden Courier. July 1, 2015, accessed March 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Stefan Andres biography on the website of the Stefan Andres Society, accessed on February 21, 2014.
- ^ Association for the Care of Silesian Art and Culture e. V. (VSK) Accessed April 1, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 35.7 " N , 15 ° 48 ′ 31.3" E