Möckern Castle

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Möckern Castle

Möckern Castle is a former castle complex in Möckern in eastern Saxony-Anhalt , which is now used as a school. The castle with an English landscape park is located east of the market square near the town center. The castle is both a monument and as an archaeological monument under monument protection provided.

Emergence

The beginnings of today's castle date back to the 10th century, when a Slavic moated castle was located in its place . As the oldest parts of today's complex, the keep and the moats filled with water have been preserved from the Middle Ages .

The keep , made of field stones , has a square footprint of 11 × 11 m and extends over five floors with access at a height of nine meters. The tower received its baroque, domed and polygonal dome, which is crowned by a lantern , during the construction of the new palace between 1710 and 1715.

New and renovated castles

Möckern Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

The new building was arranged by Christian Wilhelm von Münchhausen , who had become lord of the castle in 1710. He rebuilt the complex , which had been destroyed in the Thirty Years War , and a half-timbered castle was built . A century and a half later, the owner Wilhelm Graf vom Hagen rebuilt the palace building between 1840 and 1863 in the shape that is essentially still preserved today. A rectangular two-storey main building with a 13-part window front was built to the southwest of the keep, which is connected to the tower by a protruding three-storey structure. Instead of the half-timbered building, a castle in the architectural style of the English Gothic with pointed turrets, battlements and window canopies was built.

20th century

The von Hagen family owned the castle until they were expropriated in 1945. From 1952 the castle was rebuilt again in order to be able to use it as a state archive depot. The Gothic ornamental forms were removed and an attic with windows was added. In 1991 the castle was restored with the financial contribution of the state of Saxony-Anhalt for a total of 3.2 million DM and set up as a school building for a primary school. Hans-Dietrich Graf vom Hagen bought back parts of the Möckern estate after German reunification .

Landscape park

Mausoleum for Countess Erika vom Hagen, who died in 1907

The palace park, which is designed as an English landscape park, extends east of the palace . It was laid out in the second half of the 18th century at the instigation of the lord of the castle, Baron Ludwig Philipp von Hagen, with the assistance of the garden architect Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff . Its completion took place under Count Christoph vom Hagen in 1810. The old moat, remains of the city wall and ponds are now integrated into the park. While the park is bordered by the town church in the south , the tea house built in the simple classical style stands near the castle . In the park there is also a square mausoleum made of boulders for Countess Erika vom Hagen, who died in 1907.

In 2017, a support association was founded to preserve the castle park and restore it as an English landscape park.

Web links

Commons : Möckern Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
  2. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture February 25, 2016 Printed matter 6/4829 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
  3. ^ DIE WELT of March 23, 1998 : Laborious tillage on unsafe ground
  4. ↑ schlosspark-moeckern.de - website of the Förderverein Historischer Park Möckern eV Retrieved on January 12, 2018 (German).

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 '24.6 "  N , 11 ° 57' 17.1"  E