Mönchhof Castle
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Mönchhof Castle is the name of a baroque castle complex in Siebleben near Gotha , Salzgitter Straße 90. It is a listed building .
history
In 1174 the Mönchhof was mentioned under the name "Reinhardsburg" as the cloister courtyard of the Benedictine Abbey Reinhardsbrunn . Landgrave Ludwig III. held a district court at Siebleben that year . Siebleben was one of the four landgrave dinghies (courts of law) in the 12th century. After Reinhardsbrunn was looted and destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525, the monks fled to Gotha. In 1543 the monastery courtyard was abolished and the monastery property fell to the Electorate of Saxony .
Siebleben has been part of the newly founded Duchy of Saxony-Gotha since the 17th century. The Mönchshof was acquired by the Princely Saxon Gotha Councilor and Chancellor to Friedenstein Adolph Christian Avemann (1646–1738), whose father, Gotha Chancellor Ernst Ludwig Avemann , died here in 1689. In 1717 the Siebleber pond was artificially created. Containment dams were piled up on the residual water of a post-glacial silted lake and a pond system for fish farming was created for the ducal house.
In 1729 the palace and a park were built in the baroque style. After Avemann's death in 1738, the complex came into the possession of his son-in-law, the Anhalt-Zerbstischen Privy Councilor Dietrich Ernst Heinrich von Linsingen , who used it as a retirement home until his death in 1762. In Galetti's time, his heirs were still the owners of the monk's court.
In 1799, Duke Ernst II (1772–1804) bought the castle for 40,000 gold marks in 1799 for his son August (1772–1822) as a wedding present and summer residence . The over 10 hectare park was redesigned as an English landscape garden with groups of trees , avenues and ponds and surrounded by a wall made of Seeberg sandstone . Two gates allowed entry, one where the main entrance to the palace complex today welcomes visitors and one at the south-western corner of the park at the beginning of the Lindenallee. The planning was done by the Dessau landscape gardener Johann Friedrich Eyserbeck . Later the castle was also used as a guest house and, especially in winter, as a hunting lodge . Several illustrious people were guests at Mönchhof Castle, B. the landscape painter Louis Gurlitt .
In 1918 the building became state property. From 1919 to 1922, the Reichstag MP of the KPD , Hermann Duncker, lived here . In 1937, the former Duke Carl Eduard donated the property to the city of Gotha. During the GDR era, the facility fell into disrepair.
In 1999 the baroque building was acquired by the Gutbrod brothers and renovated as an apartment building. Only the massive outer wall remained original. The roof construction was - different from the original condition - renewed as a purlin roof without the typical slip- ons, which affects the overall impression.
Another change of ownership followed in 2013. The garden was renovated in the baroque style over an area of 1.8 hectares. This also included the reconstruction of the castle garden wall and the uncovering and partial reconstruction of a vaulted cellar. Today the building is used as an apartment building and holiday home. The two castle ponds and the Mönchspark are openly accessible to visitors and are used as a local recreation area. Immediately north of the building (Salzgitterstrasse 90), a modern residential complex was built in 2015 that disrupts the overall picture. During the excavation for the cellar construction, old building foundation walls were found, the origin and meaning of which has not yet been clarified.
literature
- Johann Georg August Galletti : History and Description of the Duchy of Gotha , Volume 3, pp. 62–63
- Matthias Wenzel : Time leaps in Gotha , Sutton-Verlag , Gotha 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-055-5
- Uwe W. Cölln: From the chronicle of Siebleben - forays through place, time and nature , Verlag Rockstuhl, Gotha 2006, ISBN 3-937135-90-1 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 27.5 " N , 10 ° 44 ′ 21.8" E