Meisdorf Castle

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New Castle, from the southeast

The Meisdorf Castle is a castle in Meisdorf , a district of Falkenstein in Saxony-Anhalt Harz district . The building was built in 1708 in a twelve-hectare palace park. It is operated as a hotel by the Van der Valk Group.

Geographical location

Left: Location of Meisdorf Castle in Meisdorf, Right: Map of the buildings of Meisdorf Castle

Meisdorf Castle is located on the northern edge of the Lower Harz in the Harz Nature Park . It is located on the southwest edge of Meisdorf near the state road  75, which branches off the L 230 500 m south of the castle and leads northwest to the Ballenstedt district of Opperode . Southeast past the belonging to the castle gardens, flows from the nature reserve Selketal coming Selke .

history

Meisdorf Castle (around 1870)
Coats of arms of the Asseburgers and the schoolsburgers (1710) at the Hermitage

In 1708, Johann Ludwig von der Asseburg (a) (1685–1732) had the so-called Lange building built as a residence on Gut Meisdorf. On February 5, 1716 settlement negotiations between the representatives of Anhalt , the Prussian government and the Baron von der Asseburg took place there because of border disputes , which is the first time the name Schloss Meisdorf is documented.

From 1761 both Meisdorf and the nearby Falkenstein Castle were owned by the court official and diplomat Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg (1721–1797), son of Johann Ludwig von der Asseburg. Since the castle was only used as a hunting lodge and the old Meisdorf house had become too small for the needs of the baron, the baron had a new, more spacious, albeit simple, castle built in 1769 (b) , and the old castle was converted into an official's residence. The new castle, whose facade was facing the town Meisdorf was with this by a 400 step long Linden - and chestnut - Allee connected. He also had the rent office and the forester's house built on the Klusberg next to the old house .

After the builder's death, the castle became the property of the Neindorfischen line of the Asseburg family . When this line was extinguished in 1816 with the death of the cathedral capital Ludwig Busso von der Asseburg (1762-1816), the Falkenstein rule fell to the Eggenstedt-Ampfurtische line. At that time, the Prussian privy councilor and chief hunter Count Ludwig August von der Asseburg (1796–1869) became the owner and laid out chausseen on both sides of the castle to Ballenstedt and Harzgerode . A large park and lush meadows surrounded the castle in its time. In 1822/1823 he also had a large, massive barn and the Hermitage House built on top of a former ice cellar . After his death, his son Count Ludwig II of the Asseburg (1829–1909) inherited the estate.

In 1921/1922 the New Palace was rebuilt by its owner Friedrich Georg Deodat, Count von der Asseburg-Falkenstein (1861-1940) according to plans by the architect Max Brockert , adding the tower and the side wing. In 1910 he had the first alterations made to the castle and the barn built in 1822 was converted into apartments.

From 1944 to 1945, Meisdorf Castle served as a warehouse for historical archives and files of the Political Archive of the Foreign Office in Berlin and was designated as the main alternative. The holdings also included secret documents brought from Friedland to Meisdorf, most of which were destroyed in April 1945 shortly before the end of the Second World War.

On April 17, 1945, the New Castle , which was then inhabited by Countess Margarete von der Asseburg-Falkenstein (1868–1945), was hit by a dud . The projectile had penetrated the deer sculpture in the castle park, hit the tower of the castle and remained in a bed on the upper floor. People were not harmed. Then American troops moved into Meisdorf and confiscated the castle. From July 1945 it served as the command post of the Russian army and as refugee accommodation . From 1946 the castle complex was used as a holiday property by VEB Walzwerk Hettstedt , and in 1977 the forester's house became the guest house of the Aschersleben district council .

  • Meisdorf Castle, left Old Castle , right New Castle (2015)

  • New Castle, from the northeast

  • North entrance of the new castle with two statuettes

  • Old castle (built 1708)

  • Count's Rent Office and Hermitage

  • Chalet Ludwig

In 1992 the castle and the buildings in the castle park were renovated after privatization by the Ferdinand Lentjes Holding and converted into a hotel complex. In 2001 the Van der Valk Group took over the hotel complex. The old castle from 1708 serves as a restaurant, the new castle , the count's rent office and the former barn called Chalet Ludwig house hotel rooms. The buildings in the castle park are under monument protection. In the castle park there is a large collection of old trees and in the middle the plastic of a roebuck on a base.

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Panorama of Meisdorf Castle seen from the park - from the left: animal enclosure (covered by trees), playground, sculpture, behind it the Hermitage, Count's Rent Office, old castle and new castle

Surroundings

Mausoleum New Vault of the Asseburgers near Meisdorf Castle

About 450 m southwest of the castle in the deciduous forest next to the Selke is the New Vault mausoleum , which was built in 1834 in neo-Gothic style from raw sandstone. It served the Asseburgers as a burial place until 1928.  A forest path leads to the mausoleum southwest of the L 75. It is included as no. 207 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin; the stamping point is on Selketalstieg .

Another path leads to the nearby castle on a mountain above the Swiss cottage ( ⊙ ), which was used as a forester to 1945 and now Forsthaus is called.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Meisdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Remarks

(a)Another source gives Sybilla Brigitta von der Asseburg in 1708 as the builder of the castle, at that time widow of Johann Heinrich von der Asseburg (1662–1689). Her son Johann Ludwig is said to have moved from Falkenstein Castle to Meisdorf Castle.
(b) There are literary sources for the year 1769, when the New Palace was built, as well as for the year 1787.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Schloss Meisdorf , in Hotel im Schloss , on hotel-im-schloss.de
  2. ↑ a b The historical background of the Parkhotel (Parkhotel Schloss Meisdorf), on vandervalk.de
  3. ^ Handbook of Historic Places in Germany, Volume 11 . 1975, ISBN 978-3-520-31401-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed August 31, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Udo Münnich: Historical boundaries and boundary stones in the northern Lower Harz . In: Harz-Zeitschrift . 62nd volume, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86732-088-7 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ A b Achatz Ferdinand Frhr von der Asseburg, KAV von Ense, FA von der Schulenburg: Memories of Baron Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg . Nicolai, 1842 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed August 31, 2016]).
  6. ↑ a b c d Heimatverein Meisdorf: Chronicle Meisdorf 1184–1984 . Self-published, 1984 ( heimatverein-meisdorf.de [PDF; 422.0 MB ; accessed on August 31, 2016]).
  7. ^ Günter Meissner: General Artist Lexicon . in the Google book search K. G. Saur Verlag, 1996
  8. ↑ Martin Kröger, Roland Thimme: The political archive of the Foreign Office in the Second World War. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Institute for Contemporary History Munich / Berlin, 1999, accessed on August 30, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Chronicle of the Meisdorf Community ( Memento of December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , 2005, Meisdorf, own publication
  10. ↑ Angelika Adam: Insolvency proceedings: Meisdorf golf course has a new owner. In: mz-web.de. August 5, 2001, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Neo-Gothic burial place of the Counts von der Asseburg Falkenstein (information board photo at the Neues Gewölbe mausoleum ), on jensunterwegs.de
  12. ↑ Harzer hiking needle: stamp point 207 / mausoleum , on harzer-wandernadel.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 14.3 "  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 15.4"  E