Neudeck Castle (Uebigau-Wahrenbrück)
Neudeck Castle is a listed castle in the Neudeck district in the small town of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg .
The castle, dating from the 16th century , with the associated parks and the farmyard is only a few hundred meters to the right of the current course of the Black Elster and is separated from the rest of Neudeck by an oxbow lake.
After the Second World War, a police school, closed in 1999, was located on the site and in the associated historical buildings for decades. In the period that followed, all plans for subsequent use by a private investor and a development association that later followed him failed. A large part of the facility is currently (2016) in need of renovation.
Neudeck Castle is to be auctioned on July 1, 2017.
history
Neudeck under the von Brandenstein family
A knight's seat in Neudeck was first mentioned in a document in 1474.
The two-storey main wing of the castle, which still exists today, was finally built in 1521 by Lupold von Brandenstein , who had owned Neudeck since 1504. The von Brandenstein family lived in many places in Thuringia in the Middle Ages and so they became one of the wealthiest families in the area in the Elbe-Elster area, as their tax registers documented. In 1545 Moritz Christoph von Brandenstein was entrusted by the Elector with the villages of Neudeck, Bahnsdorf and Wiederau . Friedrichsluga also followed in 1548 . After the death of his son Sigmund von Brandenstein in 1579, however, this rule was divided between his sons in the dominions of Neudeck and Wiederau.
From Schleinitzen to razor blade manufacturer Otto Roth
The castle remained in the possession of the von Brandenstein family until 1615 and the castle, which was badly damaged during the Thirty Years' War , finally came into the possession of the old Meissnian noble family von Schleinitz , who at that time also held the lordly seats of Saathain and Mückenberg on the Schwarzen Elster . The building was extended to the east and provided with a round corner tower. In the middle of the 17th century , a prominent large polygonal stair tower was finally added to the north facade.
In the village church of Wiederau , where Neudeck was incorporated, the Schleinitze had a magnificent patron s lodge built on a winding corner column in 1675 with round pane glazing , which has been preserved to this day. While Saathain and Mückenberg remained in the possession of the aristocratic family until 1716, the Neudeck rule was sold to Johann Patow from Mallenchen in 1687 . Under his heir, Johann Friedrich von Patow, who was raised to the nobility in 1733, the building, which had been medieval until then, was given its baroque shape from 1711 through renovations.
In 1763 the castle came into the possession of Hartmann von Landwuest; In 1771 it went into the possession of Major Gottlob August von Trebra and in 1819 to the Chamberlain of Napoleonshöhe Castle and former Mayor of Magdeburg Heinrich von Blumenthal . After his death in 1830 at Neudeck Castle, it finally came into bourgeois hands. In 1842 it was sold to Christian Karl Sahland.
After Major Viktor von Lettre bought Neudeck Castle at the beginning of the 20th century, the castle was comprehensively renovated between 1904 and 1905. The last owner before the end of the Second World War was the Berlin razor blade manufacturer Otto Roth ( ROTH & LINDER ).
Development since the Second World War and today's situation
After the Second World War , the Neudecker Schloss housed a police school , which continued to exist until 1999 after the fall of the Wall . In 2002 the state of Brandenburg sold it to a private investor. After various plans for subsequent use by this investor all failed, the unused buildings fell into disrepair. A development association “Schloss Neudeck” eV founded in 2010 finally managed to withdraw this failed privatization and concluded a lease agreement with the state for a period of 30 years. The aim was to renovate the palace, manor and park in accordance with historical monuments in order to make it usable again and to manage it in a cost-covering manner.
In August 2015, however, the state of Brandenburg decided that the property was dispensable and that it would therefore no longer provide any financial means to Neudeck Castle. In order to counteract the ongoing decline, however, at least around 200,000 euros annually are required for renovation measures. Against this background and that some areas, according to the recommendation of the Elbe-Elster district, should be closed to visitors due to the poor structural condition and public events should no longer be possible, the support association "Schloss Neudeck" saw no longer any perspective To operate and develop the property in a meaningful way. Which ultimately led to it disintegrating.
architecture
The Neudecker Schloss, which was surrounded by a moat in the past , consists of a two-storey main wing, the east gable of which ends with late Gothic tracery and thin branches. A round corner tower adjoins the main wing to the east. On the north side of the building there is a polygonal stair tower with a lantern , tail hood and weather vane. The southern facade is characterized by a four-axis central projectile. In front of it, a spacious terrace area with an outside staircase extends towards the garden.
The palace is adjoined by a park that opens to the south and east. If the plans for the reconstruction of the palace in 1711 did not include a park, the pleasure gardener Johann Christoph Gallart appears in the documents for the first time in 1766. A baroque park belonging to the castle and preserved in its basic form until around 1900 was then probably laid out under the owner Gottlob August von Trebra.
When Viktor von Lettre had extensive renovation and renovation work carried out on the palace from 1904 to 1905, the associated park was also redesigned and expanded. According to the plans of the renowned architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg (1869–1949), who was also responsible for the work on the castle, an extensive garden was laid out on the central projections of the castle. The complex is symmetrically structured, based on the former baroque garden , baroque elements have been added. The inner part of the garden is separated from the outer landscaped park by a wall with a wrought-iron gate and corner pavilions .
The former farm yard of the castle can be found northeast of the main building. A large part of the buildings with horse stables, slaughterhouse and dairy that have survived today were built between 1904 and 1905, again based on plans by the architect Schultze-Naumburg.
Literature (selection)
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , pages 59-62, ISBN 978-3-88462-152-3 .
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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 then remove this notice. , accessed October 10, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district, part 1: The city of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , pp. 56–62, ISBN 978-3-88462-152 -3
- ↑ Wiederau - on the dispute between community and property . In: The Black Magpie . No. 399 , 1930.
- ↑ Franz: Historical news about Wiederau . In: The Black Magpie . No. 214 , 1914.
- ↑ Sybille Gramlich / Irmelin Küttner: Elbe-Elster district part 1: The town of Herzberg / Elster and the offices of Falkenberg / Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben and Schönewalde , pp. 230-233, ISBN 978-3-88462-152-3
- ^ "Amt Falkenberg / Uebigau with its communities" . 1st edition. Stadtbuchverlag W + I GmbH and Co.KG Zeuthen, 1996, p. 12 (brochure).
- ↑ Description of a ROTBART razor blade at www.museen-sh.de , accessed on October 28, 2016
- ↑ a b Sylvia Kunze: What is the future for the castle in Neudeck? in Lausitzer Rundschau , March 29, 2006
- ↑ a b c The Neudeck district on the homepage of the city of Uebigau-Wahrenbrück, accessed on October 28, 2016
- ↑ Sylvia Kunze: “Friends of Neudeck Castle now throws in the towel” in Lausitzer Rundschau, March 19, 2016
- ^ A b c d Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 732-733 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 59 " N , 13 ° 16 ′ 59.7" E