Neusorge Castle
Neusorge Castle is a decaying baroque palace complex in the Zschöppichen district of the city of Mittweida in the Saxon district of Central Saxony . The knight's seat was the center of the reign of Neusorge .
In the 1920s, the castle served as a children's home for the Swedish philanthropist Elsa Brändström , who was memorialized there in 2014.
history
Zschöppichen was first mentioned in a document in 1350 as the property of the Knights of Wolkenburg and was named as a knight's seat in 1445. In the middle of the 15th century, Zschöppichen passed to the von Stockhausen family and from them to the von Schönberg family by inheritance . The name Neusorge was coined by the von Schönberg family , who built a renaissance castle in place of the castle after a fire in 1579. In 1610, Neusorge was sold to the Elector Christian II of Saxony and in 1689 came into the hands of the von Arnim family .
General von Arnim built the palace complex in baroque form in 1720, but it was destroyed again in 1745 by fire after a lightning strike. The reconstruction, presumably according to plans by the Saxon rococo architect Johann Christoph Knöffel, began in 1751, but was not made until the end of the 1760s due to the Seven Years' War and a brief change of ownership to Gotthelf Adolph von Hoym (1756/67) by Carl Sigismund von Arnim (1700–1773) Years completed. Completed means: the manor, the courthouse, the orangery and the park were completed. Also inn, pigeon house and sheep farm. The castle itself remained as a closed shell and was used as a barn and distillery. Carl Sigismund von Arnim sold the almost rebuilt Neusorge Castle to Heinrich von Bünau . Through several interim buyers, Neusorge came into the possession of the von Carlowitz family , who sold the castle to the Leipzig Welfare Association before the First World War, which used the orangery and castle as a children's home.
In 1923/24 Elsa Brändström took over Schloss Neusorge in order to house a children's home for children of former German prisoners of war who died in Russian captivity. In addition to 60 regular children , half or full orphans who grew up in family groups, the castle accommodated groups of 150 recreational children for a few weeks . By the time Elsa Brandström gave up the house in 1931, 2931 children came here to relax. The Leipzig Welfare Association got the house back, but its use was ended by the National Socialists in 1934 and the castle was then used as the NSKK's motorsport school. The manor was divided into 10 farms as the so-called 1st Saxon farmers' settlement. After the Second World War, the castle served as a refugee home, briefly as a sports school and became a legal entity for popular education in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district, where it was again used as a children's home and school for difficult-to-educate children and young people, named after the socialist Spanish fighter Fritz Pavlovsky until 1993.
Since then the castle has stood empty and fell into disrepair. In 2014 the Swedish ambassador inaugurated a memorial in honor of Brändström.
investment
The baroque palace is an eleven-axis three-wing complex (park side: 13 axes) with a courtyard . The plastered building has two full floors and a mansard floor on a large vaulted cellar; There are three full storeys on the park side. Before that there is a gatehouse with the mirrored courtyard as farmyard of the former Gutsbetriebes, located west of the great on its side wings at right angles Orangerie followed, while on the eastern side wing of the gatehouse the Erbgericht connects called building. The farm yard, which is made of quarry stone, is single-storey with bat dormers in the pointed roof. The formerly baroque park in front of the baroque terraces has become overgrown. The pond is silted up. The statues of the four seasons by the sculptor Johann Gottfried Knöffler were not sold by the Carlowitz family, but were lost in the air raid on Dresden in 1945. A new prefabricated children's home was built in the park in 1984 .
Web links
- Neusorge Castle on Sachsens-Schlösser.de
- www.neusorge.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Suhr: Elsa Brandström (1888–1948) , in: Adelheid M. von Hauff (ed.): Women shape diakonia: From the 18th to the 20th century. (Women design Diakonie 2) Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer 2006 ISBN 9783170193246 , p. 498 f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '8.6 " N , 12 ° 59" 28.8 " E