Oderwitz Castle

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Oderwitz Castle

The Oderwitz Castle, which is a listed building, is a mansion built in 1910 in the Saxon community of Oderwitz . After the expropriation of Freiherr von Beschwitz in 1945, the building was used by the community as a youth hostel for a long time and finally passed into private ownership in April 2012.

history

Oberoderwitz Castle
Oberoderwitz Castle, until 2011 a youth hostel

The manor in Oberoderwitz was first mentioned in 1632, at that time it was still owned by the von Nostitz family . Later it passed to the Ruppersdorf family Meyer, who finally sold it in 1908 to the Zittau governor Freiherr von Beschwitz. He had the castle built in 1910 and after completion moved his residence here in 1911.

After the end of the war, the land reform in 1945 was followed by the expropriation of Freiherr von Beschwitz, the approximately 162 hectare area of ​​the manor was confiscated and redistributed, the landowners were only left with a forest of 0.92 hectares with their family grave. The outbuildings of the castle were expanded to create additional living spaces and stables for new farmers .

The main building became the property of the municipality, which has been using it since 1949 as the youth hostel “Thomas Mann”, later “Schloss Oderwitz”, for over 60 people. In the 1990s, additional bungalows were built on the site to provide additional beds for more than 70 seasonal guests. In 2006 the German Youth Hostel Association withdrew as operator, the hostel was continued by the community. Since this meant an additional burden of around 30,000 euros on the municipal treasury, it was decided to sell the property in 2010 as part of a budget consolidation. A buyer was found at the end of 2011.

literature

  • Karl Ludwig Gotthans: From the local history . The land reform in Oberoderwitz. In: Municipality of Oderwitz (ed.): Oderwitzer Nachrichten . November 3, 2010, p. 11 f .
  • Official . Sale of the youth hostel "Schloss Oderwitz". In: Municipality of Oderwitz (ed.): Oderwitzer Nachrichten . December 7, 2011, p. 4 .
  • Municipal administration Oderwitz (Ed.): Oderwitz . The windmill and weather village. 1st edition. Herrnhut 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mfw-studio.de ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Oderwitz Youth Hostel: Details. (PDF, 198 KB) 2011, accessed June 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 6 ″  N , 14 ° 42 ′ 58 ″  E