Panemunė Castle
Panemunė Castle (sometimes also Gelgaudai Castle or Vytenis Castle , lit.Panemunės pilis ) is a Lithuanian castle on the banks of the Memel . The settlement adjacent to the castle is called Pilis I (in German Castle I , formerly in Polish Zamék ). Castle and settlement lie in the Official Skirsnemunė the Rajongemeinde Jurbarkas .
investment
The two-storey wings are grouped around a trapezoidal inner courtyard. At the outer corners of the east wing and on the south corner of the east wing there are round towers of different heights with loopholes. A landscaped park surrounds the castle.
history
Early 17th century acquired the Hungarian timber merchant Janusz Eperjesz the estate of a Polish nobleman and was the site of an Wallenburg of the Teutonic Order from the year 1343 in the years 1604 to 1610 a Renaissance built -Schloss. Peter Nonnhart, the builder of the Grand Duke's Palace in Vilnius , is believed to be the architect . His son left the castle at the end of the 17th century. remodel in baroque style . About the Baron von Igelström (1753-1759) the property came to the Polish General Antoni Giełgud (lit. Antanas Gelgaudis), who had it converted into his family residence in the following period in the classical style . Some parts of the building were demolished. The extensive park with the five successive ponds was laid out and an orangery was built. Grandson Antoni Giełgud, one of the leaders of the Polish-Lithuanian uprising in 1831 , was killed in the revolt , the castle was expropriated in 1833, it became orphaned and fell into disrepair.
In 1867 it was taken over by the state administrator Stanisław Pusłowski, but only some rooms were repaired. After the First World War , the state of Lithuania appropriated the already badly damaged castle in 1925. It continued to deteriorate; a fire in 1927 affected the building. In the adjoining farm worked from 1935 until the Second World War the Salesians . The monastery was closed by the communist authorities and the manor was converted into a kolkhoz . In the years 1959–1962, 1984 and 1995–1997 restoration work took place in the castle . Today only the south and west wings, the north wing and remnants of the east wing are preserved. The palace complex belongs to the Vilnius Art Academy and can be visited in summer.
literature
- Vilma Gudienė: Panemunė Castle. Art Academy Publishing House, Vilnius 2006, ISBN 9955-624-16-7 ( Architectural and Art Monuments of Lithuania ).
- Kaur Alttoa / Jurijs Vasilievs / Jonas Minkevičius: Art Monuments Baltic States. A picture handbook, Edition Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-361-00384-9 , pp. 396-397.
Web links
- Jurbarkas region (Engl.)
- Castle Panemune (Engl.)
Coordinates: 55 ° 5 ′ 56.4 ″ N , 22 ° 59 ′ 9.6 ″ E