Poschwitz Castle
| Poschwitz Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1264 | |
| Castle type : | Moated castle | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Construction: | stone | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 0 '2.1 " N , 12 ° 27' 53.1" E | |
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Poschwitz Castle was the seat of the von der Gabelentz family for centuries and is located in the Poschwitz district of the East Thuringian skat and residence town of Altenburg . The game of Skat was invented here in 1813 in a group of scholars led by the lord of the castle, Hans Carl Leopold von der Gabelentz .
history
The first documented owner of a moated castle was Otto von Poschwitz in the period from 1264 to 1274. Already in 1388 it was owned by Albrecht I von der Gabelentz, who also owned the Nobitz manor . His grandson Hans von der Gabelentz was enfeoffed with Windischleuba in 1455 . In 1499 the estate was divided and Georg II von der Gabelentz received the Poschwitz and Nobitz manors.
The moated castle burned down in 1507. In 1515 Georg II acquired the Windischleuba manor from his brother Heinrich. Georg's son Sebastian was enfeoffed with his father's three manors in 1536. In 1580 Friedrich von der Gabelentz took over the Poschwitz manor and built today's palace in the Renaissance style .
In 1806 Hans Carl Leopold von der Gabelentz took over the Poschwitz manor, which in 1803 had an area of 71.24 hectares. He caused the two ponds to be merged and reduced in size to create one that still exists today. From 1842 to 1847 the palace was expanded to include a neo-Gothic south wing. His son Hans Conon von der Gabelentz is considered one of the most important gentlemen on Poschwitz, among other things he was the state parliament president of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg until 1870 . After his death in 1874, his sons Hans Albrecht and Georg took over the manor, which in 1873 had a size of 137.9 hectares. During this time, Franz Liszt also gave concerts in the palace. Georg's son Albrecht von der Gabelentz inherited it in 1893. In 1903 and 1904 he had the living quarters of the castle rebuilt. In 1912 possessions were added in Remsa , so that in 1923 the manor had a size of 172 hectares.
After Albrecht's death in 1933, his widow Olga von der Gabelentz took over the manor, which at that time had shrunk to 126 hectares. So it happened that it was expropriated in 1945 as part of the land reform , although the then director of the Lindenau Museum Hanns Conon von der Gabelentz (* 1892, † 1977) set up a local museum. During the expropriation, the valuable linguistic library of Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (* 1807, † 1874) and the playing card collection were lost to the Soviet Union as looted art .
The neo-Gothic tower tower of the castle was removed in 1961 because it was dilapidated. At the beginning of the 1970s, a stable and the gate of the farm yard were demolished. The barn followed in 1988 and 1989. From 1971 to 1991 the castle housed apartments and the headquarters of the VEB Gartenbaubetrieb Poschwitz . In 2013 there was an emergency security in the roof area, as the private owner is increasingly decaying the castle.
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Castle Park
From 1774 the manor was owned by Wilhelm Ludwig von der Gabelentz, who began to enlarge the old pleasure garden and to make it representative. Various gardens were created by his successors. Today's park to the west of the castle measures around 5000 m².
Web links
literature
- Christiane Nienhold, Gustav Wolf, Klaus Hofmann: ... and in the afternoon we went sailing to Nöbdenitz! Manors in Altenburger Land and their gardens Museum Burg Posterstein 2007
- Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen (Ed.): Kulturelle Entdeckungen Thüringen, Volume 4 , Verlag Schnell und Stiner GmbH, Regensburg 2011
- Martin Gimm : Franz Liszt and the HC vd Gabelentz family in Poschwitz . In: Mitteilungen der Geschichts- und Altertumsforschende Gesellschaft des Osterlandes , 17.4 Altenburg 2012, pp. 376–410 (with music notes)
- Martin Gimm : Georg von der Gabelentz commemorating , Wiesbaden Harrassowitz 2013 ISBN 978-3-447-06979-3
- Martin Gimm : Hans Conon vd Gabelentz in memory . In: Heimatjahrbuch 2014 des Saale-Orla-Kreis , Vol. 22, Schleiz 2014, pp. 169–171