Primkenau Castle
Primkenau Castle (also "Luisenhof Castle") was a castle in today's Polish Przemków (German Primekenau ), Powiat Polkowicki (Polkwitz district), Lower Silesian Voivodeship .
history
From 1391 the place was owned by von Rechenberg, who probably had a Renaissance residence built. From 1752 Heinrich IX. Count von Reuss owner, who built a three-winged baroque palace to the west of the previous residence, which was now called "Altes Palais" or "Prinzenpalais".
After several changes of ownership, from 1853 Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg became the owner. The palace and the old palace were reshaped in the neo-Gothic style. His grandson Ernst Günther and granddaughter Auguste Viktoria inherited the castle in 1884. Ernst Günther used the castle as a residence and had the New Castle demolished in order to have a new building built in the style of the German early Renaissance from 1895 to 1897. Some of the interior fittings came from the Augustenburg family seat in Denmark. After Ernst Günther's death in 1921, with the death of Duke Albert, the castle went to Crown Prince Wilhelm at Schloss Oels.
In fighting between German troops and the Red Army, the palace and the Prinzenpalais burned down on February 10, 1945. The ruins were completely removed between 1950 and 1970. Farm buildings from around 1850 that were used as residential buildings have been preserved today.
Structure and surroundings
With its protruding and recessed parts, Renaissance and half-timbered facades , towers, bay windows and galleries, the castle looked like a historically grown building. On the garden side, the castle had a round tower with a conical dome , volute gable and a hipped roof pulled down far . Christian August had a landscape park laid out. After 1890 the park was redesigned and created around two interconnected ponds. In the forest to the west of the park, there were walking paths to the Fuchsberg, at the foot of which there was a chapel with a cemetery, and not far from it a Swiss house . A hunter's farm was built on the Lerchenberg northwest of the castle. Today the park is a city park.
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, p. 262 .
Individual evidence
- Location according to the historical map:
- Measuring table sheet 4460: Primkenau, 1933 Primkenau Primkenau. - Ed. 1900, report. 1933. - 1: 25000. - [Berlin]: Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme, 1936
- online excerpt: kartenforum.slub-dresden
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 54.6 ″ N , 15 ° 46 ′ 36.2 ″ E