Röderhof Castle
The Röderhof Castle is a monument in Röderhof in the municipality of Huy in Saxony-Anhalt.
history
The complex, to which the castle belongs, emerged from the former farm yard of the Huysburg monastery . To a large extent, it consists of buildings that were built in the 18th century and which include much older components. Two surviving inscriptions date from the 15th century.
On January 1, 1822, Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck had the Huysburg and the Röderhof manor with 528 hectares from the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III in recognition of his services in the war against Napoleon . received as endowment, endowment document dated August 13, 1823. The Huyburg monastery fell into serious disrepair after secularization in 1804. In 1823 Knesebeck began building a castle on Gut Röderhof. Other information cites the time from 1830 onwards as the construction time of the manor house . It was built east of the farm yard. Von dem Knesebeck used composite stones and capitals from the monastery belonging to him as building material . It was not planned to build a monastery here again. The castle was built as a historicist-romantic building with two towers, battlements and limestone walls.
The castle chapel was built from three and a half yokes of the late Gothic monastery cloister . The rib profiles and consoles correspond to those in the preserved northern wing of the Huysburg. A cloister wing with pointed arches was modeled on it. The arcades rest on rectangular pillars with translocated beginners' vaults. One yoke is designed as a ribbed vault. There is a flight of stairs to an elevated terrace. During the GDR era, trees grew in the cloister that almost caused it to collapse. In 2003 he was saved at great expense.
In 1878 the castle was sold to the Hahn family, in 1914 to the Schliephake family, who were expropriated in 1945. From 1947 the castle was used as a children's home and from 1958 as a rehabilitation center for girls with tuberculosis . From 1967 the building served as a nursing home for the Halberstadt district until it was closed in the 1980s for structural reasons. In 1987, an initiative from those interested in art arose who partially renovated the castle in order to use it for residential purposes and “cultural experience”. In the summer of 1989 the first workshop exhibition took place in the renovated main rooms. The "Kunstverein Schloß Röderhof", founded in 1990, had to leave the building in 1994.
After the castle was transferred back to the previous owner, the renovation and restoration of the castle began in 1994. The chapel was renovated in 1996, the bridge in 1998, the gate house in 1999, and the cloister rebuilt in 2003. In the former park, which extends far to the west and south, there is a whispering grotto with two Romanesque columns. On the pillars there are heavily weathered capitals with palmettes or evangelist symbols . The grotto was renovated in 1965.
In the local register of monuments , Röderhof Castle is listed as a mansion under registration number 094 25507 as a monument .
literature
- Georg Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 780.
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 2: Falko Grubitzsch, Harald Kleinschmidt: Halberstadt district flies head publishing house, Halle (Saale) 1994, ISBN 3-910147-61-5 , page 64.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio , Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 780
- ↑ Schloss Röderhof at burgen.ausflugsziel-harz.de, accessed on June 3, 2017
- ^ Website of the Caritas -trägergesellschaft St. Mauritius (PDF), accessed on June 4, 2017
- ^ Website of the art association Röderhof , accessed on May 25, 2017
- ↑ Homepage Schloss Röderhof (French)
- ↑ List of cultural monuments in Saxony-Anhalt, answer to a small inquiry in the state parliament, p. 266 (PDF), accessed on March 5, 2017
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 56 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 23 ″ E