Reppersdorf Castle
Reppersdorf Castle was a building in Reppersdorf ( Jauer district ) in Lower Silesia that was destroyed in 1945 .
history
The castle was created by converting a medieval castle that was surrounded by a moat. As the first owner of the place in 1318 the "nobiles viri Henricus et Ripertus called Bolzt" are mentioned. It was later owned by the von Zedlitz family . The robber baron Hans von Zedlitz, who lived here, was executed by sword on February 18, 1586 in Jauer . In the 17th century, Reppersdorf belonged to the von Eicke family. On June 8, 1684, Georg Siegmund von Eicke, “heir to Reppersdorf, owner of the Kreisau and Wirisch estates”, died in Kreisau . In August 1746 Johann Gottfried von Ohl and Adlerskron bought Ober-Reppersdorf from Johann Ludwig de Harbeval, Baron von Chamaré for 23,200 Reichstaler.
In 1766 his brother Benedikt von Ohl and Adlerskron took over the place and rebuilt the old aristocratic residence in rococo style . In 1816 the castle and the property belonging to it were sold by the von Ohl and Adlerskron family to the Liegnitz senator and businessman Friedrich August Feye for 140,000 Reichstaler and bought back by the family around 1826. But it was sold again in 1830 - this time to the industrialist Carl Gustav Kramsta (1807-1853) from Freiburg (Silesia) . His daughter Helene, born in 1842, married Rudolf Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen in 1863, so that the castle had been owned by this family since 1876. The couple's older son was the epigraphist and archaeologist Friedrich Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen (1864–1947), who grew up in Reppersdorf Castle, but decided not to take over the castle and estate in favor of his academic career. Therefore, it was taken over by his younger brother Wilhelm (1866-1934) and then by his sons Karl Gottfried (1906-1944) and Siegfried (1911-1940). The wife of the last owner, Isa Freifrau Hiller von Gaertringen, left Reppersdorf in 1944/45 after her husband had died in the Second World War in March 1944. Shortly after the Red Army marched in, the castle is said to have been set on fire with the help of petrol cans and went up in flames. The ruins were later removed, around the 1950s or 1960s. The buildings of the upstream estate, the caretaker's house and the overgrown castle park still exist today.
building
The castle was a three-storey, single-colored light-painted building with a mansard roof. The facade was decorated with rich stucco decoration from the Rococo period around 1770. The ceilings on the first floor also came from the same period.
literature
- Family history of Freiherrn Hiller von Gaertringen, edited by Friedrich Freiherrn Hiller von Gaertringen and Wilhelm Freiherrn Hiller von Gaertringen, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung 1910, p. 249f.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Theiner, Monumenta Poloniae et Lithuaniae, Vol. I, 1860, quoted here. based on the family history of Freiherrn Hiller von Gaertringen, edited by Friedrich Freiherrn Hiller von Gaertringen and Wilhelm Freiherrn Hiller von Gaertringen, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung 1910, p. 249
- ^ Karl Dettmann: Festschrift des Jauerschen Tageblattes, Jauer 1909, p. 8, quoted here. after Hiller von Gaertringen 1910, p. 249
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Hiller von Gaertringen 1910, p. 250