Sagan Castle
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Sagan Castle (also Ducal Castle Sagan ; Polish Pałac w Żaganiu ) is a castle in Żagań (German Sagan ) in the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland . Historically it belonged to the Duchy of Sagan .
history
A castellan castle in Sagan is documented for 1202. It consisted of a wood-earth system. Apparently a second castle complex soon existed, because one was built by Duke Konrad III in 1284 . von Glogau handed over to the Augustinians, who built a monastery there. A third castle, to which today's castle goes back, located on the banks of the Bober , was sold by Duke Hans II of Sagan to the Wettins in 1472 .
After a fire, this system was rebuilt for Duke Georg von Sachsen as an irregular four-wing system. After 1549 the castle was owned by the Habsburgs , who enfeoffed the von Promnitz with the rule. In 1627 the duchy was sold to Albrecht von Wallenstein by Emperor Ferdinand II . After his order, a four-wing new building was built under the direction of Vicenzo Boccacci using two existing castle wings, which is considered the first building of the early Baroque in Silesia. After Wallenstein's murder, the buildings were stopped.
From 1646 Wenzel Eusebius von Lobkowicz was enfeoffed with the rule, who commissioned Antonio della Porta to complete the building with slight changes to the original plan. Wenzel Eusebius' grandson Philipp had the interior work done. From 1786 Duke Peter Biron von Kurland was in possession of the rulership, and had the interior of the palace redesigned in a classical style. a. with stucco ceilings based on designs by Christian Valentin Schultze. Duke Peter also had an important art collection built. In 1839 his daughter Louise Pauline had a chapel built in the east wing according to plans by Leonhard Dorst von Schatzberg . Via the youngest daughter of Duke Peters, Dorothea von Sagan , the castle came to the Talleyrand-Périgord , who owned the castle even after the communist takeover of the region. However, when the Red Army moved in and in the late 1940s, the castle was completely looted. After repairs from 1965 to 1983, the castle serves as the city's cultural center.
Building
The castle, built on a high base, is surrounded on three sides by a dry moat. The facades are structured by evenly distributed window axes and pilaster strips . A ramp, on which the orangery stood until 1945, leads from the side of the Bober into the inner courtyard. This is accentuated by blind arcades.
Castle Park
Sagan Park was just as famous in the 19th century as the Branitz and Muskau grounds . There was already a pleasure garden at the palace around 1700 . Under Duchess Dorothea, court gardener Friedrich Teichert had a 230 hectare park laid out by 1860. Due to the local conditions, the park was divided into three areas: the castle park on the north bank of the Bober, the middle park on an island in the Bober and the upper park on the opposite bank. Near the orangery there was a "Dutch garden" with an extremely lush flow of flowers, of which only a staircase to the bank, the "frog fountain" and sculpture pedestals have survived. Dorothea's private garden was located between the Bober and the carp pond. At the end of the pond you can still find the figures of two Chinese fishing people who made up the landscaped gardens.
The middle park was purely landscaped. Paths named after relatives of the Duchess led through deciduous forest and meadow valleys. From the "Petershöhe" in the upper park there was a wide view of the park and the castle. In the Mittelpark and Oberpark there are only traces of the former facilities, while the palace park has been extensively renovated.
literature
- Arne Franke (Hrsg.): Small cultural history of the Silesian castles . tape 1 . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, p. 151-152, 229-230 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 45.3 " N , 15 ° 19 ′ 28.3" E