Sandhorst Castle
Sandhorst Castle in the Aurich district of Sandhorst was built in 1647/48 by the East Frisian Count Ulrich II. As a pleasure palace for his wife, Juliane von Hessen-Darmstadt . A successor building now serves as a guest house for the Enercon company .
history
The area on which the castle was later built was acquired in 1612 by the East Frisian Chancellor Dothias Wiarda . He built his summer apartment on it. After his death Ulrich II bought the property from the heirs in 1647 and had a pleasure palace built for his wife Juliane the following year during the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War . It consisted of a main wing and two side wings and also contained a chapel, for which Jost Sieburg built an organ. A landscape park was created around the building. The castle served several times as the widow's seat and summer residence of the Cirksena .
In the 18th century the castle was named after the von Sandhorst family : After the death of his first wife, Prince Christian Eberhard married the chief forester's daughter Anna Juliana von Kleinau (1674–1727) in 1701 , who was given the title Frau von Sandhorst . The three children from this marriage bore the name of Sandhorst . After Christian Eberhard's death, the palace was Juliane's widow's seat. On June 12, 1734, the penultimate local prince, Georg Albrecht, died in Sandhorst. The prince was already marked by death when he was dragged to Sandhorst for court reasons , in order to pass away there. After the Cirksena died out and the Prussians came to power in 1744, the widow's residence was no longer used. So the castle fell into disrepair. Most of it was demolished in 1764 and the inventory was auctioned.
What remained was a side wing that came into the possession of the Kempe family in the 19th century. This had the last remains of the old Cirksena-Schlößchen in Sandhorst near Aurich demolished and built the building that still exists today on the cellar vaults of the former south wing. It was renovated in 1976 and later acquired by Enercon. Since then it has served the company as a guest house.
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Müller: 293 castles and palaces in the Oldenburg - East Frisia area . Oldenburg 1977. p. 197 f.
Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 26.8 " N , 7 ° 29 ′ 39.3" E