Schlockenbeck Castle

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Schlockenbeck Castle

Castle Schlockenbeck ( Latvian Šlokenbekas pils ) is a in a castle of the Livonian Order returning Castle in the Latvian region of Zemgale . Today the complex houses a hotel and the Latvian Road Museum.

history

Schlockenbeck Castle was built in the 15th century as an order castle of the Livonian Order in the style of a camp fort to secure the road from Riga to Tukum . In 1544 it is mentioned for the first time in documents as a fortress on the Beke der Hörden Schloke .

The castle was probably built under order master Werner von Butlar in 1484. In the 15th century, Schlockenbeck was owned by the von Buttlar family. In 1537, the master of the order Hermann von Brüggeney revoked Dietrich Buttlar's rights to Schlockenbeck and accused him of supporting the Ösel uprising. Brüggeney enfeoffed Diederich von Schenking with Schlockenbeck in 1544. Otto von Schencking, Bishop of Wenden from 1587 to 1621, was born in Burg Schlockenbeck.

During the Swedish-Polish War , Swedish troops looted Schlockenbeck Castle, which then lost its military importance. In the years 1678–1701, Schlockenbeck was in the possession of the Duchy's Chancellor, Christoph Putkammer, who had the castle rebuilt as a manor and towers built in the northern and southern corners. Later the Schlockenbeck estate belonged to the von der Brüggen and Grothuss families . In 1845 a mansion was built within the walls of the former order castle. The gate portals received elements in the classical style.

After the duchy became part of the Russian Empire, the castle belonged to the Medem and Bulmering families . During these years a mansion was built on the former south wall of the castle, which was used as a school and rectory from 1862.

During the First World War, a parade of the German army took place in front of the manor house. After the agrarian reform of Latvia in 1920, the property went to the forestry of Tukum. During the Soviet period, the 5th road construction regiment was housed in the castle. From 1977 the castle was restored according to plans by E. Kalniņš.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Šlokenbekas muiža.
  2. ↑ Šlokenbeka manor - Sirdspuksti Šlokenbekai. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Pirang, Harro v. Hirschheydt: The Baltic mansion . tape 3 , 1926.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Siegfried Stavenhagen: Album of Baltic views . S. 95-96 .
  5. ↑ Hartmut Hofrichter, Georg Ulrich Grossmann: The early palace construction and its medieval preliminary stages . German art publisher, 1997.
  6. ↑ S. Rušmanis, I. Viks: Latvijas enciklopedija. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  7. ^ Scientists Collective of: Latvian Soviet encilopedy ( Lettisch ) (= 9) 1987.

Web links

Commons : Schlockenbeck Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 56 ° 58 ′ 31.2 ″  N , 23 ° 13 ′ 36.3 ″  E