Siebeneichen Castle

View from the west, 2005

View from the east

View of seven oaks

View from 1839

Main portal in the baroque west facade, Jan. 2005

The Siebeneichen Castle in Meissen was in the 16th century by Ernst von Miltitz built.

location

The castle is located on the southern slope of the Elbe opposite the Spaar Mountains upstream of Meißner's old town in the Siebeneichen district . The property is located on Siebeneichener Straße , which runs as Bundesstraße 6 to Dresden. State road 177 runs to the west .

history

The facility was first mentioned in 1220. A noble family named themselves after Siebeneichen in the 12th century. The name probably comes from Slavic.

Approximately 1553 to 1555 who built electoral Saxon advice and Marshal Ernst von Miltitz a three-storey, provided with two corner towers and Zwerchhäusern Renaissanceschlossbau, which is still largely intact. In 1591 his son Nickel von Miltitz had a walled renaissance garden with water features laid out.

In 1748, under Heinrich Gottlob von Miltitz, the castle was expanded to include a three-wing building on the west side, which has a nine-axis façade and a high mansard roof . At the beginning of the 19th century, Sarah Anna Constable , Dietrich von Miltitz's wife , had a 35 hectare landscape park laid out based on English models, which is one of the oldest in Saxony today.

Siebeneichen Castle was an important romantic place in Saxony. Heinrich von Kleist , Novalis and Johann Gottlieb Fichte , among others, frequented this place .

Later landlords were Alfred von Miltitz from 1880 and his son Ludwig Carl from 1912. In 1945 the castle was expropriated and the estate was divided among new farmers . The castle was initially used as a natural history museum from 1946. From 1958 to 1991 the college for club leaders "Martin Andersen Nexö" was housed in the castle, then the folk high school for adult education in rural areas. From 1997 it has been the seat of the Saxon Academy for Teacher Training, which is now part of the State Office for Schools and Education.

Siebeneichen was incorporated into Meißen in 1978.

literature

• A. Leicht: Siebeneichen and Ernst von Miltitz , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Meißen 5/1900, no. 2, pp. 113–164.
• Monica v. Miltitz: The Siebeneichen Castle , Dresden 1930.
• Matthias Donath: Schlösser im Elbland (Edition Sächsische Zeitung), Dresden 2004.
• Cornelius Gurlitt (ed.): Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , Volume 41: Amtshauptmannschaft Meißen-Land, Dresden 1923, pp. 469-480 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Schloss Siebeneichen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on "Castles and city walls in Europe"
• Representation as a landmark of the city of Meissen
• Siebeneichen on stadtbild-meissen.de ( Memento from April 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Information about the landscape park on Wanderwelt Central Saxony

Castle owner:

• Biography of the founder of the renaissance castle Siebeneichen Ernst von Miltitz
• Biography of the second builder of the renaissance castle Siebeneichen Nickel von Miltitz
• Short biography of the last lady of the castle, Monica von Miltitz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Schools and Education. Retrieved June 29, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 53.9 "  N , 13 ° 28 ′ 52.7"  E