Stockau Castle (Dieburg)

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Excerpt from the map of the geometer Joseph Mantel: Description of the Freyherrlich von Groschlagische Lustgarten along with the associated Wiessen and tree trunks at Stokau from 1789, today in the Museum Schloss Fechenbach , Dieburg

The unpaved summer palace at Schloss Stockau with the historic palace garden was located on the Gersprenz near Dieburg in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district . It was also known as Groschlag 's castle after the noble family .

history

Plan of the plant from 1789

After Philipp von Groschlag had acquired the mill in Gewann Stockau south of the city in 1687 , he had a summer palace built and moved into it with his family after completion in 1699.

After the death of the last Groschlag, the Electoral Minister of State Friedrich Carl Willibald von Groschlag zu Dieburg (1729–1799) on May 25, 1799, the castle came into the possession of the Count of Lerchenfeld-Köfering through the daughter .

In 1840 a Freiherr von Gemmingen is a lord of the castle who had a new mill built about 100 meters downstream on the Gersprenz. 1,854 of these went to a good in Hungary after the castle with all its buildings and fields to the kk Austrian Colonel of Brüselle had sold. The new lord of the castle never came to Dieburg. His manager Kraft von Dieburg had the castle completely closed in 1857 after all the materials had been sold.

From 1857 the Stern brothers from Mannheim operated a potato flour factory in the mill. In the mid-1870s, Mr. Raiser's sewing machine factory followed, from whom the manufacturer Ganß bought the entire property in autumn 1882, in order to open a coconut mat factory on January 1, 1883.

Expansion of the castle

Stockau Castle was a large, simple, very spacious four-story building made of bricks and wood. The back of the building bordered close to the Gersprenz and the front to close to the park. After the closure of the palace, the fairly extensive library came to Darmstadt , some of it probably also to Frankfurt am Main .

Todays use

The building that exists today is a listed building and is privately owned. The Dieburger District and City Museum in the Fechenbacher Schloss shows the old garden plans of the historic castle garden, which is of national importance.

The castle park

A faint reflection of the former Groschlag'schen baroque garden, today's main avenue towards the fountain with a view to the north

The gardens of the 18th century represented a meeting place for important personalities with French, Dutch and English parties. Johann Wolfgang Goethe spent New Year's Eve 1779 here with Duke Karl August of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach , with Karl Theodor von Dalberg and other personalities as a guest at the turn of the year that of Groschlags. An exchange of letters about the castle garden followed and Groschlag probably followed Goethe's advice when expanding the garden. The gardens could be compared to the parks of Schwetzingen and Wörlitz .

The Groschlags had the parts of the park plan meticulously in order to achieve light and visual effects. The visitors were constantly offered new perspectives from garden sculptures, statues and buildings that were carefully inserted into the park. Small temples , pleasure houses or antique-looking ruins adorned the predominantly English landscape garden , which was one of the earliest parks of this style in Germany. Today, large parts of the former garden area are still preserved, which was renovated according to the old plans and thus gives an impression of the magnificent historical complex. The remainder of the park today is a romantic recreational space for the citizens of Dieburg and the annual palace garden festival. The entrance to the palace garden is still characterized by a fountain . A few meters away, a modern playground offers fun for the little ones. Behind the Dieburger Festplatz stretches the almost two hundred meter long avenue of lime trees , which ends in a trapezoidal pond with a larger fountain and a small temple.

literature

  • Peter and Marion Sattler: Burgen und Schlösser im Odenwald , Verlag Edition Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, p. 29

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The castle got its name from the Stockau desert , which was formed via Stocken (1379), Stockenau (1429), Stockaw (1593), Stockhaw (1545) to designate Stockau Castle.
  2. ^ In biography: Johann Heinrich Merck : Briefwechsel. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0105-4 , p. 370 ff.
  3. ^ Political correspondence between Duke and Grand Duke Carl August von Weimar , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1954, p. 120

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '36.4 "  N , 8 ° 50' 6.7"  E