Türnich Castle

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Türnich Castle
Türnich Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Türnich Castle is a baroque castle in the Türnich district of the city of Kerpen in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia and is owned by Count Godehard von und zu Hoensbroech . It is the only completely preserved Baroque palace in the Rhineland.

history

The history of the castle can be traced back to the year 898. Baron Carl Ludwig von Rolshausen had the current form of the late baroque manor house built in the middle of the 18th century . The design probably comes from the Cologne court architect Michael Leveilly .

The floor plan is very similar to that of the Falkenlust hunting lodge in Brühl, which François de Cuvilliés built for the Cologne elector Clemens August I of Bavaria . There is also a comparison with Jägerhof Palace in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort.

The castle has been in a poor structural condition since 1974 due to the lowering of the groundwater due to the lignite mining of Rheinbraun AG and threatens to break apart. It is currently uninhabitable. A complete restoration is sought by the owner family. The German Foundation for Monument Protection has been accompanying the renovation of the facility since 2004. By 2020, the statics of the basement could be secured and the roofs and facades on the manor house were emergency secured.

Interior view of the castle chapel

A single-nave chapel from 1895 with a round apse adjoins the north-east corner of the manor house . The chapel was built by the architect Heinrich Krings and is consecrated to St. Elisabeth of Thuringia . The interior is richly decorated in a neo-Romanesque style with marble cladding and wall paintings. The painting was done by the Nazarene Franz Guillery as well as Eduard Gebhardt and Ernst Deger . The sculptures were created by Wilhelm Albermann . The church windows were made in 1902 by the well-known Cologne glass painting workshop Schneiders & Schmolz . After a fire in January 1991, the chapel and its furnishings were largely restored. Some parts of the altarpiece and its golden border with its six crystal balls could not be restored and were not reconstructed. Permanent damage was also caused to the sacristy and the paintings in the chapel.

The small private baroque garden is unparalleled in the Rhineland. The publicly accessible castle park contains a variety of different, sometimes exotic trees and shrubs. The showpiece is a magnificent avenue of lime trees. In addition, the park is equipped with numerous stones by the artist Marko Pogačnik , which he created according to geomantic criteria.

Godehard Graf von und zu Hoensbroech created an organic orchard in accordance with the rules of the Demeter Association.

A castle café is located in the room of the former reference library in the outer bailey . This contained u. a. Various universal and subject-specific encyclopedias, some complete editions of classic German literature, theological complete editions that are no longer available, as well as extensive fiction . The holdings go back to the year 1590. The library was cleared and redesigned as a guest room for the operation of the Hofcafé.

literature

  • Heinz Firmenich, Helmut Rossen: Türnich Castle . Society for book printing, Neuss 1975 ( Rheinische Kunststätten . Nr. 175).
  • Türnich municipality: Türnich through the ages . Türnich 1974, pp. 175-179, 228.
  • Harald Herzog: Rhenish castle buildings in the 19th century . Bonn 1981, ISBN 3-7927-0585-0 , pp. 29 ff, 164-172.
  • Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1875-1925) . Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty Bonn, Bonn 2005, pp. 180–184.
  • Norbert Hierl-Deronco: It's a pleasure to build. About builders, builders and building in the Baroque in Kurbayern-Franconia-Rhineland . Self-published, Krailling 2001, ISBN 3-929884-08-9 .
  • Hermann Hinz : Archaeological finds and monuments of the Rhineland, Volume 2 . Bergheim district, Düsseldorf 1969, pp. 344-345.
  • Frank Kretzschmar (arrangement): Churches, monasteries and chapels in the Erftkreis . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne [1984], ISBN 3-7927-0821-3 , pp. 134-137 ( Erftkreis publication . No. 94).
  • Henriette Meynen: Moated castles, palaces and country estates in the Erftkreis . Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0521-4 , pp. 104-109.
  • Annaliese Ohm: The monuments of the Rhineland. Königshoven-Türnich . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-508-00186-5 , pp. 97-99, 103-104.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ina Heuer: Germany, your castles and castles , In: Monuments , edition 3/2020, p. 10/11.
  2. ^ Magazine of the German Foundation for Monument Protection: Cosmos on the edge - an emergency prevails in the chapel of Türnich Castle , December 2012, accessed on June 10, 2013
  3. ^ Albert Verbeek: Gesamtkunstwerke in the sacred area . In: 19th century art in the Rhineland . Volume 1. Düsseldorf 1980, p. 51.

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 50 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 25 ″  E