Unterlind Castle
The Castle Unterlind emerged in its present form in 1710 in the Sonneberg district Unterlind ( Thuringia ).
history
The castle goes back to a manor from the late Middle Ages. The building was erected in 1710 for the imperial general field master Georg Hartmann von Erffa as a representative residence. In 1890 the Sonneberg merchant Gustav Luge acquired the approximately two hectare property, which in 1946 was transferred to Caritas in a will. From 1947 to 1999 the castle was used as a retirement and nursing home. A Hamburg entrepreneur then bought it for a cosmetic surgery clinic with a beauty farm, which, however, was never realized.
architecture
The listed baroque castle is a two-storey solid building standing on a plinth with an expanded, slate-covered hipped roof . The symmetrically structured facades on the long sides of the building have nine window axes. The middle three axes are accentuated by diaphragm houses with triangular gables. An octagonal roof turret with a Welscher hood and lantern as well as two bronze bells is arranged in the center of the building. Of the building-related furnishings, there are still stucco ceilings that are attributed to the brothers Bartolomeo and Carlo Domenico Luchese, and in the living room on the upper floor there is a fireplace with a cartouche decorated with trophies . An enclosure made of sandstone blocks surrounds the park with its historical plant population, which was designed in the 18th and 19th centuries.
literature
- Thomas Schwämmlein: District of Sonneberg. (Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Thuringia 1.) E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2005, p. 517.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 49.1 ″ N , 11 ° 10 ′ 18.8 ″ E