Vetschau Castle

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Vetschau Castle
Cavalier House
Castle Park
Old greenhouse

The Vetschau castle is in the style of Renaissance built Castle in Vetschau / Spree Forest and seat of the local city council.

architecture

The three-story building on a small hill is grouped around a small, rectangular inner courtyard. The current appearance of the castle, which was built from 1538 onwards, goes back to renovations in the years 1860 to 1870. During this time the structure of the building was structured by pilaster strips and the central risalit facing the city , which is framed by pilasters . An eight-sided half-timbered tower rises above the central projection, built in the 18th century. The tower, which is provided with a lantern , is crowned by a hood. The roof of the castle building is designed as a mansard roof .

In the inner courtyard there is an arcade resting on wooden columns on the north and south side wings . A neo-baroque outside staircase leads to the first floor of the west wing .

Due to different uses, the interior of the building was changed several times. In one of the rooms on the ground floor there is a reticulated vault from the 16th century . The vestibule has wall paneling and a ceramic fountain and was not created in this form until 1920. On the first floor of the garden wing there is a three-axis hall with a stucco ceiling, fireplace and fluted wall pilasters . This room, known as the Knight's Hall , was furnished historically after 1880. There is also a Steinway wing from 1920 in the hall.

The Kavaliershaus is to the northeast of the main building . Both buildings are surrounded by a moat that is fed by the Vetschauer Mühlenfließ flowing past it to the west . South of the castle, outside the moat, there is an old nursery and a stable building. Both buildings are currently (as of summer 2009) in a very bad condition. There is a memorial to the Sorbian painter Wilhelm Schieber in the castle park . The old tree population is also remarkable, including magnolias , plane trees and bald cypresses .

history

Medieval castle

At the location of today's castle there was possibly a Slavic rampart surrounded by swamps . A moated castle was built there by the 13th century at the latest . The castle is to rest on oak piles driven 11 meters into the ground. The only access to the castle was probably via a drawbridge, the location of which is marked by the bridge that still leads from the castle to the parking lot. The place Vetschau was first mentioned in 1302.

Renaissance castle

In 1538 Eustachius von Schlieben bought the castle. The castle was torn down to its foundation walls and a Renaissance castle was built in its place from 1540 . The palace park was redesigned and a palace nursery was set up. When the castle was rebuilt, the parts of the old system were used as building material. In front of the castle there were two stone buildings and the gatehouse guarding the drawbridge. From 1540 to 1688 the castle remained in the possession of the von Schlieben family .

Modifications in the 18th and 19th centuries

In 1720 the castle received the small tower that is still present today. In 1721, Duchess Emilie Agnes von Sachsen-Weißenfels-Drehna became the owner. She planned to completely demolish the castle and build a new building. However, the plan was not implemented, only renovation work took place. She had the vaults removed on the upper floor. A stone spiral staircase that led from the former castle chapel into the cellar was bricked up. In 1879 Hermann Albert Graf zu Lynar , a member of the Prussian aristocratic Lynar family , acquired the property and had fundamental renovations carried out. The passage to the inner courtyard was redesigned into a hall around 1900, the arcades were bricked up and the knight's hall was given a new appearance. A weather vane with a ball was placed on the top of the tower. The park was designed in the style of an English landscape park. A gate with the initials of Count Lynar, which was in the castle until the renovation was carried out, was implemented in Markt 32 in the old town of Vetschau.

The Lynars sold the castle in 1913. A year later, the manor owner Schwarzenberg bought it and sold it to the city of Vetschau in 1920. Since then it has been used as the town hall. The mayor of Vetschaus lived on the first floor. In order to be able to reach the knight's hall, which is now also used for magistrate meetings, directly from the outside, an outside staircase was built from the courtyard of the palace. The renovation work was financially supported by Richard Hellmann , a citizen of Vetschau who emigrated to the USA . The inauguration of the hall took place on October 23, 1931. With the construction of the Reichsautobahn , the southern part of the palace park was lost.

GDR time

During the time of the GDR an institute for agriculture was located here. The inner courtyard was given a new plaster. At the same time, an iron spiral staircase leading to the first floor was removed. The knight's hall got a new coat of paint in 1966, although the historical wall paintings were painted over. In 1971 the external facade was finally given a new plaster.

After the turn

In the 1990s the roof was completely re-covered, and in 2002 the facade was renovated and the windows were renewed. Since then, the castle has had its baroque yellow color again. The spire and weather vane have also been restored. The renovation of the inner courtyard followed in 2004. The arcades were also exposed again. In 2008 the bridges in the palace gardens were renovated. In 2015 the knight's hall was restored in the original color scheme of the 19th century, the wall paintings were made visible again.

There is also a small home parlor in the castle. The knight's hall is often used for weddings and cultural events.

Owner (selection)

Vetschau Castle has had numerous owners over the centuries. This also owned the place and surrounding villages.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz von Houwald : The Niederlausitzer manors and their owners. Volume 4: Kalau District, Part 2. (= Library of Family History Sources, Volume 35) . Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1992. ISBN 3-7686-4130-9 . Vetschau , also Otto Kretschmann, Leopold Eisenhauer: Local history of Vetschau and the surrounding area. 1906 (reprint Regia Verlag Cottbus)
  2. ↑ Summary in Wolf von Tümpling: History of the sex of Tümpling. Volume 3: Extinct houses Posewitz and Casekirchen (Tümpling). Hermann Böhlau, Weimar 1894. p. 281
  3. ^ Georg Schmidt: The family von Zabeltitz (Zobeltitz) . Merseburg 1888. [1] , p. 22, no. 28
  4. ^ Doris Teichmann : Vetschauer history in the 30-year war (VI). In: Vetschauer Mitteilungsblatt , 10/2009. P. 21 pdf

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 58.4 "  N , 14 ° 4 ′ 11.3"  E