Wernersdorf Castle
The Wernersdorf Castle (Polish : Pałac w Pakoszowie ) is located in the Wernersdorf ( Pakoszów ) district of the Piechowice municipality in the Jeleniogórski powiat in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship . The castle is one of the well-known castles and palaces in the Hirschberg Valley .
history
The country estate originally belonged to Count Schaffgotsch . The conversion to a baroque palace took place in 1725 by Johann Martin Gottfried (1685–1737), later mayor and parish council of the Mercy Church of Hirschberg, son-in-law of the Hirschberg linen dealer ("Schleierherrn") Christian Mentzel (1667–1748). The castle with a mansard roof has a rectangular floor plan with lateral projections and a late Baroque south facade. The ground floor has a simple stucco vault. On the upper floor of the representative palace complex were the living and state rooms with a large ballroom, the ceiling of which was decorated with allegorical frescoes. The Prussian King Friedrich II visited the palace in 1759, 1777 and 1785.
The other owners were Georg Friedrich Smith (1703-1757) and since 1771 Heinrich Hess (1745-1802), merchant and director of the sugar factory in Hirschberg. After this, the castle was mostly referred to as "Hess'sche Bleiche". The building was used as a residential building and linen bleaching; The fabrics were soaked in tubs on the first floor of the house, rinsed and laid out on the lawn to dry. The water required for this was taken from the spike flowing past . The required water rights were confirmed by King Friedrich II in a document in 1777. The linen bleaching was stopped in 1856 for economic reasons.
At the time of Heinrich and Erdmuthe Hess (1755–1808), many intellectuals were guests at Wernersdorf Castle, including the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , the Giant Mountains painter Sebastian Carl Christoph Reinhardt (1738–1827), Hofrat Johann Joachim Christoph Bode , war counselor Jonae and John Quincy Adams , who later became President of the United States of America. Frederick the Great himself was a guest in the town house of the Hess family in Hirschberg in 1765 and 1777, and souvenirs from these visits were kept in Wernersdorf until 1945.
After Heinrich Hess' death, his cousin and adoptive son Johann Daniel Hess (1764-1854) took over the property.
The later owner, district judge Daniel Hermann Hess (1815–1884), worked as a lawyer in Hirschberg and used Wernersdorf Castle as a summer residence. The last residents were Margarethe Drewes, b. Hess (1872–1939) with her husband Pastor Hans Drewes and their seven children. The Wernersdorfer Bleiche was owned by the family from 1725 to 1945.
As a result of the Second World War, almost all of Silesia fell to Poland in 1945. The owners of Wernersdorf Castle were expropriated by the Polish state. Subsequently, the castle was initially used by various institutions and temporarily as a children's home. Later it was empty. Since September 1, 1959, the castle has been entered in the monument register under the number 630/619.
Restoration after 2005 and current use
The grandson of the last residents, Hagen Hartmann (* 1941 in Breslau), was able to repurchase the former family property in 2005 from Polish private property and, by the architect Christopher Schmidt-Münzberg, converted, restored and expanded it for hotel use from 2008 to 2012. The restoration of the ballroom with its illusionistic paintings and allegorical representations was carried out by the Dresden painter Christoph Wetzel , who, among other things, also painted the dome of the Dresden Frauenkirche in the baroque style. The original painting, which was no longer preserved, came from a. by the Glatzer baroque painter Johann Franz Hoffmann .
The walls of the rooms are decorated with portraits of the mayors and patricians of Hirschberg. The most valuable room is a living room with a stoneware fireplace and Delft tiles from the 18th century. Next to the castle, the eastern extension was reconstructed, a wellness area with a small pool was created here. Wernersdorf Castle is surrounded by approximately 14.5 hectares of land, and on the north side there are three lakes that were previously used for fish farming. The former bleaching meadows adjacent to the south have been redesigned into a spacious landscape park. The entire facility was inaugurated on April 1, 2012. Today the complex is used as a castle hotel, restaurant and for cultural purposes by the public.
The property and the historically significant rooms of the manor house are open to the public.
Wernersdorf Castle with entrance gate
Wernersdorf Castle
Sculpture at Wernersdorf Castle
Ceiling painting in the ballroom
Ballroom in Wernersdorf Castle
Northern extension of Wernersdorf Castle
Wernersdorf Castle in winter
literature
- Arne Franke, Katrin Schulze: The Silesian Elysium - castles, palaces, manor houses and parks in the Hirschberg Valley . 2nd edition, German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, Potsdam 2005, ISBN 978-3-936168-33-4
- Arne Franke, among others: The valley of castles and gardens , Berlin / Jelenia Gora 2003
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wernersdorf - a family chronicle
- ↑ CSA projects ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 4, 2017)
- ↑ A castle like a phoenix from the ashes ( Memento from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Schlosshotel Wernersdorf in the Poland magazine
- ^ Website of the Schlosshotel Wernersdorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 23.6 " N , 15 ° 37 ′ 37.4" E