Wiederau (Pegau)

Again City of Pegau Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 35 "  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 10"  E
Height :	125 m
Incorporation :	January 1, 1994
Location of Wiederau in Saxony
Again from a bird's eye view

Wiederau is a village south of Leipzig with approx. 400 inhabitants and has belonged to Pegau since 1994 . The White Elster flows around the settlement to the east . Wiederau is known for its baroque castle and radio station .

Baroque palace Wiederau

Castle Wiederau

Ceiling painting in Castle Wiederau

history

The Wiederau Castle is one of a number of art and architectural historical monuments in the landscape in the south of Leipzig, which has been shaped by land reform and open -cast lignite mining . The palace complex, located on the south-western edge of the village, was built between 1697 and 1705. The client was the Leipzig privy councilor David Fleischer (also known as David von Fletscher ) , who was born in Annaberg in 1646 and was descended from a Scottish braid dealer . He acquired the estate in 1697 for 21,000 Meissnian guilders . The castle last belonged to the von Holleuffer-Kypke family until 1945 .

There is no clear evidence of who was the builder of the Wiederau palace complex. Some sources ascribe the castle to Johann Gregor Fuchs , who came from Dresden and was elected master mason in Leipzig in 1700. The art historian Jörg Katerndahl deduces, based on stylistic comparisons and historical events, that it was not Johann Gregor Fuchs but David Schatz who built the castle according to plans by Leonhard Christoph Sturm .

During the GDR era, the castle u. a. housed a kindergarten. According to plan, it should have given way to the lignite excavators in the 1990s, but the political change prevented this. In 2010 the castle was sold to the precious metal entrepreneur Geiger from Baden-Württemberg, who had already acquired Güldengossa Castle in 2006. The palace facade and the paintings have been extensively restored. An association is committed to the future of the building and occasionally plays it with exhibitions, concerts and other cultural events. How the castle will be used in the future is not yet known. Wiederau Castle is still under construction and is only open to the public on special occasions.

A half-timbered barn of the castle was destroyed by fire one night in mid-March 2015. An outbuilding of the castle was also damaged, resulting in damage of € 200,000. The lock was not damaged.

architecture

It is a castle in the representative Dresden Baroque style . The block-like structure consists of the basement, two main floors, a mezzanine floor and a mansard roof . On the courtyard side, the outer axes protrude as short wings in the depth of a window axis, the central double window axis forms a central risalit with an ornate clock gable. The south facade and the six-axis side axes are provided with flat central projections. On the ground floor, the plaster is provided with grooves that also surround the porphyry tufa window frames . The upper floor and the mezzanine floor of the courtyard facade are delicately structured by plastered panels. The outside staircase to the entrance portal from 1705 is provided on the courtyard side with a grooved frame made of porphyry tuff and a double coat of arms. This type of facade was first used in Saxon palace architecture in the Great Garden Palace in Dresden and was also used at Knauthain Palace .

Inside, behind the transverse rectangular vestibule, a double counter-rotating staircase is built, which has probably replaced a three-sided staircase since 1737, as it is still preserved around the lower floor. The wall and ceiling paintings are by the Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Marchini , who from 1712 worked for the same client in Schloss Crossen near Eisenberg in Thuringia. The ceiling painting in the table room on the ground floor shows an allegory of peaceful rule with four images of emperors in stucco cartouches.

Particularly noteworthy is the ceiling painting in the ballroom, which extends over two floors of the three-story building and is structured with pilasters and composite capitals. The illusionistic ceiling painting is one of the most valuable works of this genre in Saxony. The painting shows the interaction of the arts and crafts under the guidance of Divine Providence . The model was the depiction of Divine Providence by Andrea Sacchi in Palazzo Barberini in Rome.

On the walls, over the doors, some of which have only been painted, can be seen supraport pictures with mythological representations. On the east wall they show the judgment of Paris on the left , and on the right the robbery of Cephalus by Aurora ; on the west wall on the left the sacrifice of Iphigenia , on the right Apollon and Daphne . On the north wall in the middle above the chimney, the visit of Venus to Vulkan is shown. The image fields of the outer wall sections on the north side are each covered by two stucco curtains, slightly raised by putti, and show on the left Eurydice, who was bitten by a snake during the pursuit of Aristaios .

The wall paintings on the south side show putti between the two rows of windows, which design the coat of arms of the lord of the castle. In the entablature there are stucco cartouches and red camaieu paintings depicting scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses . In the corner room to the west of the ballroom, a ceiling painting depicting the robbery of Oreithyia by Boreas can be seen, in the room in the southeast corner a painting depicting Fortuna and Juno . Ceiling stucco has been preserved in other rooms.

reception

Wiederau is also known for a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach : “ Pleasant Wiederau, rejoice in your floodplains ”. The Thomaskantor composed it in 1737 in honor of the new landlord Johann Christian von Hennicke , a favorite of the Dresden court under Augustus the Strong. His granddaughter Christiana Sophia inherited the estates Wiederau, Großstockwitz and Kleindalzig; she married the Saxon-Polish chef Gottlob Erich von Berlepsch on Urleben and died in 1789.

Personalities

• Johann Mühlmann (1573–1613), Protestant hymn poet
• Werner Hager (* 1925), chemist
• Erhard W. Fischer (1929–2011), physicist

Web links

Commons : Wiederau  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• History of Wiederau on the website of the city of Pegau
• Wiederau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
• Visit to the radio station Wiederau

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website Meine Heimat Wiederau
2. ↑ Jörg hangover Dahl: The wall and ceiling painting by Giovanni Francesco Marchini in the castles Wiederau and Crossen . Hain Verlag, 1998
3. ^ Castle Wiederau: Saved from the brown coal excavators. Report on Burgerbe.de. Retrieved August 19, 2019 . 
4. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Saxony II. The administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , pp. 793–794.