Wolsfeld Castle
Wolsfeld Castle , also called Wolsfeld Castle , is an early modern mansion in the Wolsfeld municipality in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
About 300 meters from the central residential complex (today's castle) , a defense structure with a keep and a round moat was built , probably under the knight Wolf von Wolsfeld in the 12th century . This old castle existed until the 19th century. Today only a field name indicates its existence. In 1425 the Vogel von Weiler zum Turm took over the rule of Wolsfeld and modernized the old manor house. First a six-axis main building was built, which was probably provided with a stair tower on the courtyard side . In the documents, the building is henceforth called the castle house . Today's palace was rebuilt in 1605 for Messrs Wilhelm Diedrich von Enschringen and Ernst Cob von Nüdingen in the late Renaissance style. The property is henceforth called a castle in the documents. In 1688, the imperial field sergeant Albert Franz Freiherr von Pallandt , married to Maria Antonia Cäcilia von Alzinger, acquired the Wolsfeld estate. In 1799 Victoria Franziska Countess of Saintignon († 1798), widow of Johann Theodor Josef Freiherr von Pallandt, inherited the estate of Alexandre Xavier de Saintignon . In 1916 the Wolsfeld line of Saintignon died out and the castle and the interior furnishings were auctioned off.
construction
From the previous building from the early 15th century, a step of the former spiral staircase has been preserved, which was exposed during the renovation in 2007. Parts of the floor from the 15th century, which is 75 cm below today's level, were exposed during the recent renovation . A round-arch fireplace from the 16th century was found on the ground floor. Around 1605 the stair tower disappeared, the main residential wing was raised and extended to the east by three axes. The complex was given a symmetrical and rectangular floor plan, with east and west wings on both sides of an inner courtyard. It was bordered on the street side by a high wall with an entrance gate. Recently discovered fragments suggest a monumental, sculpted Renaissance fireplace from that period. Around 1735 it was dismantled during renovation work and reused as building material in the house. The castle kitchen from the beginning of the 17th century with a fireplace, chimney supported by two columns, oven, potager (kitchenette), wall niches and fountain has been preserved. The fire bar was dated to 1605 by a dendrochronological study. Two lintels dated from 1631 and 1664 indicate further renovation phases.
Pallant eventually converted the house into a baroque nine-axis structure. Two representative chimneys with coats of arms and trophies from this phase have been preserved, a third fireplace with the coat of arms of the later owner family Saintignon was lost. The salon adjoining the kitchen, with its stuccoed ceiling and painted lambris , was given a baroque tap system and an oven niche. The Saintignon tore down the east wing with the horse stable in the 19th century, and the west wing (former carriage house) was converted into a stable. In 1906, Carl von Saintignon added a tower with a bell roof on the garden side and thus relocated the main staircase from the front to the garden side. A residential wing with a tower-like octagonal structure was built around 1950 in place of a stable built around 1900. The four eastern window axes were replaced by a single-storey wing in 1974. The building has been carefully restored since 2007 .
literature
- Bernd Altmann, Hans Caspary: Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 9.2: Bitburg-Prüm district; City of Bitburg, Verbandsgemeinden Bitburg-Land and Irrel. Werner, Worms 1997, pp. 408-412.
- Michael Berens : The so-called Wolsfeld Castle . Monument Day leaflet, o. O. 2008 ( online ; PDF; 667 kB).
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Rhineland-Palatinate . Saarland 1984.
- Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Bitburg district. (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 12, Section 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1927.
Web links
- Official website
- Wolsfeld at www.region-trier.de
- Entry on Wolsfeld Castle in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
- Entry on Wolsfeld Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive for civil and criminal law of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces, Volume 2, p. 166.
- ^ E. Wackenroder: The art monuments of the Bitburg district , p. 310.
Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 18.1 ″ N , 6 ° 27 ′ 55.6 ″ E