Sommerschenburg
Sommerschenburg is a district of the municipality of Sommersdorf in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt ( Germany ). It is geographically higher than Sommersdorf and is almost completely surrounded by forest.
On September 30, 1928, the main part of the manor district of Sommerschenburg was united with the rural community of the same name. Smaller parts of the manor district came to the rural communities Sommersdorf and Wefensleben. On July 1, 1950, was community Sommerschenburg to church summer village incorporated .
The street village, first named in 983, originally consisted of workers from the local castle, some craftsmen and tradesmen. In 1056 the castle is mentioned as owned by Lothar von Walbeck, and in 1088 ownership changed to the Counts of Summersenburg. In 1192 the castle was destroyed and then rebuilt. In 1208 ownership changed to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg . In 1626 the castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and then rebuilt. 1680 the castle was Brandenburg owned and has now electoral domain and the headquarters for the surrounding villages. On the orders of the Prussian King Friedrich II. Houses were built for colonists in 1770. In 1807 ownership changed to Jean Marie René Savary, Duke of Rovigo . On November 11, 1814, the Prussian general August Wilhelm Anton Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760–1831) received the castle. In addition to this endowment , he was awarded the title of Count by King Friedrich Wilhelm III for his services in the Battle of Leipzig . The part of the summer castle that is visible today was built between 1895 and 1897.
The conversion to a castle was carried out by the architect Doberentz, incorporating Gothic and Renaissance elements. The facade is characterized by a flight of stairs, verandas and gables. In the park is the Gneisenau mausoleum with a statue of Christian Rauch . In 1945 the owners were expropriated and evicted by the communists.
In 1841 the Prussian field marshal and army reformer August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau was buried near his estate (mausoleum with a memorial on the main road to Sommersdorf). Before that, the body of the general, who died of cholera in 1831, was resting in the Wormsdorf church. A crypt with a marble monument was erected in his honor : a well- deserved war veteran was to watch for all time in a memorial guard house in the Swiss style .
The Catholic St. Bernward Church has been located in Sommerschenburg since 1936 . Today it belongs to the parish of St. Marien with its seat in Oschersleben.
Before 1989 the polytechnic high school was located in the "Gneisenau Castle" . In the meantime the castle has changed hands several times and is increasingly falling into disrepair. Not far from the castle there is a natural swimming pool , surrounded by greenery, in the middle of the former local recreation area . The bathing lake was created in the late 1960s in a flooded iron ore mining pit . Until 1989, the local recreation area also included a children's holiday camp and a restaurant with an open-air stage . Both are currently no longer usable.
Web links
- sommersdorf.de: History of the Sommerschenburg
- ober-aller.de: Sommerschenburg
- zlb.de: Material on Sommerschenburg Castle ( Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin , PDF, 209 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Administrative region of Magdeburg (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Government of Magdeburg . 1928, ZDB -ID 3766-7 , p. 226 .
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , pp. 321 .
- ↑ List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Borde district (I), Volume 15.1, prepared by Sabine Meisel, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 978-3-86568-119-5 , pages 110–11
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ' N , 11 ° 6' E