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The village of Reinharz is a district of the town of Bad Schmiedeberg in the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt , which is about 4 km west of the spa town.
location
Reinharz is surrounded by deciduous and coniferous forests and is located in the middle of the Dübener Heide nature park . The church tower and the 68 meter high tower of the moated castle in Reinharz are visible from afar . The castle park with the brewery pond and rare and old trees forms the transition to the meadows, forests and mills in the landscape.
history
As early as 1486, the knight Heinrich Löser zu Pretzsch (1665–1705) acquired inheritance jurisdiction for the area around Reinharz. The heavy financial losses as a result of the Thirty Years' War forced the Lösers to sell the castle in Pretzsch. The town of Reinharz and the surrounding lands remained the property of the family and became an independent manor in 1666 . The old manor house in Reinharz, however, was not befitting to accommodate the princes and electors during their frequent hunts in the Düben Heath. Therefore Heinrich von Löser had the baroque palace built in Reinharz from 1690 to 1701 . Two years later, in 1703, the building of the Reinharzer church, which was also commissioned by Heinrich von Löser, was finished.
On August 1, 1990, Reinharz was incorporated into Bad Schmiedeberg.
Moated castle
The castle is on the Berlin-Leipzig long-distance cycle route .
Erected between 1690 and 1701 by the Saxon hereditary marshal Heinrich Löser, the simple and closed, apparently still defensive needs of the exterior construction differs from the redesign of the ground floor in the Dresden Rococo style in 1748 . The wood paneling of the middle hall on the ground floor, covered with gold-plated rocaille ornament , serves as a frame for tiles from Harlingen (around 1690, children's play scenes) and Rotterdam (landscape motifs). Another part of the room decoration are wall-mounted paintings (1734) based on scenes from Molière by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich or his workshop, which were based on graphic illustrations by François Boucher . Above the marble fireplace , a copy of Antoine Pesne's “The Fortune Teller” (1710) complements the pictorial program. The adjoining hall to the east is designed by the electoral portraits of Friedrich August II. And Maria Josepha of Austria , to whom their portraits as King August III. and to be faced as Queen Maria Josepha of Poland. Even if the original hanging of the paintings is unknown, the inclusion of the portrait of Hans Löser in this electoral or royal Polish circle certainly has programmatic features. The closeness to the Elector and the Polish King and the way in which it is presented reflect the important position of Hans Löser at the royal Polish and Electoral Saxon courts. It is an expression of the sense of class of the Lösers as hereditary marshals of the Saxon estates. The partially gold-plated panels are stylistically adapted to the Haarlinger and Rotterdam halls. As in the case of King August III. can be traced back to important originals such as that of Louis de Silvestre (around 1748). In addition to the portrait of Hans Löser on the south wall of the hall, the pictorial program concludes with the wife of August the Strong , Christiane Eberhardine , as Electress and Queen of Poland.
In the GDR the castle was used as a convalescent home for "friendship".
In 1998 the facility was privatized. The former nursery was converted into hotel apartments, and the Graf Löser café was opened. Part of the farm buildings and the palace area were taken over and renovated in 1999 for use for charitable artistic and cultural purposes. Two exhibition halls, artist studios, a specialist library for the visual arts, a sculpture park and a documentation center with editorial staff have been created.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Reinharz - in the silent pond reflects the lofty tower ... . In: Quiet and full of austere beauty ... Palaces and their gardens in the Düben Heath. Bad Düben 2006, pp. 207-220, ISBN 978-3-00-020880-5 .
- Jenny Große: The Reinharz Castle Park . In: Die Gartenkunst 13 (2/2001), pp. 210–232.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ' N , 12 ° 41' E