Zocha Castle
The Zocha-Schlößchen was a city palace in Ansbach in Central Franconia . It is named after its builder and original owner, Carl Friedrich von Zocha , and from 1851 served as a school building for today's Platen grammar school . The palace was largely destroyed in the bombing raid on Ansbach in 1945. The parts of the building rebuilt after the Second World War were demolished in 1971.
history
18th century
In 1737 the margrave colonel building director Carl Friedrich von Zocha had a city palace built according to his own plans about 300 meters south of the residence , on the southeast corner of what was then the Neue Auslage . However, Zocha had completely taken over financially with the construction project, so that his property went bankrupt in 1749.
The city of Ansbach bought the Zocha-Schlößchen for 12,000 guilders from the bankruptcy estate in 1760 and furnished it as an office building for Obervogt Wolfgang Reinhard Forstner von Dambenois. In 1765 the castle was supplemented by a tower with a striking clock and extensively renovated in 1771. In 1792, Ludwig Friedrich Christoph Schmidt, the former cabinet secretary of the last Margrave of Ansbach , acquired the city palace. Six years later, the Zocha-Schlößchen became the property of the Marquis de Villelume.
19th century
In 1817 a banker named Salmstein bought the building, but only four years later sold it to the lawyer Meinel. This sold the Zocha-Schlößchen in 1827 to the appellate court director Baron Carl Ludwig von Leonrod . In 1843, during his time of ownership, plans were made to convert the castle into a vestibule . The plans were never implemented.
In 1850 the city of Ansbach entered into negotiations with Leonrod about the sale of the property. At that time, the city administration was looking for a suitable new schoolhouse for the agricultural and trade school, whose previous premises had become too small. In 1851 it was finally sold for around 18,000 guilders and the trade school was able to move into the new location in the autumn of the same year. In 1877 the trade school became a secondary school with six grades.
20th century
The secondary school emerged in 1926 as the upper secondary school, where students could take the Abitur examination after nine years of training. The Oberrealschule Ansbach was renamed in 1965 and has been called Platen-Gymnasium since then.
When the American Air Force bombed Ansbach on February 22 and 23, 1945, around 75% of the Zocha Schlößchen was destroyed. The south-eastern part of the palace on the corner of Bischof-Meiser-Straße and Bahnhofsplatz was poorly rebuilt by the end of the 1940s, but demolished again in 1971 to make way for a new building - the D-building of the Platen-Gymnasium.
Architectural style
The Zocha-Schlößchen was modeled on the castle of the Marquise de Pompadour in Fontainebleau in terms of layout and scope .
See also
literature
- Hermann Dallhammer, Werner Bürger: Ansbach: history of a city . Hercynia, Ansbach 1993, ISBN 978-3-925063-35-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f Hermann Dallhammer, Werner Bürger: Ansbach: History of a city . Hercynia, Ansbach 1993, ISBN 978-3-925063-35-0 .
- ↑ Alexander Biernoth: Karl Friedrich von Zocha - Origin, Life and Work , accessed on February 28, 2017.
- ↑ a b Hermann Dallhammer (Ed.): 100 Years Realschule Oberrealschule Platen-Gymnasium Ansbach, 1877-1977 . Ansbach 1977 (Festschrift Part 1 (PDF) Part 2 (PDF) Part 3 (PDF) Part 4 ).
- ^ Building history of the Platen grammar school . Website of the friends and former students of the Platen-Gymnasium and the Oberrealschule Ansbach, accessed on February 28, 2017.
Remarks
- ↑ The spelling of the Zocha-Schlößchen with ß instead of ss is still used, in the sense of a proper name, in secondary literature and by the city of Ansbach . As a proper name , this spelling is also permitted after the spelling reform .
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 57.9 " N , 10 ° 34 ′ 41.1" E