Schloss Krobnitz

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Schloss Krobnitz
Reichenbach (Oberlausitz), Saxony, Germany

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Schloss Krobnitz
Coordinates 51°10′36″N14°45′27″E / 51.176639°N 14.757583°E / 51.176639; 14.757583
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Schloss Krobnitz is a Schloss in Reichenbach (Oberlausitz), Saxony (Germany). Dating from the 17th century, it was the residence of the Prussian Minister of War Albrecht von Roon during the 19th century.

<i>Schloss</i> type of stately home found in German-speaking regions

Schloss, formerly written Schloß, is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace or manor house. In the United Kingdom, it would be known as a stately home or country house.

Reichenbach (Oberlausitz) Place in Saxony, Germany

Reichenbach/O.L. is a town in the Görlitz district, in eastern Saxony, Germany. It is located 13 km west of Görlitz.

Saxony State in Germany

Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig.

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History

A manorial estate on this site was mentioned for the first time in 1315. However, it is not known who the owners of the estate were until the 17th century, when the von Nostiz family acquired the manor. [1] The present manor house was built during the middle of the 18th century, and originally belonged to the family von Üchtritz. The building was originally Baroque in style. In 1873 the estate was acquired by the Prussian Minister of War, Generalfeldmarschall Albrecht von Roon. [2] von Roon rebuilt the building and had an additional floor added. This transformed the Baroque house into a Neoclassical building. The new design was similar to that of the Prussian Ministry of War in Berlin. During the same time, the park of the estate was enlarged. Albrecht von Roon also had a small family burial crypt constructed in the farther reaches of the park. His son, Waldemar von Roon had the chapel enlarged in a Gothic Revival style. The chapel has since been destroyed. [2]

Baroque architecture building style of the Baroque era

Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church. It was characterized ..by new explorations of form, light and shadow, and dramatic intensity. Common features of Baroque architecture included gigantism of proportions; a large open central space where everyone could see the altar; twisting columns, theatrical effects, including light coming from a cupola above; dramatic interior effects created with bronze and gilding; clusters of sculpted angels and other figures high overhead; and an extensive use of trompe-l'oeil, also called "quadratura," with painted architectural details and figures on the walls and ceiling, to increase the dramatic and theatrical effect.

Generalfeldmarschall was a rank in the armies of several German states and the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsgeneralfeldmarschall); in the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, the rank Feldmarschall was used. The rank was the equivalent to Großadmiral in the Kaiserliche Marine and Kriegsmarine, a five-star rank, comparable to OF-10 in today's NATO naval forces.

Albrecht von Roon German general

Albrecht Theodor Emil Graf von Roon was a Prussian soldier and statesman. As Minister of War from 1859 to 1873, Roon, along with Otto von Bismarck and Helmuth von Moltke, was a dominating figure in Prussia's government during the key decade of the 1860s, when a series of successful wars against Denmark, Austria and France led to German unification under Prussia's leadership. A moderate conservative and supporter of executive monarchy, he was an avid modernizer who worked to improve the efficiency of the army.

In 1945, the estate was expropriated and the family moved from the castle. For some time it was used to house refugees, but later it was divided into apartments. The whole estate suffered from neglect during the entire East German period. In 2000, it was bought by the local municipality, and it was renovated between 2003 and 2005. It today houses a museum with a permanent exhibition about the life of Albrecht von Roon, as well as the offices of the Schlesisch-Oberlausitzer Museumsverbund, an association of museums that operate in the area. [2] [3]

East Germany former communist country, 1949-1990

East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. It described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state", and the territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II — the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.

The estate also includes the former manor house park, a former smithy and stable, and the former estate inspector's house. Events and exhibitions regularly take place at the estate. [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Geschichte von Schloss Krobnitz" (in German). Burgen und Schlösser GmbH. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Schloss Krobnitz" (in German). Schlesisch-Oberlausitzer Museumsverbund. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Schloss und Park in Krobnitz" (in German). Stadt Reichenbach/OL. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
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