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Halberg Castle

Halberg Castle (German: Schloss Halberg) is a German castle built between 1877 and 1880 on Halberg mountain near Saarbrücken. The castle is located in the area of the former municipality of Brebach, which was merged with Fechingen to form Brebach-Fechingen in 1959 and incorporated into Saarbrücken in 1974. The castle complex, which was designed by the architects Edwin Oppler and Ferdinand Schorbach for Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg, is the second largest neo-Gothic secular building in Saarland after the St. Johann Town Hall despite renovations and partial demolition after World War II.

Main building of Halberg Castle, 2014

History edit

Monplaisir edit

 
Halberg Castle before destruction, c. 1900[1]

At the beginning of the 18th century, Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken had a small baroque lustschloss (pleasure palace) called "Monplaisir" built between 1709 and 1711 at Halberg,[2] from designs by Joseph C. Motte dit la Bonté, architect of the Saarlouis fortress.[3] In 1710, the baroque gardens received a castle wall, and in 1711 the interior was completed.[4] The building consisted of a small five-axis building with a mansard roof and two single-story cavaliers' houses in front. Prince William Henry of Nassau-Saarbrücken had the gardens further expanded with the creation of a zoo. During the reign of Prince Louis, his gardener expanded the baroque garden in c. 1772 to include an English landscape park with an orangery and Chinese houses in the Chinoiserie style. In c. 1788, architect Balthasar Wilhelm Stengel (son of Friedrich Joachim Stengel)[5] added a pheasantry and finch house.[6]

From 1774, Monplaisir was the preferred residence of Princess Wilhelmine of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1751–1780), whose multiple extramarital relationships (including Baroness Amalie Frederike von Dorsberg and, her maidservant, Katharina Kest) had made life at court unbearable. In November 1793 the castle buildings, as well as the family's Schloss Jägersberg, were destroyed by French Revolutionary troops.[7][8]

Halberg Castle edit

 
Portrait of Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg, c. 1860
 
Façade of the gate building

In the 19th century, Halberg developed into a popular destination for the citizens of Saarbrücken and St. Johann. It became known in 1875 that the Royal Prussian Forestry Administration in Trier wanted to sell Halberg to the industrialist Carl Ferdinand Stumm of Neunkirchen, which angered the citizens of Saarbrücken and St. Johann. Halberg had been open to citizens during the time of the Saarbrücken princes, and even after the castle was destroyed, the residents of the surrounding area used the area for excursions and festivals. The citizens set up a A municipal beautification association with the goal of converting Halberg into a public park. The campaign was unsuccessful, however, and, in 1877, Stumm purchased all of Halberg for 700,000 marks and hired architect Edwin Oppler from Hanover was commissioned to design and build a new castle.[9]

Stumm had become incredibly wealthy as a partner in Stumm Brothers,[10] and between 1877 and 1880, was in competition with his brothers Ferdinand Eduard von Stumm and Hugo Rudolf von Stumm, who also had magnificent castles built (Rauischholzhausen Castle and Ramholz Castle), a neo-Gothic castle was designed by Oppler.[11] The landscape park surrounding the castle was designed by the Royal Prussian gardener Eduard Neide and carried out by the architect Heinrich Siesmayer [de], who also designed the parks for Stumm's brother at Rauischholzhausen. The façade was built from yellow Jaumont limestone from Maizières-lès-Metz.[12]

Stumm, and his brothers, were ennobled in 1888, with his title linked to Halberg, as Baron von Stumm-Halberg.[13] The Prussian King and German Emperor Wilhelm II stayed at Halberg Castle in 1892 as a guest of Baron von Stumm-Halberg.[14]

Later ownership edit

 
Other view of main building, 2014

Upon the death of Baron von Stumm-Halberg in 1901,[15] the castle became the property of his heirs, widow Ida Charlotte Böcking (1839–1918) and their four daughters: Ida Henriette Charlotte (wife of politician Conrad von Schubert), Elisabeth Maria, Helene Karoline (wife of chamberlain Waldemar Anno Otto Kurt von Heimburg) and Bertha Hedwig (wife of diplomat Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten).[16]

In 1939, the property passed from the Stumm heirs to the Saarbrücken district and from the Saarbrücken district to the Großdeutscher Rundfunk for 538,000 Reichsmarks. During World War II, the castle served as a military post for the Saarbrücken anti-aircraft cannon regiment. After the War, the French military governor and High Commissioner Gilbert Grandval resided in the castle from 1948 to 1952.[17] The garden façade of the castle was largely stripped of its neo-Gothic decorations by Grandval and his wife Yvonne, who were strongly opposed the neo-Gothic style.[18] In 1952, the French customs administration replaced Grandval as landlord. During this time, the building underwent extensive changes and was further damaged by a fire in 1958.[19]

In 1959, the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation acquired the complex.[20] By 1969, several outbuildings of the old castle were demolished to make space for a number of new pavilion-style buildings (designed by architects Heinz Eber and Ernst Jung). A French/German restaurant is located within the castle.[21][22]

Gallery edit

Architectural drawings by Edwin Oppler, courtesy of the Hanover State Archives.

Notes edit

  1. ^ Demolished in 1969 in favor of the new Saarland Radio conference building.

References edit

  1. ^ Trepesch, Christof (1999). Saarbrücken (in German). Sutton Verlag GmbH. p. 42. ISBN 978-3-89702-105-1. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  2. ^ Thieme, Ulrich; Willis, Frederick Charles; Vollmer, Hans (1912). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (in German). W. Engelmann. p. 387. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  3. ^ Sperl, Dina D. (2003). Historische Gärten: eine Standortbestimmung ; [anlässlich der Europäischen Messe für Denkmalpflege und Stadterneuerung in Leipzig, der Denkmal 2000, veranstaltete ...] (in German). Schelzky und Jeep. p. 144. ISBN 978-3-89541-161-8. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  4. ^ Caspary, Hans; Götz, Wolfgang; Klinge, Ekkart (1984). Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland (in German). Deutscher Kunstverlag. p. 156. ISBN 978-3-422-00382-8. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  5. ^ Lohmeyer, Karl (1911). Friedrich Joachim Stengel: fürstäbtlich fuldischer Ingenieur, Hofarchitekt und Bauinspector, fürstlich nassau-usingen'scher Baudirektor, herzoglich sachsen-gothaischer Rat und Baudirektor, fürstlich-nassau-saarbrücken'scher Generalbaudirektor, würklicher Kammerrat und Forstkammerpräsident pp., 1694-1787 (in German). SDV Saarbücker Druckerei und Verlag. p. 125. ISBN 978-3-921870-01-3. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  6. ^ Labouvie, Eva (2009). Adel an der Grenze: höfische Kultur und Lebenswelt im SaarLorLux-Raum (1697-1815) (in German). Vereinigung zur Förderung des Landesarchivs Saarbrücken. p. 109. ISBN 978-3-9811672-0-7. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  7. ^ Repertorium für kunstwissenschaft (in German). W. de Gruyter and Company. 1911. p. 160. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  8. ^ Keyser, Erich (1949). Deutsches Städtebuch: Handbuch städtischer Geschichte (in German). Kohlhammer. p. 501. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  9. ^ Werner, Ferdinand (2009). Mannheimer Villen: Architektur und Wohnkultur in den Quadraten und der Oststadt (in German). Wernersche. p. 72. ISBN 978-3-88462-289-6. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  10. ^ Killy, Walther; Vierhaus, Rudolf (30 November 2011). Schmidt - Theyer. Walter de Gruyter. p. 633. ISBN 978-3-11-096629-9. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  11. ^ Heyrman, Peter; Maeyer, Jan de; Kohlrausch, Martin (5 May 2020). Leisure and Elite Formation: Arenas of Encounter in Continental Europe, 1815-1914. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 109. ISBN 978-3-11-058519-3. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  12. ^ Allgemeine deutsche biographie (in German). Duncker und Humblot. 1887. p. 404. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  13. ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge ... Encyclopedia Americana Corporation. 1924. p. 754. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  14. ^ Nichols, John Alden (1958). Germany After Bismarck, the Caprivi Era, 1890-1894. Harvard University Press. pp. 192–193. ISBN 978-0-674-35100-4. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  15. ^ Burke, Edmund (1902). Annual Register. Longmans, Green. p. 116. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  16. ^ Amt, Germany Auswärtiges (1957). Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918-1945: June 1934-March 1935. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 978. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  17. ^ "Own Bang". Newsweek. Newsweek, Incorporated: 43. 1952. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  18. ^ Schum, Alexander (1973). Theater in bewegter Zeit: Erinnerungen u. Begegungen (in German). Verlag Die Mitte. p. 247. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  19. ^ Conrad, Martina (1985). Schloss Halberg (in German). Verlag "Die Mitte". ISBN 978-3-921236-53-6. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  20. ^ Kemp's International Film & Television Directory. Kemp's Commercial Guides. 1967. p. 369. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  21. ^ "Schloss Halberg, Saarbrücken". cityseeker.com. cityseeker. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  22. ^ Egert-Romanowskiej, Joanna; Omilanowska, Malgorzata (15 February 2010). DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Germany. Penguin. p. 546. ISBN 978-0-7566-7090-0. Retrieved 12 January 2024.

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For the castle in Rhineland Palatinate see Castle Hallberg Halberg Castle German Schloss Halberg is a German castle built between 1877 and 1880 on Halberg mountain near Saarbrucken The castle is located in the area of the former municipality of Brebach which was merged with Fechingen to form Brebach Fechingen in 1959 and incorporated into Saarbrucken in 1974 The castle complex which was designed by the architects Edwin Oppler and Ferdinand Schorbach for Carl Ferdinand von Stumm Halberg is the second largest neo Gothic secular building in Saarland after the St Johann Town Hall despite renovations and partial demolition after World War II Main building of Halberg Castle 2014 Contents 1 History 1 1 Monplaisir 1 2 Halberg Castle 1 3 Later ownership 2 Gallery 3 Notes 4 References 5 External linksHistory editMonplaisir edit nbsp Halberg Castle before destruction c 1900 1 At the beginning of the 18th century Louis Crato Count of Nassau Saarbrucken had a small baroque lustschloss pleasure palace called Monplaisir built between 1709 and 1711 at Halberg 2 from designs by Joseph C Motte dit la Bonte architect of the Saarlouis fortress 3 In 1710 the baroque gardens received a castle wall and in 1711 the interior was completed 4 The building consisted of a small five axis building with a mansard roof and two single story cavaliers houses in front Prince William Henry of Nassau Saarbrucken had the gardens further expanded with the creation of a zoo During the reign of Prince Louis his gardener expanded the baroque garden in c 1772 to include an English landscape park with an orangery and Chinese houses in the Chinoiserie style In c 1788 architect Balthasar Wilhelm Stengel son of Friedrich Joachim Stengel 5 added a pheasantry and finch house 6 From 1774 Monplaisir was the preferred residence of Princess Wilhelmine of Schwarzburg Rudolstadt 1751 1780 whose multiple extramarital relationships including Baroness Amalie Frederike von Dorsberg and her maidservant Katharina Kest had made life at court unbearable In November 1793 the castle buildings as well as the family s Schloss Jagersberg were destroyed by French Revolutionary troops 7 8 Halberg Castle edit nbsp Portrait of Carl Ferdinand von Stumm Halberg c 1860 nbsp Facade of the gate building In the 19th century Halberg developed into a popular destination for the citizens of Saarbrucken and St Johann It became known in 1875 that the Royal Prussian Forestry Administration in Trier wanted to sell Halberg to the industrialist Carl Ferdinand Stumm of Neunkirchen which angered the citizens of Saarbrucken and St Johann Halberg had been open to citizens during the time of the Saarbrucken princes and even after the castle was destroyed the residents of the surrounding area used the area for excursions and festivals The citizens set up a A municipal beautification association with the goal of converting Halberg into a public park The campaign was unsuccessful however and in 1877 Stumm purchased all of Halberg for 700 000 marks and hired architect Edwin Oppler from Hanover was commissioned to design and build a new castle 9 Stumm had become incredibly wealthy as a partner in Stumm Brothers 10 and between 1877 and 1880 was in competition with his brothers Ferdinand Eduard von Stumm and Hugo Rudolf von Stumm who also had magnificent castles built Rauischholzhausen Castle and Ramholz Castle a neo Gothic castle was designed by Oppler 11 The landscape park surrounding the castle was designed by the Royal Prussian gardener Eduard Neide and carried out by the architect Heinrich Siesmayer de who also designed the parks for Stumm s brother at Rauischholzhausen The facade was built from yellow Jaumont limestone from Maizieres les Metz 12 Stumm and his brothers were ennobled in 1888 with his title linked to Halberg as Baron von Stumm Halberg 13 The Prussian King and German Emperor Wilhelm II stayed at Halberg Castle in 1892 as a guest of Baron von Stumm Halberg 14 Later ownership edit nbsp Other view of main building 2014 Upon the death of Baron von Stumm Halberg in 1901 15 the castle became the property of his heirs widow Ida Charlotte Bocking 1839 1918 and their four daughters Ida Henriette Charlotte wife of politician Conrad von Schubert Elisabeth Maria Helene Karoline wife of chamberlain Waldemar Anno Otto Kurt von Heimburg and Bertha Hedwig wife of diplomat Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten 16 In 1939 the property passed from the Stumm heirs to the Saarbrucken district and from the Saarbrucken district to the Grossdeutscher Rundfunk for 538 000 Reichsmarks During World War II the castle served as a military post for the Saarbrucken anti aircraft cannon regiment After the War the French military governor and High Commissioner Gilbert Grandval resided in the castle from 1948 to 1952 17 The garden facade of the castle was largely stripped of its neo Gothic decorations by Grandval and his wife Yvonne who were strongly opposed the neo Gothic style 18 In 1952 the French customs administration replaced Grandval as landlord During this time the building underwent extensive changes and was further damaged by a fire in 1958 19 In 1959 the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation acquired the complex 20 By 1969 several outbuildings of the old castle were demolished to make space for a number of new pavilion style buildings designed by architects Heinz Eber and Ernst Jung A French German restaurant is located within the castle 21 22 Gallery editArchitectural drawings by Edwin Oppler courtesy of the Hanover State Archives nbsp Facade of the gate building nbsp Floor plan of the gate building nbsp Three wing stable and coach house with water tower a nbsp Entrance facade nbsp Garden side with original wooden pergola nbsp Floor plan of the ground floor nbsp Entrance hall nbsp Dining room fireplace wall nbsp Forester s apartment unbuilt nbsp Servant s house nbsp Servant s houseNotes edit Demolished in 1969 in favor of the new Saarland Radio conference building References edit Trepesch Christof 1999 Saarbrucken in German Sutton Verlag GmbH p 42 ISBN 978 3 89702 105 1 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Thieme Ulrich Willis Frederick Charles Vollmer Hans 1912 Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in German W Engelmann p 387 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Sperl Dina D 2003 Historische Garten eine Standortbestimmung anlasslich der Europaischen Messe fur Denkmalpflege und Stadterneuerung in Leipzig der Denkmal 2000 veranstaltete in German Schelzky und Jeep p 144 ISBN 978 3 89541 161 8 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Caspary Hans Gotz Wolfgang Klinge Ekkart 1984 Rheinland Pfalz Saarland in German Deutscher Kunstverlag p 156 ISBN 978 3 422 00382 8 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Lohmeyer Karl 1911 Friedrich Joachim Stengel furstabtlich fuldischer Ingenieur Hofarchitekt und Bauinspector furstlich nassau usingen scher Baudirektor herzoglich sachsen gothaischer Rat und Baudirektor furstlich nassau saarbrucken scher Generalbaudirektor wurklicher Kammerrat und Forstkammerprasident pp 1694 1787 in German SDV Saarbucker Druckerei und Verlag p 125 ISBN 978 3 921870 01 3 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Labouvie Eva 2009 Adel an der Grenze hofische Kultur und Lebenswelt im SaarLorLux Raum 1697 1815 in German Vereinigung zur Forderung des Landesarchivs Saarbrucken p 109 ISBN 978 3 9811672 0 7 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Repertorium fur kunstwissenschaft in German W de Gruyter and Company 1911 p 160 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Keyser Erich 1949 Deutsches Stadtebuch Handbuch stadtischer Geschichte in German Kohlhammer p 501 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Werner Ferdinand 2009 Mannheimer Villen Architektur und Wohnkultur in den Quadraten und der Oststadt in German Wernersche p 72 ISBN 978 3 88462 289 6 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Killy Walther Vierhaus Rudolf 30 November 2011 Schmidt Theyer Walter de Gruyter p 633 ISBN 978 3 11 096629 9 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Heyrman Peter Maeyer Jan de Kohlrausch Martin 5 May 2020 Leisure and Elite Formation Arenas of Encounter in Continental Europe 1815 1914 Walter de Gruyter GmbH amp Co KG p 109 ISBN 978 3 11 058519 3 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Allgemeine deutsche biographie in German Duncker und Humblot 1887 p 404 Retrieved 12 January 2024 The Encyclopedia Americana A Library of Universal Knowledge Encyclopedia Americana Corporation 1924 p 754 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Nichols John Alden 1958 Germany After Bismarck the Caprivi Era 1890 1894 Harvard University Press pp 192 193 ISBN 978 0 674 35100 4 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Burke Edmund 1902 Annual Register Longmans Green p 116 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Amt Germany Auswartiges 1957 Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918 1945 June 1934 March 1935 U S Government Printing Office p 978 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Own Bang Newsweek Newsweek Incorporated 43 1952 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Schum Alexander 1973 Theater in bewegter Zeit Erinnerungen u Begegungen in German Verlag Die Mitte p 247 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Conrad Martina 1985 Schloss Halberg in German Verlag Die Mitte ISBN 978 3 921236 53 6 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Kemp s International Film amp Television Directory Kemp s Commercial Guides 1967 p 369 Retrieved 12 January 2024 Schloss Halberg Saarbrucken cityseeker com cityseeker Retrieved 12 January 2024 Egert Romanowskiej Joanna Omilanowska Malgorzata 15 February 2010 DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Germany Penguin p 546 ISBN 978 0 7566 7090 0 Retrieved 12 January 2024 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Halberg Castle Le Schloss Halberg 49 13 22 N 7 01 51 E 49 2229 N 7 0308 E 49 2229 7 0308 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Halberg Castle amp oldid 1206253111, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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