Rastede Castle
The Rastede Castle is a country castle in Rastede, bunting country, near Oldenburg.
The Castle
The castle in Rastede was for a long time the residence of the Counts and Grand Dukes of Oldenburg and is still family-owned. The building is an example of the Oldenburg classicism, which was brought by the Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig to Oldenburg and also the most important secular building in the Ammer country. The castle is not accessible to the public in a park environment in the English style. Opposite the castle, the municipally owned Erbprinzpalais, which is now used for cultural events and houses the municipal archives.
History
From Monastery to lock
During the Reformation, the monastery Rastede lost its spiritual basis. Through pension payments to the monks succeeded Christoph Graf von Oldenburg, a canon in Cologne and brother of the reigning Count Anton I, to be provisor ( administrator ) of the extinct Order. After the last monk left the monastery in 1529, Christopher compared with his brethren, and built him a ' leisurely flat ' at the monastery. With the death of the former canon in 1566, the building also the last semblance of ecclesiastical function lost.
The horse lover, Count Anton Günther (1583-1667) was set up in 1612 a large stables at the monastery. In 1643 the old abbot's house was demolished and the Count had to build on the same spot a hunting lodge, which he gladly used it as a summer residence. With a central stair tower on the sticking a bulb- and two-storey side wings, right and left, each with 4 window axes the palace had the typical form of Baroque Regent seats in the 17th century. 1657, the former priory was converted into a ' pleasure garden '.
The Danes time
With the death of Count Anton Günther 1667, the County of Oldenburg and thus the Rastede castle fell to the Royal Danish branch of the House of Oldenburg. The Danes were not interested particularly for Oldenburg and so did the Castle for more than four decades served from 1701 to 1744 on the Danish King Frederick command IV only as a place of exile for the fallen into disfavor Princess Sophia Eleonore of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Beck.
1750 sold the Danish governor Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar to the Judicial Council Christoph Romans in civil possession. This had the castle by the Dutch architect Cornelis Redelykheid Dutch-style remodel in a dreiflügigen building tract with many baroque typical Verkröpfungen and projections. The garden he had been put in the French style.
Peter Friedrich Ludwig
1777 acquired the later Grand Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig of the castle and left it up to date from 1780 to 1791 remodel. First initiated the farming inspector Heinrich Gottlieb Becker and later under his successor Joseph Bernhard Winck who oversaw the transformation of the classical Oldenburger Lamberti Church, the conversion work, but not yet freed the castle from its baroque character. The park was created by the 1784 appointed as a garden architect Carl Ferdinand bosses. Bosse also brought into the Rhododendron Ammer country would become the landmark of the district later.
After the occupation of Oldenburg by the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte and the return Peter Friedrich Ludwig of the Russian exile in 1813 matured plans for the current neoclassical style of the castle. In 1816, the north wing, led by Carl Heinrich Slevogt and Georg Sigmund Otto Lasius was redesigned and changed the attic. The sculptor Edward Demitrius Högl knew the hall of the castle with stucco. The central block of the residence burned by 1968 from just-ended renovations and was immediately restored following the original state again.
The Erbprinzpalais
The Erbprinzpalais is now on the opposite side along the leading front of the castle road. It was in 1822 by Peter Friedrich Ludwig acquired by ducal travel Schmettau Marshall, who used it until then as a country house. The Duke had the building for his son, the Crown Prince Paul Friedrich August, according to neo-classical model rebuild and had to create an English landscape garden.
In 1882, was the son of Paul Friedrich August, the then Grand Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter, rebuild the building with the zeitgeist during the second half of the 19th century in the style of historicism. This stylistic appearance is preserved. After a restoration in the 1980s, the municipally owned Palais serves the citizens of Rastede as a cultural center and venue (Palais Rastede ). It houses among others the municipal archives.
Here lived the daughter of Friedrich August II, Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, who was married to Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, the second son of Emperor William II after they had separated from him in 1926. It was also known as Palais house.
The Cavalier House
The Cavalier House is located right in front of the castle. It was used by the ducal family as a guesthouse. In Kavaliershaus lived after the death of Friedrich August II in 1931 his second wife Elisabeth Alexandrine Princess of Mecklenburg -Schwerin.
The Hirschtor
The grand entrance to Rasteder park was established in 1870 under Grand Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter. The simulated deer on the gate stand for the red deer (and later due to the damage caused forest fallow ), which were then to be found in the fenced area of the castle park.
After the Second World War, the original deer were dismantled in 1945 and disappeared without a trace. The door system fell into the following decades. 1983 Sponsors Hirschtor was founded and in 1988 the assumption of costs by the municipality Rastede could be started with the restoration of the damaged and decayed parts by way of acceptance. The balustrades and Endpfeiler had to be completely replaced. The Deer couple was only in 1995 added to the gate and financed by private donations. In 1996, the end piers placed the vases and a year later, the decorated gate are used.
Personalities
In the castle were born:
- Grand Duke Paul Friedrich August (1783 )
In the castle died:
- Count Anton Günther ( 1667)
- Grand Duke Nicholas Friedrich Peter (1900 ) ( Palace )
- Friedrich August II
On the night of February 24, 1931, the castle steward Theodor Beenken heard in the official residence, the bell, which was operated from the bedroom of the Grand Duke. Friedrich August II, the last still reigning Grand Duke until 1918, died in his arms, even before the doctor arrived, summoned from Oldenburg. His son, Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus of Oldenburg later the castle used, mainly as a summer residence