Wiederau
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Wiederau bird's-eye view
Wiederau is a village south of Leipzig with about 400 inhabitants, and since 1994 has been Pegau. The settlement is east flows around the White Elster. Wiederau is known for its baroque palace and the radio stations.
Baroque castle Wiederau
The Wiederau Castle is one of a series of art and architectural history of valuable monuments in the embossed through land reform and lignite mining landscape in the area south of Leipzig. Was built the location on the southwestern edge of the village castle in 1697 bis 1705. Its builder was born in 1646 in Annaberg, by a Scottish merchant braids derived Leipzig Privy David Fleischer ( also known as David Fletcher ). He bought the estate in 1697 for 21 000 meißnische guilders. Who was the builder re Auer palace complex, is not properly documented. Some sources attribute the Johann Gregor Fuchs Castle, a native of Dresden and was elected in 1700, the Leipzig Council master mason. The art historian Jörg hangover Dahl derives the basis of stylistic comparisons and historical events that could not have built the castle, designed by Leonhard Christoph Sturm, Johann Gregor Fuchs but David treasure.
Since the bombing of 1945 is the only surviving representative of the Castle Dresden Baroque period. Especially noteworthy is the ceiling painting in the ballroom, which extends over two floors of the three-storey building. The wall and ceiling paintings were painted by the Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Marchini.
Wiederau is also known by a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach: " Pleasant Wiederau - Rejoice in your floodplains." The cantor, she composed in 1737 in honor of the new landlord Johann Christian von Hennicke, a favorite of the Dresden court of Augustus the Strong.
In GDR times, was in the castle, inter alia, a kindergarten housed. As planned, it should have soft brown coal excavators in the 90's, but the political change prevented this. The facade of the castle and the paintings were painstakingly restored. An association is committed to the future of the building and recorded it irregularly with exhibitions, concerts and other cultural events.