Schloss Herzogsfreude – Wikipedia
Schloss Herzogsfreude Was a spa Cologne hunting lodge in the Röttgen district of Bonn.
The Freuden Castle is one of the many baroque buildings prompted by Cologne Elector Clemens August I. The castle was built by Clemens August from 1753 to 1755. Located in the forest area of the Kottenforst, it should serve as a hunting lodge for the Parforce hunts loved by the Elector. Previously, around 1727 the Kottenforst was systematically measured for the first time in order to create avenues for Parforce hunt. These mostly wide avenues were poured straight up and provided with trenches on both sides due to the wet surface.
The castle of impressive size – the main building alone without the side wings showed a length of 70 meters with 19 windows axes – and from which avenues from the straight outer bike out of all directions was completed and partially furnished, but the client Clemens August 1761 died And no longer visited his castle. His electoral successors also did not enter it. The consequences of the French Revolution, which led to the French occupation of the entire Rhineland left bank of the Rhineland, ensured that Electoral Parforce hunts no longer remained an opportunity. In 1794 the last reigning Elector of Cologne, Maximilian Franz von Austria, fled to the French troops. In 1803, according to the nameless Reichs Act, which gave the Reich Deputation Center, all princely bishops of the Holy Roman Empire were dissolved.
The French state became the owner of the vacant Castle Duke, which publicly auctioned it in June 1804. “Les Restes du Château des Roetgen” – as the official sales log was noted – were acquired by the Bonn roofer Peter Lander for 3550 Francs. The castle was canceled from this in the next few years. Bricks, stones, floor coverings, copper roofing and other building materials were sold. A large part of the stones were used for the expansion of the Wesel citadel. [first] In 1810 the castle was almost completely disappeared.
The Castle of the Castle was the Kurkölnian senior forest master Franz Stephan Ostler (1716–1782).
There are no more ruins or remains today. Only the path of trails created for the Parforce hunt by the Kottenforst, the hunting house created with the castle building, which is now used by the forest administration, and the Sankt-Venantius chapel, which was also built by Clemens August I, have been preserved remained.
In today’s Röttgen, there is therefore not much reminiscent of the Castle of Duke. In addition to the street names “Schlossplatz”, “Kurfürstenplatz” and “Herzogsfreudenweg”, only parts of the former basement vault can be found as the remains of the former Electoral Castle, which can be found today among some private houses. In addition, components of the castle are said to have been used in the construction of the forest house in Röttgen.
Since 1984 there has been a small monument on the Schlossplatz in Röttgen, which is reminiscent of the former joy of Duke in the form of a bronze model.
In addition to the Castle Castle, Clemens August I had the new building of the Poppelsdorfer Castle (1715–1740) and the Schlössers Augustusburg and Falconal Lust in Brühl (1723–1746) as hunting and summer locks, Clemenswert Castle in Sögel (1737–1747) And build the only partially implemented Liebenburg Castle near Goslar (1754–1760). In addition, in the period 1751–1757, he had the Bonn master builder Michael Lveilly expanded the Elector Castle around the Koblenz goal after plans by François de Cuvilliés. The hunting lodge in Wesseling is wrongly attributed to him.
- Barbara Hausmanns: The Jagdschloß Duke in Bonn-Röttgen (1753–1761). A tree -monographic examination for the last castle building of Elector Clemens August von Cologne . Bouvier, Ed. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-7928-0599-5. (= Publications of the Bonn City Archives, No. 45).
- Volker Plagemann: The hunting lines of Elector Clemens August – Falconal Lust – Clemenswerth – Duke , Hamburg 1969.
- Carsten Polanz: Duke joy – a never used castle. In: Bonner General indicator , 10./11. April 2004.
- Barbara Hausmanns: Looking for a lost castle. In: Bonner General indicator , 11./12. September 2004.
- Werner D’hein: Kottenforst. 13 hikes through a historical cultural landscape . Gaasterland-Publising, Dusseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-393587773-21-5.
- Wilfried Hansmann, Gisbert Knopp: Clemens August the last Wittelsbacher as the elector and client on the Rhine . Munich 1986.
- ↑ Werner Hesse: History of the city of Bonn during the French rule, 1792–1815 . Bonn 1879, S. 236; Textarchiv – Internet Archive .
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