Copperplate engraving of brake castle in lemgo, lippe district, germany. Copperplate engraving from 1663/1665. View engraved on behalf of count hermann adolph zur lippe (1616-1666). “the engraving shows a profile view of the castle from the north; to the right, on the banks of the bega river, are three watermills (gritting or castle mill, oil mill and sawmill), which are accessed by a tree-lined path. Behind them, on the site of the former outer bailey, you can see the mighty, elongated stable building, as well as the castle barn and sheep pen, as well as the other outbuildings of the lordly domain; in the middle of the courtyard stands a dovecote. The castle bridge forms the connection to the castle. The view also documents the gatehouse, which has an external walkway, and the west wing of the castle. Both striking components were demolished in 1811; only traces of the wall remain today to remind us of this western end of a once spacious four-wing complex. The magnificent north wing is accentuated by five risalites with gables in the form of the dormer windows that were typical of the renaissance in the weser region. A passage leads from the basement to the garden, where the gardener's house with stepped gable and dormer windows and another house of unknown function can be seen. The seven-storey tower shows the surrounding corridor below the three-part tower roof, which the learned count's builder used for astronomical observations. Simon vi evidently used the two observatory balconies of the landgrave's castle of william iv of hesse (d. 1592) in kassel - which burned down in 1811 - as a model for this castle tower with walkway, which is probably unique in the weser renaissance. Italian models or connections to the palatinate in aachen, as has been suggested, are unlikely. The rural staffage consists in the foreground of a shepherd with cows and goats in the pasture, a man with a loaded donkey behind a gate, a single person on the path and in the front right a courtly couple with pages, all in baroque attire. Birds fly around the castle precinct, including herons, which symbolize noble hunting. To the south stretch the wooded ridges of the biesterberg and the wiembecker berg as well as more distant mountain ranges. "source: literature; author=detlev hellfaier, head library director of the lippe state library in detmold; title="schloß bracke" - copperplate engraving by the van lennep brothers 1663/65; collection=heimatland lippe; publisher=lippischer heimatbund ev and landesverband lippe; volume=103; number=8; date=2010-08; place=detmold; pages=244 f; issn=0017-9787; publisher=lippischer zeitungsverlag giesdorf. Date: um 1663/1665.
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