Beeskow Castle
| Beeskow Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1272 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Preserved essential parts | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, margraves, princes | |
| Place: | Beeskow | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 10 '13.6 " N , 14 ° 15' 7.8" E | |
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The Beeskow Castle is a moated castle in the district town Beeskow in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg .
history
The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1272 and, like Storkow Castle , belonged to the Lords of Strehle , with whom and other moated castles they formed a network of defensive structures in the Mittelmark .
The lords of Strele were succeeded by the lords of Bieberstein between 1377 and 1382. In 1518 Ulrich von Bieberstein pledged the castle to the bishop of Lebus, Dietrich von Bülow , who expanded it into an episcopal residence.
In 1556 the castle and rule came to the margrave Johann I of Brandenburg-Küstrin . After his death in 1575, the castle and estate finally fell into the possession of the Electors of Brandenburg . 1625–1627 owned Gebhard XXIII. von Alvensleben took over the Beeskow rule as a pledge, at the same time as the Storkow rule , and lived in the Beeskow Castle, after which it served the Hohenzollern as an administration building until 1915 . It was then used by the city of Beeskow, which had acquired the plant, for administrative and economic purposes.
At the end of the Second World War , the east wing of the castle burned down in 1945 due to fighting. After the war ended, the facility served as accommodation for refugees from East Prussia and Silesia .
Based on a resolution of the district parliament in 1991, the castle was transformed into a cultural and educational center. A regional museum on historical, ethnographic and ecological topics of the Beeskow-Storkow region as well as a medieval magazine with a torture cellar have been set up in the facility. Changing exhibitions are mainly on the topic of art in the German Democratic Republic .
The Beeskow Art Archive is housed in the castle and its holdings include around 23,000 objects, primarily paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, but also photographs, sculptures, applied arts and medals that belonged to parties, mass organizations and state organs of the GDR until 1990. Despite the financial withdrawal of the federal states of Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the GDR art archive has been preserved. The Oder-Spree district and the state of Brandenburg want to continue to support the collection.
In addition, in the castle in May 2018, the previously in Monschau -based Museum of Music Beeskow opened.
Together with the castles in Storkow and Friedland NL , Beeskow Castle is part of the Strele-Burgen association, which aims to promote cultural activities in the Oder-Spree district.
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany August 5, 2017, p. 10
- ↑ Museum homepage
literature
- Manual of Historic Places (Volume X) . ISBN 3-520-31101-1 .
- Jo Lüdemann: Castle Guide Brandenburg . ISBN 3-89794-006-X .
- Beeskow Castle, Documentation Center Art of the GDR, Oder-Spree district (publisher): Beeskow Castle. The cultural center of the Oder-Spree district. Reconstruction 1991–1996 . Beeskow 1997
