Lindstedt Castle

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Lindstedt Castle

Schloss Lindstedt is a member of the ensemble of palaces and gardens of Potsdam belonging concluded that under Frederick William IV. Was built from 1858 to 1861.

Building history

The Lindstedt estate belonged to Loriot's ancestors from 1803 to 1828 , of whom Friedrich Wilhelm III. bought it in 1828 as a small estate. This was used for carp breeding and remains of the ponds are still there today. The property is located to the northwest, about 800 m from the New Palace , directly on Lindstedter Chaussee.

Friedrich Wilhelm IV had been working on plans for a retirement home at this point since he bought the Lindstedt estate. For decades he participated in the planning for the renovation of the house with over 100 drawings. The baroque outbuilding was to be turned into a splendid antique villa. Ultimately, only a minimal variant of the project was implemented.

Despite the involvement of Ludwig Persius , Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse , August Stüler and the Schinkel student Ferdinand von Arnim , the planning dragged on for many years.

description

In addition to the main building, the late classicist complex consists of a tower with a belvedere and a temple-like extension with a high flight of stairs. A colonnade connects the building with Lindstedter Chaussee and creates a connection to the landscape. The parts of the building mentioned appear to differ in their entirety and reflect the client's yearning for Italian classicism.

The regular garden designed by Lenné offers perspectives of the castle and views of the landscape. Due to the hill, there is a view of the domes of the Neues Palais building ensemble .

use

View of Lindstedt Castle from the left side of the park (2011)
Lindstedt Castle (1988)

It is said that Friedrich Wilhelm IV had the palace built as a retirement home. However, it is questionable whether it would have ever happened. After the king's death, the castle became part of the royal widow's inheritance. Only his successor and brother Wilhelm I had the building completed.

The property was later leased to various government employees. During the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II , the castle also served as a quarantine station for cholera and tuberculosis epidemics. Thus, the children of the imperial family were sometimes taught in Lindstedt Castle. After 1918, Hindenburg left the castle to the former Chief of the General Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, for a long lease. He died there in 1922, although his family continued to live in the castle until 1944. Erich von Falkenhayn was buried in the nearby Bornstedter cemetery .

Inhabited by private individuals until the 1950s, Lindstedt served the Botanical Institute of the Potsdam University of Education in the 1950s and the Potsdam Forensic Medicine Institute since the 1980s. Since 1996, the castle is from the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg administers and is part of the ensemble of palaces and parks in Potsdam-Berlin cultural landscape since 1990 as a World Heritage Site under the protection of UNESCO stands. Today it is used for various types of events and can be rented from the SPSG .

For the Sci-Fi - Action - Horror Resident Evil (2002), the castle served as the backdrop for the entrance to a secret underground laboratory complex.

In 2019 it became known that the great-great-grandson of the last German emperor, Wilhelm II. , Georg Friedrich von Prussia , is demanding permanent, free of charge and land registry protection in the Cecilienhof Palace , Lindstedt Palace or in the Villa Liegnitz .

literature

  • Gert Streidt, Klaus Frahm: Potsdam - The palaces and gardens of the Hohenzollern . Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne, 1996 ISBN 3-89508-238-4 .
  • David E. Barclay: "Anarchy and Good Will"
  • Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation SPSG: "Artist and King" - Exhibition catalog for the 200th birthday of Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

Web links

Commons : Lindstedt Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How the dispute between the Emperor's great-great-grandson and the Bund could escalate. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .


Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 36 ″  N , 13 ° 0 ′ 39 ″  E