Old Castle (Freyenstein)
The Old Palace in Freyenstein is a fragmentary preserved Renaissance castle in the district Freyenstein of Wittstock / Dosse in Ostprignitz-Ruppin in Brandenburg . The old castle was built in the 16th century and is known for its facade design with terracotta decoration .
history
The renaissance castle was built by Dominicus Parr to the southeast outside the city wall between 1551 and 1572 on the site of a medieval castle for Curdt von Rohr . It is partially surrounded by moats. The castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years War in 1631 and has been in ruins ever since. A partial extension with restoration was carried out in 1969/73. The area was redesigned in 1968 based on the existing park structures.
Weddings are held in the old castle; There is also a small exhibition on household items, clothing and tools from the 19th and 20th centuries.
architecture
Of the demanding, irregular three-wing complex, only wall sections of the south-facing former main front with two semicircular tower stumps flanking the gate and the richly decorated northern head building of the west wing, a four-storey component with segmented arched windows and a stair tower, are preserved. The north front is framed by two three-storey, segmental arched bay windows . Bay windows, gable fields and upper part of the stair tower are adorned with carefully shaped, originally painted terracotta decorations, probably from the workshop of the Lübeck master Statius von Düren (similar to the Johann Albrecht style of the Fürstenhof (Wismar) and Gadebusch Castle ). The terracotta elements were restored and supplemented by HB-Werkstätten für Keramik in Marwitz. The pilasters and friezes are richly decorated with tendrils, grotesques and other antique motifs, between them are portrait medallions of Paris and Conrad von Rohr as Hector .
There is a three-bay room with cross vaults on the ground floor . An open fireplace is built into the second floor in the north wall. The furnishings include a restored council bench dated 1753 and several portraits from the ancestral gallery of the New Palace : Dettloff von Winterfeldt († 1733), Georg von Winterfeldt († 1773) and two portraits of a married couple from the first half of the 19th century. On the third floor, the south wall is provided with niches, where replicas and original pieces of the terracotta reliefs were used.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , pp. 329-330.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Website of the city of Freyenstein with information about the old castle
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the city of Freyenstein with information about the old castle. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 17 ′ 8.9 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 22.6 ″ E