Blomenburg

View of the courtyard of the Blomenburg

The garden facade of the Blomenburg

The Blomenburg in Selent in the Plön district is a hunting lodge from the mid-19th century. The castle - according to the regional definition more of a mansion - was built for Count Otto von Blome , whose name it also bears. The building is considered to be one of the main works of historicism in the state of Schleswig-Holstein . The facility is accessible to visitors from the outside.

historical overview

The Blomenburg building site on the so-called Heidberg near Selent originally belonged to the Lammershagen estate , which Count Otto von Blome acquired in 1829. The Blomenburg was built as a hunting seat near his Salzau estate from 1844 to 1848, it was a completely new building, there was no previous building at this point. The hunting lodge was built in amicable rivalry as a counterpart to the observation tower called Hessenstein , which Landgrave Friedrich von Hessen had built a few years earlier on the other side of Lake Selent near Gut Panker . From 1878 until her death in 1908, Adeline Countess von Hardenberg, the only daughter of Otto Graf Blome, lived as a widow on the Blomenburg. After that, the Blomenburg served the members of the Blome family as an occasional residence until 1927, when it was sold to the Provincial Association of Schleswig-Holstein under Johannes Blome. The building served as a youth and education center in the following decades, the non-permanent furnishings were largely lost during this time.

The youth home was closed in 1992 and the Blomenburg was offered for sale. Until 1993, it served to accommodate refugees from Yugoslavia, which was shaken by civil war . The building finally went to an investment company that had the so-called Technology Center Blomenburg set up there from 1997 . From 2004 to 2006, the historic facilities were renovated and the new building connected, which together formed the “Blomenburg Venture Park”. After controversies about the use of the technology center, which was renovated and funded with public funds, the operator filed for bankruptcy in 2009. In 2010 the district of Plön took over the operation of the technology center. After the bankruptcy of the shareholder “Blomenburg Holding” in January 2011 and the decision of the Plön district not to finance the technology center in the future, the Blomenburg Venture Park Trägergesellschaft mbH filed for bankruptcy on February 25, 2011. This then led to proceedings before the Schleswig Higher Regional Court , which had to be clarified as to whether the insolvency administrator could reclaim repaid subsidies of around 7.3 million euros plus interest from the Plön district, as one of the shareholders . The OLG rejected this. In 2015, a private investor group acquired Blomenburg. The aim of the investors is to develop the castle as a kind of burn-out center and sanatorium for neurological and psychosomatic patients. At the end of 2017 it was announced that the Asklepios clinics will operate the center as a private psychosomatic clinic.

The fully inpatient private clinic for psychotherapy and psychosomatics was opened in August 2019 by Sven Hannawald and Nova Meierhenrich. Stress-associated diseases such as burnout, affective disorders such as anxiety disorders (specific, generalized, paroxysmal and chronic), depressive disorders (unipolar, bipolar, acute and chronic), somatoform disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders are treated. Non-substance-related addictions and addictions that do not require internal monitoring are also treated. Evidence-based psycho and pharmacotherapy is linked to gender medicine and the latest findings on micronutrients. Alternative treatment concepts such as sports and creative therapy (drama therapy, music therapy) are also used. In addition to acute and burnout therapy, the focus is on coaching for personal development and programs for a healthy and conscious lifestyle. Medical director during the opening phase was Stephan Ahrens , founder of the specialist center for stress medicine and psychotherapy in Falkenried. Stephanie Grabhorn is the chief physician at Blomenburg. Patients have 69 rooms and suites, a restaurant, common rooms such as libraries and billiard rooms, a wellness and fitness area and a wide range of sports available.

Building stock

The Blomenburg

General view of the complex with the cavalier's house and hunting lodge

The Blomenburg is one of the main works of historicism in Schleswig-Holstein. The by Berlin architect Eduard garlic built complex consists of the actual lock hunting that the manner of a forecastle is surrounded by a multi-leaf annex. As a model for the will Potsdam located Babelsberg Palace called. The Blomenburg is a two-story building based on the English Tudor style . The structure above a basement plinth is almost cube-shaped, with several towers and extensions protruding from it. The building is made of brick and was originally intended to remain unplastered, but before the construction work was completed, it was first painted red and later today's white. The house is sparsely decorated with cornice strips, the flat roof is hidden behind a crenellated wreath .

The second floor was intended as the main floor with the representative living rooms, which is almost twice as high as the lower floor. The interior of the Blomenburg was considered exquisite, but the furniture was almost completely lost in the course of external use of the building. Only the partially painted wall and ceiling fields have survived.

In 2018, the renovation work began so that the Jagdschloss could be used as a private clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics. The investment volume was 20 million euros. All historical buildings around the courtyard are used today as part of the therapy offers. A fine dining restaurant with an adjacent library, reading room, billiard room and conference room has been integrated into the historic knight's hall of the manor house.

The outbuildings and the garden

The cavalier house

The hunting lodge is surrounded by several outbuildings, which together form a kind of outer bailey. The facility is entered through a gatehouse - another, outer gate with a drawbridge was later demolished again - which leads directly into the Blomenburg courtyard. The courtyard is formed in the shape of a horseshoe by the farm wings and the two-story cavalier's house , which, like the Blomenburg, take up the castle style of the English Tudor Gothic. Between 2004 and 2006, a modern, four-wing extension for the technology center was built below the facility, which is connected to the Blomenburg by a glass bridge construction. The executive architect of the office building was Bernhard Winking ; the construction costs amounted to 10 million euros. At the same time as the new administration building was being built, various additions from the time of the reform home, such as a kitchen wing, a wash house and a swimming pool, were demolished and the inner courtyard, which was now green, was repaved.

Since the renovation work between autumn 2018 and summer 2019, the Kavaliershaus, located in the Burghof, has been home to rooms for medical consultations and medical applications. The extension is used by the private clinic Blomenburg as a spa, for fitness and yoga rooms as well as for 69 rooms and suites and administration.

The Blomenburg, located on the top of a hill, is surrounded by a 67 hectare landscape garden in the English style , which is accessed by circular paths and is partly provided with exotic solitary trees.

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