Borwinheim

Duke Carl Borwin Memorial Home , postcard from approx. 1910 with pictures of Karl Borwin and his mother Grand Duchess Elisabeth

The Borwinheim , with its full name Herzog Carl Borwin-Gedächtnis-Heim , is a listed building in Neustrelitz , which has served church and diaconal purposes since 1910 .

history

On August 24, 1908, the 19-year-old Duke Karl Borwin zu Mecklenburg , the youngest of four children of Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich V (1848–1914) and his wife, Grand Duchess Elisabeth (1857–1933), died in Saint-Martin near Metz , at that time the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . Karl Borwin was an officer at the war school in Metz and died as a result of a duel .

In memory of her son, Grand Duchess Elisabeth founded the Herzog-Carl-Borwin-Gedächtnisstiftung in Neustrelitz on April 2, 1910 and furnished it with a newly built, spacious house on Bruchstrasse. The Borwinheim , which was inaugurated on October 10, 1910 in front of more than 500 guests, was to have rooms for the orphanage, day care center, public library, apartment and work area for the community nurse, as well as rooms on the upper floor for church work, for celebratory meetings of the virgin and youth association, for play - and offer gymnastics performances.

Between 1936 and 1945 rooms were used for communal purposes. After 1945 work could be resumed in most of the rooms for the original purposes; Child and elderly work was done, the parish was able to invite to its events there again, for which a rental agreement was concluded for various rooms. For several years the house was the seat of the district leadership of the CDU .

After various repairs and structural changes that were necessary to maintain the house or the rented rooms or to avert impending danger or to remove damage and which were planned and carried out on a larger scale by the Board of Trustees, especially in the 1960s and shortly after 1990, came there was a comprehensive renovation between 2007 and 2009. On the 4th of Advent 2009 the house could be reopened. Today the Borwinheim houses childcare facilities, the Diakoniestation and other social facilities. The larger rooms on the upper floor are used by Ev.-Luth. Strelitzer Land parish for child and youth work, as meeting rooms and as a winter church for services.

View from the tower of the town church to Bruchstrasse
Borwinheim from the east
Borwinheim from the west
organ

organ

When it was built in 1910, the Borwinheim received an organ in the hall by the organ builder Barnim Grüneberg (opus 617) with pneumatic cone shutters in a simple neo-Gothic case. The Grüneberg organ has eight registers on two manuals and a pedal . Around 1967 the organ was moved to the Bredenfelde church . The disposition was changed and the prospectus lost its neo-Gothic pinnacles .

The organ was restored in 2010 by the Mecklenburg organ builder Wolfgang Nussbücker , owner Andreas Arnold, from Plau am See with funding from the state and the regional church and brought back to Borwinheim. On June 1, 2011, the cantor of the community took over the organ.

The disposition was restored and the prospectus was almost given its original shape without the pinnacles. However, the layout was changed a little and the organ was given a new, movable electric console.