Bärwalde Castle

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Bärwalde Castle
Residential tower as a remnant of Bärwalde Castle

Residential tower as a remnant of Bärwalde Castle

Alternative name (s): Festival Bärwalde
Creation time : 8th to 12th centuries
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Castle ruins
Construction: Lawn iron stone
Place: Lower Fläming - Bärwalde
Geographical location 51 ° 49 '38.3 "  N , 13 ° 15' 20.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 49 '38.3 "  N , 13 ° 15' 20.9"  E
Bärwalde Castle (Brandenburg)
Bärwalde Castle

The castle Bärwalde (official name in the national monument list castle ruins and Manor Park ) are the remains of a Gothic water castle in Bärwalde , in the municipality of Niederer Fläming in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the country Brandenburg . Only ruins and an original residential tower remain from the castle and the palace that was built later .

location

The district road 7207 leads from the north into the village and branches off there in an easterly direction. From here, the village road leads in a south-westerly direction through a double-row avenue planted with chestnut trees to a small hill on which the castle ruins stand. The area is not fenced in in the 21st century .

history

Remains of the castle wall

In the time of the Slavs existed in 10/11. Century already a rampart, the earth masses were reshaped in the 13th century. So far it is unclear whether the castle was founded by Saxon or Brandenburg rulers. It is also possible that the Magdeburg Bishop Wichmann von Seeburg carried out the foundation or expansion. Hiltrud and Carsten Preuß rate the location of the castle in their remarks on the manor houses and mansions in the Teltow-Fläming district above the village as "an excellent strategic position" in the Middle Ages. About 500 meters from the castle is the Bärwalde castle wall , probably a predecessor of this castle.

The Lords of Bärwalde appeared accompanied by the Margrave of Brandenburg. In the following decades they were followed in 1366 by the Lords of Slawtitz (Slautitz). The castle was first mentioned as a fortress in 1375 . In the 15th century the von Wollenfels ( Waldenfels ) family took over the castle, which had received the estate as a fief . After Lower Lusatia fell to Bohemia, the rulers there also claimed the Bärwalder Ländchen . With the Peace of Guben in 1462, the little country became part of the Electorate of Brandenburg and was a Brandenburg exclave in the area of ​​the Archbishopric of Magdeburg until 1680 . After the von Slawtitz family, Bärwalde came to the von Leipzig family around 1470 . A manor was created in the neighboring Herbersdorf in the 17th century through the division of inheritance. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Bärwalder Ländchen was divided among the five owners through a further division of the estate and reunited in 1734 by the royal Prussian Lieutenant General Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel through the purchase of the villages Bärwalde, Weißen, Rinow, Herbersdorf, Kossin, Meinsdorf and Wiepersdorf. After his death in 1745 his daughter Sofia Dorothea took over the villages. She kept her residence in Wiepersdorf and initially leased Bärwalde to sell it to Joachim Erdmann von Arnim for 98,000 thalers with effect from February 10, 1780 . Under his leadership, the castle was expanded into a stately home. Hiltrud and Carsten Preuß suspect that Bettina von Arnim stayed in Bärwalde in the summer due to the “more pleasant climate”. In 1880, Supraports with a view of Bärwalder Castle from around 1784 were made in Wiepersdorf Castle.

Bärwalde came to Prussia with the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . After the Second World War , the von Arnims were expropriated and the building was cleared for demolition on the basis of SMAD Order No. 209 . New farmers used the building material to build their own farms. In the razing of the farmhouse is a medieval tower came bog iron to light. The material was difficult to use for the new builders and so the tower remained standing.

On the initiative of the Niederer Fläming Office , the facility was initially secured and made accessible to tourists from 1996 onwards. In 1998 the tower was repaired, the temporary roof of which was replaced by a freely reconstructed roof. A rest area with an information board on the history of the facility and its surroundings was created in front of the site.

Building description

Cellar vault

Some conclusions about the appearance at that time are possible from the over portals of the Bärwalder Castle created in Wiepersdorf. It consisted of a three-storey facility that was constructed in an L-shape. It stood on one of the two mounds of earth measuring 120 m × 60 m or 120 m × 45 m, which were surrounded by a moat. The red roof was comparatively steep.

After the razing, only the three-storey residential tower made of lawn iron stone remains. Except for a few corner stones, the stones were uncut and only slightly layered. A few remaining window reveals were made of masonry . The ruins of an elongated room that originally had a barrel vault belong to the other complex. Another room exists at right angles to this.

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