Klevenow Castle

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Klevenow Castle, park side

Klevenow Castle is a mansion in the Klevenow district of the Süderholz community in the Vorpommern-Rügen district . It is located southeast of Grimmen near the Poggendorfer Trebel .

history

Klevenow Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Courtyard side
South side
Island in the pond

Klevenow Castle was built as a border fortress against the neighboring Duchy of Mecklenburg . The place and Castle Clevenow were first mentioned in a document in 1387. The Feste Haus , documented until the 17th century, was built as a moated castle with the associated moats and ramparts. In 1480, Duke Bogislaw X. von Pomerania enfeoffed the castle captain and bailiff on Grimmen and Tribsees , Hans von Wakenitz, with Klevenow Castle, which remained in the possession of the von Wakenitz family until the beginning of the 19th century .

In 1627, Carl von Wakenitz had extensive construction work carried out on the castle complex. During the Thirty Years War there was fighting over the castle. In the Swedish land registry of Western Pomerania it was recorded as destroyed in 1697. Significant parts of the wall remains of the south wing with the remains of two towers were preserved.

In 1816, Klevenow Castle came into the possession of Carl Friedrich von der Lancken from the Boldevitz family on Rügen , who was in the Swedish service and who added the name Wakenitz to his name. In 1848 a mansion in the style of a neo-Gothic castle was built on the remains of the castle . An annex was added to the east. A north wing is designed as a half-timbered building and has arcades on the western ground floor. In the same year Friedrich von der Lancken-Wakenitz had an approximately 15 hectare landscape park laid out on the old ramparts. To do this, he had the walls leveled and the trenches filled. In the park, which extends to the Poggendorfer Trebel in the west, there is a pond with two islands. A wall was built to the north of the Dorfstrasse. The castle chapel is also located there . The manor on the eastern edge of the park, damaged by fire in 1848, was also renewed.

After the First World War , further modifications were made. The last noble owner of the estate, which lasted around 500 hectares, was Baron Malte von der Lancken-Wakenitz until the land reform in the SBZ . After the war, displaced persons were initially housed in the house. During the GDR era, the manor house was used by the community, who also had a doctor's station, post office and consumer outlet there. Large parts of the park were cut down or overgrown. In addition to a sports field, a kindergarten was also built in the park.

The first partial renovation of the park took place between 1987 and 1989. A more comprehensive renovation, during which the pond was also desludged, took place between 1993 and 1995. Since 2003, Klevenow Castle has been privately owned again.

literature

  • Neidhardt Krauss, Egon Fischer: On the way to castles, palaces and parks in Western Pomerania . Hinstorff Verlag Rostock 1991, ISBN 3-356-00391-7
  • Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1993, ISBN 3-88042-636-8

Web links

Commons : Burg Klevenow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Julia Ricker: Angels without Heaven. The castle chapel in Klevenow . In: Monumente , vol. 25 (2015), issue 5 (October), pp. 32–33.

Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 59.2 "  N , 13 ° 5 ′ 15.3"  E