Schlitz Castle
Schlitz Castle is a district of Hohen Demzin in the center of Mecklenburg Switzerland . Schlitz Castle is located west of the Malchiner See on the federal highway 108 between Teterow and Waren and stands out with its magnificent manor house in the middle of a park with valuable trees.
history
The name of the complex refers to the Hessian noble family of the imperial count von Schlitz called Görtz . Hans von Labes (1763–1831), from Großwoltersdorf -Zernikow, landlord of Karstorf, was adopted by his future father-in-law Johann Eustach von Schlitz (1737–1821) in order to marry Louise Caroline von Schlitz (1774–1832) elevated by the king to the rank of count, and so called Count von Schlitz Goertz. In 1798 he was co-initiator and first director of the Mecklenburg Agricultural Society .
In 1806, Hans von Schlitz had the previous building (a dilapidated castle) torn down and the three-wing classicist mansion built on the Buchenberg according to plans by Otto Hirt and under the direction of Friedrich Adam Leiblin . The three wings of the building are arranged in parallel and designed as plastered buildings. The two-storey central wing is set back a little and has a semicircular porch with an outside staircase as the main portal and an attached observation tower, the two three-storey side wings each end with a gable-crowned risalit . The building is considered the largest classicist complex in Mecklenburg and was completed in 1824 after being interrupted by the effects of the war, with the surrounding park and Carolinian chapel. The ornaments are partially enriched with the symbolism of the Freemasons . The owner von Schlitz played a key role in the planning, and he planned the spacious park himself. In 1831 Heinrich Graf von Bassewitz-Schlitz (1799–1861), who was married to the count's daughter, took over the estate.
In 1931, after bankruptcy, the estate came into the possession of the Mecklenburg Agricultural Society, which sold it in 1932 to Emil Georg von Stauß , the then general director of Deutsche Bank. He made the castle available to the Nazis as a meeting place and retreat very early on. In 1945 the expropriation took place and the mansion was used as refugee accommodation and school, from 1955 as a retirement home. In the 1990s the manor house was renovated and converted into a hotel.
Attractions
The knight's hall in the castle is designed in the neo-Gothic style. In the so-called Schinkel Hall of the castle there are wallpaper paintings with pictures of flowers and animals as well as two tiled stoves based on designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . In other rooms (entrance hall, stairwell, garden hall, galleries) classicist wall paintings have been preserved.
In the 60-hectare landscape park with the associated park forest is the neo-Gothic Carolinian chapel, which Hans Graf von Schlitz dedicated to his mother-in-law, Countess Caroline von Schlitz-Goertz, in 1822. In the park there is also a burial place with entrance gate and Alexander cross (BELIEVE LOVE HOPE 1824): Here in God Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz (* April 17, 1855 - November 23, 1923), Lord of Burg-Schlitz, his wife Magdalene von rests Bassewitz, b. Freiin von Maltzahn († June 22, 1945; without gravestone) and her son Rudolph Graf von Bassewitz (born January 14, 1885; † July 27, 1922). In the park there is also the burial place of the Karstorf mayor Hermann Schubert (* August 28, 1901: † May 2, 1945).
View of one of the side pavilions
Building inscription
Caroline Chapel
The Nymphenbrunnen in the park was designed in 1903 by Walter Schott on behalf of the Berlin publisher and patron Rudolf Mosse in Art Nouveau style for installation in the courtyard of the Mosse-Palais . After the Nazis expropriated the Mosse family due to persecution, Emil Georg von Stauß probably brought the fountain to Schlitz Castle after 1934. The fountain shows three roughly life-size bronze nymphs dancing around the water feature on a sandstone trough. Three of several other, somewhat smaller examples of the fountain are in Berlin (Pacelliallee 14/16), in New York's Central Park (so-called Untermyer-Fountain) and in the Gondelsheim palace gardens .
More than 60 monuments have been preserved in the castle park, which document the patriotic-national spirit of optimism of the early 19th century, including the double obelisk for Karl Theodor von Dalberg and Maximilian I of Bavaria , the Luise-von-Graeffe-Stein at the Luisensee ( inscribed on the truncated pyramid LUISEN DER HOLDEN LEBENSGEFAERTINN, THIS FACILITY IS SANCTUATED / LUISEN SEE NAMED / 1828), the triangular Schillerstein , inscribed PLUTARCH ROUSSEAU MONTESQUIEU SCHILLER and stored on two cuboids with LICHT and ICH SIED 1824; also the Rhine Confederation Cross (inscribed LIEBET EUERE FEINDE 22 3 1808, the date is that of the accession of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin to the Rhine Confederation ) and other monuments, among others. a. for Blücher and Wellington , as well as stone setting. The entrance to the castle park is marked by a welcome obelisk with stone benches.
An older castle ruin has been preserved near the former stables. At the castle there is also the old forge from 1832, a field stone building with a pillar gallery and a spiral-shaped brick chimney, as well as the historic inn Zum Goldenen Frieden from 1819 at the entrance to the castle park.
In the meadow there is an oak with a chest height of 9.10 m (2016).
Inscription of the Carolinian Chapel
Karolinenstein in honor of Countess Schlitz-Goertz
Wrought
literature
- Renate Hippauf, Jürgen Luttmann (Hrsg.): Walks in the landscape of Burg Schlitz. A park guide in 62 monuments and 14 sketches. 2nd (revised) edition. Stavenhagen 2012
- Charlotte Schmid: Park Burg Schlitz, Hohen Demzin. In: Bund Heimat und Umwelt in Deutschland. White paper on historical gardens and parks in the new federal states. 2nd Edition. Bonn 2005. P. 73 f. ISBN 3-925374-69-8
- Ursel Berger and Josephine Gabler: Three girls with a past. The story of the fountain "Three dancing girls" by Walter Schott . In: Jürgen Wetzel (ed.): Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives 2002. Berlin, 2002. ISBN 3-7861-2439-6
Web links
- Literature about Schlitz Castle in the State Bibliography MV
- Schlosshotel Burg Schlitz - history
- die nordstory - temporary castle lords , NDR report, broadcast on March 3, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursel Berger and Josephine Gabler: Three girls with a past. The story of the fountain "Three dancing girls" by Walter Schott. In: Jürgen Wetzel (ed.): Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives 2002. Berlin, 2002. ISBN 3-7861-2439-6 . P. 81.
- ↑ Ursel Berger and Josephine Gabler: Three girls with a past. The story of the fountain "Three dancing girls" by Walter Schott. In: Jürgen Wetzel (ed.): Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives 2002. Berlin, 2002. ISBN 3-7861-2439-6 . P. 86.
- ^ Marc Fehlmann: History Regained: New Aspects for the Provenance of a Painting by Carl Blechen. In: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Vo. 14 No. 3 (2015). http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/autumn15/fehlmann-reviews-new-aspects-to-the-provenance-of-a-painting-by-carl-blechen accessed April 11, 2017, p . 6 of the pdf
- ↑ Matthew Shaer, "The Lost Maidens of Berlin" , Smithsonian , accessed 24 May 2018
- ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ' N , 12 ° 33' E