Wredenhagen Castle
| Wredenhagen Castle | ||
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 Gatehouse of Wredenhagen Castle |
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| Creation time : | around 1284 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | significant remains of the surrounding walls | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, margraves | |
| Construction: | Field stones, brick bricks | |
| Place: | Wredenhagen | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 17 '22.4 " N , 12 ° 31' 14.2" E | |
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Wredenhagen Castle is the ruin of a hill fort in the Wredenhagen district of the Eldetal municipality in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with the associated manor.
history
The castle was first mentioned in 1284 as Novum Castrum Wenden ( New Wendish Castle ). In 1296 the new castle was owned by the Lords of Werle . It was built on a natural hill, which was also increased with the soil of the surrounding moat , and served as a border and protective castle to defend the surrounding areas.
The building was designed as an almost circular wall ring made of field stones and bricks . The only access to the facility was through the gate in the northwest. In the castle there was a round stone keep , as well as residential and farm buildings. The original residential building of the complex rose to the right of the gatehouse, the office building was later built on its foundation walls . The keep was on the left behind the gatehouse, nothing of it has survived today. The surrounding moat was surrounded by wooden palisades to the north and east, while the Mönchsee and damp meadows offered natural protection to the south and west. In front of the gate in the north-west of the complex was an outer bailey , also surrounded by palisades , which also enclosed the fortified village church of Wredenhagen and other buildings.
Change of ownership and princely seat
In the early 14th century, the castle temporarily came to the Brandenburg margraves. However, due to the Rendsburg Treaty in the Pomeranian-Brandenburg War of 1329, the facility then fell back to the Werle rulership . After the land around Röbel was pledged to Duke Albrecht II of Mecklenburg in 1362, it came to the Lords of Flotow auf Stuer. After the Werle family died out in the 15th century, the castle came completely into the possession of the Mecklenburg dukes. After several pledges, the complex was the residence of Duke Charles I in the late 16th century .
Wredenhagen farm as a domain estate
After 1586, Wredenhagen Castle was no longer a princely seat. Instead, a ducal domanial office was set up, from which the entire country of Röbel was administered. The Wredenhagen farm, which belongs to the castle, and the Hinrichshof and Mönchshof farms formed a joint estate in the Duke's domanium, which was leased for a limited period. The landlord was still the rulership. Although the changing tenants mostly came from the surrounding lower nobility and also took up residence in the castle, the fortified character of the complex was lost when it was used as a farmyard. In order to develop the surrounding pasture grounds, wall breakthroughs occurred and damaged parts of the defensive walls were no longer repaired. Rather, the curtain wall served as an outer wall for a large number of farm buildings that were subsequently added in half-timbered construction.
In the late 17th century, Tsar Peter the Great is said to have learned the blacksmith's trade at Wredenhagen Castle. In the 18th century, today's representative manor house was built under the tenant Johann Heinrich von Brandt. During the execution of the Reich , the facility came under Prussian lien. After 1840 the official seat was moved to Röbel . The Domanialamt there was henceforth called "Domanialamt Wredenhagen zu Röbel". In 1888, Hof Wredenhagen, together with the Hinrichshof and Mönchshof estates, comprised an agricultural area of 1,589 hectares and thus formed the largest agricultural operation in the domanium of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . The goods were still leased. Hof Wredenhagen was given a long lease , Hinrichshof and Mönchshof each had a leaseholder. In the 19th century an office building was built on old foundations from the 14th century and the residential buildings were renovated; later a distillery and a steam mill followed .
Public buildings
The municipality of Wredenhagen acquired the facility in 1927 and set up the school there. After the Second World War, the registry office was located in the castle, and later until 1984 there was also a kindergarten.
The castle houses a hunting room and a home room. A school museum shows a classroom with utensils since 1900. In the recent past, the Freie Burgschule Wredenhagen (private school, integrated comprehensive school as an all-day school with grades 5–10) was housed here.
Eagle and Falcon Court
From 1998 to 2006, the falconer Marko Loerke ran the historic eagle and falconry farm at Burg Wredenhagen. The birds were looked after by the Röbel veterinarian Frank Liebig.
Invitation to the opening
Falconer Loerke with sea eagle
Demonstration of a Lanner falcon
Eagle owl
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Remnants of walls
The extensive building stock of dilapidated stables and farm buildings was largely demolished in the 1990s, so that the 365 meter long circular wall was largely visible again. In 1992/93 the curtain wall was extensively renovated. After the gatehouse was dismantled in 1997, it was established as a cultural site in 2000. Guided tours have been offered since then. Further renovations followed, including the renovation of the classrooms in 2003.
Web links
- Literature about Burg Wredenhagen in the state bibliography MV
- Reconstruction drawing (Wolfgang Braun)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Traugott Mueller : Handbook of real estate in the German Empire - The Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rostock 1888, p. 36.
