Gentzrode

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Manor house (front) and Gentzrode granary (2006)

The Gentzrode estate is a listed property in the urban area of Neuruppin near the city center. The buildings that were built there for Alexander Gentz ​​from 1861 in the neo-Moorish style are unique architectural monuments . The park was laid out from 1875 with the collaboration of the Berlin gardening director Gustav Meyer.

The manor and park is a unique testimony to the architecture and gardening art of the 19th century. The Brandenburg State Monuments Office describes this extraordinary complex as a monument of national importance and classifies it as a monument of national importance.

history

Family owned by Gentz ​​until 1881

From 1855 the draper, merchant and peat- cutting owner Johann Christian Gentz ​​acquired the "Bald Mountains" north of the city center of Neuruppin and other properties in order to establish a family seat. There his son Ludwig Alexander Gentz , who took over his father's business operations from 1858, set up a model farm.

The granary in Gentzrode was built in 1861 according to a design by Carl von Diebitsch . Theodor Fontane visited Gentzrode in June 1864 to work on the second edition of his walks through the Mark Brandenburg and sketched the granary with the residential tower in his notebook.

The manor house in Gentzrode was built in 1876/77 according to designs by Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden in the style of orientalizing historicism . The park was designed by Alexander Gentz ​​and Gustav Meyer . A family burial place was supposed to round off the property, but was rejected by the city of Neuruppin.

The Johann Christian Gentz ​​company, which has been headed by Alexander Gentz ​​alone since 1858, went bankrupt with the decline in money due to French war contributions from 1871 and the decline in peat in favor of brown and hard coal in 1884. The considerable construction costs for Gut Gentzrode probably played their part. Although the Gentzrode estate was economically viable, Alexander Gentz ​​sold it because his brother Wilhelm did not want to inherit his estate - the estate.

Various owners until 1933

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Gentzrode was sold in 1881 for around 1/5 of the construction cost to Messrs Albert Ebell and Oberamtmann Troll, who, however, probably never intended to use the property in the long term. They sold the inventory and, after just ten months, in July 1882, the estate itself.

The new owner was A. Wernicke, machine manufacturer - especially for sugar factories - from Halle , who probably wanted to grow sugar beet there. The poor quality of the soil made him give up on this plan quickly. After only five years, he exchanged it for the in Posen location Good Konooko one.

As a result, Paul Hoepffner became the new owner, who in turn sold it to the former Bremen consul in Argentina , F. W. Nordenholz, after just over a year in June 1888 .

Military use until 1990

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In 1934 the last private owner, the Berlin banker's widow Rätzsch, was forced to sell the property to the city of Neuruppin, which gave the property to the German Wehrmacht . Since it was located behind the site of the barracks built in 1936/36 for Panzer Regiment No. 6 on Alt Ruppiner Allee, it was now used as a firing range and ammunition store.

In 1945 it was taken over by the Red Army . Until the summer of 1991, the 112th Guard Missile Brigade of the 2nd Panzer Army (headquarters in Fürstenberg) of the GSSD / WGT was stationed here. The 1st and 2nd divisions and the headquarters (staff) of the missile brigade were located directly in Gentzrode. The Red Army added various buildings: a cinema, two prefabricated buildings, two barracks, a boiler room, a daycare center, a sauna and a grocery store for up to 5,000 people were built between the houses.

Decay since 1991

With the accession of the GDR to the FRG, the property was taken over into the state property of the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3, 1990, in accordance with the Unification Treaty of September 1990.

After the withdrawal of the Red Army in 1991 and their rearward service on October 31, 1993, the buildings and the area began to deteriorate. The Soviet occupation forces handed over the monument intact. In the following nine years of state ownership, no action was taken by the relevant authorities to preserve this unique monument.

In 1996 the estate park was still partially, such as B. the linden avenue with several grottoes made of field stone masonry and numerous avenues and varied wooded quarters received.

Property of Hans-Werner Angendohr from 2000

Hans-Werner Angendohr, entrepreneur from Werder , bought the entire property with around 500 hectares of land in 2000 . Angendohr and his partner Gert Friedrich von Preußen gave up the plan to build a hotel here due to the hotel density around Neuruppin. There were plans to use the manor house for exhibitions and events and to build a holiday complex on the site. The owner had most of the non-listed houses built during the Soviet occupation demolished.

Listed buildings such as the residential building (built in 1859 & 1861; demolished 2004/2010) and the inspector's house (built around 1905/1910; demolished 2004/2010) were demolished.

In 2005 the following structures were still in place: the manor house, the granary, the magnificent wedding chapel, the coach house and the Gentz-built horse stable, the building of the Gentzrode hunter and three houses where peat cutters once lived. No structural maintenance work has been carried out since the owners bought it, so the buildings are in a ruinous state.

Property of Volkan Başeğmez and Bilgiç Ertürk from 2010

In 2010 the Turkish investors Volkan Başeğmez and Bilgiç Ertürk acquired Gut Gentzrode. The Stuttgart architect Sandro Graf von Einsiedel was entrusted with the planning and renovation. In the years that followed, nothing was done to save the historical building fabric and the decline accelerated.

January 2016: The lower monument protection authority has had no contact with the owners since 2010. "Gut Gentzrode GmbH" can no longer be reached.

January 2018: The new planners of the real estate company Weiss und Cie. from Berlin present themselves to the city council with an impressive appearance.

April 2018: The real estate company Weiss und Cie. has stopped planning the project. In consultation with a building physicist, the mayor Jens-Peter Golde announces that the condition of the building does not deteriorate annually and that the building fabric is e.g. Still good at the moment, but it will soon be too late to save the fairytale-like monument.

In the official list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg (as of October 9, 2018) you can still read: "Gut Gentzrode, consisting of manor house, granary & residential building, farm workers' houses, inspector's house, administration building, manor and estate park". Now (as of February 22, 2020) only: "Gut Gentzrode, consisting of a manor house, granary, stable building, administration building and park".

Until March 2019 there were no further clear results to save the monument. The construction department of the city of Neuruppin Arne Krohn emphasized that in order to save the facility, the decay must be stopped in the summer. If the buildings were to fall into disrepair, no further development would be possible there; forest would arise there again, as there is no building permit or water, sewage or electricity connections for the site.

June 2019: “For one of the most beautiful monuments far and wide, there is no longer any prospect of rescue. The monument authorities are now also abandoning historic Gentzrode near Neuruppin. ”( Reyk Grunow : Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung)

August 2019: The Turkish investors have so far done nothing to save the country. The MP Nico Ruhle (SPD) criticized the fact that the district and the city of Neuruppin only blame each other for the deterioration of the buildings but do nothing. According to the construction department of the city of Neuruppin Arne Krohn, the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin refuses to save this monument.

March 2020: Due to the remote location, the Lower Monument Protection Authority does not want to adopt any regulatory measures against the owners or demand that the monument be secured.

In April 2020, according to the reasons given by the district administrator's office, the monument protection department gave up the ensemble for economic reasons; in Fontane year 2019 this would have been a scandal. Three days later, the Märkische Allgemeine reports that the monument status will continue to exist, but that the historic complex will not be saved. A week later, the State Monuments Office intervened and now wants to have a rescue plan drawn up.

State 2006

  • Granary (2006)

  • Round tower of the granary (2006)

  • Fireplace room in the round tower of the granary (2006)

  • Manor House (2006)

  • Manor House Facade (2006)

  • Manor House Window (2006)

State 2010

  • Granary (2010)

  • Manor House (2010)

  • Former house (2010)

State 2017

  • Granary (2017)

  • Granary Tower (2017)

  • Round tower of the granary (2017)

  • Fireplace room in the round tower of the granary (2017)

  • Manor House - Facade (2017)

  • Manor House Window (2017)

State 2020

  • Granary (2019)

  • Manor House (2020)

  • Hole in the roof of the upper floor mansion looking towards the granary (2020)

literature

  • Theodor Fontane : Walks through the Mark Brandenburg . First part: The County of Ruppin . Berlin 1880, Gentzrode ( projekt-gutenberg.org ).
  • Markus Jager: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark . Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-936872-96-5 , Gentzrode Palace.
  • Robert Rauh : Fontanes Ruppiner Land. New walks through the Mark Brandenburg . Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86124-723-4 .
  • Irina Rockel. Wilhelm Gentz, a biographical sketch of the life and work of an oriental painter from Berlin (1822–1890), Diss. A, Humboldt University Berlin 1996
  • Irina Rockel. Gentzrode. Edition Rieger, Karwe / Berlin 2020

Web links

Commons : Gentzrode  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b monument topography Ostprignitz-Ruppin, vol. 13.1, 1996, p. 282. Manor park with field stone grottoes. In: gis-bldam-brandenburg.de. Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation, accessed on May 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Monument topography Ostprignitz-Ruppin, vol. 13.1, 1996, p. 280 ff. Gutshof with buildings. In: gis-bldam-brandenburg.de. Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation, accessed on May 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Reyk Grunow: Valuable monument near Neuruppin expires. Fear for Gentzrode. In: maz-online.de. Märkische Allgemeine, April 2, 2016, accessed on April 21, 2020 : “For Matthias Metzler from the State Monuments Office, there is no question that Gentzrode is a monument of national importance:“ This is a really extraordinary facility, ”he says. "
  4. ↑ Reyk Grunow: Gentzrode: Kreis does not want to secure monument. In: maz-online.de. Märkische Allgemeine, February 19, 2016, accessed on April 23, 2020 : "Brandenburg's top monument conservationist even classifies the historic Gentzrode estate as a monument of national importance."
  5. ^ Theodor Fontane: Notebooks. Genetically critical and annotated edition. Edited by Gabriele Radecke. September 20, 2018, accessed January 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Christina Tilmann: From dream to nightmare. Gut Gentzrode near Neuruppin expires. In: moz.de. Märkische Onlinezeitung (Märkisches Medienhaus GmbH & Co. KG), April 18, 2020, accessed on April 28, 2020 : “The fact that it looks the way it does in Gentzrode today has to do with greed and disinterest, says Renate Breetzmann. The now retired monument conservator remembers well that she was on the site for the first time in the early 1990s: at that time everything was still intact, the Red Army, which used the site as a military training area, did not damage the manor house. "
  7. ↑ Ruppiner Tageblatt of December 14, 2001, November 8, 2003, January 14, 2004 and March 9, 2004
  8. ↑ a b c Marcel Gäding: Investor wants to transform an abandoned city into a resort with a Gropius castle - a chimney as a viewing platform . In: berliner-zeitung.de . Berlin newspaper . December 5, 2005. Archived from the original on December 21, 2016.
  9. ↑ a b Monuments in Brandenburg. Gentzrode estate. In: gis-bldam-brandenburg.de. Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation, February 2, 2020, accessed on April 22, 2020 .
  10. ↑ On the condition of the listed Gentzrode property In: Märkische Allgemeine (Ruppiner Tageblatt) , April 15, 2008
  11. ↑ Reyk Grunow: Turkish investors want to get Gentzrode . ( Memento from June 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Märkische Allgemeine , July 17, 2010
  12. ↑ Markus Kluge: Great concern for Gut Gentzrode. Concern about the Gentzrode estate, which is threatened with decay, is growing: The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation has classified the historic complex as acutely threatened in its new monument report. In: moz.de. Märkische Onlinezeitung (Märkisches Medienhaus GmbH & Co. KG), January 20, 2016, accessed on April 28, 2020 : “According to its own statements, the district's lower monument protection authority had contact with the owners for the last time when they bought the area - that was in Year 2010. The authority is still not aware of a specific refurbishment and development plan. And the specially founded Gut Gentzrode GmbH, which was looking for a caretaker for the area four years ago, can no longer be found. "
  13. ^ A b c Reyk Grunow: Gentzrode: The end is in sight. Trees destroy the last intact walls. In: maz-online.de. April 28, 2018, accessed on May 26, 2019 : "Contrary to what you might think, the condition is not getting worse from year to year," says Mayor Jens-Peter Golde: The city recently spoke to a building physicist about whether Gentzrode at all can still be saved. It still looks pretty good in the building. "But we have now virtually reached the point of no return," says Golde. "
  14. ↑ Monuments in Brandenburg ( Memento from December 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ a b Judith Melzer-Voigt: Monument protection. The decay of Gut Gentzrode can hardly be stopped. In: moz.de. Märkische Onlinezeitung (Märkisches Medienhaus GmbH & Co. KG), April 16, 2019, accessed on May 26, 2019 : “Last year Arne Krohn had already emphasized how important it is that the summer must be used for the system still to be saved and to stop the decline altogether. ... However, if there is no longer any historical substance on site, nothing else may be built. "
  16. ↑ a b Reyk Grunow: Gentzrode: give up or expropriate? How can the historic Gentzrode estate near Neuruppin be saved if the owners do not act? Can you force them to build or even expropriate? Neuruppin seems helpless, the district has already given up. In: maz-online.de. June 21, 2019, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  17. ↑ a b Judith Melzer-Voigt: Restoration. Gut Gentzrode near Neuruppin needs a roof for the winter. In: moz.de. Märkische Onlinezeitung (Märkisches Medienhaus GmbH & Co. KG), August 23, 2019, accessed on September 14, 2019 : “The MP Nico Ruhle (SPD) criticized the Neuruppiners for staying in the role of a spectator. "We have known for years that little or nothing happens there." He even described the talks between the district and the city as a ping-pong game, in which no one "claims to have been to blame for the fact that the property is deteriorating". The district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin would have the option of a substitute operation through which the remaining fragments of the historical ensemble could be preserved. The district administration does not want to take this step so far, as Arne Krohn confirms. 'When it comes to forcing anyone here, I have to be very clear, then it's a matter for the district as a monument authority.' The district doesn't see it that way. "
  18. ↑ Brian Kehnscherper: Monument protection - district gives up Gut Gentzrode. In: moz.de. Märkische Onlinezeitung (Märkisches Medienhaus GmbH & Co. KG), March 21, 2020, accessed on April 28, 2020 : “Due to the remote location of the property, the Ostprignitz-Ruppin administration does not see any prospects for use of the property. Vice District Administrator Werner Nüse had already confirmed this last year. That is why the Lower Monument Protection Authority does not consider it necessary to issue regulatory measures against the owners or to demand steps to secure them. "
  19. ↑ Andreas Förster: Gentzrode : Sung about by Fontane, now before the decay. The monument protection has given up a unique building ensemble not far from Neuruppin. The Gentzrode manor house will soon only exist in Fontane's “Walks”. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung, April 18, 2020, accessed on April 19, 2020 : “In the last Fontane year 2019, which Neuruppin dedicated to the city's famous son with great pomp, a task at Gut Gentzrode would have been a medium scandal. But now that everyone is talking about the Corona crisis, the monument protection authority of the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district has quietly and secretly lowered its thumbs over the historic building ensemble. In the monument protection law, the issue of economic efficiency is also important, the district administrator explains the decision. "An economic burden is particularly unreasonable if the costs of maintenance and management are permanently not outweighed by the income or the utility value of the monument," it says on request. "
  20. ^ Gentzrode: once a monument, always a monument. In: maz-online.de. Märkische Allgemeine, April 21, 2020, accessed on April 22, 2020 (only the freely readable quote was retrieved, as the rest is chargeable!): “The historic Gentzrode estate near Neuruppin is still a listed building - even if it is otherwise on the Internet is reading. The Ostprignitz-Ruppin district still sees no chance of saving the historic facility at its own expense. "
  21. ↑ René Hill: Clarification on Gut Gentzrode - wanted perspective of use. Despite all rumors: Gut Gentzrode is still a monument. State office commissions expert opinion. In: svz.de. Schweriner Volkszeitung , April 29, 2020, accessed on April 30, 2020 (only the freely readable quote was accessed, as the rest is chargeable!): “A rumor has been going on in and around Neuruppin for a long time: Gut Gentzrode is no longer there under monument conservation. But this rumor is not true, so Christof Krauskopf from Brandenburgisch ... "
  22. ↑ State Office wants to save the historic Gentzrode estate. In: maz-online.de. Märkische Allgemeine, April 29, 2020, retrieved on April 30, 2020 (only the freely readable quote was retrieved, as the rest is chargeable!): “The refusal of the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district to do more for the historic Gentzrode estate, causes horror. Brandenburg's top monument protector Thomas Drachenberg now wants to have a plan drawn up to save the unique monument at the expense of the state. "


Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 45 ″  N , 12 ° 47 ′ 49 ″  E