Gut Güldenstein
The Güldenstein estate is located in the municipality of Harmsdorf in eastern Schleswig-Holstein . It is still owned by the House of Oldenburg , one of the remaining ducal lines in Schleswig-Holstein. The castle-like mansion of the property is - next to the manor on Gut Pronstorf - considered one of the main works of baroque manor architecture in Holstein and is a listed building .
History of the estate
historical overview
The origin of the estate was a medieval moated castle. The actual Gut Güldenstein was probably founded in the first half of the 16th century; it emerged from an inheritance from the Gneningen Gut, which no longer exists today . The owners often changed through sales or inheritance and so Güldenstein was owned by the noble Sehested family until 1608 , which the Pogwisch followed until 1632. The estate then went to the Ahlefeld family until 1701 . The present mansion was built under the following owners, the Thienen family . In 1779 Güldenstein went to the Rantzau family , who were in turn followed in 1839 by the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg, whose Principality of Lübeck , located in Schleswig-Holstein, was an exclave of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .
present
The estate is still privately owned by the ducal family and is managed to this day. Annual horse shows are held on the estate. The manor house is inhabited and is not open to the public. It can only be viewed from the outside to a limited extent by public roads.
Buildings
The mansion
The manor house on Güldenstein - like most of the manors in Schleswig-Holstein - goes back to a small moated castle from the late Middle Ages. Little is known about the shape of this fortified house; it was completely abandoned for the later construction of the manor house. Today's mansion on Güldenstein is often referred to as a castle; as the dukes of Oldenburg were the sovereigns in the principality of Lübeck, both definitions are possible.
The construction of the manor house began in 1726 on behalf of Heinrich von Thienens. The plans came from the Eutin court builder Rudolph Matthias Dallin . The manor house, completed in 1728, rises at the end of an oval courtyard island and is almost halfway in the water. The house is an eleven-axis, wide building from which two wings with a depth of only one window axis protrude on the courtyard side, so that the mansion corresponds to the classic baroque scheme of a three-wing complex. The brick building has two full floors and a basement and is covered by a hipped roof.
The front facade is oriented towards the courtyard, the more sober rear facade faces the landscaped garden. On the courtyard side, the central wing is emphasized by a triangular gable, the rear facade is only structured by two stepping pillars and a flat projecting central projection. The façades largely dispense with delicate ornamentation, the only exception being the sandstone portal with the double coat of arms of the Thienen and Brockdorff families. The effect of the building is based primarily on the contrast between the red wall surfaces and the white plastering of the window frames and bosses .
The estate
The entire estate is aligned on a north-south axis. A short driveway from the manor village leads to the oval island with the farmyard, the manor house and the adjoining garden in the south. The basic structure of the former castle complex can still be read in the area, even if the large oval double island consisting of the farmyard and the castle square is no longer divided into two parts by a moat. After the irregularly distributed farm buildings had recently been in an increasingly poor condition, two of the large courtyard buildings were demolished in recent years. The gatehouse from 1743 was restored from 2008 to 2009.
The manor house is flanked on the courtyard side by two elongated, single-storey buildings, the cavalier houses and the stables, which together form a kind of courtyard of honor . A landscape garden in the English style , laid out in 1841, adjoins the manor house, which merges further into the landscape of the eastern hill country .
Web links
Sources and literature
- Peter Hirschfeld: Mansions and castles in Schleswig-Holstein . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 978-3-422-00712-3
- Henning v. Rumohr: castles and mansions in Ostholstein , reworked by Cai Asmus v. Rumohr 1989, 3rd edition, Verlag Weidlich / Flechsig Würzburg, ISBN 3-8035-1303-0 , p. 362
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Schleswig-Holstein's castles and mansions . Husum 1989, pp. 68f, ISBN 3-88042-462-4
- Ingo Bubert: manors, manors and castles in eastern Holstein . Sventana-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-927653-09-2
- Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-422-03033-6
- Deert Lafrenz: manors and manors in Schleswig-Holstein . Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein, 2015, Michael Imhof Verlag Petersberg, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-86568-971-9 , p. 213
Individual evidence
- ^ Description of Güldenstein on the website of the German Foundation for Monument Protection
- ↑ Hubertus Neuschäffer: Schleswig-Holsteins Schlösser und Herrenhäuser , page 110. Husum 1989, p. 68f, ISBN 3-88042-462-4
Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '8.2 " N , 10 ° 50' 8.9" E