Hagen Castle (Probsteierhagen)

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Hagen Castle, courtyard view

The castle Hagen in the municipality Probsteierhagen at Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein is the mansion of the former eponymous nobles Guts . The building from the 17th century has housed a culture and event center since 1969. After being extensively renovated from 2007 to 2011, it has been open to visitors again since 2011.

historical overview

Hagen was first mentioned in 1264 as indago comitis (" Hag des Count") in the Kiel city book. At that time, the area served as a hunting reserve under the Schauenburg counts , from which the name of the later estate was derived.

Hagen Castle in the 19th century

The aristocratic manor on Hagen was founded in the 16th century. In 1534 there was a documentary mention for the first time under Christoph von Pogwisch , whose family stayed on Hagen and the not far away Dobersdorf estate for the following century . A first, non-preserved manor house on the estate probably came from this time. On the occasion of the wedding of Lucia von Pogwisch, the last heiress from the Hagen Pogwisch line, to Hinrich von Blome in 1646, today's manor house was built from 1647 to 1649. Gut Hagen passed into Blomeschen possession.

In the following centuries, the manor house served as the family seat of the Hagen-Blomesche line, which also included Gut Waterneverstorf , but Hagen never played an important role in the history of the Holstein region, and even major changes of ownership, which were quite common on other estates, did not occur . In 1814 the estate came to the so-called Blomesche Family Foundation through an inheritance contract, which lasted until 1932. In that year the former aristocratic estate was dissolved, the land parceled out and sold and the manor house converted into a school building. During the Second World War it served as a military hospital for members of the navy, after the end of the war the elementary school moved back in and stayed in the castle until 1969.

After the school closed, the Hagen mansion, which the local population has called a castle for generations , was converted into a cultural center. After strong sponge and mold infestation was found at the beginning of the 21st century, the almost 400-year-old building was extensively renovated from 2007 to 2010. The castle remained closed during this time and the usage concept for the facility was also revised. Hagen has been open to visitors again since 2011. The rooms of the castle can be rented for private events, concerts and readings are also held, and apartments and a doctor's practice have been set up on the upper floor.

Buildings

The mansion

The rear facades with the addition of the 18th century

The Hagen mansion was built for Hinrich Blome and Lucia von Pogwisch from 1647 to 1649, iron wall anchors on the central wing with the letters HBLB are reminiscent of the builders . Hagen was erected as a two-storey, three-wing structure on a basement plinth, the center of the courtyard is marked by a slender stair tower, which also contains the main portal emphasized with sandstone decoration. Another wing of the building protrudes from the south-facing garden facade, which was added to the existing manor house in the middle of the 18th century, giving the castle an almost Y-shaped floor plan.

The building was erected at the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque , a phase that only took place in Holstein after the Thirty Years' War . The originally horseshoe-shaped complex with its even window division is already baroque in character, but there is a lack of decoration typical of the time and the strict stepped gables and the stair tower crowned with a lantern refer to earlier building traditions of the duchy. The manor house was once surrounded by moats, which reinforced the rather defensive character. The trenches are now drained and filled in on the courtyard side, but can still be seen to a limited extent on the southern side. In contrast to the austere exterior of the manor house, the interior of the symmetrical, divided building was more clearly influenced by the Baroque era. Up until the beginning of the 18th century, the rooms of the palace were given elaborate stucco decor , overhangs and decorative chimneys, some of the furnishings have been preserved to the present day. The furnishings include the so-called Pogwisch room, whose baroque wall mount from around 1725 is unique in a Schleswig-Holstein mansion. In the Pogwisch room, the wall paintings were painstakingly restored from 2009 to 2011 with high financial support from the federal and state governments. Today visitors have the opportunity to visit the restored rooms of the manor house, such as the so-called Blome room and the fireplace room.

Farm yard and garden

Some of the building stock of the farmyard with large barns dates back to the 17th century. After the farm was closed, the outbuildings such as the gate house and the tenant house were sold, the large half-timbered barn from 1626 and a cow house from the early 18th century were demolished. The former courtyard can now only be seen in basic features, as its original area was built on with modern houses. In the 17th century, a baroque garden was created at the same time as the manor house and to the northwest of it, which was built on in the 1960s. To the south above the manor there is a 4.5 hectare landscape park, which was planted with valuable individual trees and groups of trees in the middle of the 19th century. After the park was hardly tended for many decades and took on forest-like features, numerous wild trees were felled near the manor house in the spring of 2009. This has made the manor house more visible from the park. In this context, the area around the manor house has also been redesigned and planted.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Hagen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Sources and literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . 3rd revised and updated edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 .
  • Deert Lafrenz: Herrenhaus Hagen , in yearbook for local history in the district of Plön 19 (1989) p. 87 ff.
  • Hubertus Neuschäffer: Schleswig-Holstein's castles and mansions . Husum 1989, ISBN 3-88042-462-4
  • 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. 19.
  • 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. 220

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Leonhardt, Sabine Leonhardt: The restoration of the "Pogwisch room" in the manor Probsteierhagen. In: Monument. Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein. 18/2011, ISSN  0946-4549 , pp. 67-73.
  2. ^ Margita Marion Meyer: Too many trees are destroying the park - first measures to reclaim a monumental area for the Hagen manor. In: Monument. Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein. 17/2010, ISSN  0946-4549 , p. 115.

Coordinates: 54 ° 21 '36 "  N , 10 ° 17' 5.7"  E