Carlsburg mansion
The mansion Carlsburg (or today also Karlsburg ) is the most important building within a manor complex with several buildings in the Karlsburg settlement, mentioned as Gereby in 1335 and renamed Karlsberg in 1807. As the center of the former noble estate Gereby (named after the earlier settlement), the Carlsberg manor is one of the main cultural monuments of the municipality of Winnemark in the Schwansen district in northern Schleswig-Holstein . The building, also known as Carlsburg Castle, was owned by the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and is now privately owned. It is a country palace with a ballroom, 25 apartments, several offices and a café.
historical overview
From the 16th to the 18th century
The estate near the Schlei emerged from the village of Gereby , which came into the possession of the Rantzau family in 1539 . Under the first landlord, Cai Rantzau, the village was largely demolished and a large farmyard was created instead, with a fortress-like, fortified manor house built as its center . The estate remained in the possession of the Rantzaus for only two generations, then in 1586 it was sold to a member of the Ahlefeld family . The owners changed through inheritance or sales, and from 1598 to 1671 the estate belonged to the Rathlow family. During the Thirty Years' War and also during the so-called Polish War , the estate was plundered. From 1671 to 1785 it belonged to the von Brömbsen family . Around 1720 a new mansion was built on the estate and a large baroque garden was laid out. At the end of the 18th century, the estate came to Karl von Hessen-Kassel , who resided in nearby Schleswig at Gottorf Castle as the governor of Schleswig-Holstein. Under his rule in 1790 serfdom was lifted on Gereby and the land was parceled out and largely leased.
From the 19th century to the present
In 1826 the estate was renamed Carlsburg after the new owner and the mansion was rebuilt in the same decade. During this time it mainly served to accommodate the tenant, the forester and other members of the remaining manor district, it was only rarely used by the landgrave's family. Through an inheritance, the mansion came into the possession of the ducal house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg in the course of the 19th century and remained in their possession in the subsequent period.
During the Second World War the house accommodated bombed out refugees from Kiel, after the war the remaining land was leased and the ducal family founded a boarding school in the nearby Louisenlund manor in 1949. The Carlsburger Herrenhaus was added to the foundation in 1951 as a place of residence for the lower school levels and retained this function for several decades. The mansion was later transferred to a therapeutic facility and was used for inpatient rehabilitation for addicts. The company went bankrupt in 2005. After a period of vacancy, the building was sold to a Danish buyer and is now privately owned. The former estate is still owned by the old tenant family.
The palace and park are not open to the public and can only be viewed from the outside to a limited extent.
The mansion and the park
The manor house has been rebuilt and expanded several times over the centuries, and parts of it have been demolished. The core of it still comes from the construction from 1720 to 1727. The building, which today consists of a simple, long structure, once had two southern wings, which were demolished in the 19th century. The current shape of the castle is the result of the reconstruction from 1822. It is a broad structure of twelve window axes with a tower-like central projection , which until 1853 was crowned by a lantern . The overall impression of the Carlsburg was similar in structure and proportions to the south wing of the Gottorf Palace, the residence of Karl von Hessen-Kassel. In 1876, the ducal family considered expanding the Carlsburger mansion with two north wings and two stair towers in the corners of the building, but the plans were never implemented. Inside, little of the furnishings of a country palace has been preserved; on the upper floor, the most important room in the house is a ballroom in the Régence style .
With the new construction of the manor house, a spacious garden in the Baroque style was laid out north of the building. The garden in the immediate vicinity of the house consisted of large parterres planted with flower patterns and a central line of sight, which was divided by an avenue and led 500 meters into the distance. The baroque garden was transformed into a landscape park in the 19th century, but Mittelallee from 1737 remained untouched and has largely been preserved to this day.
Property around the manor
In addition to four other residential buildings, there are also economic outbuildings within the estate, such as a horse stable, grill house and workshop building, as well as approx. 3,650 m² of living and usable space, a park and paddock. The manor property has a land area of 82,454 m² and has a 650 m long, non-public driveway mainly on its own property from Köllnerfeld via Karlsburger Alle (with very old trees) to the manor house.
literature
- Henning v. Rumohr: Castles and mansions in the Duchy of Schleswig . Droemer Knaur, 1983.
- Henning v. Rumohr: Castles and mansions in the Duchy of Schleswig , newly edited. by Cai Asmus v. Rumohr, 1987, Verlag Weidlich Würzburg, 3rd edition, ISBN 3-8035-1302-2 , p. 194
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 3rd edition, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , 2009.
- 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. 119
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Coordinates: 54 ° 37 '5.8 " N , 9 ° 57' 9.9" E