Good Ralow
The Ralow estate is an agricultural operation in Ralow, Dreschvitz municipality , Vorpommern-Rügen district . The manor house and park are under monument protection.
history
In the legend, the place Ralow was reported as a hiding place by Klaus Störtebeker at the end of the 14th century.
The first documentary evidence of a princely Ralow castle comes from the time of the Rügen prince Wizlaw III. (1265-1325). No secure traces of this castle have yet been found.
In more recent written sources in Ralow only farms managed by farmers and kossats were mentioned.
From the 13th to the 16th century the estate was owned by the state, then by the von Segebaden families (2nd half of the 16th century) and von Hardt. Gustav Friedrich von Bagewitz from the von Bagewitz family from Rügen acquired the estate in 1737 (other sources in 1746). The family owned it until 1872 and left lasting marks. In their time, the existing manor house was built in 1707 and the park laid out. A comprehensive renovation of the property in the style of the historicist castle architecture - presumably according to the first own designs - took place around 1880 according to plans by Wilhelm von Mörner, née. Neumann (Berlin).
The von Esbeck- Platen family then acquired the property and had it managed by tenants until it went bankrupt in 1935. After that, four rural settlement areas were established in the southern area of the district. The manor house and the rest of the land was bought by the Franzburg dentist Otto Salomon, who survived the Nazi era here despite his Jewish religious affiliation.
After the Second World War , the estate was temporarily occupied by Soviet military personnel. Partial demolitions of the historical building fabric took place, which greatly obscured the former structure of the property. The estate remained in private ownership and was used for agriculture. The manor house and the park were already listed as individual monuments in the GDR's list of monuments. Ralow has been on the list of monuments of the Vorpommern-Rügen district since 1997.
building
The manor house is a two-storey, plastered brick building with a simple, provincial design language. The portal in the middle of the south side is framed with plaster pillars and ends with a profiled keystone over a basket arch . The four window axes in the western half of the house preserve the original character of the 18th century. The eastern third of the baroque core building, however, was changed in the 19th century under Wilhelm von Mörner in the neo-Gothic style. A Gothic- style portal leads from the park side into a spacious chimney hall. Above the chimney, the coat of arms of the von Mörner family refers to the owner of the house at the time. On the walls, which are painted in blue, lettering with military slogans in Russian testify to the Soviet occupation.
Behind a narrow courtyard is the rest of another extension building built under Wilhelm von Mörner in the 19th century. Since the original entrance was demolished after 1945, access is now via a makeshift staircase from the west side. The anteroom is decorated as a bizarre grotto with tufa formations. A sliding door leads into a ballroom with wooden paneling, a rich, elaborately designed stucco ceiling and high four-part box windows. Two-leaf wooden doors are arranged to the east and south, but because the remaining parts of the building have been demolished, they end in nothing. The ballroom is currently used as a grain store.
park
The park to the northeast of the building was created in the 18th century as a landscape park along the Landower Wedde bay . The 300 m long and 100 m wide area is divided by an avenue of lime trees, which at the north-eastern end expands in a spindle-shaped manner around a circular pond. In a park inventory carried out in 1986/87, a hanging ash tree (fraxinus excelsior pendula) was highlighted as a botanical specialty. The grave of Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Bagevitz (1777–1835) is located in the park.
Farm buildings
Of the former five large stables and barns that were located around the spacious farm yard, only the north-western building has been preserved. Large window fields and gates on the solidly bricked ground floor indicate its use as a workshop and carriage depot. The upper floor is made of truss technology.
Castle ramparts and entrenchments
The Slavic castle wall mentioned in sources from the 18th century has not been archaeologically proven. The situation is unknown. The three redoubts recorded in the Swedish register card on the coast west of the estate could not yet be located in the area.
Say
In the collection of Rügen sagas by Alfred Haas , the sagas Der Blindblüser , Encounter with the wild hunter and Störtebeker's other hiding place on Rügen are linked with Ralow. The legend of Störtebeker and the Ralunken on Ralow was taken up many times, alienated and poetically embellished. The poet Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten immortalized Ralow in his songs.
literature
- Sabine Bock , Thomas Helms: Castles and mansions on Rügen. Edition Temmen, 1993, ISBN 3-86108-408-2 , pp. 110-111.
- State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-222-5 , p. 572.
- Walter Ohle, Gerd Baier: The art monuments of the Rügen district. Leipzig 1963, ISBN 3-931483-04-5 , pp. 455-457.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adelslexicon or genealogical and diplomatic news from the princely, counts, baronial and aristocratic houses residing in the Prussian monarchy or related to it, with details of their descent, property, coat of arms and from civil and military figures, heroes, scholars and artists who emerged from them. Volume A - D, Reichenbach 1836, p. 166 ff.
- ↑ Manor houses and castles: Manor Ralow .
- ↑ Wilhelm von Esbeck received from the Prussian king in 1867 a name association with the Rügen von Platen as "von Esbeck called von Platen". In 1904 the name was officially changed to "von Esbeck-Platen". See: Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Adelslexikon Volume III, Complete Series Volume 61, Limburg / Lahn 1975, p. 176.
- ^ Susanna Misgajski: History of Jewish life on Rügen. An overview from the beginnings to the time of National Socialism. In: Karl-Ewald Tietz among others: An island with history. 200 years of the Rügen district. Groß Schoritz 2007, ISBN 978-3-931661-06-9 , p. 201.
- ↑ Chimney on the right: “Every soldier must carry out the orders and instructions of the superiors precisely, quickly and without argument. He has to master his weapon perfectly. "
- ↑ Markus Sommer-Scheffler: The fortifications of the 17th-19th centuries. Century on the island of Rügen. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Yearbook 58, 2010. Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-935770-32-3 , p. 201, no. 57-59.
- ^ Alfred Haas: Rügen Legends. Arthur Schuster Verlag, Stettin 1926, pp. 22, 53, 131 f.
- ^ Adolf Häckermann: Kosegarten, Ludwig Gotthard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 745-751.
Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ′ 9.6 ″ N , 13 ° 14 ′ 19 ″ E