Gut Salzau
The Good Salzau is an old knight based in Holstein , named after the knight Otto von Salzau . It is in Fargau-Pratjau in the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein . The old mansion burned down in the 19th century and was rebuilt in 1881 by Otto von Blome .
The recent history of the mansion is symptomatic of the difficult uses of large rural buildings, even in the old federal states; Decay, failed projects and speculation alternate.
History of the property
The estate was first mentioned in the second half of the 13th century when Queen Mechthild , the widow of King Abel of Denmark , left him 30 marks. From the 18th to the 20th century, Salzau was owned by the von Blome family .
The Renaissance mansion burned down in the 19th century; it was an example of the type of twin house in Schleswig-Holstein . The new mansion was rebuilt in 1881 by Count Otto von Blome , the architect was Joseph Eduard Mose . The count combined the entire family property with a dozen estates in his hand. In 1819 he was raised to the Danish feudal count , together with his uncle Otto von Blome auf Heiligenstedten . The Salzau Palace appeared to contemporaries oversized even for a large complex of goods, it corresponded to houses built by the great British landowners of the Victorian period or the Silesian coal barons . His only son, Count Gustav von Blome (1829-1906) , came from his second marriage with Princess Klementine Bagration (1810-1829 ). Klementine was actually an illegitimate daughter of Princess Katharina Bagration with the Austrian State Chancellor Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich . The son Gustav entered the Austrian diplomatic service after the Schleswig-Holstein War in 1848/1849. He moved to Austria-Hungary , where he and his father bought properties, became Catholic in 1857 and had ten children. From 1926 Hagen , Heiligenstedten and Blomenburg were sold. With Gustav’s grandson Hans Graf Blome, the male line died out in 1945. The Salzau property fell to Josephine Maria Countess von Thun und Hohenstein , née. Countess von Blome (1902–1984), who lived in the manor house for a year after 1945 and then moved with her husband into the neighboring Kavalierhaus. Until 1955, the castle was a temporary home for refugees from Pomerania, East Prussia and Silesia.
In 1964 the building contractor Wolfgang Maser from Wuppertal-Barmen bought the magnificent building in need of renovation from the mother of Count Romedio von Thun-Hohenstein for 300,000 marks. Maser was insolvent a few years later. In October 1971 the castle was foreclosed on for 800,000 marks. A Hamburg real estate agent acquired the ensemble on which he wanted to set up a sanatorium. The plan failed. Three years later, 31 men at risk of alcohol moved into the castle overnight. Home manager Pugehl gave up for financial reasons and because of official objections. In the mid-1970s, the Hamburg merchant Ottmar Schrayvogel acquired the castle for 775,000 marks. In 1976 he moved Salzau with his wife, daughter and 18 Arab horses into Salzau. Schrayvogel also went bankrupt. Salzau then stood empty for several years. In 1985 the state of Schleswig-Holstein auctioned the property for 3.2 million marks and had it expanded into a state cultural center.
In the course of the renovations, in addition to the magnificent halls, numerous bedrooms with a youth hostel character for the young musicians were created in the former manor house, and there is also a ballet hall on the second floor . The buildings also include the gatehouse with apartments and catering facilities as well as a former horse stable with simple rooms - originally intended for young musicians.
In 2010, the then state government of the CDU and FDP decided to sell the property. The reason was the high maintenance costs of more than 220,000 euros annually. Since February 26, 2011 the estate has been for sale. Events, e.g. B. the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the JazzBaltica festival have not taken place here since then. The state's building management company had determined a market value of 3.4 million euros for Salzau. At the end of 2013, after a long search for a buyer, a Hamburg merchant was awarded for a purchase price of two million euros. In 2014 the sale was reversed.
From September 2015 to March 2016, Salzau served as an initial reception facility for refugees. After seven years in which the country was unsuccessfully looking for a buyer, the finance minister announced in February 2017 that she had sold the neo-baroque castle to a company from Timmendorfer Strand for a total of 1.3 million euros. The mansion alone has 4066 square meters of living and usable space. The building ensemble also includes five outbuildings and a 122,313 square meter plot of land including a castle garden with a lake.
Landeskulturzentrum Salzau
The Schleswig-Holstein regional cultural center in Salzau was a meeting place supported by the cultural foundation of Schleswig-Holstein and an important part of the state's cultural infrastructure. Seminars, conferences, artist encounters, art exhibitions, theater performances, antique and art fairs and readings were held in the regional cultural center.
It was also used as a venue for the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and for the JazzBaltica festival (last time in 2011). It was the seat of the international orchestra academy founded by Leonard Bernstein in 1987.
Another task of the center was to coordinate the activities in the Ars Baltica project. The rehearsal phases of the state youth orchestra also took place here.
In 2011, the Landeskulturzentrum Salzau was canceled - the reasons for this were, among other things, that it was not possible to expand Salzau into a conference and cultural center with a hotel in order to achieve sufficient occupancy.
Web links
- Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
- Jazz Baltica
- Ars Baltica (English)
- 2011 "Obituary: Landeskulturzentrum Salzau" (PDF file; 39 kB)
literature
- 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. 491.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rumohr, Henning von .: castles and mansions in Ostholstein; a manual. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-8035-0352-3 , p. 40 .
- ↑ a b Schloss Salzau sold for 1.3 million euros . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 21, 2017 ( Abendblatt.de [accessed August 29, 2017]).
- ↑ a b c real estate - Salzau Castle sold for 1.3 million euros. In: KN-online.de (Kieler Nachrichten). Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
- ^ Salzau Castle sold for 1.3 million euros. In: NDR.de. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Small question from MP Hans Müller (SPD) and the state government's response to the sale of Salzau Castle (PDF; 85 kB)
- ↑ Schleswig-Holstein - Salzau is up for sale again. In: KN-online.de (Kieler Nachrichten). Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Refugees move to Salzau Castle ( Memento from September 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 27, 2015
- ↑ Claudia Eicke-Diekmann: The last 28 refugees leave Salzau Castle . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . March 30, 2016 ( online [accessed August 29, 2017]).
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 46 ″ N , 10 ° 22 ′ 57 ″ E