Gut Schmerwitz

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Schmerwitz manor house
The north wing of the manor house from the north

The north wing of the manor house from the north

Data
place Schmerwitz
Architectural style Baroque, neo-baroque
Construction year 1730 to 1736, expansion in the 19th century
Coordinates 52 ° 8 '23.3 "  N , 12 ° 28' 54.5"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 8 '23.3 "  N , 12 ° 28' 54.5"  E

The Good Schmerwitz with its manor house or mansion Schmerwitz which the local population Castle Schmerwitz is called, is situated in the community town of Schmerwitz the community Wiesenburg / Mark . The as monument designated Good consists of a core baroque , castle-like manor , the Gutskirche Schmerwitz , a manager's house, a firehouse , stables and barns .

history

The estate in the aerial photo

In the Middle Ages, Schmerwitz was a desert and part of the Wiesenburg rule. In 1575 the Schmerwitz Vorwerk was used as a sheep farm . In the course of two inheritance divisions , Schmerwitz was separated from Wiesenburg in 1697. Five years later, the Wiesenburger and Schmerwitzer lines of the Brandt von Lindau family were settled in a settlement. In 1730, Colonel August Friedrich Brandt von Lindau gave up his residence in Zerbst and moved permanently to the Schmerwitz manor. He had this expanded into a representative residence by 1736. In the 19th century the manor house was extensively expanded in the neo- baroque style.

The Brandt von Lindau family remained the owners of the property until the end of the Second World War . In the course of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone from 1945, extensive expropriations were carried out. This also affected the estate's lands, which, however, were not divided between the local farmers and new farmers . Rather, the property remained in its form as a national property . In contrast to other villages, typical activist houses were built in Schmerwitz instead of houses by new farmers. Accordingly, no arable land was allocated to them, and animal husbandry was only allowed to a limited extent.

The castle-like manor house became the state party school of the KPD for Brandenburg from August 1945 , and from May 2, 1946 the Brandenburg state party school of the SED . Later the school became the special school of the Central Committee of the SED . Then the facility was called the Central School of the German People's Police and from 1959 the Central School for Combat Groups "Ernst Thälmann" was located there.

In 1991 the addiction support organization Synanon acquired the property, which was subsequently converted to organic farming . In 2000 the property came back into private family ownership.

Buildings

manor

The manor house from the west, from the garden side

The baroque manor house in the central part is a multi-wing plastered building. The central wing is single-storey with a two-story central projectile facing both the courtyard and the garden. The main portal to the courtyard is located in this central projection . On both sides, the middle wing is joined by two side wings, which are two-story and set back from the middle wing. Another large wing of the building adjoins it at a right angle to the north . This is also two-story and includes the courtyard with the three western wings. The north wing also has a central projectile with an impressive tail gable . Another modern extension is in the south. The courtyard is accessible through portals from the main and north wings. A driveway leads to the portal of the main wing, which is followed by a terrace , from which a flight of stairs leads to the lower courtyard. There is also an outside staircase on the garden side of the main wing.

Decorative elements are simple cornices , profiled window frames, Verdachungen and example Blend railings . A conspicuous tower-like lantern with a tower clock and dome is located above the eastern gable of the north wing . The roof of the central wing of the manor house is a mansard roof , the other roofs are hipped roofs .

Administrator house

The administrator house

The administrator's house is located east of the north wing of the manor house or the courtyard. This is also built in the neo-baroque style. It is two-story with a portal in a central projecting north to the manor. The structure is three -axis to the north and south and five-axis to the east and west . Decorative elements are the cornices, window frames, roofs and panels already used on the manor house. In the attic above the central window axis to the west there is a curved dormer window . The central projection to the north has a pronounced, pointed triangular gable .

More buildings

Gazebo

The manor is located north of the manor house and the manager's house. It is a four-sided courtyard , which, in addition to the buildings already mentioned, is formed by several stables and barns. The syringe house is also located in the courtyard. In addition, the Schmerwitz manor church is part of the structural ensemble . In the former garden, accessible from the main wing of the manor house via a portal and a flight of stairs, there is a wrought-iron arbor and a pond .

Web links

Commons : Schmerwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg: District of Potsdam-Mittelmark (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  2. a b Werner Heegewaldt, Harriet Harnisch (Hrsg.): Overview of the holdings of the Brandenburg State Main Archives , Part I / 1, (Nobles) Manorial, Estate and Family Archives (Rep. 37), Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag , p. 248 .
  3. The architectural and art monuments in the GDR district of Potsdam . Institute for Monument Preservation, Henschelverlag , Art and Society, Berlin 1979. p. 31.
  4. Mike Schmeitzner: Schools of the dictatorship , Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, Dresden 2001, p. 33
  5. Heiner Timmermann: Dictatorships in Europe in the 20th Century - the Case of the GDR , p. 520
  6. ^ Federal Archives, Finding aid for the holdings DO 8, Introduction, to footnote (14).
  7. Gut Schmerwitz and its history . Published on gut-schmerwitz.de. Accessed June 19, 2018.