Gut Weißenhaus
The Good White House is located in the municipality Wangels in county Ostholstein near the after nobles Well appointed Weißenhäuser beach . The center of the former manor complex is the so-called Weissenhaus Castle , located in a spacious park , the former manor house of the property. Today Gut Weissenhaus is a luxury resort.
historical overview
The Weissenhaus estate originally belonged to the not far away Farve estate and was established as an independent estate in the course of an inheritance division at the beginning of the 17th century. Weissenhaus was in changing ownership between the Rantzau and Pogwisch families and was sold to the Counts of Platen in 1739 . Count Georg Ludwig von Platen-Hallermund bought Weissenhaus and some neighboring goods from the compensation he received from King George II of Great Britain on the occasion of the return of the postal rights of the kurbraunschweigsch-Lüneburg country. Von Platen used the estate, to which a small baroque mansion belonged, as a summer residence and from 1741 had a baroque garden laid out. From 1830 the castle became the ancestral seat of the family branch and the baroque garden was transformed into a landscape park during this time. In 1896 the castle, which had been redesigned several times, burned down in a large fire and was then rebuilt.
During the Second World War , Field Marshal Erich von Manstein confiscated the castle in April 1945 until it was occupied by the British. In the same year one of the large courtyard barns burned down. In the post-war period from 1945 to 1952, the number of inhabitants on the estate tripled due to people who were displaced and bombed out. From 1952 to 1975 the manor house housed a so-called short school for fire and rescue services, inspired by Kurt Hahn .
From 1993 the Platen-Hallermund family only lived on the nearby Gut Friederikenhof and opened Weissenhaus Castle to the public. The actual estate business was increasingly reduced over the years, some of the farm buildings were demolished as early as 1981. The manor house housed several catering establishments, and apartments and shops were set up in the cavalier houses. The castle also served as a setting for changing exhibitions, including lithographs by Marc Chagall and drawings by Armin Mueller-Stahl . At the end of 2005 the property was sold to the Hamburg entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner , who only continued the business concept for a short time; In 2006 the castle and the cavaliers' houses were closed for extensive renovation work. In 2010, restoration measures secured the young cattle barn in the eastern area of the farm yard as well as the heavily damaged cartwright . The former workshop building was converted into a residential building. In the manor house, an apartment was also built in the left wing, previous additions and conversions were removed.
The hotel has been running in Weißenhaus since 2014. Through restoration measures, the young cattle shed built in the 19th century, today's reed barn, was converted into an event location where cultural events, conferences or weddings take place. The heavily damaged cartwright shop, the former workshop building, has housed hotel suites since 2014. Also part of Gut Weissenhaus is the thatched dairy, the former workplace of Dutch dairy professionals. The historic bathing house has been rebuilt. Likewise, the former bakery (whose historical oven could be preserved), the gardener's house, the wash house and the beehive were rebuilt under strict monument protection regulations. Weissenhaus Castle was reopened in July 2014 as part of the hotel business.
Buildings
Weissenhaus Castle
Today's manor house is the successor to an older building from around 1600. This original building has been rebuilt several times over the centuries. Between 1830 and 1850, Count Georg Wilhelm, Count Georg Ludwig's grandson, expanded the house by adding one floor and adding a wing with a flat roof to the left and right. The house burned to the ground in 1896, only the 350-year-old basement with the barrel vault remained.
The new castle was built in the neo-baroque style from 1896, partly on the old foundations. It is a broad building of two floors and thirteen window axes with a mansard roof . The courtyard facade is accentuated by a large segmented gable decorated in relief , which bears the coat of arms of Count Platen-Hallermund. There is an attic storey at this point on the facade facing the garden . The façades of the building are - in keeping with the name of the castle - in white, with three window axes each protruding as lateral risalits .
The interior was decorated in the neo-baroque style and has been preserved in parts to the present day. In addition to the stucco work, this also includes French chimneys and paintings by the battle painter Jacques Courtier. The battle paintings have been restored.
On the courtyard side, the palace is preceded by two outbuildings. The houses survived the fire of 1896, the left house dates from 1817, the right building from 1730. They once served as gentlemen's houses , but they lost this function with the expansion of the manor house in the 19th century, which was from then on offered enough space for guests. After the enlargement of the castle, both cavalier houses served as staff apartments.
The park
Traditional garden history begins with the acquisition of the property by Georg Ludwig Reichsgraf von Platen Hallermund in 1735 . He had a small baroque garden laid out in the Regency style, which has been handed down in a garden plan from 1742. The garden was in the shape of a rectangle, which was bordered on each side by a row of linden trees and wide paths. A central fountain basin was located in a sunken broderie floor . At the end of the ground floor a deep view opened up over the "Grand Koppel" to the Baltic Sea and at right angles to it a wide avenue of lime trees led to the beach. This avenue still exists today. In 1777 a severe storm surge devastated the garden. The new complex received a pleasure ground in front of the manor house as well as rare and exotic trees, including a giant sequoia and several giant elms . In the following years, the landscaping of the garden in the east included a pond with a kitchen garden. In the center of the manor park, the cast-iron, neo-Gothic monument by the Hanoverian builder Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves (1788–1864) commemorates the late Julia Countess von Platen Hallermund, née Hardenberg (1788–1833). Beyond the northern cavalier house was the kitchen garden of the manor house until 1960. It was redesigned into a rose garden in 1990. In 2017 the historic greenhouse was rebuilt true to the original.
Web links
- Hotel website
- Gut Weißenhaus. Garden board of the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; 300 kB)
literature
- Ingrid A. Schubert: Weissenhaus. In: Adrian von Buttlar, Margita Marion Meyer (Hrsg.): Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd Edition. Boyens & Co., Heide 1998, ISBN 3-8042-0790-1 , pp. 635-639.
- Berthold Köster: Young cattle barn, wheelwright and mansion on Gut Weißenhaus. In: Monument. Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein. 17/2010, ISSN 0946-4549 , p. 121.
Individual evidence
- ^ Berthold Köster: Young cattle barn, wheelwright and mansion on Gut Weißenhaus. In: Monument. Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein. 17/2010, ISSN 0946-4549 , p. 121.
- ^ Gut Weißenhaus. Garden board of the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; 300 kB).
- ↑ Jörg Matthies, Ingrid A. Schubert, Günther Seehann: Historic manor parks on the edge of Holstein Switzerland. In: Communications of the German Dendrological Society. 19/2005, ISBN 3-8001-8325-0 , p. 10.
- ^ Ingrid A. Schubert: Weissenhaus. In: Adrian von Buttlar , Margita Marion Meyer (Hrsg.): Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd Edition. Boyens & Co., Heide 1998, ISBN 3-8042-0790-1 , pp. 637-638.
Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 9 ″ N , 10 ° 45 ′ 58 ″ E