Good Zichtau
The Good Zichtau is a farm in Zichtau , a district of the Hanseatic city Gardelegen in northern Saxony-Anhalt . The surroundings are shaped by the Hellberg Mountains.
history
Gut Zichtau was around 1420 by Ludolf VI. von Alvensleben acquired and remained in the possession of the von Alvensleben family for over 400 years. During the Thirty Years War Zichtau lost its inhabitants to the plague and was devastated by imperial troops. Under Busso XIII. von Alvensleben (1600–1654) Gut Zichtau was restored around 1630. In 1681, the Bussos sons were divided into two manors, the "old side" and the "new side". In 1811, district chief Johann Christian Solbrig (1778–1850) acquired the “New Page” (1847 the “Old Page”) and from 1817 had the completely deforested Hellberge reforested. Around 1820 he created a landscaped park with ponds, park paths, pavilions, benches and sculptures at the manor house, and also included the surroundings in his landscaping. This included "pleasure hikes" to the Stakenberg and Waldhausberg with wide footpaths lined with fruit trees, poplars and young birch plantings, the establishment of viewing and resting points, equipped with tables, benches, wooden temples and houses, as well as three fish ponds, one of which In 1969 it was redesigned as a forest pool and has been preserved until today. With the sale by the heirs Solbrig to the Duke-Anhalt Köthener Minister Gustav Albert of Goßler (1807-1869) the two goods in 1853 were reunited. The park near the house was also maintained by the von Goßler family, but Solbrig's scenic enhancements in the area around the property were more and more lost after 1945. After 1945, as part of the land reform , Gut Zichtau was used by a seed company with a training facility, and later by an agricultural production cooperative . The structural condition of the estate deteriorated after 1990 and the landscape park became overgrown.
Reconstruction image
The reconstruction picture shows the forest valley in the foreground the baroque converted mansion "Alte Seite" from 1600. Demolished in 1789, it was replaced by the mill building visible next to it, recognizable by a roof turret. Through a sculpture-adorned pillar gate that still exists, one drove between rectangular water surfaces to the main portal of the manor house . The “Neue Seite” manor followed eastwards towards the church. Here you can see the garden front of the associated house, built in 1691, which is also still standing. Both houses had baroque gardens, the traces of which remained in the later landscape park, which, animated with ponds, streams and old garden sculptures, merged into the woods. Even the hills around were temporarily included by systems and viewing pavilions.
Current condition
In the mid-1990s, Hasso Lebrecht von Blücher, a grandson of the last owner, Fried Albert von Goßler, acquired Gut Zichtau. Parts of the building stock were fundamentally refurbished from 2009 to 2011, and a large part of the park, which is shared with the Dienemann family from Gardelegen, was restored in cooperation between the two owners from 2010 to 2012. The “Alte Seite” manor house with ancillary building had to be demolished in the summer of 2012 due to severe dilapidation; The listed pavilion was preserved. The three preserved and extensively renovated historical buildings "Granary", "Orangery" and "Rinderstall" are used for celebrations, markets, concerts, readings, seminars, art exhibitions and park tours. Special equipment elements in the extensive listed landscape park include the ornamental bed at the pavilion, the shrub and grass bed at the horse pond, the waterfall at the castle pond, the kitchen garden and the "Lindendom".
The Zichtau estate is the seat and location of the Future Altmark Foundation founded by Blücher.
In 2014 and 2016 Gut Zichtau received the “Green Flag Award” for particularly high-quality parks and was the winner of the tourism award “Vorreiter Sachsen-Anhalt 2014”.
In 2015, the owner Hasso von Blücher received the “Golden Lindenblatt” from the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL).
literature
- Udo von Alvensleben : Zichtau under the gentlemen v. Alvensleben . In: Heimatbuch. Contributions to Altmark local history, Volume 4, Gardelegen 1940/41, pp. 219–249.
- Udo von Alvensleben-Wittenmoor: Alvensleben castles and country houses . Dortmund 1960.
- Folkhard Cremer in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 1034.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 23.4 " N , 11 ° 17 ′ 45.9" E