Altwigshagen manor house
The Altwigshagen manor , also known as Altwigshagen Castle , is the ruin of a former manor house in Altwigshagen in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It is located on the "Schlossberg" around 80 meters from the south bank of the Altwigshagener See .
history
In Altwigshagen, which was first mentioned in a document in 1295, there had been a low castle since at least the 14th century . The place was in the fief of the von Schwerin family , who had one of their headquarters here next to Spantekow . The castrum Oldeshagen was mentioned in 1326 and 1331 .
After various feuds between the Altwigshagener and Spantekower Schwerinen with the city of Anklam took place in the 14th and 15th centuries, the country was pacified towards the end of the 15th century. The castle fell into disrepair in the following time. Altwigshagen came to the von Borcke family in the 17th century . In the 19th century a tower was still preserved from the Schwerine castle. This was blown up in 1866. In the same year, the construction of the new manor house in the Tudor Gothic style began under Hugo von Borcke .
After the end of the Second World War , refugees and displaced persons were housed in the manor house. In 1955 the architectural decorations such as towers and battlements were removed. During the GDR era , the manor house housed the community office, the community nurses' station, a kindergarten, a classroom and several apartments. At times there was also a registry office in the house. In 1995 the last residents moved out. The structure fell into disrepair. Between 2002 and 2010 the house changed hands four times at auctions. Several months after the last auction, part of the house wall on the park side collapsed. The landscape park remained in the possession of the Altwigshagen community.
investment
The Schlossberg is a five-meter-high elevation, with steep, maximum three-meter-wide embankments to the west, north and east. This is followed by a damp lowland, which merges in a northerly direction to the Altwigshagener See. To the north and west there is still a water-bearing part of the moat, which was fed by the lake through a ditch.
The embankment on the south side was removed for access to the manor house. The former castle area on which the manor house was built extends to about 55 meters in length in a west-east direction and is around 35 meters wide.
The manor house is a two-storey plastered building with thirteen axes . It was built on a hewn granite base with a vaulted cellar. The house has a flat hipped roof . On the courtyard side, to the south, there is a three-axis, far extended central projection with a gable roof and a round window in the gable. At the corners there are fragments of the octagonal pillars. The window and door of the central projectile are closed in a keel arch on the ground floor.
The four-axis central projection on the park side has now collapsed. There is a jagged frieze on the eaves and remains of the battlements on the chimney.
The division of the rooms and the foyer has largely been preserved. Inside there are some keel-arched interior doors, some of which are fitted with tracery sprouting, as well as several built-in cupboards.
Several stables and farm buildings, some of which are inhabited, have been preserved from the former estate. The complex with the manor house, an ice cellar , a barn and the former distillery was placed under monument protection.
Web links
- Literature about Altwigshagen manor in the state bibliography MV
- More pictures of the Altwigshagen manor
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Uwe Schwarz: The lower aristocratic fortifications of the 13th to 16th centuries in the Neubrandenburg district. Berlin 1987, p. 68.
- ↑ a b c d Renate de Veer: Manor houses and estate complexes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Vol. 3, Aschenbeck Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3939401285 , pp. 441-442.
- ↑ a b Castle expires despite new owner. Retrieved July 26, 2013 .
- ↑ From the manor to the speculative ruin. In: Little Chronicle of Altwigshagen. Altwigshagen municipality, accessed on July 26, 2013 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 9.9 " N , 13 ° 49 ′ 53.8" E