Geisendorf manor house

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Geisendorf manor house

The Geisendorf manor house ( Kněski dwor Gižkojce in Lower Sorbian ) is a listed manor house in Brandenburg . It is located in the area of the former village of Geisendorf in the municipality of Neupetershain in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district .

Architecture and history

The Geisendorf manor was built towards the end of the 17th century. The building is a 9: 5-axis, two-storey rectangular building under a crooked hip roof . At the beginning of the 19th century, the building was redesigned for the then owner Friedrich Ehrenreich von Muschwitz , so that today forms of classicism predominate in the building, which was originally built in the Baroque style .

The main facade of the manor in the early classical style has a ribbon block on the ground floor, and on the upper floor it is structured with pilasters . In addition, the main facade has a central projectile with a meander frieze . On the opposite side of the building there is a change in the window arrangement. There is also a toilet bay on the north side and a large round arch in the middle of the facade, which suggest that the building was built in the 17th century.

The last heir to the manor house was Alfred von Muschwitz, who sold the estate to Hansen Burscher von Saher zum Weißenstein. This was expropriated in the course of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945 . After that, the building was used for various purposes. In the 1980s, the manor house was used for local celebrations such as the harvest festival or Zampern . After that, the building stood empty for a while.

In 1991 Pascual Jordan, a great-grandson of the Sahers boy, bought the dilapidated and neglected manor house from the community of Neupetershain. He renovated the building in accordance with the monument protection regulations and was awarded the Brandenburg Prize for Monument Preservation in 1993.

In 1996 the manor house was bought by Lausitzer Braunkohle AG . The resettlement of Geisendorf was approved at the end of the 1990s, and in 2001 the site was devastated by the Welzow-Süd open-cast lignite mine . Originally the manor house was also supposed to give way to the opencast mine, but it was ultimately preserved and is therefore the only remaining building in Geisendorf. Since then, the manor house has been used as a cultural forum, including exhibitions, a literature forum and other events. Since 2009 the manor house has been right on the edge of the opencast mine.

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View over the location of the devastated neighboring village of Kausche with the Geisendorf manor house (left in the background)

literature

  • Gerhard Vinken, Barbara Rimpel et al. (Arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Brandenburg. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , page 376.

Web links

Commons : Gutshaus Geisendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum , accessed on February 10, 2018.
  2. ^ A b Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 376 .
  3. ^ Winner of the Brandenburg Prize for Monument Preservation from 1992 to 1999. In: mwfk.brandenburg.de. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .
  4. ^ Vattenfall (ed.): Gut Geisendorf - The cultural forum of the Lausitz brown coal.

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 11.1 "  N , 14 ° 11 ′ 11.5"  E