Gollwitz manor house
The manor house Gollwitz (also manor house or castle ) is the manor house in the district of Gollwitz, which was incorporated into Brandenburg an der Havel in 2003 . It belonged to the Gollwitz manor and is listed as an architectural monument . The complex includes outbuildings and an estate park . A meeting place for Jewish and non-Jewish youth has been operating in the building since April 2009.
manor
history
The baroque manor house in Gollwitz dates from the second half of the 18th century. It was owned by the von Rochow family . After the Second World War in 1945, the so-called castle including the manor with an agricultural area of 1090 hectares was expropriated by the Soviet administration as part of the land reform . The last owners of the mansion were Hertha and Harry von Rochow. They were expropriated as part of the land reform . With the new school year 1946 the village school moved into the rooms of the castle. Since September 1, 1951 it was a central school (up to 8th grade), later a POS . In addition, a day kindergarten for three to six year olds was set up in May 1953.
In 1977 the school was closed because there were not enough school children in the village. The school rooms in the castle were converted into a training center with 21 overnight accommodations (including a company kitchen with dining room). The user was the Pedagogical District Cabinet (PKK). In addition, the district's WU group moved into the castle with three uniformed men, who were responsible for military instruction at the district's schools. The village kindergarten continued to run in the castle until it was closed on December 31, 1993 for cost reasons.
There were disputes over the castle with German unification . The heirs of the von Rochows registered their claim to it, as did the community of Gollwitz. On February 7, 1992, the regional tax office of Brandenburg decided that the castle and the property belonging to it should go to the newly emerging Potsdam-Mittelmark district , the manor park with the outbuildings of the former manor house of the Gollwitz community.
On April 1, 1992, the Volkshochschulbildungswerk GmbH Brandenburg took over the castle in close cooperation with the VHS Bildungswerk Niedersachsen. It should be expanded to a modern training facility with overnight accommodation. Because the renovation would have been too expensive, the VHS-Bildungswerk withdrew from the castle in the spring of 1994. The building then stood empty.
In autumn 1997 the Potsdam-Mittelmark district administration decided to accommodate 50 to 60 Jewish emigrants from Russia in the palace. That was rejected by the local council in Gollwitz. This decision caused a lot of media coverage and numerous discussions in society, in the course of which the village of Gollwitz was portrayed as anti-Semitic and racist . As a result, a civil society foundation initiative was set up which, with the support of the municipal council and the district administration, planned a new usage concept for the listed building: the establishment of a meeting place for Jewish and non-Jewish people.
The German Foundation for Monument Protection is now the owner of the former manor house and makes the castle available to the meeting place free of charge.
Building
The baroque manor house is a nine-axis , two-story building. The main facade faces west. Three windows axes includes a central projection whose classic triangular gable by four pilasters , which in square plaster are designed is worn. In the tympanum of the pediment of the risalit there is a flat arched window . The other windows are rectangular windows . The two-wing portal is reached via an outside staircase . At the rear of the manor house there is a wing of the building , on the south side there is a one-story extension with a winter garden , which supports a terrace .
The mansard roof also extends over two floors. It is covered with red beaver tails . In the lower attic, gable dormers are incorporated as window openings, while there are bat dormers in the upper attic .
Foundation, endowment
The non-profit foundation Gollwitz meeting place was founded in 2001 with the participation of the community of Gollwitz, the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark and the help of prominent people from politics and society. This happened on the initiative of a group of Berlin and Brandenburg citizens. Their aim was to organize encounters between Jewish and non-Jewish youth and their multipliers and, for this purpose, to restore one of the manor houses in Brandenburg. The foundation has been running a meeting place in the restored castle since April 2009.
The patron is Wolfgang Schäuble , President of the German Bundestag.
The foundation's board of directors consists of Peter-Andreas Brand, lawyer in Berlin, and Jan van Lessen.
Members of the Board of Trustees are:
- Axel von Hoerschelmann, Ministry for Economic Affairs and European Affairs of the State of Brandenburg a. D.
- Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research a. D.
- Linda Teuteberg, member of the Bundestag, FDP parliamentary group
- Martin Gorholt, State Secretary and Head of the State Chancellery of Brandenburg
- Michael Schierack, Member of the Brandenburg State Parliament, CDU parliamentary group,
- Frank Szymanski , former Lord Mayor of Cottbus
- Alfred Roos, managing director of the RAA Brandenburg.
The advisory board consists of:
- Klaus-Christoph Clavée, President of the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court
- Karin Weiss, former integration officer of the state of Brandenburg
- Feliks Byelyenkow, chairman of the Jewish community in Brandenburg / Havel
- Nicole Näther, Mayor of Gollwitz
- Ulrike Liedtke, President of the Brandenburg State Parliament
- Joseph Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
- Heiner Koch, Archbishop of Berlin
- Christian Stäblein, Bishop of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
- Steffen Scheller, Lord Mayor of Brandenburg / Havel.
The meeting place is managed by Niels Haberlandt.
Meeting place at Gollwitz Castle
Gollwitz Castle is a meeting place for Jewish and non-Jewish people. It was opened in April 2009 after a complete renovation and has since provided space for education, encounters, overnight stays, conferences and events. The house is open to groups of different cultures, religions and age groups. The meeting place sees itself as a youth education institution, which sees its main fields of activity in the diverse subject areas of the extracurricular youth education - especially in the political education and in the youth exchange work. Primarily it is about dealing with the areas of racism, anti-Semitism and group-related misanthropy. Training courses for adults are also offered. The team at the Gollwitz Castle Meeting Center annually organizes international exchanges with young people from different countries, as well as encounters with survivors of the Shoah. The core of the encounter work is the German-Israeli youth and specialist exchange with several offers a year. The foundation also maintains regular contacts with partner organizations in other European and non-European countries.
The 60 beds in 21 overnight rooms can be occupied by up to six people and each has its own bathroom with shower or bathtub. This also includes a handicapped-accessible room on the barrier-free ground floor. An extension is currently being built across from the castle, which will provide additional guest and seminar rooms in the future. The vegetarian-milky cuisine with fish, according to the Jewish dietary regulations, enables people of different religious convictions to eat together in the house.
literature
Walter Heine (Ed.): 625 years of the Gollwitz community. A chronology of the events from the first mention to the present in words and pictures. Gollwitz community, 2000.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The history of the house in a nutshell . Accessed July 12, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.bodenreform-schwarzbuch.de/brandenburg.html ( Memento from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 19.6 ″ N , 12 ° 38 ′ 48 ″ E