Manor house Altranft
The manor house Altranft is located in Altranft , a district of Bad Freienwalde (Oder) in Brandenburg . The manor house is now known as the castle . Museum rooms of the Altranft open-air museum have been located here since 1992. Since 2016 it has been the seat of the Oderbruch Museum Altranft Workshop for Rural Culture. The manor is a listed building.
history
The first mention of a noble residence at this point comes from the year 1375, in the land book of Emperor Charles . The von Pfuel family lived here . This age was also confirmed by investigations on the barrel vault and the core structure. Dendrochronological investigations in the northern area of the manor house revealed woods from 1526. In 1664 Jacob von Pfuel sold the estate to Wolf Friedrich von Bomsdorf . Under his rule, the first renovation work took place and from 1670 to 1678 the manor house was converted into a baroque castle. In 1739 ownership of the property was transferred to the secret finance councilor Samuel von Marschall . He campaigned with Friedrich II for the drainage of the Oderbruch, which then took place from 1747 to 1762 under his direction.
In 1820 Heinrich August von Marschall sold the estate to Count Wilhelm Werner Georg von Hacke . The estate remained in the possession of the Counts von Hacke until 1916. With the takeover of the property, Count Hacke began to design the 3.5 hectare park under the influence of Peter Joseph Lenné . In 1878, under Edwin Graf von Hacke, the one-storey extension of the palace that was built in 1724 is demolished again and a new building with two side wings is erected. This gave the castle its present form.
In 1916 the estate was bought by Heinrich Wertheimer , who sold it to Carl Eschenbach that same year. The Eschenbach family, consisting of the businessman Carl Eschenbach (* March 3, 1879 Elberfeld; † February 1945), his wife Else (* April 2, 1900 Berlin; † February 1945) and their children Carla (* March 1, 1928, † January 21, 1943) and Carl-Adolf (* 1929) led the estate and the place to a new bloom. Due to the re-cultivation of the estate and the associated lands, over 100 employees were at times in the service of the Eschenbach family. After the suicide of the Eschenbach couple in February 1945, the estate was requisitioned when the Red Army crossed the Oder and became public property after the GDR was founded.
Eschenbach sold parts of his property to Albert Speer, who was planning a huge feudal seat there.
After 1945 Altranft was on the territory of the Soviet occupation zone . First displaced persons moved into the castle and from 1945 to 1946 a command post. The agricultural land of the property was distributed to 18 farm workers, 73 small tenants and 50 displaced persons and a farming family as part of the land reform . An agricultural school was located here from 1948 to 1955. In 1952 the first LPG was founded on the former Gutsland .
In 1949 the castle became the property of the State of Brandenburg . After the refugees moved out, it housed a school, a school after-school care center, a day nursery, a restaurant, a library and it was used as a cultural center. From 1964 onwards, on the initiative of the then head of the Oderland Museum in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) , Hans Ohnesorge , a geological nature trail was created on the western edge of the village , along which mainly debris from the ice age phase of the area can be seen.
After these facilities moved out, the manor house was incorporated into the open-air museum. During the time of communal use, the manor house was rebuilt, so in 1968 the roof was renewed. The historical floor was destroyed by water damage and not renovated.
The mansion
The building consists of the baroque building from 1670 and a three-wing complex added in 1876. Until the construction of the three-wing complex, the northern front was the main view of the complex. With seven axes, this front has a three-axis central projection and an outside staircase in front of the entrance. The three-wing complex in the south of the baroque building is open to the south. The baroque building has a hipped roof , the three-wing complex has a mansard roof .
The entrance area of the manor house can be reached through a flight of stairs. In the right part of the manor house there used to be a library and a study. There were utility rooms on the left. The manor family's private rooms were on the upper floor; today the rooms are set up as a museum. The servants lived in the attic .
The estate park
Little is known about the creation of the estate park. The park probably came into being in the 1820s. The park may have been influenced by Peter Joseph Lenné , as there is an exchange of letters between him and the lord of the manor, Count von Hacke. There is a plan of the park from 1861/1862, since then the park has not been significantly changed.
There is a park meadow to the west of the manor house. Trees and bushes stand around the meadow. The fence is no longer original. In the past, a wooden fence painted white surrounded the building; since 1990 the fence has been made up of bar grid fields.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Part: Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 .
- Ilona Rohowski, Ingetraud Senst: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in Brandenburg. Volume 9.1: District of Märkisch-Oderland. Part 1: towns of Bad Freienwalde and Wriezen, villages in Niederoderbruch. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms am Rhein 2006, ISBN 3-88462-230-7 , pp. 247–249.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
- ↑ Schlosspark Altranft Website of Tourismus-Marketing Brandenburg GmbH. Retrieved March 9, 2017.
- ^ Albert G. Schwarz : Attempt at a Pomeranian and Rügian fief history: containing the history and merits belonging to the fiefdom of this country, from the oldest to the present day… . Ed., 1740, p. 1357.
- ↑ Magnus Brechtkern: Albert Speer, A German career. 2017, p. 252 ff.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′ 10 ″ N , 14 ° 5 ′ 7 ″ E