Dannenwalde manor house

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Dannenwalde manor house, Corps de Logis, front view, unplastered condition in 2007

The manor house Dannenwalde is in Dannenwalde , a district of Gransee , and was the center of a manor complex. It dates from the late 17th century, but has been significantly rebuilt over and over again in the following centuries. The structure that is preserved today was last changed in 1937. The mansion consists of a corps de logis , with two side wings that form a courtyard . Opposite the main entrance on the property's axis of symmetry is the neo-Gothic patron church of the von Waldow family .

history

The manor house is now located in the Dannenwalde district of the Brandenburg town of Gransee. Until 1934, however, the Dannenwalde estate belonged to Mecklenburg-Strelitz , until 1950 to the state of Mecklenburg and then came to Brandenburg with the Fürstenberger Werder . As a knightly fiefdom, Dannenwalde was probably owned by the von Priegnitz dynasty as early as the early Middle Ages , who ruled there until the 15th century. After that, the estate belonged to various families of the long-established Mecklenburg knighthood, such as the Buch and Kospoth families .

Site plan from 1759 with manor house and village as well as a baroque garden

In 1692 the guardians of Ernst Friedrich von Buch pledged the property to the Mecklenburg Chamber Councilor Adolf Friedrich von Waldow , who was enfeoffed with it in 1707. The estate remained in the possession of the von Waldow family until it was expropriated in 1945; one of the last owners from this family was the Prussian politician Wilhelm von Waldow . In 1868 the writer and artist Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg died on the estate, which at the time belonged to his brother-in-law - chamberlain Franz von Waldow.

1941 for the filming of the novel The way out of Arthur Schnitzler (Director: Rolf Hansen ) some scenes among others Zarah Leander shot in the courtyard of the mansion. You can see the outdoor facilities and the manor, a few years before the looting and partial decay.

Shortly after the Second World War, the house was looted, but was not destroyed. During the GDR era, the building housed a high school named after the communist resistance fighter Karl Sperling. In 1990 the building was largely neglected. The house was then used by the Association of Friends of Nature as accommodation for cyclists.

The main building had been empty since the late 1990s. The renovation of the roof was completed by 2007, the renovation of the interior was still pending. In 2016 the front facade of the Corps de Logis, which had remained unplastered for many years, was renovated and re-plastered. There are apartments in the side buildings.

The “Kirche am Weg”, which was also badly dilapidated until 1990, has now been renovated and serves as a stop for cyclists who pass the place on the Berlin – Copenhagen cycle path .

architecture

Today's manor house was built at the end of the 17th century - supposedly on the remains of an old castle complex, at least using a previous building from the 16th century. The basement is much older than the house on it. The complex comprised the main house with two side buildings as well as a separate estate. At the end of the 18th century, the buildings were redesigned in the Rococo style. The builder is presumed to be in Prussia, similarities with the Neuhardenberg manor house and Rheinsberg Castle before the respective renovations are unmistakable. Around 1810, 1908 and 1937 the manor house was changed again, especially inside.

"NON DORMIT QUI ME CUSTODIT" ("He who protects me, does not sleep")

The nine-axle corps de logis comprises two floors under a mansard roof . The central projection is decorated with a column portal made up of four half-columns bearing the inscription Non dormit qui me custodit (“He who protects me does not sleep”; according to Psalm 121: 3 ). Above it are four small putti in the shape of the four seasons. There is a small balcony above the front door, with the coat of arms of the von Waldow and Bismarck families on both sides. The two side buildings, on the left the cavalier's house and on the right the farm and servants' house, of which only the one on the right hand side is directly connected to the main house, are one-story.

On the garden side, the previously existing stairs to the garden are missing. The portal in the middle of the garden front has been preserved, the balcony above is very dilapidated and has no railing intact. From the paved square below the house, a wide flight of stairs leads to the garden below with old trees to the sides.

Patronage Church

The one-story patronage church of the then landowner, the Vice-Land Marshal and Commendator of the Order of St. John Ferdinand Thomas von Waldow (1765–1830), was built by the master builder Hermann from Zehdenick, a pupil of Gilly , and Schinkel in 1821 in neo-Gothic style on an elongated octagonal structure Layout. The building replaced a dilapidated medieval predecessor.

The church was used for worship services until 1975 and then gradually deteriorated. In the 1990s, the church was threatened with collapse by penetrating moisture. The organ, balustrades and the cast-iron family coat of arms of the von Waldow family had been stolen. The church was therefore closed in 1995. A private initiative to preserve the church, however, worked together with the parish for the renovation, so that the church could be consecrated again at Easter 1998. A renovation of the interior is still pending.

  • Garden side of the manor house, partly renovated in 2007

  • Aerial view, in the background the river between the small and large Wentowsee

  • Corps de Logis, aerial view

  • State 2010

  • Facade renovation (2016)

  • Dannenwalde Church

literature

  • Sabine Bock: Stately houses on the estates and domains in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935749-05-3 , 1st volume, pp. 187-194.
  • Hubertus Neuschäffer: Mecklenburg's castles and mansions. Husum Printing and Publishing Society, Husum 1990, ISBN 3-88042-534-5 .
  • Georg Piltz, Peter Garbe: Palaces and gardens in the Mark Brandenburg. Seemann, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-363-00063-4 , pp. 153, 195.

Web links

Commons : Herrenhaus Dannenwalde  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabine Bock: Stately houses on the estates and domains in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935749-05-3 , 1st volume, pp. 187/188.
  2. ^ Bund der Antifaschisten Köpenick: Karl Sperling
  3. ↑ a b Hubertus Neuschäffer: Mecklenburg palaces and mansions . Husum 1990, ISBN 3-88042-534-5 , p. 57 aE
  4. ^ Sabine Bock: Stately houses on the estates and domains in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935749-05-3 , 1st volume, p. 188.
  5. ^ Sabine Bock: Stately houses on the estates and domains in Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935749-05-3 , 1st volume, pp. 188-189.
  6. ↑ Dorfkirche Dannenwalde (church on the way, bike-hiking church) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ The church of Dannenwalde

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 43.8 ″  N , 13 ° 11 ′ 12.1 ″  E