Divitz mansion

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Current condition
The Divitz manor house around 1860 seen from the north, Alexander Duncker collection

The manor house Schloss Divitz is a mansion in the valley of the Barthe in the district Divitz of the municipality Divitz-Spoldershagen in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen . The manor house was originally designed as a moated castle and is considered one of the most important moated castles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

history

Divitz Castle was laid out during the German colonization in the 13th century. A Conrad (or Cord) von Krakevitz is considered to be the builder of the castle, but it was probably the Knights of Divitz who owned the castle complex until it died out in the 14th century. In 1374 a von Vitzen family was named as the owner, before that the von Moltke family . After the von Divitz family died out, the building came into the possession of the Duchy of Pomerania . The von Krackewitz family owned the castle from 1480 to 1625. They expanded the castle in the 16th century, so the two-story north wing was built in the second half of this century. With the extinction of the Divitz branch of the family, the estate fell to the Duke of Pomerania Bogislaw XIV. He lent it to his Chancellor Philipp von Horn from 1627 to 1648 . After the Thirty Years' War it was a fief of the Swedish crown and after the Pomeranian ducal dynasty died out, it probably became the property of the Horns. This inherited mansion and estate to Johannes von Lilienstedt , who was later raised to the rank of count. He began with the contemporary conversion of the castle into a baroque manor house. He had the east wing supplemented with two portals between the years 1729 and 1743. Many parts of the medieval moated castle have been preserved in the irregular structure, which is still surrounded by ramparts and moats.

Coat of arms portal, left Krassow , right Krakewitz

The estate passed on to the von Krassow family through inheritance . In 1840, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV elevated Baron Friedrich Heinrich von Krassow to the rank of count on the occasion of his accession to the throne . In 1857, under the direction of the Prussian court gardener Gustav Meyer, a 12- hectare landscape garden was created south of the building .

In the following year he founded a family entailment , consisting of the manors Divitz, Spoldershagen, Frauendorf, Wobbelkow, Gäthkenhagen and Martinshagen. Established as a majorate , the title of count belonged to the head of entails. After his death that year his son Carl Reinhold von Krassow ran the Divitz estate. He was not only a landowner, but also chairman of the horticultural association for New Western Pomerania and Rügen. In this role, he grew new types of fruit on the estate, which Ferdinand Jühlke distributed. After the family entailment was dissolved, the estate passed to the Count von der Groeben's family from 1892 to 1945 .

After the end of the Second World War , the mansion was used as a residential building. It has been uninhabited since the fall of the Wall . In the early 1990s, the property was sold to an owner company by the municipality. After years of dilapidation, the building was leased to a new prospect in 2001. However, the necessary repair work was not carried out, so that the building continued to fall into disrepair. According to a report by the German Castle Association from 2014, the manor house is one of the particularly endangered properties: “For a long time, the district, supported by a large group of experts, has been trying to take over and subsequent restoration of the complex, which is so extraordinary for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, but the Owners who were overwhelmed by the receipt have so far refused all corresponding offers . In 2015 the Verein Kulturgüter Wasserburg e. V. , who tries to preserve the building.

In 2017, funding was approved to secure the Divitz manor house. After the emergency security, which was also carried out with funds from the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the budget committee of the German Bundestag decided in November 2018 within the framework of the 2019 federal budget to support the Divitzer Wasserburg in the amount of almost ten million euros.

Since the now total of 20 million euros in funding from the federal and state governments can only be awarded to a public institution, the municipality of Divitz-Spoldershagen inevitably declared itself ready to do so at a municipal council meeting. The state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the district of Western Pomerania-Rügen had refused to take over the sponsorship. The main task of the municipality is now to submit applications for funding and to advertise and award construction contracts. She is to be supported in this by Amt Barth and the Förderverein Kulturgüter Wasserburg Divitz, which has been the owner of the monument since 2015, in order to save it from final decay.

literature

  • Bruno J. Sobotka: Castles, palaces, manor houses in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Stuttgart 1993
  • Christiane Rossner: Streak of light on the horizon - Notgesichert: Divitz Palace is perceived again , published in Monumente - Magazine for Monument Culture in Germany , the German Foundation for Monument Protection, December 2018 issue, 28th year No. 6, ISSN 0941-7125

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1864, p. 269 ( Google books ).
  2. ↑ 2012 report
  3. ^ Last rescue for old walls DIE WELT from January 6th 2013
  4. ^ Report of the board member Prof. Dr. Sabine Bock , Schwerin, in: Burgen und Schlösser , Journal for Castle Research and Monument Preservation, 4/2014, p. 247
  5. ↑ Funds gone - can the water tower still be saved?
  6. ↑ Schloss Divitz: Expert opinion should clarify costs. Funding is available for the emergency renovation of the moated castle. But it still has to be checked whether they are sufficient. , Ostseezeitung , July 20, 2017
  7. ^ Christiane Rossner: Streak of light on the horizon. New future for Divitz Castle in Western Pomerania , in: Monumente Magazin, December 2018, pp. 34–35
  8. ^ Robert Niemeyer / Uwe Roßner: Burg Divitz rescued , in: Ostsee-Zeitung of November 9, 2018.
  9. ↑ Anika Wenning: Small community wants to save Wasserburg Divitz in: Ostsee-Zeitung from July 4, 2019.

Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 59.4 "  N , 12 ° 41 ′ 29.7"  E