Dolgen mansion

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Dolgen mansion (October 2003)

The manor house Dolgen in the district Dolgen of the municipality Dolgen am See in the district of Rostock is a manor house originally built in the 16th century and subsequently rebuilt in the neo-renaissance style . It got its current appearance after renovations in the 1890s by Gustav Freiherr von Plessen . After extensive renovation work that began in 1995, it was restored to its largely authentic state.

History of the former manor and Gutsdorf Dolgen

History board in the village of Dolgen

In 1285, the Lord von Werle Nikolaus II. Awarded the village Dolgen am See to the Rostock citizen Nikolaus and the place was first mentioned in a document. A few years later it came into the possession of the Monastery of the Holy Cross . Dolgen belonged to the chivalrous estates until 1945 and, according to Niekammer's address book, had a size of 468.1 hectares. From the end of the 18th century until 1945 the estate belonged to the von Plessen family . Leopold von Plessen lived here until his death in 1837 . In the line of succession, the mansion came into the possession of his son Hermann, who became chamberlain from Mecklenburg . The Dolgen manor was expropriated in 1945 as part of the land reform in Germany , parceled out and initially settled by new settlers; in 1950 it was converted into an LPG . A part of the former manor park on Dolgener See was laid out as a holiday camp for the People's Police during the GDR era and was also used by the Society for Sports and Technology . After 1990 it was privatized and has been called Feriendorf Dolgen since 2006 .

Historical views of the mansion

The following pictures document the structural changes to the Dolgen manor house from the end of the 18th century until 1994:

  • Orellen manor - prototype for renovation at the beginning of the 19th century

  • Dolgen manor house after further renovation around 1890

  • View around 1943

  • State in 1994

The history of the manor house and its ensemble of buildings

Manor ensemble around 1900
Manor ensemble around 1943

The von Drieberg family from Mecklenburg had a manor house built on parts of the former castle foundations at the beginning of the 16th century. Until the end of the war in 1945, there was an escape tunnel under the building , which dates from the time of the medieval castle complex; Whether this tunnel has survived to this day in the course of the epochal post-war events has not been recorded. In the course of time, this house has undergone structural changes again and again. In 1782 the building and the manor Dolgen became the property of the later Minister, Privy Councilor and District President (1836) of Mecklenburg, Leopold von Plessen. At the beginning of the 19th century he had the manor house converted into a representative mansard house with a mansard hipped roof and a two-storey central projection in the neo-renaissance style and used it intensively in the summer months from 1824 until his death in 1837. For the renovation, Leopold von Plessen and his wife Sophie based themselves on the construction plans of the Orellen mansion of the von Campenhausen family in Livonia (today Ungurmuiža, Raiskums parish, Pārgauja municipality in Latvia ). Dolgen and his mansion achieved considerable political importance under Leopold von Plessen through the visits of numerous domestic and foreign state guests and other high-ranking personalities. In 1837 the Dolgen manor had 93 inhabitants. The thatched stables belonging to the manor ensemble and the cobblestone avenue leading to the manor house were completely removed during the GDR era and after the reunification of Germany in 1990. In 1994 the mansion was auctioned off by the trust property company in a bidding process and then extensively and largely renovated in the style of the neo-renaissance. It is used today for residential purposes. Remains of the former family chapel and hereditary burial site of the von Plessen family from the Dolgen house are still on the site ; This building was used as a storage room from the 1950s after the dead had previously been reburied in an anonymous mass grave in the Hohen Sprenz church cemetery . The manager's house, which is part of the manor ensemble and manor house, was largely preserved in its original form and was renovated.

  • Family chapel, 1944

  • Family chapel, 2010

  • Avenue, 1935

  • Administrator's House, 2003

Lords of the Plessen family

Leopold von Plessen

The ownership structure of the Dolgen manor by the von Plessen manor family was as follows up to the expropriation in 1945:

  • from 1782 to 1837: Leopold Engelke Hartwig von Plessen (1769–1837)
  • from 1837 to 1855: Hermann Leopold Christian von Plessen (1810–1855)
  • from 1855 to 1915: Gustav Julius Ferdinand von Plessen
  • from 1915 to 1945: Leopold Friedrich Ernst Hans von Plessen (1889–1945)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartwig von Plessen: The Dolgen estate . In: Mecklenburgische Gutsherren in the 20th Century (2000), pp. 527-531
  2. ^ Niekammer's Agricultural Goods Address Books. Volume IV. Mecklenburg . Leipzig 1928, p. 24 .
  3. ↑ a b Dolgen . ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Places in MV  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orte-in-mv.de
  4. ↑ About us - Dolgen am See holiday village . In: feriendorf-dolgen.de
  5. ^ Website of the Dolgen Holiday Village
  6. ↑ Hartwig von Plessen: The Dolgen estate . In: Mecklenburg landlords in the 20th century . 2000, pp. 527-531
  7. ↑ Ulrike Palme: Leopold von Plessen . In: Ilona Buchsteiner (Hrsg.): Mecklenburgers in German history of the 19th and 20th centuries . Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2001, pp. 79-80.
  8. ↑ Manor under the oaks . Catalog of the exhibition in the Rundale Palace Museum and the Herder Institute in Marburg, 1998
  9. ↑ Ungurmuiža (Orellen) at tournet.lv
  10. ↑ Welcome to Dolgen . Welcome table for the municipality of Dolgen am See
  11. ^ Gustav Hempel : Geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the Mecklenburg country . Edmund Frege publisher, Güstrow 1837, p. 270, 5th para.
  12. ↑ Historical photography of the estate ensemble around 1900
  13. ↑ Historical photograph of the stables and the building ensemble around 1943
  14. ↑ The resting place of the Plessen .
  15. ^ M. Naumann: House Dolgen . In: Helmold von Plessen (Hrsg.): The Plessen - family line on the XIII. to XX. Century . 2nd revised and expanded edition. CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1971, pp. 160–162

Coordinates: 53 ° 57 ′ 11.3 "  N , 12 ° 15 ′ 35.3"  E