Hohen Luckow mansion
The Hohen Luckow mansion is a mansion in the village of Hohen Luckow in the Bölkow district in the municipality of Satow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In addition to the manor house, the entire complex consists of farm buildings, the landscape park and the surrounding lands.
history
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The Hohen Luckow estate was owned by the von Bassewitz family from the late Middle Ages until 1810 . The present mansion was built in 1707 by Christoph von Bassewitz . The Great Hall is decorated with the colored coats of arms of his 32 great, great, great-grandparents. After his death, his third cousin Detlof Hans von Bassewitz inherited Hohen Luckow and took over the payment of the debts on the estate as well as the payment to the relatives. Previously he had already learned from his first cousin Adolf Friedrich von Bassewitz a . a. inherited the Bibow , Jarchow , Holldorf and Neuhof estates .
From 1810 the estate changed hands several times until it passed into the possession of the von Brocken family from 1840 . Famous (by marriage) member of this family was Carl-Friedrich von Langen . This was with Christa, geb. von Brocken (* 1892) and won Olympic gold in dressage in 1928 . The estate was a feudal estate until 1918 and belonged to the knighthood in the district of the knighthood office Bukow near Bad Doberan in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In 1888 the associated agricultural area was 1,072 hectares, and there were 4 leasehold farms and a mill on the estate. This made the estate one of the largest farms in the country.
In 1945 the property was expropriated and nationalized with the conversion to a state- owned property . The manor was the administration building of the estate. During this time, the estate managed 2,400 hectares of usable area with 265 employees, plus large numbers of cows, beef cattle, pigs, sheep and horses. After the fall of the Wall , the property was returned to private ownership in 1994. The soil around the manor house is very fertile and is used for agriculture. Gutsigen are about 800 hectares of arable land, whereby a much larger area is cultivated by leasing. The focus of agriculture is on milk production and agriculture.
The house was already a listed building during the GDR era and was extensively restored with state funds. This work was continued after the fall of the Wall. The manor house is known for its knight's hall and is used for events, including the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival . Some rooms in the manor house can be rented.
In 1994 the entrepreneur Adolf Merckle acquired the estate and had it extensively restored.
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Adolf Merckle, together with his wife Ruth and their niece Karin Holland, took over the church patronage of the Hohen Luckow Church and restored the church. After the late Gothic brick building had been drained and renovated , the baroque pulpit altar from 1712 and the baptismal angel from that time were restored between 1997 and 1998.
Together with her husband Joachim Walther, Karin Holland has leased the estate from her relatives, the Merckle family, since 1994 and has been running the farm ever since.
On June 6, 2007, on the occasion of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm (see also Group of Eight ), an informal dinner took place in the Rittersaal. The heads of state and government of Germany Angela Merkel , France Nicolas Sarkozy , Italy Romano Prodi , Japan Shinzō Abe , Canada Stephen Harper , Russia Vladimir Putin , the United States George W. Bush and the United Kingdom Tony Blair , as well as the President of the were present European Commission José Manuel Barroso .
Mansion and park
The two-story, ocher-colored mansion is built in the Baroque style, the two corner towers were added in the 19th century. The heart of the house is the knight's hall on the second floor. The ceiling is decorated with lush stucco . The stucco was installed by Clerici based on designs by Karl Maria Pozzi . A large, gilded fireplace dominates one side of the hall. Wall paneling with the family coat of arms of the ancestors of the builders is attached to the walls. Allegorical representations in stucco medallions adorn the walls. Deciphering these images was a popular parlor game at the time it was created.
The park is very spacious and was originally laid out in the baroque style, but was later converted into an English landscape park.
literature
- Dietmar Peil (author), Ruth Merckle (foreword, adaptation), Karin Holland (adaptation), Cynthia Schmidt (illustrator): Gut Hohen Luckow - The emblems in the knight's hall , Hohen Luckow Castle Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3000144730
Individual evidence
- ↑ Traugott Mueller : Handbook of real estate in the German Empire - The Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rostock 1888, p. 48 f.
- ↑ A little church is green where, who knows, in the country in: FAZ of July 21, 2011, page 32
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 59 ′ 1 " N , 11 ° 57 ′ 43" E