Manor house Karow (Plau am See)

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Manor house called Karow Castle
Southwest view

The manor house Karow (also manor house or castle ) is a manor complex ( Rittergut Karow ) with two structurally connected mansions in Karow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania directly on the federal road 192 between Goldberg and Malchow . The adjoining estate park and several outbuildings also belong to the complex .

history

Karow (Kara) was first mentioned in Plau on April 23, 1254 . Around 1295 a knight Huno von Karow is said to have been sitting on the estate in Karow. It is not known how long they were in Gutsdorf. It was only around 1375 that we heard of the rights of the von Hahn zu Damerow , large and small Poserin an Karow families , who owned the estate and village of Güldene Carow until 1605.

Along with Peckatel near Neustrelitz, Karow is probably the only village in Mecklenburg in which manor houses from two successive eras stand side by side.

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The so-called Old Castle is a broad, classical plastered building with thirteen axes and two storeys with a flat hipped roof . It was rebuilt after 1789 under the royal Prussian chamberlain Otto Conrad von Hahn , who was only ennobled in 1788 , because the previous building from the period 1670–1700 was dilapidated. According to plans of the Knightly Fire Insurance from 1789 and 1801, the then owners Franz Ludwig von Reden and his brother-in-law Ernst von Lenthe had the new manor house built around 1800. On the south side (park side) there is a prominent three-axis central projection . The arched windows of the central risalite are framed by four colossal pilasters that seem to support the flat gable triangle. In the gable triangle is the coat of arms of those of Cleve. On the side of the old castle facing the village there is no central projection designed in this way.

In 1898, the Berlin merchant Johannes Schlutius (1861-1910), who already owned the Alt Schwerin estate, acquired the Karow estate with a size of 3,132 hectares. He also owned Hahnenhorst, Grüner Jäger , Jürgenstorf, Werder Island in the Plauer See and Leisten . Until shortly before the First World War, he had a new, spacious manor built away from the palace buildings, which is now owned by the Schlutius family and operated as an important cattle breeding facility.

In addition to the old castle, Schlutius had an annex built in the neo-baroque style, the so-called New Castle , from 1906 to 1907 . The Berlin architect and court architect of Emperor Wilhelm II , Ernst Eberhard von Ihne , provided the designs . Although the new castle is only seven axes wide, it is an impressive, massive structure. The two floors are significantly higher than those in the old castle. Above the basement there are two rather high floors with a high mansard roof covered with slate . The north and south sides have three-axis central projections with balconies and curved Art Nouveau gables. The coat of arms of Schlutius is located above the main portal in the uniaxial risalit on the west side. The entrance to the new castle is on the west side facing the estate. The windows in both the old and the new castle are divided into many small glass surfaces by numerous bars.

Glass also played a certain role as an economic factor in the history of the Karow estate. Between 1735 and 1800, and from 1852 to 1861 were in Karow glassworks been in operation.

Ownership successes

  • 1605–1722 von Hahn family
  • 1722–1784 Matthias and Reimar von Linstow
  • 1784–1788 von Walsleben , Matthias Melchior von Behr
  • 1788–1792 Chamber Councilor Otto von Hahn
  • 1792–1812 Privy Councilor Franz Ludwig von Reden
  • 1812–1898 bailiff Ludwig Christian Cleve (1764–1816) including heirs, Ernst Wilhelm Carl von Cleve († 1864)
  • 1898–1945 Johannes Schlutius, Claire Schlutius b. Flehinghaus
  • 1999–2010 Family Hugo Heuer, Roswita Heuer
  • since 2010 Carina Heuer

Further use

During the Second World War , the Rostock high school students and the Reich Labor Service were housed in the buildings . Towards the end of the war it was used as a military hospital for the occupation troops and refugee accommodation. The Schlutius family used the Alt Schwerin manor house as their residence until 1945. In the course of the land reform in 1945, the property and all real estate of the Schlutius family were expropriated without compensation. After that, the mansion as a village community center, boarding school was the middle school and operating vocational school of the VEG used Karow with apprentice dormitory for the training of farmers. The company kitchen of the state-owned estate was housed in the basement .

From 1990 both houses were used and maintained in a variety of ways by the community. In addition to the mayor's office and the meeting rooms, there was also a retraining center, a youth recreation center, a resettled home and a private restaurant.

From 1998 until today (as of December 2014), the Heuer family, as the new owners, had both buildings extensively renovated and converted into a castle hotel. The old castle even got back the roof turret with its bell, which was demolished in the post-war period .

Haimo Schlutius was able to buy back the estate from the Treuhandanstalt in 1994 .

Furnishing

The interior of the former mansion was largely lost in 1945, the current furnishings of various stylistic epochs come from other objects.

park

The largest and oldest part of the park, which was laid out from 1845 to 1870 by the von Cleve family in the style of an English landscape garden , is located south of the two castles. The main axes of the park were then coordinated with the stand-alone classical palace and were later extended in the northern area. Around 1900, other exotic trees, such as plane trees and bald cypresses , were planted and the park area was fenced off. In the post-war period, the tea pavilion in the southern part of the park was demolished and a number of trees felled for firewood to obtain building material. Today the park with its species-rich tree population is community property and well developed for visitors. In addition to linden , chestnut and oak trees, there are also yew trees in the park and a few years ago numerous new rhododendron bushes were planted on the edge of the large lawn that extends in front of both castles .

In front of the new castle, part of the northern area of ​​the park has been converted into a riding arena. The greater part of the park extends south of the two castles.

mausoleum

About 1,100 m south-east of the manor house is the partially destroyed mausoleum of the Schlutius family, who owns the estate. This tomb, built between 1912 and 1916 based on designs by Wilhelm Wandschneider , was built based on the mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna. Although the sculptor Wandschneider belongs to the representatives of neoclassicism , it is one of the most important late Wilhelmine grave monuments in the style of symbolism .

The round building made of granite porphyry is characterized by four heavy square pillars and has a male and female stone figure at the side of the entrance ( the rebellion of the man and the devotion of the woman ) and above the portal a frieze of three Christian-symbolic reliefs each ( father , son , Holy Spirit , as well as faith , love , hope ). Inside, the walls were mostly clad with black marble, the dome was decorated with a mosaic starry sky with the central Christ monogram , and in the middle stood the tumba in the form of a sarcophagus. In 1919, a bronze figure Kneeling Mourners by the sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider was placed in front of the entrance .

Three members of the family were buried on the large oval forecourt, which was surrounded by a low wall.

  • Johannes Schlutius, born September 22, 1861 in Magdeburg; † March 1, 1910 in Karow
  • (Son) Hans Schlutius, born March 25, 1893 in Berlin, † (fallen) October 5, 1917 with Halluin
  • (Daughter-in-law) Erika Schlutius, b. von Rauch , born March 5, 1895 in Lüneburg; † March 29, 1939 in Karow (?)

In 1945 and afterwards the mausoleum was looted several times and the graves desecrated. There are only three unmarked burial mounds. The bronze statue of the Kneeling Mourners was saved from destruction and has stood in the castle park since 1945 and later by the church. After an input from art lovers, it found its place in 1988 on the original plinth in front of the new funeral chapel of the Karow churchyard. It has a larger number of bullet holes. Extensive building conservation measures have been carried out at the mausoleum since 2016.

  • Mausoleum of the Schlutius family

  • The mourner

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Karow Castle and Manor Park

Sources and literature

Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 3 Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, Dept. Settlement Office. No. 144 Knightly Estate Karow 1923–1937.
    • LHAS 5.12-7 / 1 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry for Education, Art, Spiritual and Medical Matters. No. 4458 Knightly School 1866–1919.

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. IV. Volume: The district court districts of Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz and Plau. Schwerin 1901. (New edition: Schwerin 1993, ISBN 3-910179-08-8 , pp. 599–603: Das Gut und Kirchdorf Karow)
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 266.
  • Christine Steinbach: 750 years of Karow 1254–2004, from the history of a Mecklenburg manor village. Karow 2004.
  • Dieter Pocher: Castles and mansions in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-928119-90-7 , pp. 170-171.
  • Christine Steinbach: 6.22 Karow In: The manor villages, manor complexes and parks in the nature park and its surroundings. From culture and science issue 5/2007, series of publications by the Friends of the Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide Nature Park, pp. 86–89.

Movie

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB II. (1864) No. 732.
  2. ↑ MUB III. (1865) No. 2309.
  3. ↑ Christine Steinbach: Karow. In: The manor villages, manor complexes and parks in the nature park and its surroundings. Karow 2007, p. 87.
  4. ^ Neidhardt Krauss: The old and the new castle of Karow. SVZ MM No. 8, April 16, 1993 p. 11.
  5. ↑ Gisela Masurowski, Dieter Mombour: Alt Schwerin. The glassworks in the district of goods, part I. In: Archaeological reports from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Supplement 11 Waren 2008 pp. 9–26.
  6. ^ Friedrich Schlie: Das Gut and Kirchdorf Karow. 1901 p. 600 Elevated to the nobility in 1845 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. ; Heinrich F. Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1: 1809-1899. Göttingen 2002, No. 334
  7. ↑ Christine Steinbach: Karow . In: The manor villages, manor complexes and parks in the nature park and its surroundings. Karow 2007, p. 88.
  8. ↑ Georg Dehio: Karow In: Handbook of German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2000, p. 266.
  9. ^ Video from the article in NDR's Nordmagazin from November 7, 2017

Web links

Commons : Herrenhaus Karow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 8.1 ″  N , 12 ° 15 ′ 31.3 ″  E