Lehsen mansion

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Lehsen mansion (January 2013)

The manor house Lehsen is located four kilometers southwest of Wittenburg in the Lehsen district in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . A cold water spring, the lodging houses, the four-hectare park with its foreign trees and shrubs, the former orangery and tree nursery all belonged to the elegant manor house.

Mansion

With a width of nine axes , the white-painted, two-storey plastered building with a basement is not one of the largest structures in the country. The three central axes of the manor house are designed as a portico with four colossal columns of the Tuscan order and a relatively flat gable triangle. The dial with the clock was added after 1880. The main entrance with the four-step staircase is set back a little behind the columns. The vestibule, on the other hand, has a very sophisticated facade design. The basement with the polished granite blocks and the strong ashlar plaster on the corners of the house give the facade a certain dignity. The flat hipped roof forms the upper end . The two side pavilion-like additions are ingredients after 1880.

As in Schönfeld , the architect of the mansion was the craftsman and builder Joseph Christian Lillie from Copenhagen . As Lübeck's city ​​architect, he built it in 1822 for the family of Chamberlain Ernst August von Laffert in Lehsen, Garlitz, Wittorf and Dannenbüttel. He was married to Friedrike Johanna Caroline Kirsch, the daughter of the Wittenburg master watchmaker. According to another source, the mansion is said to have been designed by the master builder Axel Bundsen from Copenhagen .

The year of construction can be found in Roman numerals MDCCCXXII (1822) together with the motto Musis et Amicis (make music and love) above the entrance door. For a time, Ernst August von Laffert showed himself to be a generous host and patron of the arts beyond his job as a farmer.

The manor house is at the end of a wide farm yard and was originally separated from the village by a fence. Deer sculptures used to stand on the two gate pillars of the courtyard entrance. These were cast zinc copies of the deer sculptures from the Tiergarten portal in Neustrelitz , which Christian Daniel Rauch had created. The Lehsener deer were melted down during the last war.

Laffert mausoleum

Particularly noteworthy is the neo-Gothic burial chapel built in 1868 for the von Laffert family. With its location on an early German tower hill surrounded by a moat, it represents a unique historicist grave monument . The von Laffert family chose an octagonal central building to symbolize the eternity of time. There are also striking similarities to the neo-Gothic choir of the Schwerin Castle Church, built between 1851 and 1855 based on a design by Cologne cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner .

In 1899 the von Laffert family sold the estate with the manor house for 735,000 marks to the businessman Wilhelm Jäger from Düsseldorf. Several changes of ownership followed until in 1928 Otto Sprenger from Vaduz leased it to the Gesellschaft für Landesverwaltung Deutsche Scholle . The settlement society took over the entire estate in 1937.

After the Second World War, the manor house was used as accommodation for refugees and resettlers and then as a district children's home. From 1970 it was the seat of the municipal administration, the agricultural production cooperative (LPG) and the cooperative plant production department (KAP) Wittenburg-Camin. A comprehensive exterior and interior restoration was carried out from 1977, during which stucco ceilings and inlaid floors were restored and the shutters that were added later were removed. The monument-compliant care was carried out by the former Institute for Monument Preservation of the GDR.

Due to lack of use, the building was empty until 1999 after the fall of the Wall , was extensively renovated and will be inhabited again from 2004.

Park, orangery, nursery

At the beginning of the 19th century, the landscape park and a well-known tree nursery were created with the inclusion of older baroque gardens . This Laffert tree nursery or Laffert plantation included an orangery , two greenhouses and glass buildings that served as a winter garden for the potted plants. The greenhouse in the kitchen garden, which was characterized by two glass wings and a central three-axis pavilion, must have been built around the same time as the manor house. According to existing catalogs, twelve different types of citrus are said to have been sold by 1812. In 1836 W. Benque created the directory of duplicates in the Lehsen plantation, which lists cacti in addition to orangery plants . The orangery was demolished in 1950 because it was in disrepair.

At that time, not only a large number of fruit trees were grown here, but also a large number of foreign tree and shrub species, which were used exclusively to furnish orangeries and to design the palace and estate park. In the summer of 1812, the range included: four different types of horse chestnut , the god's tree, the strawberry tree, nine types of birch, various types of oranges, bladder shrub types, ten types of ash , the ginkgo tree , the Gleditsche, the Lebanon cedar and the compass pine as well as 28 types of oak , plus numerous other tree and Shrub species. Several of these tree species are still present today in the dendrologically rich park of Dammereez , which in the 19th century also belonged to the von Laffert estate along with the estate. The large figure on the roof, a Mercury, indicates the function of the terrain as a commercial nursery.

The park adjoining the manor house directly to the south is relatively small with four hectares and, in addition to lawns with some baroque sculptures, also contains a pond that was desludged in 1977. This park, with its oaks of almost nine meters in circumference, was joined by the ten-hectare deer park , which is now used as a forest.

By means of the cold water source in the park, Ernst August von Laffert was able to offer water cures in his water sanatorium in 1847 . For this purpose, six lodging houses were built along with a coach house and stables. In addition to a dining room, the new restaurant building also had a billiard room, a reading room and a toilet room. Nearby was the gym with a bowling alley, a wave pool and the ice cellar.

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Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • LHAS 5.12-3 / 1 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry of the Interior
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 3 Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, Dept. Settlement Office
    • LHAS 5.12-9 / 2 District Office Hagenow
    • LHAS 9.1-1 Reich Chamber Court case files 1495–1806
    • LHAS 12.12-1 District of Hagenow Lehsen
  • State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation
    • Department of Archeology and Monument Preservation, photo collection

literature

  • Josef Adamiak: Palaces and Gardens in Mecklenburg. Leipzig 1977, fig. 154, p. 266.
  • Dieter Pocher: Castles and mansions in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-928119-90-7 , pp. 64-65.
  • F. Stein: Description of the Lehsen hydrotherapy facility near Wittenburg in Mecklenburg, along with the house rules of this facility . Lehsen 1848
  • Horst Prignitz: Hydropathic institutions in Mecklenburg . Mecklenburg-Magazin, regional edition of the SVZ, 1995, No. 19, p. 7.
  • Ilsabe von Bülow: Joseph Christian Lillie (1760-1827) . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 138–149 ISBN 9783422066106

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Von Pentz: Pedigree of Lieutenant Colonel Carl August von Laffert on Garlitz from the Lehsen house, 1934
  2. ^ Neidhardt Krauß: Gutshaus Lehsen, a gem of classicism . Mecklenburg-Magazin, regional edition of the SVZ 1992, No. 8, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Manfred F. Fischer : You don't tear the house down ... In: Monument protection and preservation of monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Volume 4, Schwerin 1997, pp. 17-26.
  4. ↑ Anja Kretschmer: Houses of Eternity. Mausoleums and burial chapels from the 19th century. Hamburg 2012 ISBN 3-934632-47-5 , pp. 41–42.
  5. ↑ Katja Pawlak, Marcus Köhler: Catalog of existing and not preserved orangeries, glass houses and winter gardens in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In: Orangeries and historic glasshouses in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2009 p. 254.
  6. ^ Georg Kiehne: Orangeries in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In: Monument protection and preservation of monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, No. 4, Schwerin 1997, pp. 37–42.

Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 11.6 "  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 24.6"  E