Rustow mansion
The manor house Rustow is a manor house in the Rustow district of the town of Loitz in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district .
history
Around 1724 Adolf Samuel von Baerenfels bought the estate. He carried the coat of arms, which can still be seen today above the entrance of the house and the church. In 1784 the chapel belonging to the manor house was completely dilapidated, so that Mr. von Baerenfels had a new chapel built in 1790, with a family crypt in the cellar.
At the end of the 1870s, a major fire damaged the manor house considerably, so that Herr von Baerenfels had a new castle built, which was completed in 1880. The architectural equipment was realized by the academic drawing teacher Johann Gottfried Quistorp from Greifswald . During the Wars of Freedom , the Swedish Crown Prince Karl Johann and his staff were quartered in the castle.
The first tenant, Herr von Haken, lived in the manor house .
In 1854 the Grönlund von Rügen family leased the estate, then the Schmidt family bought it in 1856 and owned the estate for 73 years. During this time, a theater stage was installed, on which theater performances were held until the 1930s. In 1928 the Schmidt family signed a purchase agreement with the town of Loitz for the estate, but kept the castle, the park, the cemetery and the chapel. In 1929 the estate was relocated.
In 1938 half of the palace was rented to the Reich Labor Service . Organization Todt (OT) was housed in the castle until mid-April 1945 .
On April 28, 1945 the Red Army came to Rustow via the Peene . From the other side of the Peene, they fired tank shells at the castle from the direction of Pensin. The winter garden on the south side and the adjoining room were damaged. The Todt organization had fled beforehand. In the last days of the war, clothing, linen and some furniture from the Reich Labor Service Camp were distributed to the refugees.
After the end of the war, the looting began by forced laborers who worked for the peasants and by Soviet soldiers. All dishes were smashed, the remaining furniture was thrown from the balcony, the hall was littered with broken glass.
In mid-June 1945 the house was occupied with refugees. Orphans moved into the house on December 1, 1945. At Christmas 1945 there were 78 children there. Until 1998 this house was a children's home. In 1983 the house was named " August Levin ". After the reunification, the manor was taken over by the district and the children's home was operated by the social services provider. At the end of 1998 the manor house was pulled empty and was for sale until the Beck group of companies acquired it in 2000.
In the years 2001 to 2003 the manor house "Schloss Rustow" was subjected to a comprehensive renovation, with apartments and offices being furnished. A new multi-family house (“small manor house”) and another commercial building were also built on the 50,000 m² park area.
building
The manor house is a two-storey plastered building over a high basement with a rectangular floor plan. The gable roof is hipped. Quarter columns are set in the corners of the building. There are triangular gables above the central risers on the courtyard and park side, and the coat of arms of the von Baerenfels-Warnow family held by lions in the gable on the courtyard side. There is a large lunette window under each of the triangular gables .
The original mansion had a hall and six rooms. A taped door led to the hall via a spiral staircase.
After the renovation there are five apartments and two representative office units in the building.
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 103.
Web links
- The history of the Rustow manor. Retrieved July 11, 2013 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '18.4 " N , 13 ° 5' 3.2" E