Schönfeld mansion

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Schönfeld Manor (2007)

The manor house Schönfeld in the Mühlen Eichsener district Schönfeld in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is a mansion from the early 19th century built in the classical style.

history

Joseph Christian Lillie , the architect of the Schönfeld manor

The owner of the Schönfeld estate, District Administrator Johann Jacob von Leers (1782–1855) had the Feldmark , the manor in the Schönfeld district, completely rebuilt in the classicist style. The Gadebusch master carpenter J. Fr. Reiher was probably responsible for the construction of the estate. Before 1820, Leers commissioned the Danish architect Joseph Christian Lillie , who lived in Lübeck , to design the new mansion ; it was built from 1822 after the farmyard was completed. The original estate at Wendelstorfer See was demolished after the new farm was completed.

A straight, wide and about two kilometers long avenue of lime trees from the direction of Mühlen Eichsen leads to the manor and continues behind the manor house into the forest. The manor with farm buildings, farm workers' houses, two round barns and a forge was built on both sides of this avenue . The round barns with their wood-saving plank truss roofs , which were modern at the time, were set back by herons, so that the unobstructed view of the transverse mansion was preserved. The mansion was built according to Lillie's plans from 1822.

Another five generations of the von Leers family were subsequently the lords and owners of the manor house in Schönfeld. After two further brief changes of ownership between 1930 and 1945, the property was expropriated as part of the land reform in Germany and relocated by new settlers . After 1945, the mansion initially served as a refugee camp under Soviet occupation ; later it was used as a school, kindergarten and company holiday home. A round barn and the courtyard buildings of the manor ensemble originally belonging to the manor house were completely destroyed in a major fire in 1947. The second round barn was burned in 1983.

Ownership

The ownership of the Schönfeld estate and its mansion, which was newly built in the early 19th century, are as follows:

Successful ownership of the Schönfeld estate

Landlord Count Christian August von Berkentin
Squire Friedrich von Eyben
  • The first feudal bearers were presumably the Lords of Schönfeld
  • 1512–1547 Kaspar von Schöneich († 1547)
  • 1547–1603 Balthasar von Schöneich († 1603)
  • 1604–1622 Johann von Restorff (before 1559–1630)
  • 1622–1654 Cord von Restorff (before 1622–1654)
  • 1654–1676 Julius von Restorff (before 1654 – around 1676)
  • 1676–1701 Cord von Restorff (around 1674–1701)
  • 1701–1708 August Christian von Restorff (around 1660 – around 1718) and four brothers
  • 1708–1732 Salvard von Falckenberg († 1724) and heirs
  • 1732–1740 Kord von Plessen (1665–1740)
  • 1740 – before 1746 Christian Friedrich von Plessen (1693–1761)
  • until 1746 Friedrich von Eyben (1699–1787), Christian August von Eyben (1700–1785)
  • 1746 – after 1750 Count Christian August von Berkentin (1694–1758)
  • after 1750–1755 Hans Dietrich von Berkentin
  • 1755–1771 Diedrich von Bartels and Erben
  • 1771–1788 Johann Hinrich Boeckmann
  • 1788–1793 Hans Berend Boeckmann
  • 1793–18 ** Franz Julius von Könemann (1742–1813)

Successful ownership of the estate and the new mansion

  • 1820–1855 Johann Jakob von Leers (1782–1855), from 1837 to 1845 provisional in the Dobbertin monastery
  • 1855–1859 Karl von Leers (1807–1859)
  • 1860–1879 Gustav von Leers (1812–1879)
  • 1880–1898 Wilhelm von Leers (1844–1898)
  • 1898–1899 Werner von Leers (1870–1899)
  • 1899–1921 Reinhard von Leers (1872–1921)
  • 1921–1930 Johann-Peter von Leers (1914–1978)
  • 1930–1933 Georg Meyer
  • 1933–1945 Bernhard von Plessen (1908–2003)
  • 1945–1946 state organs of the Soviet occupation zone
  • 1946–1990 public property
  • 1991–2006 Christian von Plessen
  • since 2006 Magnus von Plessen and Felix von Knyphausen

Todays use

The son of the Damshagen and Schönfeld landowner Bernhard von Plessen, Christian von Plessen, acquired the Schönfeld manor from the Treuhandanstalt in a bidding process in 1991 . The listed building was then completely renovated in keeping with the style and is now used as a residential building by the von Plessen owner family. Parts of the manor house, with 900 square meters of living space, were converted into three rental apartments.

Trivia

The four pillars of the house traditionally represent the four cardinal virtues , which were manifested by the German philosopher Johann Friedrich Herbart as follows:

literature

  • Ilsabe von Bülow: Joseph Christian Lillie (1760-1827). The life of an architect in Northern Germany . Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2007, pp. 129–138
  • Sabine Bock : The checkered history of ownership of the Schönfeld estate in northwest Mecklenburg. In: Leather is bread. Contributions to the North German regional and archive history, Festschrift for Andreas Röpcke . Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940207-69-2 , pp. 167-179.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilsabe von Bülow: Joseph Christian Lillie (1760-1827). The life of an architect in Northern Germany . Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2007, pp. 129–138
  2. ^ Sabine Bock: The checkered history of ownership of the Schönfeld estate in northwest Mecklenburg . in: Leather is bread. Contributions to North German regional and archive history, Festschrift for Andreas Röpcke, Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2011, pp. 167–179
  3. ↑ Cf. Edgar S. Hasse: 750,000 occupied houses in welt.de of March 30, 2000
  4. ↑ See Gut Schönfeld - von Plessen family in v-plessen.de
  5. ↑ Cardinal Virtues . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 507.

Coordinates: 53 ° 43 ′ 23.3 "  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 25.9"  E