Hubertusstock hunting lodge
| Hubertusstock hunting lodge | ||
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 The hunting lodge in 2008 |
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| place | Joachimsthal | |
| Client | Friedrich Wilhelm IV. | |
| Construction year | 1847-1849 | |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 55 '13.4 " N , 13 ° 39' 57.2" E | |
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The Hubertusstock hunting lodge (actually just Hubertusstock House) was the official hunting residence of the German head of state during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic . Because of its representative tasks, the term “ Jagdschloß Hubertusstock” became established . In the GDR at the time of Erich Honecker , it had a comparable function (see Hunting in the GDR ).
History before 1945
The hunting lodge, which is located on the Werbellinsee on the edge of the Schorfheide , a landscape in the state of Brandenburg , was built from 1847 to 1849 on behalf of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In the Bavarian or Swiss country house style in honor of his wife, a daughter of the king Maximilian I of Bavaria . The simple building served as accommodation for the court hunting parties. During the absence of the residents, the estate was managed by court officials, servants and craftsmen. Interested visitors were able to view the building for an entrance fee of 25 pfennigs.
From the year 1869 representative stately hunts were held and high-ranking guests were invited.
In 1898 the hunting lodge received a connection to the railroad by imperial order: the imperial train station Joachimsthal was built about 10 km away .
Together with the farm building and the surrounding forests, the hunting lodge belonged to the Prussian State Forests . Until the fall of the monarchy in the November Revolution in 1918, the hunting lodge was owned by the Prussian ruling family of the Hohenzollern . With the revolution, Hubertusstock became national property for a short time. After that, the hunting lodge fell to the crown property management of the former ruling royal family. In 1926 Hubertusstock was transferred to the State of Prussia . During the Weimar Republic , the Reich Presidents Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg used the building as quarters during their hunting trips to the Schorfheide. The hunted animals mainly included roe deer and red deer . After Hindenburg's death, Adolf Hitler made the hunting lodge available to the head of the Reich Chancellery , Hans Heinrich Lammers , as a weekend house and finally donated it to him in 1944.
History 1945 to 1990
After the Second World War , when the GDR was founded , the hunting lodge became public property and was used by the State of Brandenburg as the prime minister's country residence. At that time, the maintenance and care was carried out by the responsible chief forester at the Grimnitz forestry department . After the dissolution of the states in the GDR, the Ministry of the Interior took over the building complex in 1952 and used it as a rest home for higher ranks until 1971.
The reconstruction on the old foundation walls, completed in 1973, served as the government guest house until the end of the GDR. The old separate farm building was also demolished. In its place, four two-storey guest bungalows with flat roofs and a multi-purpose building with swimming pool, sauna, sports rooms and shooting range were built along a 400-meter-long ring road .
Outside the guest area and practically invisible to the guests due to green spaces, a new economic area was created consisting of several buildings: kitchen, garage courtyard / message center, heating / emergency power generator, accommodation building with separate areas for regular, security and MfS staff.
In the 1980s, the area was managed in normal operation under the command of a Lieutenant Colonel of the NVA by approx. 10 civilian employees of the NVA (kitchen and room maintenance workers ), six commanded NCOs from the main intelligence center of the Ministry of National Defense (telecommunications security, also for the Schorfheide military forestry company ), an ensign , a sergeant and five soldiers (drivers and technology, especially heating). In addition, under the command of a subaltern officer, about 30 NCOs and soldiers from the NVA guard regiment "Hugo Eberlein" changed every two to four weeks to guard the entire site, including the two boathouses on the Werbellinsee.
At protocol events and assignments - graded according to the need for protection of the guests - the functions of the regular and security personnel were more or less completely taken over by members of the Ministry for State Security.
In the following years numerous meetings with foreign politicians took place in Hubertusstock. Among other things, Erich Honecker , Chairman of the State Council of the GDR , and the then Federal German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt met here in December 1981 .
History from 1990
After the reunification of Germany in 1990, Hubertusstock was no longer used by the state and was for sale for a few years. After the house was privatized, there were several changes of ownership. Thus, in 1997, today's ring hotel / conference center of the economy was built on the site in a new building under the name "Communication Center of the Educational Institute for Business in Berlin and Brandenburg e. V. ", abbreviated to" bbw ". In addition, used for some years a Berlin hotel chain that wanted to operate on the site in another new building a large hotel, but leaving behind only an unfinished Invest ruin the house as garni . Since January 1st, 2015 the house, the 4 bungalows belonging to it and the swimming pool, which has been vacant for a long time, belong to the neighboring Ringhotel Schorfheide / conference center for business in Berlin and Brandenburg . The conference center, which has also been located on the Hubertusstock area since the mid-1990s, also operates the castle and the forest villas as a hotel . The bungalows have already been renovated and modernly equipped, they now offer 18 guest rooms. Further guest rooms are being built on the upper floor of the hunting lodge. The unfinished investment ruin, which had stood across from the Ringhotel / conference center for the economy for over 15 years, was torn down in 2015. Visitor parking spaces were created there. It is possible to get married in the Hubertusstock Castle.
Architecture of the house and the surrounding area
The building was built on two floors with a carved gallery all around and a gable roof . The base is formed from two rectangles arranged perpendicular to one another. Numerous deer antlers served as facade decorations . The ground floor accommodated guest rooms and the dining room with fireplace (see picture). In the main floor there are four rooms, a small kitchen and were squat toilet but no bathroom. Neither the condition of the house nor its furnishings were still up-to-date after over 100 years of use. The GDR government decided in 1971 to demolish it and then rebuild it until 1973 based on the original style of the building and on the historical foundation walls. The courtly ornament was not used again.
A " wayside shrine " for St. Hubertus , which is no longer there, reminded of the castle's name . A bronze statue of a roaring stag by the Diesdorf animal sculptor Richard Rusche and the "Siegfriedsbrunnen" were among the jewelry in the area. To the southwest of the access road lies a granite block , the inscription of which was arranged by Kaiser Wilhelm II on the occasion of the centenary in 1900: “Weidmannsdank der Jägerei”. Another boulder in the area was dedicated to the Schorfheider forester Balduin von Hövel; the place is now called Hövelseck.
There is also another granite block at the place where the emperor used to have his hunting breakfast: the "Königslinden", planted as early as 1820. The Eberswalde Forestry Office has created a Hubertusstock circular hiking trail with a length of approx. 4.5 km that touches the natural stones mentioned above.
literature
- Anna Plothow : Hubertusstock . In: Märkische sketches . Berlin: Schall & Rentel n.d., pp. 141–149
- Hans-Otto Meissner : Young years in the Reich President's Palace. Memories of Ebert and Hindenburg 1919-1934. Bechtle, Esslingen, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7628-0469-9 , p. 123 ff
- Klaus Bossig: GDR tour while traveling ; EK-Verlag GmbH Freiburg Sept. 2010, ISBN 978-388255-734-3
- Joachim Bandau: memorial stones and forest sites in the Schorfheide, stone witnesses to history; a documentation. J. Bandau, Joachimstal 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-029428-0 .
Web links
- www.hubertusstock.de
- Lotte Jäger und das tote Mädchen - ZDF television film from 2016 with the main location Hubertusstock Castle towards the end of the GDR
- The object news center 2 Hubertusstock
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meike Haselmann: The hunt in the GDR: between feudalism and socialism , 2005. Quoted from a summary at the Federal Foundation for the coming to terms with the SED dictatorship .
- ↑ a b c Straubes Märkisches Wanderbuch. Travel guide through the Mark Brandenburg, edited by Otto Grosch; Part II; Geographical Institute and map publisher Jul. Straube, Berlin, 1920; Pages 31-39.
- ↑ Private homepage Main news center of the Ministry for National Defense of the GDR .
- ↑ Claus-Dieter Steyer: Hubertusstock hunting lodge: two houses, one name - one bankruptcy. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 29, 2001. Retrieved January 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Hubertusstock area ( memento of the original from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: ringhotel-schorfheide.de . Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ↑ Ellen Werner: Stop in front of the excursion destination In: Märkische Oderzeitung . May 22, 2015, accessed January 10, 2017.
- ↑ Getting married in Hubertusstock Castle In: burgen-und-schloesser.net . Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ↑ Jagdschloss Hubertusstock Schorfheide In: joachimsthal-schorfheide.info . Retrieved January 10, 2017.
- ↑ Manfred Feder: Hiking in the Schorfheide. Tours through an unusual landscape ; Trescher Verlag, 2005; ISBN 3-89794-083-3 , p. 32 ( preview in Google book search).
