Friedrichsthal Hunting Lodge (Schwerin)
The Friedrichsthal hunting lodge is a former hunting residence of the Mecklenburg Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I in Friedrichsthal , a district that is today Schwerin . The hunting lodge as well as the cavalier houses that were formerly part of the palace complex are under monument protection .
location
The castle is located on the north-western outskirts of Schwerin, directly on the federal highway 104 leading to Gadebusch , about 400 meters north of Lake Neumühl . The ditch De Kanal , which runs behind the hunting lodge, flows into this . Mixed forests adjoin the area in the south and south-west. The northern and eastern surroundings are characterized by housing estates.
Building
The Friedrichsthaler Jagdschloss is a two-story half - timbered building , the origin of which goes back to 1790. The main house is covered with a half-hip roof from which the mid- section rises up with a gable roof running across the ridge of the main roof. There are also two gable dormers on the north side facing the street . The entrance porch of the house was added later and emphasized with an arbor . The two single-storey, semicircular protruding wing structures, erected in 1798, are also made of half-timbering and equipped with plank truss roofs and bat dormers . These outbuildings were later structurally connected to the central building.
Opposite the castle, on the other side of the street, there are two former, single-storey half-timbered cavalier houses, which were structurally heavily modified in 1995/96.
history
Around 1790, the then government councilor August Georg von Brandenstein bought land west of the Hellkrug inn , which had existed since 1722 , for which he signed a lease for 24 years in 1790, and had a summer house built there. After several changes of ownership, Friedrich Franz I acquired this building with land for 4,000 thalers in 1797. He had it converted into a hunting lodge in view of the wild environment. The palace complex was expanded in 1798 to include two semicircular side wings, which served as a carriage house and horse stable, and later to include the two cavalier houses for hunters and packs as well as stables. In 1805 the main building was increased by one floor according to plans by Johann Chornelius Barca, the father of Johann Georg Barca . However, the hunting lodge was rarely used by the Grand Duke and was therefore made available to associations and citizens. A court hunt is said to have taken place for the last time in 1822. Efforts in the following years to sell the castle fizzled out.
In 1914 soldiers in need of recreation were accommodated here, from the First World War the west wing served as a home for war orphans, in 1936 the castle was given to the Kyffhäuserbund as a "warrior home". From 1945 the hunting lodge functioned as a tuberculosis sanatorium and finally as a retirement home until after the fall of the Wall . The building, which had been vacant since 1993 and now in need of renovation, was sold at the end of 2010 to a Berlin investor who, among other things, was planning a café there.
In 2017, it was sold to a group of investors from Lower Saxony, who are renovating, converting and converting the castle into a listed building. After the renovation, the cavalier houses are also to be sold as residential property. The completion is planned for 2020 (as of September 2018). According to investors, the palace garden is to be designed in the style of an English landscape garden and will not be open to the public in the future.
The southern part of the landscape park reaching as far as the Neumühler See was cleared in 1945 in order to pay reparations to the Soviet Union and, from 1948, relocated as part of the land reform ; later this area was built on with residential and weekend houses. The restoration of the rest of the park area to upgrade the residential area has been discussed since 2008.
Others
The interior decoration included the scene wallpaper “La chasse à Compiègne” (The Hunt of Compiègne ), which was printed in Paris in 1814 based on a design by Antoine Charles Horace Vernet and acquired by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I in Hamburg. It depicts scenes from a courtly deer hunt. It is assumed that this hunting wallpaper is the only surviving copy of this print. The wallpaper was outsourced and has been on display since 1964 with a brief interruption in the Friedrichsmoor hunting lodge in the district of the same name in the town of Neustadt-Glewe .
A memorial stone for Karl Axel von Monroy (born March 17, 1880) has been preserved in the castle park . He was a ministerial assessor and, after being drafted as a reserve officer in World War I, died on February 6, 1915 in a field hospital in Noyon in northern France. His grave is in Nampcel . The memorial stone in Friedrichsthal was erected one year after death.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Monument List (as of 1997) on landtag-mv.de, p. 384 (PDF; 956 kB)
- ↑ a b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Deutscher Kunstverlag, revision, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6
- ↑ Jagdschloss Friedrichsthal on burgen-und-schloesser.net
- ↑ Udo Brinker: Chronology in numbers. The hunting lodge in Friedrichsthal is being built , Schweriner Volkszeitung, September 18, 2010
- ↑ Minutes of the Friedrichsthal Local Advisory Board from October 12, 2010 and January 11, 2011
- ↑ Thomas Franck: Now become part of the story. Investors bring out the splendor of the hunting lodge in Friedrichsthal again . PDF. In: In-house mail No. 244, June 2018, maxpress, Schwerin, p. 29, accessed on December 10, 2019.
- ^ Stefan Rochow: Living in the hunting lodge. Investors are making headway in Friedrichsthal . Schwerin Lokal website, accessed on December 10, 2019.
- ^ Statement by the Friedrichsthal local advisory board on resolution 00014/2009 of the Schwerin city council
- ↑ Template 01913/2008 of the Schwerin city council with a cadastral map excerpt from 1855 (north below) as an attachment
- ↑ s. for example the minutes of the Friedrichsthaler local advisory board of October 12, November 10 and December 14, 2010
- ^ Website of the Friedrichsmoor hunting lodge
- ^ Christian Koepke: Fate of a Schwerin Family , Schweriner People's Newspaper, Schwerin Local Section, June 19, 2010
Web links
- Literature about Jagdschloss Friedrichsthal in the state bibliography MV
- Brief exposé published by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Ministry of Economics
Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 8.5 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 38.5 ″ E