Kröchlendorff

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Castle Church
Kröchlendorff Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Kröchlendorff Castle 2018

Kröchlendorff is a settlement in the non-governmental municipality of Nordwestuckermark in Brandenburg (Germany). On January 1, 1968, the place was incorporated into Gollmitz. Since the municipal reform in 2001 it has been part of Gollmitz . Today the village has 36 inhabitants. Almost all of it is under monument protection .

history

In 1251 a Dominus Heynricus de Grechellestorp appears as a witness in Wittstock, the place then first mentioned in 1288 as Crichelnorp . Kröchlendorff was an entails commission of the von Arnim family since 1429 . In the 14./15. In the 19th century, the villages of the Uckermark, including Kröchlendorff, were badly damaged by robbery, murder and looting. The residents left the destroyed place and re-established it about a kilometer to the southwest. The old settlement fell into desolation, the east gable of the old church is preserved.

Oskar von Arnim , a royal Prussian district administrator, later a member of the Prussian mansion and the German Reichstag, married to Malwine von Bismarck, the sister of his childhood friend Otto von Bismarck , laid the foundation stone in 1844 for his new mansion on the Kröchlendorff estate, which he owned from 1846 was built by the Berlin architect Eduard Knoblauch in the English neo-Gothic style. It is surrounded by a park landscape that the landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné designed on his behalf. In the south-eastern part of the park, Arnim had the castle church built from 1864 to 1868 (according to other information, 1855 to 1867) according to plans by the royal building officer Ferdinand von Arnim , also in the neo-Gothic style. In 1885, Oskar von Arnim's daughter Sibylle married her cousin Count Wilhelm von Bismarck , son of the Chancellor and President of East Prussia, at Kröchlendorff Castle .

In the last years of the Second World War, part of the Japanese embassy was evacuated from Berlin to Kröchlendorff. On May 27, 1945, the Soviet Union expropriated the then owner Detlev von Arnim , a former member of the Reichstag and Protestant church leader. He and his family had already fled the Red Army in the winter of 1944/1945 ; after the end of the war, refugees and displaced persons initially lived in the castle. The church was looted, deedicated and from then on served as an adventure playground. The castle, which was also looted, was initially to be demolished, but was used as a children's spa from 1962 until 1989. After the end of the war, the castle park was divided into settlement plots and cleared for deforestation, which was later not realized.

Since 1993 the German Society for European Education, e. V., Outward Bound , and has been using it as an education and seminar center since 1996 after the restoration work and the construction of a new ward block. The church was renovated from 1993 and has been a communication and cultural center since 2002.

In memory of the man who built the manor house, the main street in Kröchlendorff was called "Oskar-von-Arnim-Straße".

Today under monument protection are:

  • the Kröchlendorff monument area
  • the village church
  • the fallen old church
  • the manor with the inspector's house and farm buildings
  • the estate park
  • the manor house (castle)

Personalities

  • Eckart von Arnim (born September 30, 1923, † June 29, 2010 in Munich), lawyer, presiding judge at the Federal Patent Court
  • Oskar von Arnim-Kröchlendorff (1813–1903), builder of the palace
  • Malwine von Arnim born von Bismarck (1827–1908), only sister of the Reich Chancellor, buried in the cemetery
  • Caroline von Arnim b. Heim (1787–1862), daughter of the Berlin honorary citizen Dr. Ernst Ludwig Heim , buried in the cemetery
  • Chancellor Otto von Bismarck with his family, visits here again and again.
  • Albrecht Heinrich von Arnim -Kröchlendorff (1744–1806), Royal Prussia. State and Justice Minister

literature

  • Lieselott Enders : Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg, Part VIII, Uckermark , Weimar 1986, ISBN 3-7400-0042-2
  • Bernd Janowski: "Ferdinand von Arnim as court architect of Prizen Karl" In: "Die Mark Brandenburg", Issue 76, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-910134-07-2
  • Horst Kohl: "Bismarck's letters to sister and brother-in-law 1843-1897", publ. i. A. v. Countess Sibylle v. Bismarck born v. Arnim
  • Günther Elbin: "My beloved Otto, dearest Malle", sibling letters, Droste-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-7700-1067-1

Web links

Commons : Kröchlendorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office

Coordinates: 53 ° 16 '  N , 13 ° 42'  E