Behrenhoff landscape park
The Behrenhoff Landscape Park is a listed park in Behrenhoff , south of Greifswald , in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district .
history
Behrenhoff was called Busdorf until 1804 and belonged to the von Behr family since the 14th century . Carl Felix Georg von Behr (1804–1838) died in the year the new manor house was completed. His widow Louise Wilhelmine Gustava von Heyden had a landscape park laid out in the 1840s based on a plan by Peter Joseph Lenné . It was the northern part of today's park, which took up the remains of a baroque park from the 18th century.
South of the park was a moor area that had been drained and used for peat extraction since the 1860s. In 1868 the von Behr family acquired the area in which a pond had been created by cutting peat , which is now known as the swan pond. The park was expanded to the southwest in this area.
Mechthild Countess von Behr (1880–1955), born von Heyden, had a bronze equestrian statue of her deceased husband Carl Graf von Behr set up in the park in 1936 . The von Behr family and their heirs were expropriated after the end of the Second World War . The equestrian statue in the park was sold in 1947, and the meadow on which it stood is now a football field.
In 1965 the park received the status of a protected park because of its interesting tree population . It was not until the 1980s that Peter Joseph Lenné's design for the northern part of the park became known again. From 1988 onwards, the then specialist committee on dendrology of the Rostock district carried out several maintenance missions together with the villagers in this part of the park, which developed into a regional excursion destination. The road network was also renewed.
The landscape park was included in the list of monuments of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
investment
The landscape park is about ten hectares, the swan pond in the southern part three hectares. It extends from the northern edge of the village, where the old farm buildings of the former estate are still located, in a south-westerly direction. It is divided in two by the Dorfstrasse. The area is separated from the street and the historic Gutsdorf by a wall, which also encloses the cemetery with the Behrenhoffer church . The entrance to the northern part is dominated by the distinctive Bärentor, built around 1900. The two plastered pillars have double half-columns coupled on the front and back. They are crowned by bears with heraldic shields. The bear on the left holds the coat of arms of the von Heyden family, the one on the right that of the von Behr family.
The park's rich dendrological inventory includes a leather hull tree , two copper beeches , a tulip tree , a red oak with a witch's broom , a multi-stemmed sweet chestnut and a multi-stemmed silver linden tree . There are also several lily magnolias and rhododendrons in the complex. In spring, larger stocks of Märzen cups shape the image of the park.
Behrenhoff Castle
On behalf of Carl Felix Georg von Behr, a two-storey, late classicist mansion was built in the 1830s instead of the previous baroque manor house . The architect may have been Friedrich Hitzig .
Mechthild Countess von Behr, the last noble owner, was granted lifelong usufruct after her husband's death . It was against the National Socialists. When approached by Albrecht Schönherr , she offered quarters for events of the Confessing Church on the estate from 1936/1937 . In the so-called camps found Bible studies and lectures. In addition to Schönherr, Eberhard Bethge , Günter Jacob , Volkmar Herntrich and Ernst Lohmeyer gave lectures. It is unclear whether Dietrich Bonhoeffer , as stated several times, actually took part in events in Behrenhoff.
The manor burned down on May 8, 1945. The ruins were later removed for the production of building materials for new farms .
literature
- Neidhardt Krauss, Egon Fischer: On the way to castles, palaces and parks in Western Pomerania . Hinstorff Verlag Rostock 1991, ISBN 3-356-00391-7 , pp. 119-120.
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: East Western Pomerania. From the Amazon in the north to the imperial baths - a travel and reading book. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 , pp. 162-163.
- State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1995, p. 277.
Web links
- Literature about landscape park Behrenhoff in the state bibliography MV
- Pomerania parks
- History of the landscape parks ( Memento from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Gesterding : Genealogies and / or family foundations Pomeranian, especially knightly families. First collection. G. Reimer, Berlin 1842, p. 26 ( Google Books )
- ^ Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1993, ISBN 3-88042-636-8 , pp. 30-31.
- ^ Official Journal of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church . No. 3, 1993, p. 54 ( digital copy ; PDF; 1.7 MB).
Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 20.8 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 17.8 ″ E