New Neustadt-Glewe Castle
The New Palace is a building in the Dutch Baroque style in Neustadt-Glewe in the west of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
location
The castle is located in downtown Neustadt-Glewes on a western branch of the Elde and on federal road 191 . The old castle is not far from the building . A small, now natural park connects to the castle in the direction of the lock.
Building
The baroque castle is a two-storey three-wing complex in the style of Dutch classicism with a courtyard and stands on hundreds of oak posts. The inner ceilings of the simple country castle are provided with elaborate stucco work , the stucco area is around 1600 m². There are 32 chimneys in the New Palace, which are decorated with rosettes, cornices and figures.
history
With the construction of the castle was 1618/19 under the direction of I. Herzog Adolf Friedrich started. The plans for a building in the form of the Dutch late Renaissance were drawn up by the ducal master builder Gerhart Evert Pilooth . With his death in 1629 the work came to a standstill. The palace was only completed between 1711 and 1717 under the direction of the architect Leonhard Christoph Sturm . The interior design took another eight years to complete. After a city fire in Grabow , Christian Ludwig II , who three years later became Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , moved into the New Palace from 1725 to 1735. Comparatively comfortable apartments were set up later. After the Second World War , as elsewhere, individual rooms were made available for refugees and those who had been bombed out. During the GDR era, teaching was meanwhile held in the castle and a library and a lunch kitchen for working people and schoolchildren were in the building until after the fall of the Wall . By then it was visibly deteriorating. The castle, resting on oak posts, threatened to sag, cracks formed in the walls, inside ceilings were guyed with nets to protect visitors from falling pieces of stucco . After extensive renovation work after 1990 on the foundations, the roof, the outer walls and the interior, the castle now houses the Hotel Schloss Neustadt-Glewe with a restaurant. The stucco ceilings restored by Polish specialists are worth seeing.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 57 ″ N , 11 ° 35 ′ 16 ″ E