Tylsen New Castle

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Ruins of the New Castle

The New Tylsen Castle is a castle in the Salzwedel district of Tylsen in the north-western Altmark , which is only preserved as a ruin.

Drawing from the Duncker collection

It was built in 1620/21 near the then, still - in poor condition - preserved small castle of Thomas II von dem Knesebeck as a so-called New Palace in the Renaissance style. In the middle of the three-story castle with Renaissance gables was the entrance to the inner courtyard, above it the double coat of arms Knesebeck-Alvensleben. There were numerous good pictures in the castle, including wooden panel pictures from the Renaissance and ancestral pictures from the 16th to 18th centuries, including portraits of Pesne . The library from the time before the Thirty Years War was housed in the old castle. The New Palace was expanded from 1853 to 1856. After surviving World War II unscathed, it became in the time of theLand reform 1948/49 destroyed on the basis of SMAD order no. 209 , beginning with the removal of the roof tiles that were used for new buildings in the then Tylsener district of Niephagen . In 2015 it was decided to renovate the ruin, which was in danger of collapsing.

The New Tylsen Castle was considered to be one of the most magnificent castles in the Altmark.

Web links

Memorial plaque at the New Castle
Commons : Neues Schloss (Tylsen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Udo von Alvensleben (art historian) : Visits before the sinking, aristocratic residences between Altmark and Masuria. Compiled from diary entries and edited by Harald von Koenigswald, Frankfurt / M.-Berlin 1968, pp. 139ff.
  2. ^ A b Peter Fischer : Castles and mansions. In: The north-western Altmark - A cultural landscape . Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, Gifhorn 1991, without ISBN, p. 101.
  3. Protect the gem from collapse. Volksstimme of May 4, 2015, accessed on July 19, 2016

Coordinates: 52 ° 48 ′ 56.5 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 48.7 ″  E