New Town Palace

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New Town Palace in the Schwerin Schelfstadt

The Neustadtisches Palais (also: Marienpalais ) is a representative magnificent building in the Schwerin Schelfstadt from the 18th century. The house at Puschkinstrasse  19 is a listed building. Since June 2006 it has been the headquarters for the Ministry of Justice of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Architecture and building history

The Golden Hall in the Neustadtisches Palais from the period after 1877/78 after the renovation in 2006

The plastered building was built in 1779 according to plans by Johann Joachim Busch . A redesign of the New Town Palace in the style of the French Renaissance , largely equivalent to a new building, was carried out by Hermann Willebrand in 1877/78 . The three-wing and two-storey complex with a three-storey central projection and the courtyard were preserved. The earlier mansard roof was replaced by a plateau roof with dormer windows . The facades were given strong plaster ashlars , strongly profiled cornices , hermes and decorations in the form of festoons . By Georg Adolph Demmler was made, similar to the throne room of the Schwerin Castle , 1849 on the back of a hall annex. In 1883/84, Willebrand added a residential wing to the rear for the Duchess Marie.

The plastered facade contains elements of the Baroque and Renaissance periods. Inside, the cast iron stairs in the side stairwell, the stucco ceilings and the frame panel doors are worth mentioning.

history

The property on which the palace stands today was acquired in 1708 by Friedrich Wilhelm for his brother Christian Ludwig II , on which the Prinzenhof (also Ludwigshof ) was subsequently built . In 1779, by order of Duke Duke Friedrich , the widow's residence for Charlotte Sophie, the wife of his brother Ludwig , was built on the site, who lived there until her death in 1810. After ten years of vacancy, the building was initially used by the Grand Ducal Finance Minister Leopold von Plessen and served as the grand ducal residence at the time of the Schwerin palace renovation (1843–1857) and, after the extension, as the widow residence of Grand Duchess Marie from 1883 . After the last Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV abdicated , the palace became the property of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1920.

Palais as the house of German-Soviet friendship with appropriate flags (1953)

Various authorities were housed in the building until 1945. In 1947 it was made available to the Society for the Study of the Culture of the Soviet Union for political-ideological and cultural-political work and renamed the Maxim Gorki House (also: House of German-Soviet Friendship ). Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, social and festive events were held regularly. In the entrance area hung the picture Triumph of Leninism .

From 1990 to 1998 the Neustadtisches Palais was the seat of the city council and the city president, after which it was empty again. From 2003 to 2008, the facility was comprehensively renovated for a total of 11.3 million euros. In June 2006 the Ministry of Justice of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania moved into the premises. A decision about a previously considered new building for the authority elsewhere was rejected. The Golden Hall was then prepared, which is available to the residents of Schwerin for celebrations and can be reached via a separate entrance. The hall was reopened in April 2009. In 2010, a special prize was awarded for the reconstruction of the hall as part of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Building Prize.

Web links

Commons : Neustädtisches Palais  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report on the creation of the monument lists as well as on the administrative practice in notifying the owners and municipalities as well as on the handling of change requests (as of June 1997) (PDF; 934 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Deutscher Kunstverlag, revision, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 546
  3. ↑ Rooster / Polenz / Lösler / Schaeffer / Menzel: Architectural Guide GDR. Schwerin district . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1984, p. 32
  4. ↑ New Palais - hartmutstein.com
  5. ↑ Art. 1, Art. 9 Paragraph 1 Clause 2 and Art. 25 Paragraph 3 of the dispute agreement with the Grand Ducal Family of December 17, 1919, Government Gazette 1920, p. 679 (680 ff.)
  6. ↑ a b c Ministry of Justice with new headquarters in the Neustadtisches Palais Press release of the Ministry of Justice
  7. ↑ Entry in the Schwerin city chronicle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / dietmarhamann.de  
  8. ↑ Golden Hall accessible again soon - Schweriner Volkszeitung, local page Schwerin, March 11, 2009, p. 17
  9. ↑ Special Prize 2010. Golden Hall in the Neustadtisches Palais Schwerin . Website of the State Building Award MV, accessed on November 2, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '52.3 "  N , 11 ° 24' 59.1"  E