Plattenburg (castle)
| Plattenburg | ||
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 The Plattenburg |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1319 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Received or received substantial parts | |
| Construction: | Brick, half-timbered | |
| Place: | Plattenburg | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 57 '29.5 " N , 12 ° 1' 52" E | |
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The Plattenburg is a moated castle in the non-governmental municipality of Plattenburg in the Prignitz district in northwest Brandenburg . It is also part of the municipality of Kletzke, a district of the municipality of Plattenburg. The Plattenburg was first mentioned in a document in 1319.
location
The castle is located in the Prignitz . Due to its picturesque location in the forest and water-rich area, the castle was the summer residence of the bishops of the Havelberg diocese in the Middle Ages .
history
Origin and first use
The castle was probably built before 1200; Bishop Reiner von Havelberg acquired it in 1319 from the Brandenburg Margrave Waldemar von Brandenburg . It served as the summer residence of the Havelberg bishops until 1548 . In the same year the Plattenburg became the 7th Prignitzer district. The upper castle served as the bishop's residence, the outer bailey to accommodate his entourage.
After the death of the last Bishop of Havelberg , Busso II of Alvensleben , Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg , who had recently converted to the Lutheran Church, had his son Friedrich IV elected Bishop of Havelberg in 1551 .
In 1552 the preacher Joachim Ellefeld burned the Wilsnacker Wunderbluthostien and was imprisoned at the Plattenburg. Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg pledged the castle to his chamberlain Matthias von Saldern , and in 1560 the castle and lordship (including Wilsnack) even as a hereditary and peculiar fiefdom against Plaue Castle .
Extension buildings for the von Saldern family
Around 1600 the upper castle was expanded in the late Renaissance style under Burchard von Saldern. In 1631, during the Thirty Years' War , the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf issued a letter of protection for the rule of Plattenburg. Some time later, Burchard von Saldern set up a new castle chapel in the bakery and brewery. In 1675 the castle was besieged by Swedish troops.
In 1724 the half-timbered wing was built; The architect was Johann Jakob Müller from Braunschweig . The Palas should be given the appearance of a baroque palace by adding symmetrical pavilions. A terrace with sandstone putti was built in front of the south side.
Under Adolf Friedrich von Saldern (1802–1862), historicizing alterations were made to the buildings of the upper castle from 1861 to 1865 according to plans by Friedrich August Stülers , which still shape the castle today. The focus of the work was on the redesign of the knight's hall and some of the adjoining rooms, the renovation of the living wing and the construction of a new tower. This was one storey lower than the current one and was not increased to today's shape until 1883 under Siegfried von Saldern after a fire by building officer Wilhelm Martens.
Between 1925 and 1945 Sieghard von Saldern took over the Plattenburg estate. In 1940 the German authorities quartered French prisoners of war in the chapel wing; the castle served partly as a hospital .
The castle complex after the Second World War
After the von Saldern family was expropriated in 1945, refugee families lived in the castle until 1960. The buildings of the lower castle fell into disrepair, parts of the outer castle were demolished immediately after 1945. In 1969 the stronghold was expanded into a holiday camp for the Deutsche Reichsbahn , which was used until 1991. In the same year the Association for the Promotion and Preservation of the Plattenburg e. V. , and the restorations began, which lasted until 2013. In 1995, the BdV inaugurated a memorial stone for victims of flight and displacement after the Second World War in front of the Knappenhaus, outside the castle wall.
Use since 1993
Since the beginning of the 2000s, the Plattenburg has housed museum rooms, the wedding room of the municipality of Plattenburg and overnight accommodation for almost 30 people. The catering is leased; it uses a coat of arms that has no relation to the history of the castle. There has been a castle brewery since 2014 .
The Plattenburg is the penultimate stop on the pilgrimage from Berlin to Wilsnack to the Wunderblutkirche there .
Events
- Aquamaria Festival
- Medieval castle spectacle
- Plattenburger round table in the restaurant in the Burgkeller (medieval feast)
- Rock night at the Plattenburg
architecture
The entire complex of the moated castle is surrounded by a moat and partially a second moat. It consists of the upper castle, the courtyard and the lower castle as well as an earlier chapel and an outer bailey that arose from the farm buildings. Gardens such as a herb garden, a forest garden and a flower garden extend between the structures. As architectural features, the knight's hall and the hall in the bishop's wing contain considerable artisanal and artistic evidence of the late Renaissance (door, sandstone staircase, fireplace).
The miner's house in the lower castle was built in the 16th century along the defensive wall and was used to accommodate the military protection personnel, and later only for the castle administration. The three-story brick building was heavily rebuilt inside in 1878. It has been empty since 1993 (as of August 2016), only bats and birds use the house.
literature
- Torsten Foelsch: The Plattenburg . In: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark, Berlin 1993 (1st edition)
- Torsten Foelsch: Nobility, castles and mansions in Prignitz. Contributions to the cultural and art history of a Kurmark landscape , Perleberg 1997
- Torsten Foelsch: The von Saldern'sche picture collection on the Plattenburg - history and fate of an art collection in the Prignitz. In: Communications of the Association for the History of Prignitz , Vol. 10, Perleberg 2010, pp. 29–51.
- Torsten Foelsch: The Plattenburg in Prignitz. In: The Mark Brandenburg. Journal for the Mark and Brandenburg, Issue 84, Berlin 2012, pp. 18-25.
- Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - N-Z . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-033-3 , pp. 659 ff .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- The castle on the side of the municipality of Plattenburg
- Material on the Plattenburg in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 199 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. 1207 pp., Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin, 2000. ISBN 3-422-03054-9 (pp. 770–2)
- ^ Homepage of the Plattenburg brewery
- ↑ Information on the Knappenhaus according to an information board on the building, August 2016.
Bendelin with Zichtow and Karlsruhe | Glöwen with Groß Leppin , Storbeckshof , Zernikow , Friedrichswalde and Stölkenplan | Hoppenrade with Garz | Kleinow with Burghagen , Ponitz , Uenze , Kleinower Ziegelei and Neu Kleinow | Kletzke with Plattenburg | Krampfer with Groß Gottschow and Kahlhorst | Netzow with Klein Leppin , Söllenthin and Schwanensee | Viesecke with Groß Werzin , Rambow and Klein Welle