Podągi

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Podangen manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Podągi (German Podangen ) is a place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It belongs to the rural community Godkowo (Göttchendorf) in the Powiat Elbląski ( Elbinger Kreis ).

history

Podangen was a Allodial - Manor , the 1339 as "Padangmen" (later "Podangin") was first documented in the former county Prussian Holland on "river pass Argentinas " in the so-called "Oberland" East Prussia was located. Later affiliations were the district of Prussian-Holland, administrative district of Königsberg , province of Prussia .

From 1551 this property was first in the possession of the von Saucken family , to whom it was committed by the Duke of Prussia in 1577. In 1635 this family acquired the Rottehnen (also "Ruttenen") and Corneinen works. It was acquired from the widowed Anna Catharina von Saucken in 1663 by the electoral Brandenburg colonel and captain to Balga Elias von Kanitz Podangen, who expanded the property in 1670 through further acquisitions (Lomp and Gemitten). Podangen remained in the property of this family, who had been made counts in 1798, until the Red Army marched in in January 1945.

In 1701 a mansion was built in Podangen by the then Oberburggrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Kanitz in a style that corresponded to a transitional form from the Willkühnen type to the Neudeck type and was extended in the late classicist style in the 19th century. Due to acquisitions and other acquisitions at the beginning of the 19th century, the Podangen property comprised the Maulfritzen, Wickerau, Paulken, Carneyen, Wilknitt , Lichtenfeld, Arnau and Pluttwinnen estates .

Due to the multiple armed conflicts that took place on the soil of the province of East Prussia in 1806/1807 and 1812/1813, Podangen suffered considerable war damage, which is impressive in the personal records of the owner at the time, Count Carl Wilhelm Alexander von Kanitz (1745-1824) are documented. The hope that existed at the time for compensation for the war damage suffered was not fulfilled. A descendant ( Count Hans Wilhelm Alexander von Kanitz ) writes: Due to the two devastation of the Podanger and the other estates of Count Carl Wilhelm Alexander von Kanitz, including the costs of equipping his sons who went to war, his financial situation was completely shattered he got into Concurs in 1815 - he shared the fate of most East Prussian landowners at that time.

The three surviving sons, including the later Prussian general and war minister Karl August Wilhelm Graf von Kanitz , managed to acquire at least the Podangen and Maulfritzen estates, the core of the former Kanitz property, with the help of a state loan approved by the Prussian king ("Retablissement -Kapitals ") of 20,000 thalers from the subhastation (compulsory auction) in 1818. The question of which of the three brothers should take ownership of Podangen after the father's death was decided by the lot that went to the eldest son Alexander, to whom the two younger brothers then sold their shares in 1826.

For Count Carl Johann Ehrhard von Kanitz , who died in the Battle of Dennewitz on September 6, 1813 , another son of Count Carl Wilhelm Alexander von Kanitz, a memorial cross was later erected in the archways of the manor garden. The fallen man is honored in the song by the poet Max von Schenkendorf "From the three counts".

On June 20, 1854, the King of Prussia stayed at the estate as a guest of the then owner Count Emil Carl Ferdinand von Kanitz , royal general landscape director of East Prussia.

Worth mentioning is the acquisition of the neighboring Tüngen (Bogatyńskie) estate by Count Hans Wilhelm Alexander von Kanitz (1841–1913) in 1882, which his wife, Countess Marie von Kanitz, née. Countess von Bismarck-Bohlen, served as a widow's residence until her death (1929).

The last owner of Podangen before 1945 was the retired Reich Minister. D. Gerhard Count of Kanitz .

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Podągi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Europeana
  2. ↑ Quoted from: Urkundliche Nachrichten über Podangen, 1339 to 1900 (Ed. Hans Graf von Kanitz), Preußisch Holland, 1900, pp. 82 ff., No. 32
  3. ↑ A description of the Podangen park, which existed until 1945, is given by Ursula Gräfin zu Dohna in: Gardens and Parks in Ostpreussen, Herford 1993, p. 82 ff.

Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 53.6 ″  N , 20 ° 2 ′ 10.1 ″  E