Reppin Castle
The Reppiner Castle is an artificial ruin , which was intentionally built in 1907 as an incomplete castle complex on the south bank of the Schwerin Lake . Today it lies within the urban area of Schwerin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
location
The castle is located on an elevation of the Reppin peninsula, which juts out into the Schwerin Inner Lake, in the Mueß district of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state capital in a deciduous forest. The Reppin Castle can be reached via hiking trails or the waterway. From the observation deck on the dungeon you have views of Lake Schwerin, the two islands Kaninchenwerder and Ziegelwerder and the silhouette of Schwerin city on the western shore of the lake.
investment
The Reppiner Castle consists of a keep with a conical roof and metal spike and an attached archway with battlements . In the tower there is a lounge with a brick barbecue area. A staircase on the outside leads after a total of 52 steps through the upper floor of the tower to the viewing platform. The battlement over the archway is also accessible.
The building in neo-romantic and neo-gothic style gives the impression of a fortification through battlements and loopholes. In view of the late construction, however, it was never used for defensive purposes, only as accessories .
history
Already Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch assumed that the peninsula Reppin heard of Slavs had settled and here a Slavic castle wall was located. This is supported by the location of the wall and archaeological finds in the area of the peninsula, for example there are former clay pits and waste from brick production nearby. Even the name can be derived from the Slavic Repin and means something like beet country or beet village , which suggests an agricultural use at that time.
By 1860 the Reppin was already a popular destination for the Schwerin people. Even before 1880, the place where the castle was built was named after Friedrich Wilhelm , a son of Friedrich Franz II . On the occasion of his early death in 1897 when the torpedo boat he commanded capsized in the North Sea, a monument in the form of a boulder was erected in 1899 . The construction of the castle complex took place in 1907 on behalf of the non-profit society according to the motto: "An unfinished castle for an unfinished life" and the plans of the building director Gustav Hamann , who also built the observation tower on the island of Rabbitwerder. A restaurant that was built shortly thereafter and a kiosk have not existed since the 1950s. After the fall of the Wall, the observation tower and its surroundings were replaced by the Schwerin future workshop. V. refurbished and restored.
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 17 ″ N , 11 ° 29 ′ 9 ″ E