Steinbeck manor

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Steinbeck manor

The manor Steinbeck with its manor house , which was last renovated around 1800 in the classicist style , was the center of an approximately 400 hectare farm near Bellin in Mecklenburg , next to the town of the same name , of which today, in addition to parts of the former farm buildings , only remnants of the old road network and the the former park are preserved. The allodial property was one of the knighthood goods and its owners belonged to the Mecklenburg knighthood . During the 19th century it belonged to the Goldberg Office , with Güstrow being the responsible post office.

history

The origins of the manor Steinbeck should go back at least to the high Middle Ages. This is indicated by the structure, which can still be read in the area today, into a fore and a main castle , which used to be surrounded by a moat . In the following centuries, various stone buildings with towers were erected on the hill of the main castle, the remains of which were probably integrated into the manor house, which was built around 1800 and existed until the 1960s.

After 1229 the lords of Bellin are named as commercial vassals for the Steinbeck and Bellin area. The Bellin family is of Wendish origin, belonged to the inner circle of the Princes of Werle - Wenden and is said to have been mentioned as early as 926. By marrying Ermgard de Bellin, the Belliner possessions passed to Gerd von Linstow on Lalendorf in 1449 . The mention of a Barbara von Steinbeck from Bellin, wife of Erdmort von Arenstorff around 1570, a Joachim von Steinbeck auf Bellin in 1575 and a marriage foundation of Hilmar von Steinbeck auf Steinbeck in 1601 testify to the early connection of the goods Steinbeck and Bellin and at the same time suggest that Steinbeck was the ancestral home of the traditional von Steinbeck family. In 1662 the von Sala family took over the property in and around Bellin.

In 1781, the Bellin and Steinbeck estates, together with the village of Zehna, became the property of Count Hans Ernst von Hardenberg . Accordingly, a “Mr. Landrath Graf von Hardenberg ”in the“ General Directory Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Strelitzscher Cities and Land-Güther ”from 1787 as the owner of the Steinbeck manor. Steinbeck seems to have remained in the possession of the von Hardenberg family until 1819 , which at least suggests that it was built in the classical style on the site of the older main castle under the aegis of the Hardenbergs. In any case, in 1819 we learn of a legal dispute between the Oberhofmarschall Graf von Hardenberg auf Drönnewitz against the "Cabinet Minister" Graf von Hardenberg zu Vienna, meaning Karl August von Hardenberg , because of the sale of the goods from Steinbeck and Bellin to the Danish chamberlain Christoff August von Lepel on Dobbin. The subject matter is the demand for a partial sum of 4,300 thalers from the sale, also in favor of the von der Osten-Sacken family . In 1823 "Christoff August and siblings von Lepel" are named as owners of the Dobbin, Baebetin and Steinbeck estates. It can therefore be assumed that between 1819 and 1823 there was a separation of the centuries-old Steinbeck and Bellin possessions as a result of the legal dispute over the sale by the von Hardenberg family. In any case, after 1834 the manor Steinbeck without Bellin passed into the possession of the Sporleder family through inheritance, marriage or purchase, whose members held numerous offices in Hanover and Mecklenburg at the time. From 1848 at the latest, Carl Wilhelm Sporleder was named as the man on Steinbeck. Landowner Sporleder was also director of the "Fire Insurance Association for Mecklenburg" in the Güstrow district. After the family had sat on Steinbeck for several generations, the property of the direct descendants Werner Sporleder , Georg Sporleder and Ulrich Wilhelm Emanuel Ernst Sporleder, father of the resistance fighter and pastor of the Confessing Church Ulrich Sporleder, passed into the possession of the Wunderlich family through purchase or marriage over.

In October 1910, the Hamburg entrepreneur and merchant Henry Brarens Sloman bought the 400-hectare Steinbeck manor for 500,000 Reichsmarks from the Wunderlich family, after he had previously acquired the neighboring Bellin manor, which formerly belonged to the von der Osten-Sacken family, and so had both Reunited possessions. In Bellin, too, there was a classicist mansion built in place of an older moated castle, which Sloman had demolished in 1912 in order to have Bellin Castle, which still exists today, built in the neo-baroque style as a retirement home. After 1935, the Steinbeck manor was managed by his son Enrique Juan Sloman.

  • Karl August Prince von Hardenberg, painting by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, before 1812

  • Prince Karl August von Hardenberg, painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, after 1822

  • Karl August Prince von Hardenberg, portrait bust by Johann Gottfried Schadow. Exhibited in the Friedrichswerder Church, today the Schinkel Museum, in Berlin-Mitte

  • Dr. Werner Sporleder, before 1933 mayor of Havelberg, Aschersleben, Adlershof and Treptow, after 1933 lawyer in Berlin, photograph 1936

  • Ulrich Sporleder, resistance fighter against National Socialism and pastor of the professing church in the uniform of an officer of the tank destroyer, photograph around 1940

From 1945 the mansion on Steinbeck was used as accommodation for refugees from Pomerania, West and East Prussia. When the GDR was founded, it was used as a cultural center, with the former ballroom being used as a dance hall. The approximately 400 hectare estate was converted into an LPG together with the neighboring, more than 1000 hectare castle estate Bellin. The main house was demolished around 1968. Remains of the path network with avenue trees as well as the former horse and pig stables on both sides of the forecourt and now partly converted for residential purposes have been preserved.

At the initiative of Margot Honecker, a children's home was set up in Bellin Castle , which was built in 1912 on the site of the neighboring Bellin estate , which was formerly linked to Steinbeck , in which eighty Southwest African children of kindergarten age entered the GDR on December 18, 1979 via Berlin-Schönefeld were accommodated. After South African troops that on May 4, 1978 SWAPO -Hauptquartier in Cassinga attacked had was SWAPO President Sam Nujoma to the Central Committee of the SED with the request approached to take part and full orphans and refugee children to them from the South African occupation force in security bring to. As part of the program, around 430 Namibian children came to the GDR by 1986, of whom a total of 298 were housed in Bellin Castle. Margot Honecker and Kovambo Theopoldine Nujoma paid several visits to the home. Shortly before the German reunification , the children between the ages of 8 and 17 were rushed back to Namibia by the Maizière government on August 26, 1990 . Some of them later returned to Germany.

After the turn

Immediately after the reunification of the GDR and the achievement of German unity, the Dutch Queen Beatrix and her husband Claus visited Bellin Castle, which is located near the former Steinbeck manor. The background to the visit was the family ties of the Queen to Mecklenburg as the granddaughter of Heinrich Wladimir Albrecht Ernst, Duke of Mecklenburg [-Schwerin] , who was closely connected with the landscape around Bellin .

architecture

The last building on the grounds of the former main castle consisted of a classicistic 11-axis, single-storey plastered building over a basement with a two-and-a-half-storey, three-axis central projection and two-axis, slightly protruding corner projections crowned by a balustrade and tower-like. The saddle roof housed two attic storeys and acroteria served as crowning of the two side gables and the central triangular gable. The building had four chimneys with 3 to 4 puffs each. The central projection with a central main portal connected by a bridge and two full storeys separated by a horizontal cornice and a top storey over a plinth-like basement. The building was probably built between 1780 and 1830 with the involvement of older, predecessor buildings, probably from a moated castle. At the rear of the main house there was an English-style landscaped garden including an old moat.

  • Steinbeck manor near Bellin a few years before its demolition (around 1965). In the foreground one of the new citizens of Steinbeck who moved into the former farm buildings after 1945 with his motorcycle

  • Acroterion from the main gable of the abandoned Steinbeck manor near Bellin (2013)

  • Acroterion of a gable from the abandoned manor Steinbeck near Bellin (2013)

ensemble

The original structure of the outer and main castle is still legible in the area and has been preserved as a ground monument. Parts of the former forecourt, which probably emerged from the outer bailey in the course of the redesign in the Baroque and Classicism, have been preserved. This area, formerly used partly as a courtyard of honor , partly as a manor or farmyard, extended from the gate along an axis running in the direction of the bridge and main portal of the classicist mansion, framed by farm buildings on both sides. The estate and the village were connected by an avenue that still exists today and which runs roughly at right angles to this axis.

  • Alley to the former Steinbeck manor near Bellin. Coming from the south from Marienhof or Klein Grabow (2013)

  • Approach to the manor Steinbeck near Bellin from the south (2013)

  • View of the former Steinbeck manor near Bellin from the southwest with cultural landscape relics and the rising ruins of the farm buildings (2013)

  • Steinbeck manor near Bellin. Hill in the area of ​​the abandoned mansion from the south (2013)

  • Steinbeck manor near Bellin. Hill in the area of ​​the abandoned mansion from the south with relics from the park, pond and moat (2013)

See also

literature

  • Berlin News of State and Scholarly Matters , 1819
  • Circle of Friends of the Sloman Family (Ed.), Michael Fleissner (Responsible): Bellin. The hunting lodge in Mecklenburg . Berlin 2010
  • Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar , years 1776–1918. Bear jump, Schwerin
  • Christoph Friedrich Jargow: General directory of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Strelitz cities and Land-Güther, in their statistical and taxable relationships with an alphabetical register . Adlersche Officin, Rostock 1787

Web links

Commons : Rittergut Steinbeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Friedrich Jargow: General Directory of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Strelitzscher cities and land Güther in their statistical and tax efficient conditions with an alphabetic register . Adlersche Officin, Rostock 1787, p. 235
  2. ↑ Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und schehrte Dinge , 1819, 1/3
  3. ^ Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar , 1867, Part 1, Assecuranzen, p. 257, Part 2, Knighthood, p. 98

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