Bützow Castle

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Bützow Castle (2017)
Coat of arms and terracotta decorative frieze on the northern part of the eastern wing.

The bützow castle is located in the city Bützow south of Rostock in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern .

Buildings

The original renaissance castle has been a simple, three-story plastered building with a high pitched roof since the renovation in 1910/1911 . From the 13th or 14th century, the foundations and the former, located on the ground floor and two come Jochen rib-vaulted chapel. The construction of the left porch on the facade facing the palace square was probably started in the 16th century as a stair tower . It was completed after 1566, when the building was converted into a ducal palace, with a simply structured gable. On the northeast side there is a helmeted stair tower in front of the building. The corner tower on the south side comes from the renovation in 1910/11.

Little was left of the original interior design after the renovation in 1910/1911. The originally wooden and painted ceilings were replaced by reinforced concrete ceilings. Coats of arms and a terracotta frieze can be seen on the northern part of the eastern wing.

history

View of the bishop's castle before the renovation in the 16th century. The part that still exists today is the left part of the building in the picture
The castle after the renovation in 1760

In 1171 the Slavic castle (castrum Butissowe) in the Bützow (Terra Butissowe) country was mentioned. Around 1180, Bützow became the episcopal residence of the Schwerin diocese under Bishop Berno and remained so until the Reformation . The Gothic cross-rib vaulted chapel, which housed the local history museum until 2000, dates from this period. The castle was destroyed in the 13th century and then rebuilt. The goods and the castle were pledged to the von Bülow family at the beginning of the 14th century. Only the Schwerin Bishop Albrecht von Sternberg succeeded in 1357, after he had put several members of the von Bülow family under the ban , to come to a comparison in June 1363. In it he granted the Bülow family the episcopal residences in Bützow and Warin .

In the course of the Reformation in 1540, the Bützow monastery went to Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg as monastery administrator. He converted the castle into a renaissance castle in 1556, on the facade there are still stone coats of arms of him and his wife Elisabeth of Denmark ; the castle was probably intended for her as a Wittum , but she died in 1586, long before her husband. But she built a poor house in Bützow (as in many other places). The castle then served as the seat of the monastery governor and from 1713 as the widow's seat of the Duchess Sophie-Charlotte until she died in 1749.

In the autumn of 1760, Duke Friedrich von Mecklenburg (1756–1785) founded the Friedrichs University Bützow , some of which was housed in the castle. As early as April 1789, the university was reunited with the University of Rostock and thus dissolved in Bützow.

From 1812 to 1879 the criminal college (upper court) was located in the castle. In 1910/1911 the castle was restored and rebuilt. The master builder Adolf Prahst received the order for this . Parts of the castle were demolished. After the Second World War , during the GDR era , the house of culture and later a library and a museum were housed in the building. In the 1980s the Ratskeller restaurant was located in the basement , a library on the ground floor, the city museum on the first floor and a music school on the second floor. After the fall of the Wall , the building stood empty and was first sold to private investors in 1993 and then again in 2001. The in-depth renovation of the castle began in 2010. It is to be used as a residential building.

  • State in spring 2009

  • The castle during the renovation in May 2012

  • Ongoing renovation in August 2014

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : Art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 4: The district court districts Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz and Plau. Schwerin 1896, p. 71 ff. Archive.org
  • Dirk Handorf: The bishop's castle in Bützow. In: Josef Traeger : The Stiftsland of the Schwerin bishops around Bützow and Warin. St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1998, pp. 14-15.
  • Neidhardt Krauss: Castles, manor houses and parks in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-356-00950-8 .
  • Jan Tißler: A look at history. Uses of the castle. Schweriner Volkszeitung , Volume 53, 1998, p. 9.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Bützow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 90
  2. ^ Gert Steinhagen: Steinerne Bischofsburg discovered Schweriner Volkszeitung, Bützower Zeitung, October 19, 2011
  3. ↑ Krummes Haus Bützow ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , amt-buetzow-land.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amt-buetzow-land.de
  4. ↑ Fritz Hoßmann: Set structural accents in the city. Master builder Adolf Prahst left his traces in many places in Bützow / All houses bear his special signature. Schweriner Volkszeitung, Bützower Zeitung, June 4, 2011
  5. ↑ www.svz.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 49.7 "  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 35.8"  E