Blücherhof Castle
The elaborate neo-baroque mansion in the Blücherhof district of Klocksin in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is known as Blücherhof Castle . It is privately owned, used for exhibitions and cultural events, and is surrounded by an important dendrological garden.
history
The Blücherhof estate was originally owned by the von Blücher family , passed to a captain von Arnim around 1800 , to the von Hintzenstern family around 1850 and to the Counts of Plessen and Barons von Maltzahn in 1882 . Around 1890, the St. Petersburg- born Berlin zoologist and private scholar Alexander Koenig , son of the sugar magnate Leopold Koenig , acquired the estate. Blücherhof Palace was built until 1904 by order of Alexander Koenig according to plans by the Berlin architect Gustav Holland.
Alexander Koenig remained the owner of the property until his death in 1940. Collections from the Natural History Museum Berlin were later stored in the manor house . From 1951 to 1961, Blücherhof was used as a youth work center and then until 2003 as a special children's home. The castle has been privately owned since 2004 and has been restored.
architecture
The castle is a neo-baroque stucco building originally anderthalbgeschossiger of 1902. The center of the courtyard is through a driveway and on staircase reachable five-sided buttress with richly decorated canopy in Art Nouveau forms emphasized that of a dome-like cap is crowned. On the back, in front of the central frontispiece, there is an arbor and an outside staircase; the original mansard roof with standing dormers and bounding gable was removed when the attic was later expanded to a full floor with a flat sloping hipped roof.
The entrance gate is flanked by single-storey neo-baroque plastered buildings. The wrought iron lattice doors are elaborate work in the Rococo style . At the farm yard there is a neo-baroque plastered building with risalits and a central roof tower that was used as a stable. Next to it there is a pigeon tower with a square brick substructure and a half-timbered upper floor. Finally, a two-storey reapers barracks with a Baroque gable should be mentioned. All of these buildings were built around 1900.
park
The castle is surrounded by a park that was laid out by the owner between 1900 and 1906, which shows around 200 different dendrological rarities on around eight hectares and is one of the most important botanical parks in northeast Germany. In addition to the 600-year-old oaks included in the park design, the 120 tree species include both native and around 100 exotic trees. The park was therefore placed under protection in 1967. In 1998 there was an inventory of the more than 700 trees.
literature
- Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmanns, Wolfgang Rechlin: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 454.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information on the page manor houses and castles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
- ^ Dieter Pocher: Castles and mansions in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 3. Edition. L&H Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-928119-90-7 , p. 140.
- ↑ Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmanns, Wolfgang Rechlin: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 454.
- ^ Wolf Karge: Castles and mansions in Mecklenburg. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01395-5 , pp. 35-36.
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 1.3 ″ N , 12 ° 31 ′ 0.3 ″ E