Bredenfelde manor house

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Bredenfelde Castle, southeast view
Bredenfelde Castle, entrance side

The manor house Schloss Bredenfelde is located in Bredenfelde in the Mecklenburg Lake District . It was built in the mid-19th century in the Tudor style according to plans by the architect Friedrich Hitzig .

history

The builder Ernst Hans Heinrich von Heyden grew up in Kartlow , where his brother Woldemar von Heyden had Kartlow Castle built based on Hitzig's designs at the same time . Like the Kartlower , the plan of the landscape park , drawn up in 1840, was also designed by Peter Joseph Lenné . Lenné's plan was based on a symmetrical manor house. However, nothing is known about the whereabouts of the previous building. Bredenfelde Castle was built between 1852 and 1854. When Ernst Hans Heinrich von Heyden died in 1859, his widow Charlotte Bernhardine Sophie continued to run the Bredenfelde estate until her death in 1908.

Because of the indebtedness of her son Ernst Werner von Heyden in the Great Depression of 1929, the estate was relocated in 1932. The Ladendorff settler family acquired the manor house and set up a restaurant and a grocery store there. After the expropriation in 1945, the restaurant continued to operate. In addition to the headquarters of the Bredenfeld administration, resettlers were housed here. After the vacancy in 1968, the Bitterfeld housing association acquired the facility. However, there were no renovations. Instead, in 1972, the demolition of the already dilapidated building was considered. When the roof collapsed, it eventually became a ruin.

It was not until 1997 that the house returned to private ownership and was completely renovated by 2002. A hotel with around 40 beds was set up in the building.

investment

The entire building of the manor house is openly structured by two towers with different cross-sections (round and octagonal) and different helmets. The von Heyden family's coat of arms is located above the entrance in the southeast of the building. The entrance front with an upstream underpass under an arbor faces the property's former farmyard. The lord's rooms, which were separately accessible through the smaller tower on the south side, were also on this side. Risalite , stepped gable as well as pointed and arched windows shape the facade.

Behind the main entrance is an entrance hall from which you can get into the hall. Most of the rooms on the first floor had stucco ceilings . The main floor was not given a corridor, the rooms had to be entered one after the other. The stately living and study rooms were in the basement, the children's and house servants' rooms on the upper floor.

Unlike its buildings in Kittendorf and Neetzow , which were equipped with flat or slightly pitched roofs, designed slated Friedrich Hitzig for Schloss Bredenfelde pitched roofs . He justified this with the fact that a building with a flat roof " would have appeared slightly subordinate to the nearby commercial buildings with high tiled roofs ".

From the original 3.5 hectare park there is hardly anything left today, except for an avenue of lime trees leading to the old cemetery. Only the inspector's house and dairy are preserved from a farm yard formerly assigned to the castle.

  • Ballroom

  • Wedding room

  • Coat of arms of the von Heyden family

literature

  • Neidhardt Krauss: The architect Friedrich Hitzig and his castle buildings in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 79, 1993, ISSN  0067-3099 , pp. 58-77.
  • Friedrich Schlie: Art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 5: The district court districts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel . Schwerin 1902, p. 219 f.
  • Neidhardt Krauß, Egon Fischer: Castles, manor houses and parks in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - from Darß to the Stettiner Haff. Hinstorff, Rostock 2002, p. 27 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Hitzig: Executed buildings . Volume 1, Issue 4, panels 1–3 with text sheet, Berlin 1850–1867

Web links

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

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 12 ° 57 ′ 12.2 ″  E