Broock Castle

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Broock Castle - front of the building with the stables on the left
Overall system
Park facade of Broock Castle
Marstall of the Broock estate
Horse head at the stables

The manor house called Broock Castle is located in the Broock district of the same name in the Alt Tellin community in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It is located on the southern edge of the valley of the Tollensetal , halfway between the West Pomeranian towns of Demmin and Altentreptow and close to Autobahn 20 and Sternfeld train station .

Broock was a popular social meeting place in the 19th century and was known for its horse breeding. The building, which has been vacant since 1980, is in need of renovation. A local alliance came together in 2014 to maintain the facility.

history

The place Broock was originally a knightly fiefdom . It goes back to a former castle complex directly on the Tollense, which is known as the " Schlossberg " and is still recognizable as a ground monument . The second river crossing between Demmin and Klempenow, which still exists at Ost Burg, was located here .

From the 15th century to 1652 the Haus zum Broock ( Bruch ), together with other villages, was a fiefdom of the noble Buggenhagen family , who belonged to the castles of Pomerania. According to a list from 1613, the Broock estate consisted of the Broock Castle and Ackerhof itself as well as the outworks in Siedenbüssow and Buchholz, along with 28 farms and 22 cottages in the villages of Tellin, Siedenbüssow, Hohenbüssow and Buchholz. With Andreas Buggenhagen , the male line died out on May 4, 1652 and the estates, which also included Nehringen with numerous places in the area and Pustow with some places, came into other hands. Around 1705, Christian von Linden , a Szczecin grain wholesaler, whom the Swedish King Karl XII. had ennobled, enfeoffed with the Broocker goods. His grandson Christian Bogislaw von Linden , Prussian major general, had the lavish mansion built in the “Dutch style” by 1770. From 1785, his widow Anna Catharina Tugendreich, born von Heyden , was the owner of the property. Her step-nephew Carl Wilhelm von Gentzkow followed in 1808 through legal succession . In 1810 he founded a stud in Broock .

In the first half of the 19th century, the von Seckendorff family came into the possession of Broocks. Between 1840 and 1850, Hans von Seckendorff had the manor house rebuilt in neo-Gothic style based on designs by the Berlin architect Friedrich August Stüler . At the same time, Peter Joseph Lenné designed an English landscape park for Broock . The Seckendorffs successfully continued to run the stud and organized one of the most traditional parforce hunts in Western Pomerania in Broock .

During the Great Depression, the estate ran into financial difficulties. In 1934, the last landowner, Hans (II.) Freiherr von Seckendorff, who played a part in this due to an elaborate lifestyle, had to sell most of the Broocker goods to the German settlement company. He died in the same year, after which the remaining Broock property was leased by the Seckendorff community of heirs.

In 1944, the Demmin district administrator confiscated the manor house in order to set up an alternative location for two institutes at the University of Greifswald . In the winter of 1944/1945 the contents of a railway wagon with parts of the Prussia collection were brought into the house, including the entire archives, the excavation plans and the negative collection. The businessman Lothar Diemer, who found out about this in 1946, initially secured the collection in his depot and was finally able to transfer it to East Berlin in 1949.

After the Second World War, refugees were housed in the manor house, whose valuable furnishings had been looted after the final expropriation in 1945 , and apartments were later furnished. A consumption , a school and the office of the municipal administration were set up there. In the 1970s the building was vacated and sold to VEB Kranbau Eberswalde . He planned the establishment of a holiday center and began with renovation work, which was given up after a few years. From 1980 the building was empty. In the period that followed, the building was looted, doors, windows and wall cladding were removed and stolen. By 1990 the mansion was largely gutted . In 1993 members of the group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany are said to have removed the ceiling joists on the first and second floors in order to use the proceeds to finance a comrade's leukemia treatment .

In 1998 the manor house with the remaining farm buildings and the park were sold by the Federal Agency for Unification- related Special Tasks (Treuhand) for 140,000 DM. The private owner, who claims to have invested DM 900,000 in securing the facility, was unable to raise the funds required for the renovation. The roof, which was severely damaged in 1999, has since collapsed in the area of ​​the central risalit.

Every year between 2004 and 2007, the open air entertainment took place in the castle park , an event with free entry where radio plays can be heard in the open air.

The estate had been for sale since the mid-2000s. In 2014, two foreclosure auction dates were unsuccessful. In the same year, an association for the preservation and development of Gut Broock was founded under the direction of Christian Schmidt from Bayreuth.

In 2017, the architect Stefan Klinkenberg from Berlin acquired the facility and plans with his employees to gradually renovate the entire estate. The open spaces and buildings are to be used for events, music festivals and as an accommodation facility. The first safety measures were carried out in 2018, including the construction of an emergency roof. The nearby Sternfeld train station was acquired by Klinkenberg Architects in 2017; it is to be renovated and used as a reception building for Broock Castle, which can use a transport service from here for events on the estate .

investment

The seventeen-axle, two-and-a-half-storey, unusually large mansion with a hipped roof has a circular crenellated crown . Slender fial-like brick towers are attached to the three-storey central risalit as well as to the corners of the building .

Six buildings have been preserved from the farm yard , including the stables with riding arena.

literature

  • Wolfgang Fuhrmann: The house at Broock in the Tollensetal. From the eventful history of an ancient knight's seat. In: History and stories from Demminer Land. Spica, 2012, ISBN 978-3-943168-11-2 , pp. 38-39.

Web links

Commons : Broock Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schloss Broock - Facebook page , accessed on January 7, 2015
  2. ↑ Rescue for the manor house in Broock? ( Memento from February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) NDR Nordmagazin , May 11, 2014
  3. ^ Dirk Schleinert: The estate economy in the Duchy of Pommern-Wolgast in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-412-10401-9 , p. 134.
  4. ↑ Of the holy apostle Pauli Good fight / Complete course / Faith held / Sampt of the crown of righteousness obtained thereupon / For consolation and honorary memory of the fatal yet blessed step / The ... Andreas von Buggenhagen / (the latter of this generation) ... Which Anno 1652. May 4th ... in Neeringen happily fell asleep on his knight's seat in the Lord / and afterwards there ... was transferred to his resting room. From the seventh and eighth verses of the fourth chapter of the other epistles to the Timotheum / ... declared and promoted to print / by M. Joachimum Mencelium, Berlin 1653
  5. ^ Dietrich Müller-Stüler, Eva Börsch-Supan: Friedrich August Stüler (1800–1865). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-06161-4 , p. 812 f.
  6. ↑ a b c d Broock Castle, Alt Tellin. Retrieved September 11, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Carl Bräuer: The studs at home and abroad. G. Schönfelds Verlagbuchhandlung, Dresden 1901, pp. 8–9.
  8. ^ Prussia collection at ostpreussen.net
  9. ↑ a b Kai Horstmann: Waiting for the collapse. In: Nordkurier . July 6, 2016, p. 14.
  10. ↑ Demminer Zeitung , regional supplement to the Nordkurier , from June 26, 2007, p. 18.
  11. ↑ Kai Horstmann: A weekend all about our wonderful manor houses. In: Nordkurier . June 22, 2017, p. 16.
  12. ↑ Michael Weiser: A Bayreuth renovates Broock Castle , in: Nordbayrischer Kurier. 7th July 2017
  13. ↑ Beatrix Dräger-Kneißl: The manor house and the stables in Broock - a work by Friedrich August Stülers in Western Pomerania: Monument of the month January 2018 , State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , January 2018

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 '17.94 "  N , 13 ° 13' 48.1"  E