Dwasieden Castle

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Dwasieden Castle on the Baltic Sea on a postcard from around 1900 ( photochromic print )
Frontal view of Dwasieden Castle, published in the Architectural Sketchbook in 1879
Floor plan of the ground floor and the first floor
The southern pavilion today
Bridge in the castle park
3D model of Dwasieden Castle

The ruins of Dwasieden Castle are located near Sassnitz on the island of Rügen in the immediate vicinity of the Baltic Sea .

It was built between 1873 and 1877 on behalf of Adolph von Hansemann , owner of the Disconto-Gesellschaft in Berlin and one of the richest men of the Bismarckian era. The architect of the imposing mansion was Friedrich Hitzig , a student of Friedrich Schinkel . The architecture was based on the spa architecture , which is characteristic of the Baltic Sea coast of Western Pomerania .

Due to the demolition in 1948, only ruins remain of the magnificent building, as well as the stables that burned out in 1997 . The remains of the ensemble are located on a hill above the Baltic Sea, which adjoins the city port of Sassnitz to the south-west. The Schlossallee to Schloss Dwasieden branches off the road from Sassnitz to Mukran.

history

The construction of the palace and the design of the 102 hectare park cost four million gold marks , an enormous sum at the time. The castle was the only building in northern Germany that was built from solid sandstone , granite and real marble .

The castle was a square, two-story building, on the sides of which there were colonnades that ended in open, temple-like pavilions . The two observation towers arranged on the corner sides with pillar-like protruding wall strips that towered over the building were striking.

Not only the high-quality materials used for the construction made it a magnificent building, but also the valuable interior:

“The rooms that strangers are allowed to see are on the ground floor of the castle. All of these numerous salons and boudoirs, these music and library rooms, as well as the social rooms are furnished with both fine taste and great luxury. Most of the furniture is tapestry and comes from the father of Herr von Hansemann. Magnificent original oil paintings hang on the walls - mostly landscape, genre and animal pieces by our first masters, and the ceilings are also adorned with drawings and paintings by well-known artists. The old Venetian mirrors and chandeliers (the latter are movable and each piece can be removed), the precious ebony carvings, the ancient white marble fireplaces, the precious carpets of the blacksmithing industry , and all the numerous works of art that result from their rarity and their Beauty in and of itself represents a great fortune - all of this made an overwhelming impression on me. "

- Adolph Kohut : On the dune beach of the Baltic Sea , 1887

The park of Dwasieden was also a very well-kept complex and was described as one of the most beautiful parks in northern Germany when it was completed.

Gert von Oertzen , Hansemann's grandson and heir, sold the castle in the 1930s to the city of Sassnitz, from which the Navy took over it in 1935 and made it part of their ship artillery school (distance measuring school).

Only the remains of the pavilion and the stables of the castle exist today. In 1948 the castle was blown up due to the SMAD order no. 209 like other former aristocratic residences in the course of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone , with the fact that the castle had been used for military purposes.

Reconstruction plans

As early as 1993 there were plans for a "Kurgebiet Dwasieden" including the historic castle. The facade was to be reconstructed true to the original and integrated into a modern spa with a hotel. These plans never came to fruition.

Far more far-reaching plans from 2007 envisaged the construction of a “spa town” with 3,000 beds, including the remains of Dwasieden. A faithful reconstruction was not planned; this way, about 50 m high castle towers should be built. The Danish investors Axel W. Lodberg and Steffen Flensborg wanted to invest up to 300 million euros in the south of Sassnitz. These plans also failed.

literature

  • Ralf Lindemann: The white castle by the sea . Reprint-Verlag Rügen, Bergen auf Rügen 2003, ISBN 3-93513705-2 .
  • Ralf Lindemann: The white castle by the sea - Dwasieden Castle in Sassnitz on the island of Rügen. 1st revised and expanded new edition, Tennemann Verlag, Schwerin 2013, ISBN 978-3-941452-11-4 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Dwasieden  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 1993: Dwasieden spa area - reconstruction plans
  2. Dwasieden Castle on Rügen is to be rebuilt (Die Welt)

Coordinates: 54 ° 30 ′ 17 ″  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 30 ″  E